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- Where does the name Easter come from?
Easter was initially a pagan festival for the fertility goddess Eostre
- Is Easter a Christian or a pagan festival?
Easter is a Christian festival timed to coincide with older pagan festivals
- When is Easter Day?
Easter Sunday can fall any date from March 22 to April 25, depending on the moon. Easter Sunday 2009 will be on April 12
- What flowers are most asociated with Easter?
The Easter Lily, the Pasque Flower and the Easter Cactus
- What have eggs, chicks and bunnies to do with easter?
They are all symbols of renewal and rebirth. This makes them appropriate for both the original pagan symbolism of Easter and
the Christian story of the resurrection of Christ
- What has chocolate to do with Easter?
Nothing, it just tastes nice! Chocolate is a relatively new invention and has no traditional or symbolic associations
with Easter
- What has bread to do with Easter?
This is unclear, however there are many possibilities: bread "rising" from yeast (itself a living entity), bread
as the staple of life in the West, Christ breaking bread, etc
- What have Easter eggs got to do with DVDs?
"Easter eggs" on DVDs are hidden features that have to be searched for - rather like an Easter egg hunt
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