Easter Eggs: Symbols of Life and Renewal

Newall, Venetia

doi:10.1080/0015587x.1984.9716293

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“…Easter egg decoration is not restricted to this country, or Christian Orthodox communities, and egg decoration more generally has deep historical roots in many cultures across the globe (see Gorovei, 2001;Marian, 1992;Newall, 1967Newall, , 1984. While traditionally dyed in red (reminiscent of the sacrifice of Christ), decorated eggs in Romania often display a variety of geometric and figurative motifs and are nowadays at the centre of a vital and creative custom situated at the crossing between art, religion, folklore and a growing national and international market (see Glӑveanu, 2010).…”

Section: Using the Subcam: Easter Egg Decoration As A Creative Craftmentioning

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Through the Creator's Eyes: Using the Subjective Camera to Study Craft Creativity

Glăveanu

Lahlou

2012

Creativity Research Journal

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Through the Creator's Eyes: Using the Subjective Camera to Study Craft Creativity

Glăveanu

Lahlou

2012

Creativity Research Journal

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“…An egg has always enjoyed a deep symbolic meaning mainly in connection to its being associated with a new life, fertility, renewal (Newall 1971;Newall 1984), and for a traditional society, it represented a kind of "life condensed" as it was cleverly put by Kazimierz Moszyński in statu nascendi (Moszyński 1967, 316). The process of life being formed inside an egg finds its reflection in many cosmogonic myths (Kowalski 1998, 172).…”

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From Kiev to Pereyaslavets (Πρεσθλαβίτζα). The early medieval stone egg imitations and glazed Easter egg rattles from Dobrudja, Romania.

Szmoniewski,

Stănică

2023

Spraw. Arch.

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This article focuses on the finds of glazed egg-shaped rattles as well as on egg imitations of chalk and of Romanbricks discovered in Dobrudja and in nearby Varna. It is assumed that they were used in magical and religiousrituals connected with fertility and vegetation cults, as well as in apotropaic and healing rites. Chalk imitations dated prevailingly to the 10th century could be relics of a local Christian-pagan syncretism. Glazed items were most probably imports from Kyiv workshops in Kyivan Rus’. The latter should be associated with the presence of people engaging in military operations led by Rus’ princes, namely mercenaries and even more probably, with merchants travelling along the waterways leading from the Varangians to the Greeks. This route was most intensively exploited in the time from the middle of the 10th to the middle of the of 11th century, which correlates with the chronology of the layers and graves where these glazed eggs were discovered, their dating points mainly being to the 11th century.

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“…The tradition of decorating and giving eggs as giftsdecorated, chocolate or present filledgoes back thousands of years. As a symbol of life and renewal the egg was eventually incorporated into the Christian tradition as a symbol of resurrection (Newall 1984). Filling artificial eggs made of ceramic, paper, sugar or chocolate became usual in Swedish homes in the late 19th century and it is still practised in the form of giving a decorated cardboard egg, filled with sweets or chocolate, as a present.…”

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Preschool teachers as keepers of traditions and agents of change

Puskás

Andersson

2018

Early Years

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According to the Swedish Preschool Curriculum, one of the tasks of the preschool is to pass on a cultural heritage, its values, traditions and history, language and knowledge, from one generation to the next. The formulation indicates that cultural heritage plays an important role in defining the tasks of preschool teachers as far as the transmission of cultural norms is concerned. The aim of the overall study was to explore how Swedish preschool teachers implement and reflect on the task of transmitting a cultural heritage. This paper has its focus on how a particular cultural tradition, Easter, is celebrated in two preschools. The empirical data consists of 227 min video data from two preschools. The video data were analysed through qualitative content analysis with a focus on how different semiotic resources, actions and artefacts are used to perform Easter. The different modes of enacting traditions are used as instruments of socialisation into a cultural heritage as well as means of actualisation of a preschool pedagogy. While preschool teachers can be seen as agents of change who challenge some of the ways of celebrating a tradition, they are also agents of national reproduction. Thus, the teachers both enact the curriculum and build a bricolage of elements, some of which represent continuity, while others represent change.

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Easter Eggs: Symbols of Life and Renewal

Cited by 9 publications

References 1 publication

Through the Creator's Eyes: Using the Subjective Camera to Study Craft Creativity

Through the Creator's Eyes: Using the Subjective Camera to Study Craft Creativity

From Kiev to Pereyaslavets (Πρεσθλαβίτζα). The early medieval stone egg imitations and glazed Easter egg rattles from Dobrudja, Romania.

Preschool teachers as keepers of traditions and agents of change

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