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Easter Egg Hunts, what genius decided a Sumerian fertility ritual would be a great idea for kids? Priests gonna priest I guess.

Buttercup 8 Apr 2
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YEAH ~ I heard that recently [https:///-] clegy-/// as
opposed to shamans...they reek of purity👹.
And since they had the💰 and WRITING for themselves ( through Selling Forgiveness )- they had & still have NO ONE to answer to .👑

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I think that Easter egg hunting is a far more widespread and natural thing. Not really having any one ritual origin, though there may be odd records of some societies making rituals of it.

In ancient and medieval times, food stores would often start to fall low by spring, ( Hence the Lenten fast is put in that season. ) and the first eggs laid by wild birds in the woods and hedgerows would be a valued burst of high calorie food in a hungry season. Especially for the very poor, whose children would be sent out to look for them. Doubly so, because before modern breeding and artificial lighting, even domestic hens would have stopped laying during the winter, so that the first eggs, even for the rich, would have been a special treat.

Easter egg hunts therefore do not really need an origin, they were what everyone did naturally anyway.

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No shit

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On a par with doting grown-ups watching their children, in 4 weeks time, dancing round the Maypole, a pagan ritual to select one's partner for a spot of nookie!

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