Easter and the World Egg
(Abstract)
The egg is commonly considered as one of the symbols of nature's revival, which coincides with the renascence of Spring time. It illustrates the myth of periodical creation, re-birth, resurrection. Related to Easter celebrations, the egg painted in different colours reflects, in reality, a deep and ancient symbol common to all traditions in this world.
Good Friday celebrates the death of the human form of Jesus and his return in the cosmic cave. Easter Sunday feasts his Resurrection, his leaving the cave in his divine form. A resurrection which coincides with the renewal of Spring time in the Northern hemisphere. This renewal finds its full explanation within the Egg symbolism, germ of the development of the cosmic World and the being belonging to it.
A world the being tries to get free of while following the Path taken by the Son of God. Getting out of the Cosmos, of the cave where we are imprisoned, constitutes the true “liberation” for all beings on this earth.
With his passage through the cosmic cave, from his entry or birth in the crib to his final leave or resurrection, the Christ reminds the world of the vertical Path which, rather than taking the being from Earth to Heaven,
re-unifies Heaven and Earth, human and divine within himself. The vertical axis symbolizes the “Middle Path” associated with yellow, the medium colour of the rainbow spectrum and the Easter colour as well.
The cross and cave symbols unite through verticality. Plenty of examples illustrate this connection, such as the cross topping the hillock, the hill, the dome, the tabernacle, the Orb in the Christ's hands, the ciborium within the Priest's hands etc. All these representations contain a cavity or symbolic cave crowned by a cross as on the Golgotha mount.
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