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A feast for the Easter Bunny, A German couple decorates their garden tree with almost 10,000 painted eggs, WOW....German pensioners Volker and Christa Kraft, have decorated the tree in their back garden in Saalfeld for Easter for more than 40 years, The tree now drips with more than 9,800 colorful Easter eggs, painted with pastoral scenes and religious icons...Each egg is painstakingly emptied of yolk and white to ensure it doesn't go bad before it can be hand-painted and hung, she says that you can use a syringe to push through just one hole to extract the gooey stuff but be cautious when handling raw eggs they may carry salmonella...
Its the Symbol of life:
Carefully
packed and intricately decorated Easter eggs lie waiting to be hung from the
Kraft tree
The
egg is a pagan symbol of rebirth, widely used in spring festivals before its
adoption by
early Christians as a symbol of the resurrection of
Jesus, For
followers of Christianity they are symbolic of Christ
rising from his tomb two days after his death on the
cross, In
ancient times the Zoroastrians painted eggs for
Nowrooz, their New Year celebration, which falls on spring
equinox
Sculptures
in the ruins of Persepolis, their
capital, show people carrying eggs to their king for the occasion 2500 years
ago
After
their kids moved out of the house, it seemed the Easter Tree would finally catch
a break but
grandsons arrived and the Krafts went back to decorating their
giant tree The
number of Easter eggs hung by the tree’s branches grew every
year and
in 2010 it reached an incredible 9,500 eggs.
