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Although eggs, in general, were a traditional symbol of fertility and rebirth,<ref name="fertility">{{cite book|url= https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000leem|url-access= registration|page= [https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000leem/page/111 111]|title= The Oxford Companion to World Mythology|publisher= [[Oxford University Press]]|author= David Leeming|quote=For many, Easter is synonymous with fertility symbols such as the Easter Rabbit, Easter Eggs, and the Easter lily.|year=2005|access-date =10 March 2013}}</ref> in [[Christianity]], for the celebration of Eastertide, Easter eggs symbolize the [[empty tomb]] of [[Jesus]], from which Jesus was [[resurrection of Jesus|resurrected]].<ref name=Meaning>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=mzKVPZthGHUC&q=easter+egg+Christian&pg=PA51|title= Christianity|publisher= [[Nelson Thornes]]|author= Anne Jordan|quote= Easter eggs are used as a Christian symbol to represent the empty tomb. The outside of the egg looks dead but inside there is new life, which is going to break out. The Easter egg is a reminder that Jesus will rise from His tomb and bring new life. Orthodox Christians dye boiled eggs red to make red Easter eggs that represent the blood of Christ shed for the sins of the world.|date= 5 April 2000|isbn= 9780748753208|access-date= 7 April 2012|archive-date= 9 April 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230409152349/https://books.google.com/books?id=mzKVPZthGHUC&q=easter+egg+Christian&pg=PA51|url-status= live}}</ref><ref name=Symbolism>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hPMVAAAAYAAJ&q=easter+egg+empty+tomb&pg=PA119|title=The Guardian, Volume 29|publisher=H. Harbaugh|quote=Just so, on that first Easter morning, Jesus came to life and walked out of the tomb, and left it, as it were, an empty shell. Just so, too, when the Christian dies, the body is left in the grave, an empty shell, but the soul takes wings and flies away to be with God. Thus you see that though an egg seems to be as dead as a stone, yet it really has life in it; and also it is like Christ's dead body, which was raised to life again. This is the reason we use eggs on Easter. (In days past some used to color the eggs red, so as to show the kind of death by which Christ died,-a ''bloody'' death.)|year=1878|access-date=7 April 2012|archive-date=9 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409152350/https://books.google.com/books?id=hPMVAAAAYAAJ&q=easter+egg+empty+tomb&pg=PA119|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Wn-38NunUnAC&q=easter+egg+Christian&pg=PT120|title= Christian belief and practice|publisher= [[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]]|author= Gordon Geddes, Jane Griffiths|quote= Red eggs are given to Orthodox Christians after the Easter Liturgy. They crack their eggs against each other's. The cracking of the eggs symbolizes a wish to break away from the bonds of sin and misery and enter the new life issuing from Christ's resurrection.|date= 22 January 2002|isbn= 9780435306915|access-date= 7 April 2012|archive-date= 9 April 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230409152350/https://books.google.com/books?id=Wn-38NunUnAC&q=easter+egg+Christian&pg=PT120|url-status= live}}</ref> In addition, one ancient tradition was the staining of Easter eggs with the colour red "in memory of the [[blood of Christ]], shed as at that time of his crucifixion."<ref name=Meaning/><ref name="Ellis1877">{{cite book|title=Popular antiquities of Great Britain|access-date=26 March 2016|year=1877|language=en|page=[https://archive.org/details/observationsonp02unkngoog/page/n119 90]|author=Henry Ellis|author-link=Henry Ellis (librarian)|url=https://archive.org/details/observationsonp02unkngoog|quote=[[Thomas Hyde|Hyde]], in his Oriental Sports (1694), tells us one with eggs among the Christians of Mesopotamia on Easter Day and forty days afterwards, during which time their children buy themselves as many eggs as they can, stain them with a red colour in memory of the blood of Christ, shed as at that time of his crucifixion. Some tinge them with green and yellow.}}</ref>