Kulich and eggs. These are phallic symbols. Yes. No matter how discouraging it may sound. Male causal organs are an expression of the universal fertilizing principle. Our ancestors were closer to nature and, as a result, more honest about where children come from, well, it’s not in the cabbage, and it’s not the stork that brings it, well, it’s not from the spirit, even though it’s holy - that's for sure. So, baking or buying Easter cakes is a very ancient pagan tradition among the Slavs. And they baked them in the shape of a phallus, in the likeness of the male reproductive organ, with a brown cap doused in white sugar, which symbolizes the spilled seed, and sprinkled with grain on top (now colored sugar crumbs), which in turn symbolizes fertility and the beginning of the awakening of nature. They also painted eggs to match the “composition” of a phallic Easter cake - which very accurately symbolized the origin of life in all its glory. By the way, the domes on churches are a phallic symbol, but what did you think? Clever churchmen wove all the bright and centuries-old pagan traditions into Christianity in order to make the transition resisting pagans to the new faith. Even temples were built where the people's path led - to the “prayed” place, to the place of sacrifices and places of traditional rituals. Today Catholics celebrate Easter - the bright resurrection of Christ. Both chocolate bunnies and chocolate eggs began to be sold in supermarkets and confectionery stores immediately after the New Year. What does it have to do with a rabbit, and a chocolate one at that... with chocolate eggs? The Easter Bunny came from paganism, only then it was a nimble and sometimes biting hare, but then and now it symbolized fertility. Everyone knows the saying - they multiply (or another verb) like hares = rabbits? In order for Christianity to take root, missionaries in Europe mixed pagan rituals into Christian holidays. The pagan holiday of the spring equinox and the worship of the goddess Ostara (Easter - Ostern in German) was mixed with the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Hares also jumped here, but in the form of pleasant and non-aggressive domestic rabbits that lay eggs (these are Easter bunnies, not ordinary ones!), Then the rabbits hide these eggs in the grass or bushes. So fun for the whole family is ready: the rabbit (an adult) hides the eggs, and the children eagerly look for it - joy for everyone! Well, eggs have always meant a symbol of life. Over time, enterprising businessmen began to popularize chocolate eggs, and rabbits got chocolate for company. And remember there was such a black singer Pierre Narcissus, and his mega-popular song “Chocolate Bunny” - here he is a symbol from pagan rituals that is always with us in one form or another: either in a song, or in the form of bunny ears in sex costumes, or in the form of dumplings or any of their varieties, or in phrases like “women love with their ears...” Sigmund Freud, who wrote “Totem and Taboo,” where he described the psychology of primitive culture and later religion, wrote that the infantile return of the totem always occurs, no matter what level of cultural development humanity is at. As usual, you can’t escape your roots. But a modern and supposedly cultured person always has the opportunity to go to the pagan museum of his primordial nature, and then pass primitive impulses through the multi-tiered superstructure of the psyche.