Some say that Simon of Cyrene, an egg merchant, was the man Jesus passed on his way to his crucifixion. Polish legend tells us that Mary painted hard-boiled eggs yellow, green and red to give her son, Jesus, special joy. The egg may look lifeless, but out of the egg grows a new creature, and legends from many lands tell us that just as the chick is entombed inside the egg and brought to life, so out of the grave of the dead rose Jesus. Ancient Greeks and Romans buried eggs with their dead and left baskets of eggs on their graves. The Maoris of New Zealand placed an egg in the hand of the dead before burial.
Jewish mourners eat eggs on their return from funeral services of their loved ones.
Even in pagan times the egg represented rebirth at the time of the solar new year, the time when out of the dead earth, new life rises. If you look closely at an egg, you'll note that it is shaped almost like the Earth. Chinese legend tells us that the universe is indeed an egg standing on end, the lower half filled with the primordial ocean. There, Chinese legend tells us, the Earth floats like the yolk, and the inner surface of the shell forms the sky. Talk to us.