To quote Terence Scully, “Because eggs were one of the most important foodstuffs covered by the dietary injunctions of Lent…the end of this long period of purification and abstinence…was celebrated by a blessing of eggs in church. These eggs, stained and gaudily decorated with the happiest of bright colours in anticipation of their return to the dining board, were exchanged as gifts among friends and relatives; quite naturally they became known as Easter Eggs.”
The Roman Catholic church got very good at modifying local traditions and beliefs, to make the stomping out and erasure of "pagan" beliefs while conversion to Christianity easier. However, different traditions across Europe was one of many things leading to the Protestant Reformation.
I now feel obligated to demand an Extra History merch store complete with Chocolate Eggtinction Events. It would definitely give me diabetes, but I would legit buy one.
Death by chocolate! This way would be preferable to some of the central American forms of death by chocolate. If I misremember correctly most involved boiling water, chili peppers, sharp pointy or cutty things, and having your still beating heart removed from your rib cage by a priest.
In France, children were told that church bells would fly from their steeples to Rome to pick up eggs and sweets to bring back to children. So imagine the Easter Bunny riding flying church bells filled with chocolate and candy. XD
@@alexie832 our diocese hold masses on youtube and our parish does it through facebook. but so far, i've been able to watch it on ewtn. since we can still walk around in the parks, i was thinking of going there for the stations of the cross.
@@alexie832 they are trying, it's just that a lot of the streams are on Facebook *sigh* with a phone *double sigh* in portrait mode *triple sigh* There are some local tv channels using their professional (albeit sometimes outdated) equipment, but this is still a new thing especially with smaller communities...
There's another Christian story I've heard bout Simon of Cyrene, the man who was pressed into helping Jesus carry His cross on the way to the crucifixion. The story goes that Simon was carrying a basket of eggs to market when he was stopped and pressed into service by the Roman soldiers. Setting down his basket, he had to shoulder the heavy weight of the cross, as Jesus' body was too weak at this point from all the torture He's already undergone. When Simon got back, he found his basket of eggs had miraculously been transformed into colorful ones as a sing of God's favor and reward. This is far from any sort of official Church teaching, but it's a fun little "might have happened" story for Christians to accept or reject as they wish.
I remember learning that in Spanish class! My teacher was from Mexicali, and she brought us some cascarones for our class party as we were approaching spring break. It only got moderately violent.
Here's a helpful hint for everyone's Easter If you are having an Easter egg hunt for your children have eatch child look for a specific colour, this will stop one child from stealing the other kids eggs
Remember Christianity is two millennia old with many different international traditions. That sounds similar to the Lutheran tradition's interpretations. What you may have seen was just culture and mythology live! I say mythology here because the fits with the mythos and not theology.
I am a Pagan, and I was quite interested to see this. The stuff about Eostre/Ostara is an...interesting and complicated matter. Her name is attested mainly in Bede's Reckoning of Time, but there is evidence of inscriptions and votives to a goddess named Austriohena, which may be Ostara under a different name. If so, her name then likely has the same roots as Aurora, the goddess of the dawn who rises from the east. It should be pointed out that the Germanic tribes did not celebrate the Equinoxes (or Solstices) per se. They had a lunar calendar, and their major festivals were pegged to the full moons. So, Ostara was not exactly a goddess of the Spring Equinox, but of Spring in general as a function as a goddess of dawn, light, fertility, and new life. The festival to Ostara was probably celebrated, coincidentally, around the same time as Passover: the first full moon AFTER the Spring Equinox.
Came to say this. Would enjoy a series like that, whether from the Golem end (mediaval Europe folklore progressing backwards into Jewish history), or from the Samson/Gideon/Moses end (Bronze Age forward through history)
Agreed. It's always interesting to see the unique blend between authentic teachings of a religion and the folklore and legends that grow around them. As an outsider to that faith myself, I'd like some clarification on which end of the spectrum creatures like golems fall into.
I was just thinking that I would love to see them cover more stories from modern religions like Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. (Obviously more than just those three, but you get the idea lol)
And for those celebrating the other springtime holiday, have a good Passover Seder. Edit: Which, also, btw, has a connection to eggs, albeit if just as one of the many denizens of the seder plate.
I think it's around the middle ages when a single artist started modeling Jesus after some bearded white guy. You could say that Jesus was whitewashed.
@Sean Wadey a monarchist who spoke on investing well was a communist... hmmm. Otherwise yes, he was a devout bearded Jew from the mideast who made things for a living
The Extra team catering to real niche crowds: I feel the overlap in the Venn Diagram of people who get both an Elsa/Frozen reference, and a Rodney Dangerfield reference is preeetty small...
Happy Easter Extra Credits Crew! God bless you for continuing to put out videos during quarantine. This channel helps to keep everyone's spirits up during this uncertain time. Thank you!
You guys had LITERAL Easter eggs hidden throughout the festival. I admire both the EXTRA effort and the dedication to a pun. One might say it was... eggcelent.
Funnily enough, me and some friends were talking about where the Easter Bunny originated from during a live stream I did this morning. Now I can show them this (and one of the stories I told was very similar to the one about the Easter egg hunt)
Me: eats the entire chocolate egg-stinction in one sitting My family: wtf do you have a problem? Me: you call this a problem!? It's perfectly normal Also me: developes diabetes
I just realized your village in Thea the Awakening is named after that Spring Equinox Goddess because it formed just after the sun rose for the first time in any of their lives! I love when games pay homage to actual mythology. Our game does too, as it's based on 6th century Teutonic barbarians who had a neat mythology that mixed ancient Greco-Roman, Christian, and Norse religion together! Our game is called Dream-Prison Wanderer and is coming to Nintendo 3DS next year, if you can believe that.
Finally an episode I see shortly after publication, been waiting for this chance for a long time. Thank you guys for so many excellent YT content, one of the best channels here, thanks
I really live how they explore all the tales surrounding Easter and dont leave anyone out or focus on 1 particular. While I am religious, I find joy and curiosity in learning about other cultures and their personal stories. It really brings us together as people. Though the tales may be different, it all has one unifying message. Hope, joy, and new beginnings. Happy Easter everyone!!🥚🐇
I give votive offerings to Cadbury, the God(dess) of candy, at this time of year. But, more seriously, with the pandemic, my family (VERY Catholic) have had to postpone Easter until whenever this whole mess passes. So... looks like Eostara is gonna be SUPER late this year. XD
@@stephenflint3640 Grandma is pushing 90. Every minute matters. And, we've had to be away from her for a couple months now, since we DEFINITELY don't want to get her sick.
Ironically, the worldwide chocolate industry is involved in the largest numbers of child slavery - millions of kids in bonded slavery growing & harvesting cocoa beans in west Africa. Obscene.
This showed up in my email but the subject line was cut off at "The Easter Egg," and I couldn't tell if the video was going to be for Extra Credits or Mythology until I opened it.
Where did you find the sources for this mythology? I tried to look it up, but I couldn't find anything that wasn't a modern construction of a hypothetical proto-indo-european goddess.
To the Extra Mythology Crew: I would like to say thank you for doing this episode. Given how contentious a topic Easter can be from both Christians and non-Christians, I am glad you were able to find a balance and discuss and focus on the topic at hand. You did a good job!
The Ostara story didn't show up until the late 1800s, based on speculative history without primary source materials by Deutsche Mythologie writers (Grimm and Holttzmann). It's just bizarre to put it in the same camp as an explanatory mechanism for northern and western European Christian customs that we can reliably source to early Persian Christianity.
there used to be a pre-christian tradition in the Levant especially among the Phoenicians all the way to Carthage to put decorated Ostrich eggs in tombs as a symbol of life or regeneration.
Egg decorating is international with examples from China as well. Western Christian Egg probably originated in Mesopotamia and then traveled to Rus (pysanky). This in turn relates to the Eastern Orthodox Church. Pagan egg dying was also in Eastern Europe, which may be related to the phoenicians.
There is no evidence that Easter Eggs had anything to do with Ostera, Grimm just proposed a possible link. It comes from Orthodox Christians, starting in Mesopetamia and then spreading throughout Eastern Europe, embraced due to existing Pagan traditions associated eggs with talismans. I am surprised you missed the chance to mention the link with dragons.
Inspired by your amazing special about Easter, I want to make it into a story book for my child. Of course giving full credit to extra credit crew for the information.
dude I never understood the history behind Easter and the egg thing until now JESUS!! IM 35 YRS OLD HOW COULD I HAVE LEARN THIS TODAY! thank you RUclips it's like your the grown up that flip off people that refuses to share history on too children and thank you Extra Credits for making this channel.
This is fascinating! I never knew that part of Magdalene's egg. Here in argentina people prefer red/brown eggs to white eggs, even though they are nutritionally and taste exactly the same. They even sell at different prices sometimes. Now, I'm thinking this story is why reddish eggs are more appreciated, but it's such a long tradition that no one even remembers the story.
The bird turned into a bunny story isn't all that old. We can't trace it further back than the 1990's. The Easter Bunny in general is a bit of a mystery. We know Martin Luther came up with it as an Easter version of Santa, who gives eggs to good children. It's possible he was just repurposing a legend that already existed though. And why a bunny of all things is completely lost to time.
I find it odd that you treat the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ with a decent amount of skepticism, but give no mention to the fact that the only source for Ostara's existence is the not-so-venerable Bede.
Oh my god, in kindergarten my class had this guy come in around Easter. He told this long winded tale about an old woman who found a crow freezing to death in the winter and turning it into a rabbit to save it. That rabbit kept laying eggs that were now very colourful. I thought my child brain had just made that up or vastly misremembered it.
Hmmm. Never heard of the red egg myth. Or the bunny chicken myth. Pretty cool. And can you explain if this has anything to do with Tammuz?
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None of what you say about *Ostara is grounded on solid evidence. We have the discussion of Eostre by Bede, but *Ostara is a proto-germanic reconstruction that hails from little more than speculation, who could only be sustained at first by the delusions of german nationalism, most notably of Jakob Grimm in his Deutsche Mythologie, E.g. : “Bonfires were lighted at Easter and according to popular belief of long standing, the moment the sun rises on Easter Sunday morning, he gives three joyful leaps, he dances for joy ... Water drawn on the Easter morning is, like that at Christmas, holy and healing ... here also heathen notions seems to have grafted themselves on great Christian festivals. Maidens clothed in white, who at Easter, at the season of returning spring, show themselves in clefts of the rock and on mountains, are suggestive of the ancient goddess.” Grimm (1882:290) "The heathen Easter had much in common with May-feast and the reception of spring, particularly in matter of bonfires. Then, through long ages there seem to have lingered among the people so-called Easter-games, which the church itself had to tolerate : I allude especially to the custom of Easter eggs, and to the Easter tale which preachers told from the pulpit for the people's amusement, connecting it with Christian reminiscences." Grimm (1883:780-781) But we have some evidence that these types of Games especially developed in the late middle ages, rather than being conserved from older germanic prechristian rites. (For the evidence in the British Isles, as the only mention of Eostre is english, see the chapter on the May Games and Easter Games in Ronald Hutton, Stations of the Sun, 1996) The truth is we don't really know the reason of the association of the hare with the season, other than the idea that some animals start getting active around spring, and it's been ascribed to Ostara as part of that ignorance. See those two articles for a discussion : 1. cavalorn.tumblr.com/post/158774065945/why-eggs-and-bunnies-arent-pagan-symbols-long 2. cavalorn.tumblr.com/post/115756658940/the-symbols-of-the-goddess-eostre-were In 1874 Adolf Holzmann literally said it in his Deutsche Mythologie : "The Easter Hare is inexplicable to me, probably the hare is the animal of Ostara" (p. 141) See here in the original german archive.org/stream/deutschemytholo02holtgoog#page/n155/mode/2up He cannot explain it so it must be Ostara's animal! But why not folklore that developped since christianization? (Which it is) In 1883, K.A. Oberle writes that “the hare was probably the sacred animal of Ostara”, yeah, why not, “probably”. It’s repeated by Charles Isaac in 1890 and, in a 1892 Folk-lore article, Charles J. Billson summarized the arguments for or against a connection between Eostre and Hares, concluding that: “whether there ever was a goddess named Eostre, or not, and whatever connection the hare may have had with the ritual of Saxon or British worship, there are good grounds for believing that the sacredness of this animal reaches back into an age still more remote, when it probably played a very important part at the great Spring Festival of the prehistoric inhabitants of this island.” Charles J. Billson, “The Easter Hare” (1892) in Folk-lore vol. 3.4 See, that’s why assuming folklore always dates from the utmost antiquity is ridiculous. He’s not even sure that there *is* an Eostre goddess but he’s certain that the Hare is a remnant of an even more ancient prehistoric spring festival! So you can understand why in recent years, you see neopagans or simply enthusiastic thinkers claiming again and again that this connection is real. In these New Age circles you can also find the idea, that you repeated, that Ostara turned a bird into a hare, hence her ability to lay eggs, but rest assured: no such ancient tale is recorded and we owe it, again, to Holzmann thinking aloud (“Uebrigens ist doch der Hase ein Vogel gewesen, da er Eier legt […]” / “By the way, the hare must once have been a bird, because it lays eggs” Cf. blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2016/04/ostara-and-the-hare/ ) and repeated down in modern times. An interesting modern myth on a modern custom, but that tells us little about antiquity. About *Ostara herself, see Philip Shaw, Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World. Eostre Hreda and the cult of Matrons, Bristol, 2011, 128p. Especially chapter 4 "Eostre: Pan-Germanic Goddess or 'Etmologycal Fancy'?" (pp. 49-71)
0:14 Nice glasses girl. Also, Who are this people exactly? Also Also: 0:53 Nice Easter Egg (this appears a lot of times, i put only this One) 0:58 Nice Easter Egg 1:00 - 1:12 Nice Easter Eggs 1:16 did u put 1 in each scene?.. 1:261:311:37 ok those were well hidden 1:46 Nice Easter Egg 1:59 Nice Easter Egg 2:07 Nice Easter Egg 2:20 Nice Easter Eggs 2:29 NICE ONE! :D 2:32 Nice Easter Egg 2:41 Nice Cup! (But the "Game Cup" Is OOH so much Better) 2:50 that One Is REALLY hidden 3:00 Odd Rock! 3:15 - 3:16 That Neck looks.. Strange. 3:43 Santa Is NOT Who he says he is 5:51 SPOTTED. Thought you could fool me at the very end, did you? Also: i skipped all those Who appeared twice or more and put in only the First appearance, as well as the too obvius ones. This was fun. Thanks.
For some reason, I though this was an Extra Credits video about Easter eggs in video games and I was like “hell yeah babey, tell me tips about adding Easter eggs that I’m never going to use”
I appreciate the respectful and simple look at an early Christian story. Its not often that people cover the mythologies of 'living' religions. So it was nice, and even moving to hear a story I had never heard before and get a bonus myth right alongside it. 😁 Happy easter to you guys at extra credits and stay safe out there.
Not to be that person, but the Pagan part isn’t 100% accurate. We celebrate the holiday Ostara, and the Goddess is Estro [though there aren’t many records of her so some don’t think she existed at all] other than that, quite like the video.
As a Wiccan who was raised Christian, thank you for bringing up Ostara in this video. Too often, people ignore or even try to deny the various pagan origins of Christian holidays and so it's nice to see someone point them out. There is room for both the cauldron and the cross. Whatever we celebrate, this time of year is about remembering rebirth, something which I think will give us all much-needed comfort and hope in 2020. Happy Easter, Bright Ostara, and blessed be. + )O(
DID SOMEBODY SAY EGGCELLENT??? But seriously, I'm glad this video was made. It's important to understand the roots and variations of your traditions, something a lot of my Christian friends don't know about some of their holidays.
It aught to be very difficult to get icecream underneath a chocolate shell, unless the chocolate is made in a mold beforehand and then sealed by heating it slightly, but not melting the icecream.
As someone who has both Pagan and Christian family members, I really appreciate that you guys took the time to tell both versions of the Holiday's origins! This made my day
I'm surprised you didn't label this as "Eggstra Mythology".
Why does your pick lool like you are a criminal
I thought it was about Easter Eggs in games, and it was an episode of Extra Credits xD
@@kantermorris3420 Cause that joke was so rotten it should be a crime! *Badum tiss*
You are the best!
@@kantermorris3420 pic
Mary Magdalene: "Can I offer you a nice egg in these trying times?"
Yes please☺
Otto Niittymäki why yes. I missed breakfast after all these crucifixions
Otto Niittymäki Wait. Mary Magdalene giving the EMPEROR?!? An egg? How??
Maybe Pontius Pilate but....
@@Alusnovalotus Are you perchance suggesting that a piece of Christian tradition might _not_ be grounded on fact???????? >:v
Proud to have been the 69th person to upvote this.
What an odd story. "I have come to tell you of a man who came back from the dead" "Also I brought an egg"
Alfonso Razo
Well since it’s not in the New Testament it’s not canon of course, it is fun though.
@@allthenewsordeath5772 wat
To quote Terence Scully, “Because eggs were one of the most important foodstuffs covered by the dietary injunctions of Lent…the end of this long period of purification and abstinence…was celebrated by a blessing of eggs in church. These eggs, stained and gaudily decorated with the happiest of bright colours in anticipation of their return to the dining board, were exchanged as gifts among friends and relatives; quite naturally they became known as Easter Eggs.”
but the spring goddess myth pre-dates that tale by a few years.
@@Nipplator99999999999 So?
@@stevemcgroob4446 If you can't understand the correlation, I won't be able to help out.
The Roman Catholic church got very good at modifying local traditions and beliefs, to make the stomping out and erasure of "pagan" beliefs while conversion to Christianity easier. However, different traditions across Europe was one of many things leading to the Protestant Reformation.
@@Nipplator99999999999 But I don't understand why a pagan myth is relevant to the reason why Christians associate eggs with Easter?
I now feel obligated to demand an Extra History merch store complete with Chocolate Eggtinction Events. It would definitely give me diabetes, but I would legit buy one.
I will join you in making this demand
Add my voice to the many
You probably would die from hyperglycemia before you could ever develop diabetes if you ate it in one go lol.
@@this_is_patrick Worth. It.
Death by chocolate!
This way would be preferable to some of the central American forms of death by chocolate. If I misremember correctly most involved boiling water, chili peppers, sharp pointy or cutty things, and having your still beating heart removed from your rib cage by a priest.
So he seriously codified the “Easter egg” by hiding them in the scenery of most of the story. Clever girl.
It's a digital easter egg hunt
I found them all
Cleaver grill.
In France, children were told that church bells would fly from their steeples to Rome to pick up eggs and sweets to bring back to children.
So imagine the Easter Bunny riding flying church bells filled with chocolate and candy. XD
"whether it's going to church"
*currently stuck in quarantine*
Stuffing your face with chocolate is an acceptable substitute.
You can still go to church but not in person. My mom had mass through the TV. What if every church leaders hold mass virtually?
Should've moved to Greenland when you had the chance, last I heard they'd successfully contained the infection to the two families that brought it in.
@@alexie832 our diocese hold masses on youtube and our parish does it through facebook. but so far, i've been able to watch it on ewtn. since we can still walk around in the parks, i was thinking of going there for the stations of the cross.
@@alexie832 they are trying, it's just that a lot of the streams are on Facebook *sigh* with a phone *double sigh* in portrait mode *triple sigh*
There are some local tv channels using their professional (albeit sometimes outdated) equipment, but this is still a new thing especially with smaller communities...
There's another Christian story I've heard bout Simon of Cyrene, the man who was pressed into helping Jesus carry His cross on the way to the crucifixion. The story goes that Simon was carrying a basket of eggs to market when he was stopped and pressed into service by the Roman soldiers. Setting down his basket, he had to shoulder the heavy weight of the cross, as Jesus' body was too weak at this point from all the torture He's already undergone. When Simon got back, he found his basket of eggs had miraculously been transformed into colorful ones as a sing of God's favor and reward. This is far from any sort of official Church teaching, but it's a fun little "might have happened" story for Christians to accept or reject as they wish.
Oh this is the story I was told.
Can you site a source. I've never seen this... Or for that matter most of this animation before.
@@cyntogia no I can't. I was told this by my religious ed teacher when I was in 3rd grade. Sorry.
"Thanks for carrying my sons´s torture and execution device, here´s some shiny eggs".
@@KanaiIle Yeah, something like that.
Here in Mexico we have egg shells filled with confetti and we break them on other people.
I remember learning that in Spanish class! My teacher was from Mexicali, and she brought us some cascarones for our class party as we were approaching spring break.
It only got moderately violent.
I live this how do u make them? Break a bit off the top to let the yolk drain?
wilson yup.
@@dalewilson2416 You can also fill the egg shells with flour.
Those are called cascarones
Here's a helpful hint for everyone's Easter
If you are having an Easter egg hunt for your children have eatch child look for a specific colour, this will stop one child from stealing the other kids eggs
In sunday school I was told that the egg represented the stone that was rolled in front of Christ's tomb. Add another story to the pile!
Remember Christianity is two millennia old with many different international traditions. That sounds similar to the Lutheran tradition's interpretations. What you may have seen was just culture and mythology live! I say mythology here because the fits with the mythos and not theology.
Boiled eggs are also a feature on the Passover table
There is an easter egg in every scene
Indigo Azai wow there really is!
Of course there is
Good to see another hunter!
Damn you! Now I have to go back and find them all
@@kevinslater4126 Well, if you wanna be the very best...
Aww, Ally's kid has really grown up since Ally joined the team.
Ikr? Cute
I am a Pagan, and I was quite interested to see this. The stuff about Eostre/Ostara is an...interesting and complicated matter. Her name is attested mainly in Bede's Reckoning of Time, but there is evidence of inscriptions and votives to a goddess named Austriohena, which may be Ostara under a different name. If so, her name then likely has the same roots as Aurora, the goddess of the dawn who rises from the east.
It should be pointed out that the Germanic tribes did not celebrate the Equinoxes (or Solstices) per se. They had a lunar calendar, and their major festivals were pegged to the full moons. So, Ostara was not exactly a goddess of the Spring Equinox, but of Spring in general as a function as a goddess of dawn, light, fertility, and new life. The festival to Ostara was probably celebrated, coincidentally, around the same time as Passover: the first full moon AFTER the Spring Equinox.
Could we possibly tackle Passover and other Jewish beliefs and myths? I think it’d be interesting to see dybbiks and golems tackled!
Came to say this. Would enjoy a series like that, whether from the Golem end (mediaval Europe folklore progressing backwards into Jewish history), or from the Samson/Gideon/Moses end (Bronze Age forward through history)
Agreed. It's always interesting to see the unique blend between authentic teachings of a religion and the folklore and legends that grow around them. As an outsider to that faith myself, I'd like some clarification on which end of the spectrum creatures like golems fall into.
I was just thinking that I would love to see them cover more stories from modern religions like Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. (Obviously more than just those three, but you get the idea lol)
Fun fact: At least two Canadian provinces have officially declared the Easter Bunny an essential service this week.
The Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy are essential workers in New Zealand.
But no word about the Soul Cake Duck.
And for those celebrating the other springtime holiday, have a good Passover Seder.
Edit: Which, also, btw, has a connection to eggs, albeit if just as one of the many denizens of the seder plate.
Seeing the Extra History bean people's mouths animated caught me by surprise.
"Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the Jewish Middle Easterner..." Thank you for pointing that out, I feel like it's often overlooked by far to many people.
Yesuha ben Yousef was also a sandal wearing, long haired, unshaven, working class, communist, but saying that tends to upset some Christians.
Sean Wadey Also a proponent of free healthcare.
@@jlokison fair enough, since acknowledging the historical record verifies he existed at all tends to upset some atheists.
I think it's around the middle ages when a single artist started modeling Jesus after some bearded white guy. You could say that Jesus was whitewashed.
@Sean Wadey a monarchist who spoke on investing well was a communist... hmmm. Otherwise yes, he was a devout bearded Jew from the mideast who made things for a living
The Extra team catering to real niche crowds: I feel the overlap in the Venn Diagram of people who get both an Elsa/Frozen reference, and a Rodney Dangerfield reference is preeetty small...
I love that I got them both!! The benefits of being a xennial :)
I've been going through the comments to see who would mention his cameo. I half figured there'd be more comments asking wtf that image was.
I’m loving the Easter Egg of hidden Easter eggs in each scene. 🐣
Happy Easter Extra Credits Crew! God bless you for continuing to put out videos during quarantine. This channel helps to keep everyone's spirits up during this uncertain time. Thank you!
Thank you for making this an Extra Mythology instead of an extra history because this isn't history.
I like how there are Easter eggs are in every slide. What a nice Easter egg!
This was an eggscellent mythology treat
Yeah, they went eggstra on this one.
And the Easter Bunny is considered Essential!
love the detail to have a egg in every frame
Mary Magdelene to the emperor: may I offer you an egg on this trying times?
I love this "extended universe" unrelated banter after the story was told
You guys had LITERAL Easter eggs hidden throughout the festival. I admire both the EXTRA effort and the dedication to a pun. One might say it was... eggcelent.
Funnily enough, me and some friends were talking about where the Easter Bunny originated from during a live stream I did this morning. Now I can show them this (and one of the stories I told was very similar to the one about the Easter egg hunt)
Me: eats the entire chocolate egg-stinction in one sitting
My family: wtf do you have a problem?
Me: you call this a problem!? It's perfectly normal
Also me: developes diabetes
I just realized your village in Thea the Awakening is named after that Spring Equinox Goddess because it formed just after the sun rose for the first time in any of their lives!
I love when games pay homage to actual mythology. Our game does too, as it's based on 6th century Teutonic barbarians who had a neat mythology that mixed ancient Greco-Roman, Christian, and Norse religion together! Our game is called Dream-Prison Wanderer and is coming to Nintendo 3DS next year, if you can believe that.
I love how an Easter egg is in every frame
Thank you for making history, mythology and everything fun!!
Finally an episode I see shortly after publication, been waiting for this chance for a long time. Thank you guys for so many excellent YT content, one of the best channels here, thanks
there's an egg in every single card in the video, easter egg hunters are going to be thrilled
I really live how they explore all the tales surrounding Easter and dont leave anyone out or focus on 1 particular. While I am religious, I find joy and curiosity in learning about other cultures and their personal stories. It really brings us together as people. Though the tales may be different, it all has one unifying message. Hope, joy, and new beginnings. Happy Easter everyone!!🥚🐇
I give votive offerings to Cadbury, the God(dess) of candy, at this time of year.
But, more seriously, with the pandemic, my family (VERY Catholic) have had to postpone Easter until whenever this whole mess passes. So... looks like Eostara is gonna be SUPER late this year. XD
Eh, just means you'll be hiding eggs in either dry grass, or in dry leaves.
@@stephenflint3640 Grandma is pushing 90. Every minute matters. And, we've had to be away from her for a couple months now, since we DEFINITELY don't want to get her sick.
Ironically, the worldwide chocolate industry is involved in the largest numbers of child slavery - millions of kids in bonded slavery growing & harvesting cocoa beans in west Africa. Obscene.
Yeah, Eostara comes if you like it or not (nature goddess and all that).
Did you put an Easter egg which is both literally and figuratively an Easter egg in every frame? I'm very impressed.
I like how you guys hidden a Easter egg in every single scene :)
There is no tooth fairy,
there is no easter bunny
and there is no picture of this video without easter egg.
This showed up in my email but the subject line was cut off at "The Easter Egg," and I couldn't tell if the video was going to be for Extra Credits or Mythology until I opened it.
Where did you find the sources for this mythology? I tried to look it up, but I couldn't find anything that wasn't a modern construction of a hypothetical proto-indo-european goddess.
the only source is Bede's account of Eostre, and it's debatable that worship of Eostre even existed.
To the Extra Mythology Crew:
I would like to say thank you for doing this episode. Given how contentious a topic Easter can be from both Christians and non-Christians, I am glad you were able to find a balance and discuss and focus on the topic at hand.
You did a good job!
yay!!! a extra mythology video!!!
I liked all the Easter Eggs in every scene.
The Ostara story didn't show up until the late 1800s, based on speculative history without primary source materials by Deutsche Mythologie writers (Grimm and Holttzmann). It's just bizarre to put it in the same camp as an explanatory mechanism for northern and western European Christian customs that we can reliably source to early Persian Christianity.
Happy Easter to everybody 💐💐💐🌹🌹🌹
there used to be a pre-christian tradition in the Levant especially among the Phoenicians all the way to Carthage to put decorated Ostrich eggs in tombs as a symbol of life or regeneration.
Egg decorating is international with examples from China as well. Western Christian Egg probably originated in Mesopotamia and then traveled to Rus (pysanky). This in turn relates to the Eastern Orthodox Church. Pagan egg dying was also in Eastern Europe, which may be related to the phoenicians.
There is no evidence that Easter Eggs had anything to do with Ostera, Grimm just proposed a possible link. It comes from Orthodox Christians, starting in Mesopetamia and then spreading throughout Eastern Europe, embraced due to existing Pagan traditions associated eggs with talismans. I am surprised you missed the chance to mention the link with dragons.
5:17 Gonna be the pedant I truly am: Yolk is misspelled as Yoke here.
Egg-sell-Lent
I come here for extra history but i love extra mythology and sci-fi from time to time too. Keep up the amazing work!
I have counted, at least, 127 eggs in this video. That's Eggstraordinary, ExtraCredits.
Loved the color palette in this vid!
Inspired by your amazing special about Easter, I want to make it into a story book for my child. Of course giving full credit to extra credit crew for the information.
Great, now I want a piece of that Chocolate Eggstinction egg
Who's with me?
Happy Easter! I was really surprised!
The man who turned water into wine turned lemons into lemonade. Best joke you guys have come up with
All the Egg Puns. Thank you
a very nice and timely episode
dude I never understood the history behind Easter and the egg thing until now JESUS!! IM 35 YRS OLD HOW COULD I HAVE LEARN THIS TODAY! thank you RUclips it's like your the grown up that flip off people that refuses to share history on too children and thank you Extra Credits for making this channel.
I feel like I’m missing a few eggs and it’s making me anxious.
We celebrate easter with funny video games that have rabbits in it.
Last year we played Skyrim, Egg hunting with our little Dova-Hare Mod xD
This is fascinating! I never knew that part of Magdalene's egg.
Here in argentina people prefer red/brown eggs to white eggs, even though they are nutritionally and taste exactly the same. They even sell at different prices sometimes.
Now, I'm thinking this story is why reddish eggs are more appreciated, but it's such a long tradition that no one even remembers the story.
Love all the easter eggs in every frame ;)
I love the easter eggs hidden thoughout the video. It's like an virtual Easter Egg hunt for people quarntined.
The bird turned into a bunny story isn't all that old. We can't trace it further back than the 1990's. The Easter Bunny in general is a bit of a mystery. We know Martin Luther came up with it as an Easter version of Santa, who gives eggs to good children. It's possible he was just repurposing a legend that already existed though. And why a bunny of all things is completely lost to time.
I find it odd that you treat the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ with a decent amount of skepticism, but give no mention to the fact that the only source for Ostara's existence is the not-so-venerable Bede.
Nobody, as much as some claim to, ever just sits on the fence when it comes to Jesus.
I love the fifty-odd egg hidden around the video. Eggcelent touch, animators!
The Roman Emperor: mocking Jesus Christ
Mary Magdalene: What am I going to do is a *PRO GAMER MOVE*
Oh my god, in kindergarten my class had this guy come in around Easter. He told this long winded tale about an old woman who found a crow freezing to death in the winter and turning it into a rabbit to save it. That rabbit kept laying eggs that were now very colourful. I thought my child brain had just made that up or vastly misremembered it.
I love that there's an easter egg in every scene :P
Hmmm. Never heard of the red egg myth. Or the bunny chicken myth. Pretty cool.
And can you explain if this has anything to do with Tammuz?
None of what you say about *Ostara is grounded on solid evidence. We have the discussion of Eostre by Bede, but *Ostara is a proto-germanic reconstruction that hails from little more than speculation, who could only be sustained at first by the delusions of german nationalism, most notably of Jakob Grimm in his Deutsche Mythologie, E.g. :
“Bonfires were lighted at Easter and according to popular belief of long standing, the moment the sun rises on Easter Sunday morning, he gives three joyful leaps, he dances for joy ... Water drawn on the Easter morning is, like that at Christmas, holy and healing ... here also heathen notions seems to have grafted themselves on great Christian festivals. Maidens clothed in white, who at Easter, at the season of returning spring, show themselves in clefts of the rock and on mountains, are suggestive of the ancient goddess.” Grimm (1882:290)
"The heathen Easter had much in common with May-feast and the reception of spring, particularly in matter of bonfires. Then, through long ages there seem to have lingered among the people so-called Easter-games, which the church itself had to tolerate : I allude especially to the custom of Easter eggs, and to the Easter tale which preachers told from the pulpit for the people's amusement, connecting it with Christian reminiscences." Grimm (1883:780-781)
But we have some evidence that these types of Games especially developed in the late middle ages, rather than being conserved from older germanic prechristian rites. (For the evidence in the British Isles, as the only mention of Eostre is english, see the chapter on the May Games and Easter Games in Ronald Hutton, Stations of the Sun, 1996)
The truth is we don't really know the reason of the association of the hare with the season, other than the idea that some animals start getting active around spring, and it's been ascribed to Ostara as part of that ignorance. See those two articles for a discussion :
1. cavalorn.tumblr.com/post/158774065945/why-eggs-and-bunnies-arent-pagan-symbols-long
2. cavalorn.tumblr.com/post/115756658940/the-symbols-of-the-goddess-eostre-were
In 1874 Adolf Holzmann literally said it in his Deutsche Mythologie :
"The Easter Hare is inexplicable to me, probably the hare is the animal of Ostara" (p. 141)
See here in the original german archive.org/stream/deutschemytholo02holtgoog#page/n155/mode/2up
He cannot explain it so it must be Ostara's animal! But why not folklore that developped since christianization? (Which it is)
In 1883, K.A. Oberle writes that “the hare was probably the sacred animal of Ostara”, yeah, why not, “probably”. It’s repeated by Charles Isaac in 1890 and, in a 1892 Folk-lore article, Charles J. Billson summarized the arguments for or against a connection between Eostre and Hares, concluding that:
“whether there ever was a goddess named Eostre, or not, and whatever connection the hare may have had with the ritual of Saxon or British worship, there are good grounds for believing that the sacredness of this animal reaches back into an age still more remote, when it probably played a very important part at the great Spring Festival of the prehistoric inhabitants of this island.” Charles J. Billson, “The Easter Hare” (1892) in Folk-lore vol. 3.4
See, that’s why assuming folklore always dates from the utmost antiquity is ridiculous. He’s not even sure that there *is* an Eostre goddess but he’s certain that the Hare is a remnant of an even more ancient prehistoric spring festival! So you can understand why in recent years, you see neopagans or simply enthusiastic thinkers claiming again and again that this connection is real. In these New Age circles you can also find the idea, that you repeated, that Ostara turned a bird into a hare, hence her ability to lay eggs, but rest assured: no such ancient tale is recorded and we owe it, again, to Holzmann thinking aloud (“Uebrigens ist doch der Hase ein Vogel gewesen, da er Eier legt […]” / “By the way, the hare must once have been a bird, because it lays eggs” Cf. blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2016/04/ostara-and-the-hare/
) and repeated down in modern times. An interesting modern myth on a modern custom, but that tells us little about antiquity.
About *Ostara herself, see Philip Shaw, Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World. Eostre Hreda and the cult of Matrons, Bristol, 2011, 128p. Especially chapter 4 "Eostre: Pan-Germanic Goddess or 'Etmologycal Fancy'?" (pp. 49-71)
0:14 Nice glasses girl.
Also, Who are this people exactly?
Also Also:
0:53 Nice Easter Egg (this appears a lot of times, i put only this One)
0:58 Nice Easter Egg
1:00 - 1:12 Nice Easter Eggs
1:16 did u put 1 in each scene?..
1:26 1:31 1:37 ok those were well hidden
1:46 Nice Easter Egg
1:59 Nice Easter Egg
2:07 Nice Easter Egg
2:20 Nice Easter Eggs
2:29 NICE ONE! :D
2:32 Nice Easter Egg
2:41 Nice Cup! (But the "Game Cup" Is OOH so much Better)
2:50 that One Is REALLY hidden
3:00 Odd Rock!
3:15 - 3:16 That Neck looks.. Strange.
3:43 Santa Is NOT Who he says he is
5:51 SPOTTED. Thought you could fool me at the very end, did you?
Also: i skipped all those Who appeared twice or more and put in only the First appearance, as well as the too obvius ones.
This was fun. Thanks.
For some reason, I though this was an Extra Credits video about Easter eggs in video games and I was like “hell yeah babey, tell me tips about adding Easter eggs that I’m never going to use”
Wait wait.... how did you manage to find eggs at the freaking store? It really IS an Easter Miracle...
A very eggcellent episode, a veritable eggstraviganza. I'm quivering in eggscitement for your next episode.
I appreciate the respectful and simple look at an early Christian story. Its not often that people cover the mythologies of 'living' religions. So it was nice, and even moving to hear a story I had never heard before and get a bonus myth right alongside it. 😁 Happy easter to you guys at extra credits and stay safe out there.
I was worried you’d be scrambling for eggselent puns, but you really cracked it.
2:44 Is that Elsa and Anna?
Not to be that person, but the Pagan part isn’t 100% accurate. We celebrate the holiday Ostara, and the Goddess is Estro [though there aren’t many records of her so some don’t think she existed at all] other than that, quite like the video.
A hidden Easter egg in every frame. Nicely done!
Nice to finally have an explanation for why we do anything with Easter eggs.
Yep I've finally got covered for the egg part of the Easter i always wondered about.
Next year you have to do a Passover episode
As a Wiccan who was raised Christian, thank you for bringing up Ostara in this video. Too often, people ignore or even try to deny the various pagan origins of Christian holidays and so it's nice to see someone point them out. There is room for both the cauldron and the cross. Whatever we celebrate, this time of year is about remembering rebirth, something which I think will give us all much-needed comfort and hope in 2020. Happy Easter, Bright Ostara, and blessed be. + )O(
Huh, never heard the story about Mary Magdalene before in relation to easter, nice to know.
Thanks for the video EC crew.
Not mentioning pesach and the seder dinner here seems like a bit of an oversight.
Didn't Red debunk the whole ostara thing.
I didn't notice this was an Extra Mythology and I thought it was an Extra Credits about easter eggs in games. Not complaining
This was so awesome
DID SOMEBODY SAY EGGCELLENT???
But seriously, I'm glad this video was made. It's important to understand the roots and variations of your traditions, something a lot of my Christian friends don't know about some of their holidays.
Can you do a baltic extra mythology?
I love Easter this is a good story 🐇🐇🥚🥚😄😄💓💓
I like how there's an egg in every frame
It aught to be very difficult to get icecream underneath a chocolate shell, unless the chocolate is made in a mold beforehand and then sealed by heating it slightly, but not melting the icecream.
As someone who has both Pagan and Christian family members, I really appreciate that you guys took the time to tell both versions of the Holiday's origins! This made my day
Where I grew up we used to roll eggs down a hill at Easter. It was supposed to symbolize the stone rolling away from the tomb.