According to ancient legend, the Lord Jesus Christ, after His resurrection, came to the apostles during their meals. The middle place remained unoccupied; in the middle of the table lay the bread intended for Him. Gradually, a tradition arose on the holiday of Resurrection to leave bread in the temple (in Greek it was called “artos”). It was left on a special table, as the apostles did.
During the entire Bright Week, artos is carried during religious processions around the temple, and on Saturday after the blessing it is distributed to believers. Since the family is a small Church, the custom of having its own artos gradually emerged. This is how Easter cake became (from the Greek kollikion — round bread) — tall, cylindrical, bread made from butter dough. This word entered European languages: kulich (Spanish), koulitch (French). Having Easter cake on the table during the Easter meal, we have hope that the risen Lord is invisibly present in our home.
Curd Easter (in the Trebnik — “milky thickened”, that is, cottage cheese) has the shape of a truncated pyramid, which symbolizes the coffin in which the greatest miracle of the Resurrection took place. Therefore, on the top side there should be the letters “KhV”, meaning the greeting “Christ is Risen!” On the sides of the bean bag (form), according to tradition, images of a cross, a spear, a cane, as well as sprouts and flowers are made, symbolizing the suffering and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
On Easter days, Christians greet each other with the joyful, victorious exclamation “Christ is Risen!” At the same time, kissing has been accepted since apostolic times. According to tradition, believers give each other red eggs. Tradition says that this custom originates from Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalene, who presented Emperor Tiberius with a red egg with the greeting “Christ is Risen!” The egg serves as a symbol of the coffin and the emergence of life in its very depths; painted with red paint, it marks our rebirth through the blood of Jesus Christ.
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