Happy Easter Monday: special Easter Photo Contest for 30 SBD!
Hi everybody!
I have already told you something about Czech traditions observed on the Maundy (Green) Thursday last week but as a matter of fact, it is the Easter Monday that is the most popular and festive day of the Easter holiday in my homeland, the Czech Republic.
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If you think drinking green beer on the Green Thursday is weird, you have probably never heard of one of the most popular traditions we observe today, on the Easter Monday.
In the morning, Czech men and boys visit women and girls (be it their moms, wives, sisters, schoolmates, neighbors, friends…) and they whip them with willow branches and drench them with ice cold water to make sure the women will be fresh and healthy until the next Easter.
As a reward for this “service”, the women are supposed to give the men dyed hard-boiled eggs, sweets (to kids) or a shot of liquor (to adult men) and they would also tie a ribbon around their whip.
I know this Easter tradition might seem very unusual to foreigners but this habit has been a part of our culture for hundreds of years. But not just ours actually, the same tradition is practiced in several other countries such as Slovakia, Poland and Hungary.
Talking about Easter traditions, I would love to hear about yours, my Steemit friends, so I decided to come up with another special contest. If you want to join, submit a photo of some Easter tradition observed in your country and add at least a 50-word description of the tradition.
You can start submitting your Easter photos in the comments below but please make sure to follow these rules:
1 - Submit only your own photo. Plagiarism will not be tolerated.
2 - Only one photo per person.
3 - Add a description of the photo with at least 50 words.
4 - Upvote and resteem this post so that more people can participate in it.
The contest will be open for 7 days (until next Monday). Then, I will go through all of your submissions and choose 3 winners who will receive 15 SBD (first place), 10 SBD (second place) and 5 SBD (third place) from me as the prize.
I am looking forward to your entries.
Happy Easter Monday and good luck to all participants! :)
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Tomas
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My submission to your Contest:
We hand made and photographed these lovely little Easter eggs for the Easter feast invitation card. After the traditional easter egg hunt the family and friends stood together around the Easter fire and after the fire was burned down we sat together to eat boiled eggs, Easter ham, Easter bread and had some drinks.
This is what happens when Easter and Star Wars Fans do something together :) As always the Stormtroopers have an excellent strike rate. #Not.
The "model" for the Jedi Knight was one of our colleagues. He hates us now :)
Easter Wars
A long time ago. In a galaxy far, far away.
Here you can see a making of picture. Filmed with a Samsung Note 8. Stop Motion. Special Effects were done in After Effects. Shooting took about 3-4 hours. Editing, Sound and "Special Effects" another 4-5 hours.
Notice: This is a co production, also including @annikafried and @maybelater. We will also split the bounty, if we win :) Hope this is ok with you.
Happy Easter!!
Woahhh this is so epic!!! What a cool little project!
Thanks :)
As far as I am concerned, you deserve to win but ... I want to win too ;)
Your Stormeggs had me in stitches, and I'm still chuckling.
Passion Play, a dramatic re-enactment of the story of Jesus's trial, death, and resurrection, is an Easter tradition in several Christian churches. I had the opportunity to attend three such events in the last few years, and I photographed one. My favorite part of the Passion Play is always the resurrection, and this photo of my friend in the role of Jesus captivates me with the amazing light and his excellent rendition of this most important event.
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Beautiful work, both your photo and your friend's performance!
Thank you!
Hi Tomas, I actually saw some pictures of the whipping and water splashing when researching different Easter traditions around the world, but the pictures I saw are from Slovakia. :) Below is my entry:
It happened to be Easter holiday when I visited some American friends in Atlanta. So I joined some activities with them like the grand family dinner, Mass in a local church, etc.. During the Easter, some kids play games related to the Easter eggs, like egg rolling and egg hunt. Painting eggs is also a fun thing to do. Here are some egg candies I painted with the kids in their family. The Easter egg represents Jesus Christ's resurrection. It's said that to symbolize Jesus Christ's shed blood on the cross, some people dye the eggs red. While in some regions in China, boiled eggs are dyed red as gifts for newlyweds or newborns, which also comes from the fertility and life connotation of the egg.
More details: https://steemit.com/killerpix/@itchyfeetdonica/76-painting-easter-eggs-with-kids
The Christian custom of Easter eggs, specifically, started among the early Christians of Mesopotamia, who stained eggs with red colouring "in memory of the blood of Christ, shed at His crucifixion". The Christian Church officially adopted the custom, regarding the eggs as a symbol of the resurrection of Jesus, with the Roman Ritual, the first edition of which was published in 1610 but which has texts of much older date, containing among the Easter Blessings of Food, one for eggs, along with those for lamb, bread, and new produce. The blessing is for consumption as a food, rather than decorated.
https://steemit.com/photofeed/@axeman/easter-eggs
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I want to share with you a Greek Easter tradition, the burning of an effigy of Judas Iscariot! It takes place around midnight the Saturday just before Easter.
In the picture the effigy stands on a floating platform in the centre of the lake but you can see the same tradition all over Greece to villages and towns, on public squares and by the see, on the islands or in the mainland!
When the priest say Jesus is raised from the Dead fire crackers go off with deafening explosions will the bells are still ringing, the priests are still chanting and people are embracing each other. It is the time that Judas is set on fire as a punishment for his treason!
The resurrection of Jesus brings victory over sin. Freed people from sin.The light of sunlight has emerged in the life of Jesus in the resurrection of Jesus. So this episode is named Easter.
The celebration of this new year begins on Saturday night. On Saturday night, Jesus' resurrection was proclaimed in the wake of salvation, and everyone was rejoiced in the resurrection.The lamp of the resurrection is lit, a large candle, which declares: Jesus' resurrection brings new life, new life in life; Jesus' resurrection has removed the darkness of sin; People have been renewed with deathlike Jesus Christ.
This ambitious light is the light of light. This festival calls us all to be illuminated and resurrected with Jesus to be exposed in His light.Young and old people take part in the rituals of worship in the new rituals.
Many people are lying in the caves of falsehood, stolen, drug addiction, terrorism, massacre, rioting, murders, gossip, libel, public mud slogans, etc . Easter or Resurrection brings out the life of this darkness and calls the people to come to the kingdom of light.
Check my post sir,
https://steemit.com/wafrica/@anikearn/special-easter-photo-contest-for-30-sbd-by-czechglobalhosts
Easter in Slovakia is considered to be the most important Christian holiday. Ladies in the house are busy cooking and baking all types of the Easter goodies. The foods most typical for the Easter are Paska bread, egg cheese – Hrudka, smoked pork ham (of lamb), bacon and sausages, hard boiled eggs and various pastries.I have to mention also our Easter decorations. To decorate your house before Easter is equally important like the cooking. It’s mostly women who decorate. Symbols of Easter in Slovakia are lamb, small bunnies and little yellow chicks. On Monday morning girls have to get up early in order to avoid being splashed with bucket of water in their beds. Then they have make sure that have enough dry clothes ready in order to survive more water splashing and whipping with korbac. Yes, on Easter Monday Slovak women and girls get splashed and whipped. The water splashing tradition is called “Oblievacka” and the whipping part is named “sibacka.” It’s the day hated by women and loved by men :-)
In France in the morning the parents will hide the easter eggs in the garden then ring a bell because for us it is the easter bells that flight overs our houses and drop the chocolate eggs and bunnies:) Then children come with their basket and look for the eggs.! I live in Australia and it is a very similar tradition but I think it is the Easter bunny that brings the eggs!!!This is my little bunny on her egg hunt last weekend:)