Symbolism Of Ukrainian Easter Eggs

this ancient ukrainian art form serves
as a gift to spread goodness to
different households hi I’m Rebecca
Britain and welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be looking at the pysanky so
can you tell us a bit about the history
of the pysanky the pissing key started
before Jesus Christ before Christianity
came into Ukraine it starts with a pagan
time the egg was a symbol of rebirth
during the springtime it so happens that
Easter is is around the springtime so
when Christianity came into Ukraine it
was almost actually very normal to offer
eggs because it was still the good
symbol of rebirth and life can you
outline the tools and supplies that you
need to use to start making late pysanky
at least cut which is if you translate
the word kiske it means a bone but it
was a slightly different type of tool in
the olden days it was a wood tool with a
copper funnel at the end we use beeswax
and of course we need raw eggs and of
course we have our dies which are here
these are called aniline dyes they come
in a powder solution and we dilute them
with hot boiling water so how do you
come up with your designs you can create
one egg from that egg you like that
design you change a little bit something
else and then you create another egg
there is a trend for the designs where
there are usually more traditional and
what I mean by traditional is we don’t
see bunny rabbits and we don’t see
things like that it’s more of the
religious side of Easter which we see we
see more crosses birds fishes everything
is symbolic so our designs are all
symbolic animals such as deer horses
they’re all symbol of good health the
ever ending line around the egg which is
a symbol of eternity white is purity
black is eternal life the word pysanka
or passata because it comes from the
verb pasate the verb passata means to
write so we’re not painting we’re not
coloring we are writing a design we are
writing a message and when you write a
message you are either wishing somebody
good health wealth prosperity