[MR] Rebecca's Pysanky Question

[Lucinda Welenc]

Karen wrote:

Eggs are an abvious symbol of reproduction and spring is the season of
birth and renewal, so....it's logical.  We also were always taught to
pay close attention to the symbolism in the design itself, as each
element -- whether catkins or stags or flowers -- has its own distinct
meaning.  As such, eggs were designed as prayers on behalf of the
recipients.  So we were taught to feel free to make our own designs
bearing that in mind.  It's a form of everyman's iconography, if you
will.
> 
<grin>  And they work, too!  My foster daughter and her husband were
having trouble conceiving, so I made them two eggs *loaded* with
fertility symbols: roosters, hens, baby chicks, grain, etc.  She's
pregnant for the second time -- and planning to pass them on just to get
them out of the house!

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Alanna/Lucinda
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