Sunday, May 6, 2012

Forty-Eight Days of Lent


This is a traditional "Forty-eight Days of Lent" design from Luciow and Kmit's Eggs Beautiful.

The division is called "Forty-eight Days of Lent," because it is, well, divided into forty-eight triangles, and since Christian times has come to represent the forty-eight days of Great Lent, as celebrated by the Eastern Christian church. I haven't been able to find any information on the significance of the division in pre-Christian Ukraine despite the division's ancient roots. According to Luciow and Kmit, pre-Christian triangles may represent many kinds of trinities: air, fire, and water; the sun, thunder, and bonfire; or the family - father, mother and child.

See the step-by-step process of making this egg!

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