In modern times, it is impossible to imagine a festive Easter table without Easter cakes and Easter cakes. Nowadays, few people think about the symbolic meaning of this Easter food. However, in the first centuries of Christianity, believers remembered where the tradition of making Easter cakes and Easter came from.
The Feast of the Bright Resurrection of Christ has been solemnly celebrated since the first centuries of Christianity, despite the fact that the believers were persecuted by the Roman authorities. The Christians had a real festive feast at home. Bread was always placed in the center of the table. This was a symbolic designation of the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.
Later, when Christians were able to openly conduct divine services in churches, the tradition of making Easter artos entered the church liturgical life (artos are baked for Easter and at the present time). The Artos symbolized the ancient tradition of the figurative presence of Christ in the homes of the first Christians celebrating Easter. Artos were consecrated at the end of Bright Week and distributed to believers. This is the case at present in Orthodox churches.
When the idea that the family is a small Church came into the Christian worldview, believers simply could not leave this home Church without their “artos”. This is how the tradition of baking cakes similar to artos in shape appeared. Thus, the cake was a kind of symbol of the triumph of Christians on the feast of the Resurrection of Christ. This Easter treat symbolized the invisible closeness of the Savior of the world Himself.
Pasoh production also has an ancient history. Currently, this product is a curd mass in the form of a kind of elongated pyramid. This form is due to the memory of the tomb of Christ. Despite the fact that in ancient times the Jews buried their people in caves, the shape of the peculiar tomb of the Holy Sepulcher took place in the minds of Christians. Thus, Easter was a reminder of the Holy Sepulcher, from which the light of Christ's glorious Resurrection shone. Nowadays Easter itself is necessarily decorated with the letter symbols "ХВ", which means Christ is Risen.
