An American-born daughter of Ukrainian refugees has dedicated her life to keeping the heritage of her parents' homeland alive by creating and curating pysanky -- traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs decorated in painstaking detail | Opinion
Stephanie Griffith is an opinion editor at CNN.com. Read more opinion articles on CNN.The art of creating pysanky goes back centuries: Patterns are applied with a stylus onto an egg with melted beeswax. The egg is repeatedly dipped in colored dye as the design becomes increasingly intricate. What emerges is a fragile, exquisite work of art.
These eggs were started in pre-Christian times as a spring ritual to bring back the sun after a long winter. People chose an egg as a gift to the sun, because the yolk reminded them of the sun. They thought if they held the egg in the palm of their hand, they could harness a little bit of the power of the sun. Also, the rooster comes out of the chicken egg, and the rooster was the sun god's chosen creature, because when the rooster crows, the sun comes out.
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