Another way to approach Easter apart from Christianity here in the Nordic countries, is the recognition of the spring equinox, the light of consciousness and its primordial creation experience through the world egg symbolism. The egg was part of the creation from an earlier northern culture where nature in the form of the female spirit of nature and air, known in a finnish context as Ilmatar, became pregnant with wisdom, or Väinämöinen when she settled in the primeval cosmic sea. She was the one who took care of the bird that laid the eggs of creation, and cared for their safety. The world was then created by her hand with the help of these eggs. Väinämöinen was also associated with it as the shamanic poet and magician artist. The seeker of her kind of knowledge. But above all with the pillar that kept the sky separated from the primordial sea. His power and creative spirit kept the pillar in place and created the current that brought about its rotation, the movement of the world and the sky, but it also made it possible for people with special skills to travel from this world to the next through its ”swirl”. Birds therefore had a special significance then, because in egg symbolism they encapsulated the light of consciousness before it hatched and returned with the sun after it had spent its time in the dark at pohjola’s winter with Väinämöinen. The birds were also compared to the volatility of psychic life, and Ilmatar was its aether. Creation is then represented in sets of opposing pairs. That is why easter is more about celebrating the creative force of nature, and the appearance of light in a spiritual sense, contained in the egg as an image of a world created out of chaos and darkness, in the friction of the tension generated by opposites than anything else. Ilmatar is its containing space, keeping the physical and emotional integrity together when we are facing the experience of the vastness of the primeval cosmic sea. Väinämöinen is the one to keep our minds open. The view that the world is shaped like a dome or an egg make perfect sense. Not in a contemporary scientific way. But for ceremonial practices. Where we connect to nature with how it affect us. Both in people and in our environment. In this way our senses come in direct contact with nature. Like being in a constantly respectful homage to it, and with the spring equinox as an experience were the days at this given point gets longer. The spirit of nature, the experience of this as a physical container for psychic life, reveals what the light of that consciousness is in it self. How it journeys not only in us but in herself through out the year. We can feel it. It is a commitment to life.