Welcome to the 2006 Easter Calendar.
In many people’s minds Easter is the season of Easter Bunnies and Easter Eggs. This year’s Culham/REEP Easter calendar offers a variation on the theme - hares and cosmic circles!
The image above shows three circling hares In recent years this strange image, which can be found carved on roofs and painted in windows of medieval English churches, has generated a lot of interest and speculation. In the first part of the calendar you can go on a hare hunt and find out more about this mysterious emblem. Its origin lies far from the green fields of England and it provides a link between Christianity and the religions of the Far East, Buddhism in particular.
The movement of the hares leads us to think about circles … and about time. We all live in within the cycle of the seasons and most religions anchor their festivals at fixed points on this turning calendar. For Christians, the events of Easter – the death and resurrection of Jesus one week two thousand years ago - are central to an understanding of the world both within time and beyond it. But different faiths and cultures have different concepts of time. What do we mean by time – or eternity? Does time circle endlessly? Or is it more like a line, with a beginning, middle and end?
Have some fun finding out and reflecting on the answers with the second part of our calendar, a quiz about the patterns of time.
The Easter Hare Hunt
The aim of the game is to reveal the hidden image. It is hidden behind 25 squares, which you can hide by correctly answering a question posed when you click on one of them.
First of all though, you need to find the hare hiding in the fields. Look carefully around you to spot it. If you can't see it, wait a while and it may move. Click on the hare to try a question.
There are a few questions in reserve in case you don't get them all right, but you can always try again if you don't succeed. Good luck!
Play the 2006 Easter game and try to find all the elusive hares!