n“The egg was a
sacred symbol among the Babylonians.
They believed an old fable about an
egg of wondrous size which was supposed to have fallen from heaven into the Euphrates River. From this marvelous egg - according to the ancient story - the Goddess Ishtar (Semiramis), was hatched. And so the egg came to symbolize the Goddess Easter” - The Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol. 9, p. 309.