what is the easter tradition in bermuda?breking clay pots/painting clay pots/cleansing swim in the ocean/meditading for up to 48 hours
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Answer:
None of these.
Explanation:
The Bermuda traditions for Good Friday and Easter involves:
1. Large kite made with stick and paper are to be made. There are competitions held for kite flying.
2. They cook and make codfish cakes and hot cross buns. They eat these together.
3. There is the Bermuda Easter Parade that is held and everyone joins this parade. They are given a map and the parade starts from a place where a there is an ocean nearby.
Easter is celebrated in Bermuda by breaking clay pots. People celebrate the orthodox Easter by throwing a clay plot filled with water from the balconies of their house to the center of the town, breaking them into pieces.
Thousands of people gather around to enjoy the celebration.
The spectators stand quite near to the pot crashing and the sound of the crush is thunderous. Although, no spectator have ever been seriously injured during the celebration.
The custom of breaking pots also has Biblical reference symbolizing the divine striking down of enemies.