Gift baskets have become a popular holiday gift idea for all occasions in various festivities to give good wishes after the birth of a new baby. What you might not know that the idea of giving gifts in baskets goes back to antiquity.

In ancient times, people used to wear baskets, seeds, who have planted. During the harvest, they put the product that they collected in the same basket. Because of this, they are often associated with basketsPlants, usually in spring and harvest, which occurred in the case. So many of the old gods are associated with agriculture, depicted with a basket.

Teutons worshiped goddess named Eostre. His feast was celebrated at the vernal equinox, and was closely associated with the month of April. She was the goddess of the dawn of agriculture and fertility. Was associated with the symbols that represent the renewal of life, such as eggsmake a new life and planting implements such as basket to represent new growth. Was also a rabbit, for its association with reproduction known mapped. All these factors led to the conviction, the festival of Eostre to have close links with Easter, with its colored eggs, the Easter Bunny, and the traditional Easter basket.

The Greek goddess of the harvest and fertility, Demeter. He was also with the trash, as they had previously associatedthem to carry their seeds. Her daughter Persephone was abducted by Pluto, god of the underworld, and eventually the girl only six months of the year with her mother, Demeter, mourning, during the time elapsed since the daughter to leave the winter season. No crops and the land was barren. In the spring returns to Demeter and Persephone is the goddess with the basket in hand ready to plant new crops. His daughter is also depicted with a basket, asPicking flowers, a further meeting with her on her return to the underworld dark and bare. Offers have been made to ensure a good harvest, Demeter, and contain many of these baskets offers.

Another "gift", which was placed in a basket Jochebed made Levite Amram's wife. She gave birth to a son in Egypt at a time when all the male children, which in Hebrew have been killed by Pharaoh. Jochebed wicker basket, put her son and put him floating on the Nile. It was discovered later and adopted by Pharaoh's daughter, who saved the child and grew up in Moses, the liberator of the Jews in Egypt. By his son as a basket "gift", which was found by Pharaoh's daughter, which ensures its survival and led to Jochebed directly responsible to give the gift of freedom to their citizens, a generation later.

The trolley is connected with the long spring and planting and harvesting, and'Moses' s case, as a symbol of hope. No wonder that the tradition of gift baskets in modern times, has survived.