Religious symbolism when breaking the sleeping curse?

[MatthewPaul]

Was I the only one who felt religious symbolism when watching the scene with everyone drinking the sleeping curse to wake up Snow and Charming?

1) Regina gathers everyone to drink the sleeping curse from a silver chalice, similar to the ones often used during a Mass service.
2) Snow and Charming woke up after they had sacrificed themselves for not only Emma, but the entire town. Like Jesus, they fell and rose again. Not literal death in Snow and Charming’s case, but I feel the comparison is still valid. This point is especially fitting, considering the episode aired on Easter Sunday.

Anyone have any thoughts? I know religion is something RG in particular is well familiar with.

[Gaultheria]

1) Regina gathers everyone to drink the sleeping curse from a silver chalice, similar to the ones often used during a Mass service.

Thirteen people, the same number as at the Last Supper.

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[RumplesGirl]

Was I the only one who felt religious symbolism when watching the scene with everyone drinking the sleeping curse to wake up Snow and Charming?

Nope.

It’s all over that scene. @Gaultheria mentions the number of people and there’s a heavy sense of the Communion in that moment. People gather together, remembering the “dead,” drink from a special vessel that houses a special liquid (depending on which side of Christianity you fall on, the wine/grape juice is either a metaphor for Christ’s blood or literally becomes Christ’s blood after the priest has blessed it).The Communion also serves as a way to link everyone together, a family united by a common belief in Jesus as the Savior.Regina all but said, “do this in remembrance of them.” Also, not only did Snow and Charming “die” and rise again but so did everyone else in that room, also fairy symbolic.

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