2006-06-27 18:38:41 · 33 answers · asked by Daxaster 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Easter
nothing, but it's damn fun
2006-06-27 18:41:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bunny and eggs has nothing to do with Christ's ressurection on Easter. The bunny and eggs has to do with the celebration of Easter. It's actually a seperate holyday.
2006-06-27 18:42:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, it's pretty much just a pagan symbol the christians adopted to make the assimilations easier. Has nothing to do with Jesus or his resurrection. Good for the kids though and I'm a big fan of any holiday that promotes the mass consumption of chocolate...can't figure out why obesity is a problem in our society...
2006-06-28 15:29:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just about as much as the Pagan day of Ishtar which involves decorated eggs, bunnies and fertility. The resurrection would be four days after Pesach, it would only fall on a sunday every few years.
2006-06-27 18:56:37 · answer #4 · answered by David 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easter is really a non-christian holiday. the bunnies and the eggs are rep'n rebirth and fertility.
2006-06-27 18:41:24 · answer #5 · answered by Vell g 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but I'd take a guess that it's to do with the symbology of the whole thing. Eggs being the seed of life and all. As for the rabbit bit, maybe that was dreamed up by companies wanting to sell chocolate and cards etc.
Actually, come to think of it, maybe the egg thing is to make you think about the circle of life, as in what came first, the chicken or the egg and as in what came first, Jesus or Religion.....
2006-06-27 18:44:19 · answer #6 · answered by chimerauk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easter for the Resurrection not the rebirth of Jesus first of all.
2006-06-30 15:22:33 · answer #7 · answered by vina770 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are all on the right track. The early Roman Catholic Church chose to incorporate pagan symbols and to 'christianize' them in order to invite pagans in to their faith. I'm not positive of the origin of the word easter but I heard once that it had to do with a pagan god named Ishtar. The bunny and eggs were part of the pagan fertility festival which also included orgies which they believed would entice the 'gods' to be more fertile and yeild better crops. There's a lot more to the pagan festival, but there's a start for you.
2006-06-27 18:46:58 · answer #8 · answered by mechascott_42 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all i don't call it easter becuz easter is a pagan goddess. the eggs r the fertilizer from her. the bunny is a sex symbol like playboy bunny. I call it Ressurection day. IT SHOULD BE ALL ABOUT JESUS! not bunnies and colored eggs! that's nonsense!
2006-06-30 07:46:57 · answer #9 · answered by Luna Winter 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The symbols of the sumerian fertitlity goddess Ishtar were the egg and the rabbit. A later fertility goddess, Ashtaroth (who came from ishtar) had the same symbols. These names worked their way into germanic mythology as Ostre (with the same symbols)...she came to Britain w/ the Angles and Saxons as Eostre (with same symbols) and we know her today by the name Easter (with the same symbols)
2006-06-29 16:16:53 · answer #10 · answered by Alex D. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing, they were just symbols of the Roman holiday the early christians picked to celebrate easter on.
2006-06-27 18:40:41 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋