I'm Marlene, When I was a kid my mom tok us out on Easter egg hunts for Easter. But then she'd buy us Easter bunnies. Which came first, The Bunny, The Egg, Or The Hollow Bunny
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2006-07-23 09:00:11 · 15 answers · asked by trunorth36 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Easter
The whole Easter Bunny and egg thing is a direct rip from Paganism.Ostara is our spring holiday, and the bunny symbolizes fertility and the egg symbolizes birth, or new life.It was the Germans who got the idea to start painting the eggs, and the custom of egg painting still survives to this day.
2006-07-23 09:05:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Easter did not begin as a "pagan holiday". It was an adoption of the concepts of Passover into the new Jewish sect of Christians--the holiday is called "Pascha" or some variant in most languages, "Easter" is an aberration, introduced rather late. That being said, this happened over a very large area, and many local customs were adopted by individual Christians that were not adopted by Christianity. The Easter Bunny is one of these, no doubt related to a Germanic figure of fertility. Eggs, on the other hand, are as likely to have come from Jewish Passover customs as any other source. It's a big muddle when it comes to folk customs, and that is what the Easter Bunny is, a folk custom. However, it is the very height of error to presume that the the Easter Bunny is universal throughout all of Christianity. The figure is relatively unknown among traditional Greek, Russian, etc. Christians--introduced only in recent decades from the West.
2006-07-24 09:24:16 · answer #2 · answered by Hoosier Daddy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have fallen for a common misrepresentation of Easter. There is NO Easter bunny...it is an Easter Pig who oinks his way aroudn dropping eggs here and there, colored, or un...hopefully hard boiled. iT s chocolate, and a great big family meal of whatever your tradition is...ours was turkey or ham, with all the trimmings...in fact, Easter was not that dissimilar to Thanksgiving in our house. Always fun. Good luck
2006-07-25 19:38:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well we can't really nail the easter bunny to a cross now can we
2016-03-27 04:11:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Easter 'bunny' came in when a drunken Catholic Irishmen stumbled out of a tavern on easter's day, saw a man and went! "Bleedin Jesus!! A giant bunny!!!"
2006-07-23 15:47:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It confuses a lot of us. I think the confusion comes from the mixing of the ancient pagan celebrations of spring and Christianity's celebration of Christ's resurection. The bunnies, chicks, and eggs come from a much older festival.
2006-07-24 11:13:59 · answer #6 · answered by Delora Gloria 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look up the history of passover and easter and why bunnies are associated w/ it on www.wikipedia.com
it's very interesting.
i wondered the same thing and found the answer there.
2006-07-27 03:05:52 · answer #7 · answered by Mollerina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The holiday was originally a pagan celebration that worshipped the goddess Eastre. She was the goddess of fertility and springtime and her earthly symbol was the rabbit.
This is a site that explains it.
http://www.twilightbridge.com/hobbies/festivals/easter/bunny.htm
2006-07-23 09:10:01 · answer #8 · answered by curls 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hares, thats true not bunnies!
used to think hares laid eggs , so hence the easter bunny. true
source. me
2006-07-25 01:30:14 · answer #9 · answered by cooking on gas!! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, curls and ophelia said what I was going to say. But I like the joke. ha, ha.
2006-07-24 05:31:36 · answer #10 · answered by Kelly K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋