why easter?

Question

wat do we really celebrate in easter,why a rabbit ,why do the rabbit give eggs,why but candy in the eggs how did this all start

Answer 1

Easter is originally the pagan celebration if Vernal Equinox, and the season of Spring reaches it's apex, halfway through its journey from Candlemas to Beltane. Once again, night and day stand in perfect balance, with the powers of light on the ascendancy. The god of light now wins a victory over his twin, the god of darkness.

In the Roman Catholic Church, there are two holidays which get mixed up with the Vernal Equinox. The first, occurring on the fixed calendar day of March 25th in the old liturgical calendar, is called the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (or B.V.M., as she was typically abbreviated in Catholic Missals). 'Annunciation' means an announcement. This is the day that the angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she was 'in the family way'.

The older Pagan equivalent of this scene focuses on the joyous process of natural conception, when the young virgin Goddess (in this case, 'virgin' in the original sense of meaning 'unmarried') mates with the young solar God, who has just displaced his rival.

The other Christian holiday which gets mixed up in this is Easter. Easter, too, celebrates the victory of a god of light (Jesus) over darkness (death), so it makes sense to place it at this season. Ironically, the name 'Easter' was taken from the name of a Teutonic lunar Goddess, Eostre (from whence we also get the name of the female hormone, estrogen). Her chief symbols were the bunny (both for fertility and because her worshipers saw a hare in the full moon) and the egg (symbolic of the cosmic egg of creation), images which Christians have been hard pressed to explain. Her holiday, the Eostara, was held on the Vernal Equinox Full Moon. Of course, the Church doesn't celebrate full moons, even if they do calculate by them, so they planted their Easter on the following Sunday. Thus, Easter is always the first Sunday, after the first Full Moon, after the Vernal Equinox. If you've ever wondered why Easter moved all around the calendar, now you know. (By the way, the Catholic Church was so adamant about NOT incorporating lunar Goddess symbolism that they added a further calculation: if Easter Sunday were to fall on the Full Moon itself, then Easter was postponed to the following Sunday instead.)

Answer 2

In Christianity, Easter is the celebration of Christ rising from the grave.
In the ages past, many pagan symbols were incorporated into the celebration to make it more acceptable to the population of the time.
The name Easter, is derived from the pagan goddess Ishtar, who was a goddess of fertility.
Rabbits and eggs are symbols of fertility, signifying the end of winter and the entrance into spring, the beginning of new life after a long cold winter. That is why Easter is celebrated at the time of the Spring Equinox.
Candy is just something that was added on recently so companies could sell more product.

Answer 3

no idea how the bunny came to be. and rabbits don't lay eggs so i don't get how the eggs got involved. of course, the candy was added to make it a childrens holiday cuz kids love candy.

Answer 4

Easter is the celebration of Jesus rising up from the dead.

The bunny is a pagan symbol; likely started by retailers to find some way to make money off of Easter.

Answer 5

Christians have been celebrating Easter for hundreds of years before they began calling it "Easter." How did that happen, precisely? And "Eoster" wasn't a trip, it became right into a goddess. Now, for you historic previous buffs, the Celts pronounced as "break of day" "jap," as a results of fact the solar rose in the east. Centuries later, they pronounced the Christian paschal provider as a "daybreak" provider, or "Easter." It had no longer something to do with paganism. Rule #a million of historic learn: on no account confuse causation with correlation.

Answer 6

each thing ig: rabbit , eggs etc are of symbol of something relate to spring, rebirth etc. just google Easter and all the answers will be there