Why does the Easter bunny carry eggs? Rabbits don't lay eggs?

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Answer 1

Christendom adopts "Easter" from pagan worship of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre (or Oestre). Most Easter traditions merely repackage pagan fertility festivals and concentrate on eating, decorating, and frivolity. Christ certainly never wanted that.

By contrast, it's tragic that the one holiday Christ actually *DID* ask Christians to commemorate is entirely ignored by almost all of Christendom. It is, of course, the Memorial of Christ's death, sometimes called "the Last Supper" or "the Lord's Evening Meal".

(1 Corinthians 11:23-25, NWT) The Lord Jesus in the night in which he was going to be handed over took a loaf... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” 25 He did likewise respecting the cup.. Keep doing this... in remembrance of me.”

(1 Cor 11:24, 25, NEB) "Do this as a memorial of me.”


Christ Jesus himself personally celebrated and explained the significance of that Last Supper to his followers (see Matthew 26:26-29). Christians who commemorate the Last Supper have done so on the same Jewish calendar date as Jesus did, Nisan 14, which generally falls between late March and mid-April. Interestingly, Christians in the centuries immediately after Christ's impalement were sometimes called "Quartodecimans" which literally mean "Fourteen-ers", because the early Christians were well-known for this true holy day.

How would Jesus feel to learn that the holiday he commanded was widely ignored, while his so-called followers chose to celebrate a pagan false god and their own traditions of men? We don't need to wonder.

(Matthew 15:6-9) You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”

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Answer 2

There is an old story that says.When Jesus was on the cross,an old lady came to him with a couple of eggs.Jesus bleeded on the eggs and so the legend is on today that you paint eggs,and the easter bunny carries eggs.The Bunny part comes from a story that says that before Jesus Christ was crucified some hunters shot a rabbit and they gave it's fur to Jesus.Andt that's why the Easter Bunny carries Easter Eggs.

Answer 3

Easter in many religious backgrounds is not celebrated as the Resurrection of Jesus. Easter, is celebrated even by some American Indians. It is a celebration of Spring,which is why it falls on the solstice. It is a celebration of Mother Nature, Life and rebirth when the air is warmer and the days are longer. In the Northern Hemisphere, Spring and Easter co-inside.

Rabbits are found through out the northern hemisphere and are eaten by almost all ethnic and religious backgrounds. Since this is the time the rabbits have their young, they were the most abundant animal for eating. Eggs are a sign of fertility and life and are also very abundant in the spring.

Easter is also known as: Alban Eilir, Resurrection of Attis, Eostar, Eostre, Feast of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Festival of Trees, Lady Day, NawRuz, No Ruz, Ostara, Ostra, Rites of Spring, and the Vernal Equinox (just to name a few).

Answer 4

It's all about reproduction.

Easter as we know it is one of the most hybrid Christian festivals.

It originates with the Pagan goddess Oestre (which is where we get the root of the word oestrogen, among others) who was like Ceres and Demeter - the goddess of new life. Eggs are symbolic of new Spring life and fertility, which is why they are tied up with Easter.

However, the Easter Bunny was never intended to be a bunny - it too was hjijacked from Pagan mythology - he began as a hare, which is also symbolic of springtime fertility.

The Easter 'Bunny' was given the eggs to carry in a move by crass commercialism to sell more chocolate and fluffy toys...

Answer 5

This is just a combination of more than one ancient myth. Hares and rabbits are associated with the goddess called I think Eostre from whom we get the word Easter. The eggs are associated with spring, but also with ht etomb at Easter from which came Jesus - symbol of new life.

Answer 6

Easter derives its call from Eostre, an Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, goddess of the 1st mild or east. A month equivalent to April were named "Eostremonat," or Eostre's month, maximum ideal to "Easter" transforming into utilized to the Christian holiday that many times occurred interior it. around the 2nd century A.D., Christian missionaries seeking to transform the tribes of northern Europe observed that the Christian holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus extra or less coincided with the Teutonic springtime celebrations, which emphasised the triumph of existence over dying. Christian Easter progressively absorbed the classic symbols. In Medieval Europe, eggs have been forbidden throughout the time of Lent. Eggs laid throughout the time of that factor have been many times boiled or otherwise preserved. Eggs have been consequently a mainstay of Easter nutrition, and a prized Easter present for toddlers and servants. to boot, eggs have been considered as symbols of recent existence and fertility throughout the time of the a while. this is assumed that subsequently many historic cultures, inclusive of the classic Egyptians, Persians, and Romans, used eggs throughout the time of their spring fairs. Hares and rabbits have long been symbols of fertility. The inclusion of the hare into Easter customs seems to have originated in Germany, the place memories have been advised of an "Easter hare" who laid eggs for toddlers to locate. German immigrants to united statesa. -- somewhat Pennsylvania -- delivered the custom with them and unfold it to a plenty broader public. in addition they baked brownies for Easter in the form of hares, and could have pioneered the prepare of becoming chocolate bunnies and eggs. IM purely crammed with understanding on the instant! xXx

Answer 7

Paganism

Answer 8

the chicken paid the bunny to carry eggs that why

Answer 9

it has something to do with pagans and the idea of rebirth. but that's ridiculous, since christians are a separate culture from pagans and Easter is a Christian holiday

Answer 10

Its just all the pagan symbolism of birth and fertility. Or maybe its playing around with a bird and there are wierd bunnybird babies