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2007-03-17 09:14:37 · 14 answers · asked by new york cutie 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Easter
the bunnys and eggs are signs of fertility for the spring, it's a pagan thing, and the christian started using them to convert pagans to become christians a long long long time ago that's why we still use them today.
2007-03-17 09:32:36 · answer #1 · answered by chelsie_malfoy14 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's an example of how things get mixed up over time. Bunnies are a symbol of Easter, so are chicks and lambs and eggs. I guess the Rabbit was the animal that was big enough, and fast enough, and ambulatory enough to carry around all of the eggs and candy. The sheep would be too slow, the chicks too small. The bunny won the job!
2007-03-17 11:07:54 · answer #2 · answered by Sweet n Sour 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sure they do. Didn't you see the Cadbury commercial a few years ago, with the rabbit laying an egg?
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In pre-Christian times, people celebrated the return of spring using eggs and rabbits as symbols of fertility. The Christians co-opted those symbols into Easter, as a ploy to get people to abandon their own beliefs and buy into Christianity. "Hey...they've got bunnies and eggs like we do....they can't be all bad." Biggest mistake the pagans ever made, believing that.
2007-03-17 09:33:40 · answer #3 · answered by catrionn 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Easter, or the Jewish Passover, when Christ was crucified and rose again, happens to fall around the same time as a holiday dedicated to a non christian fertility cult. It's logical, as people are getting ready to plant their gardens, they would be concerned about fertility. Eggs are a symbol of fertility for obvious reasons. Rabbits are one of the animals that reproduces most easily. So the rabbit is also a sign of fertility. The two got combined.
And as somebody said, bunnies provide excellent chocolate!
2007-03-17 09:22:32 · answer #4 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In pagan times, the "Easter hare" was no ordinary animal, but a sacred companion of the old goddess of spring, Eostre. The Easter bunny has its origin in pre-Christian fertility lore. The Hare and the Rabbit were the most fertile animals known and they served as symbols of the new life during the Spring season. Since long before Jesus Christ was born, parents told their children that the magic hare would bring them presents at the spring festival. The presents were often painted eggs, as these represented the new life starting at this time of year." Hares are animals which look like rabbits, but are larger and in many countries quite rare. In most places, the Easter rabbit (bunny) has replaced the Easter hare completely.
The bunny was first used as a symbol of Easter in 16th century Germany, where it was first mentioned in German writings. The first edible Easter bunnies, made primarily of pastry and sugar, were produced in Germany as well, during the early 1800s. Also in Germany, children made nests of grass and placed them in their yards. They believed the Easter Bunny would fill these baskets with brightly decorated eggs during the night.
2007-03-17 09:19:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I laughed and laughed when I heard the local news recently that some towns were going to take the Christian word, "Easter" out of BUNNY!
It "Quacked" me up!! I had to answer your love for E-mails.
The news reported politicians that said; we can't use government funds to promote Christian symbols.
Hello!! The bunny was never a Christian symbol and I guess someone thought about eggs and birth and spring or something and hard boiled the things!
Please let the uninformed people take the Easter out. Let them call them; Friendly bunny or Bugs bunny or Fuzzy bunny or Playboy bunny. Maybe the Political geniuses will get a job that they are good at as; really misinformed, but funny, comedians!
PS. Political question: Is it OK to use government money to promote Bunnies and their ability to lay colored eggs, hide baskets and hide eggs on the lawns for children? Inquiring minds want to know!
PPS. Will the hateful politicians please line up to board a rocket to the moon leaving on Easter gate 666. You will have to hold your breath when you get off but hold it for as long as you can.
Note: Please do not pray to God for air because in your mind God does not exist! (Ok to use the Bunny prayer!) Just add the air you need, on your own. Also, boil water, bunnies and bring the eggs (when cooked hard) and hide them on the moon. Blessings on your return trip.
2007-03-21 06:17:52 · answer #6 · answered by hot wheels 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Goodness, my goodness!
I don't think that you ever heard the "true" story about the rabbit and the turtle. Ask your Mom or Dad if you don't know.
The rabbit did win the race...but it was a big favor by the turtle.
The turtle was a female and in labor. Half way through the race, the rabbit stopped and looked at the turtle. She was laying eggs.
The rabbit asked the turtle:"Can I help you"? The turtle said: "would you be so kind to carry my eggs to the finish line"?
He did! The people were so proud of him for doing that poor little turtle such a good deed that they not only honored him but also, the turtles eggs!
That's why we do the rabbit and the egg thing.
Believe it or not!
The Story Teller.
2007-03-17 09:35:50 · answer #7 · answered by bob P11 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually the original easter bunny wasn't a bunny at all, he was a platypus - Stan the Platypus, to be exact. Platypai lay eggs but sometimes the eggs come out colored and dead. Well, one year, after his wife Edna Platypus gave birth to their son Floyd and 8 colored eggs, Stan decided to sell the eggs at market to help pay for diapers for Floyd. Well this all happened in Australia of course, where folks don't care much for dead colored platypus eggs so Stan couldn't even GIVE them away. Then he decided to hide them in a nearby garden for all the kids to hunt the following morning. As it turns out, that morning was Easter and the egg hunt was a big success! Before long Stan was collecting eggs from all his Platypai friends and hiding them every Easter sunday. One year, some Americans visiting their distant cousins in Sydney joined in Stan's Easter egg hunt and had such a good time that they bought the business from Stan for a year's supply of diapers for Floyd! These Americans moved the whole operation to their home in Texas. Well, no one in Texas ever heard of Platypai so they changed it to a Bunny for marketing purposes. Naturally, a bunny with eggs didn't make a lot of sense but then, they WERE in Texas.
2007-03-17 09:31:13 · answer #8 · answered by BOOM 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
thats an egg-sellent question
the origins of easter have to do with worshipping the pagan god of fertility, symbolized by what else rather than eggs and the animal that multiplies like bunny rabbits.
jesus (death and) resurrection is the most important thing to happen for mankind. what a solemn occasion the rememberance of this should be. what that has to do with eggs is beyond me.
looking for plastic colored eggs laid by a bunny rabbit is absolutely ridiculous, let alone the origins of worshipping the pagan god of fertility from what hence easter was derived.
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2007-03-17 15:13:48 · answer #9 · answered by blondie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A Babylonian deity that looked like a rabbit laid eggs every spring.
2007-03-17 09:18:57 · answer #10 · answered by Sharon C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋