Easter. What does a rabbit, chicken eggs and Easter itself have in common?

Answer 1

Rabbits and eggs are symbols of the fertility goddess Eostre/Ishtar/Ostre/Ostara, whose feast day it is. Also, the moon is also her symbol, and many cultures see a rabbit in the moon instead of face. The egg is also symbolic of the moon, so there's another link.

Answer 2

Eggs are a sign of new life. If you look at old traditions as far back as the Roman times after Jesus died the egg symbolizes this. Easter is also a renewel too...Jesus died for us allowing us the chance for a second chance at life with God in it. The rabbit was a story set up to entertain children.

Answer 3

All Jewish, Christian and Muslim rites, customs and scriptural settings and ordinances have direct borrowings, obtrusive parallels,antecedents, etc from the religions surrounding and until now("pagan") Fundamentalist Protestants and fellow traveller Protestants like SDA and their JW cousins will continuously, it style of feels, see in each and every differing from their very own positions demonic pagan infiltrations into different religions, fantastically the Christian ones that they borrowed all this is Christian in FP prepare and uncomplicated theology( ie Catholic, Orthodox,Lutheran,etc) This all sounds like seeing what one desires to work out in ink blots or cloud shapes Easter is now the straightforward English word for Pascha, the Christian Pesach or Passover of Christ's saving dying and Resurrection. If some do unlike Easter as a word or the straightforward English days of the week, that are from Germanic and Roman pagan gods names, they are unfastened to call them something they like yet heavily isn't understood by using maximum human beings or taken heavily by using maximum others. Germany no longer Babylon is the beginning place of Easters rabbits( which represents Spring and new existence), etc Pesach eggs have been utilized by using the Jews until now they have been utilized by using Christians and that they signify new existence

Answer 4

Well:

Rabbits are animals like chickens, however don't lay eggs

Rabbits have nothing to do with Easter because Easter is the story of Jesus's reserection after crucifixion

Chicken eggs also have nothing to do with Easter.

If you refer to it as a holiday:

Rabbits and animals like the chickens that lay the eggs.

On Easter the rabbit hides the eggs.

Answer 5

"Mythologically-speaking the resurrection of Christ, the Easter Bunny, and Easter eggs are very much the same in their symbolism. They all represent new life that comes with the Spring season so it was only natural that pagan converts would retain these images and mesh them with their new faith."

It all has to do with the regeneration of life that comes with Spring after the death of winter and fertility in reference to crops. We tend to forget just how important the coming of spring was to ancient peoples.

Answer 6

Nothing. It's the Pagan Spring equinox and of course, like always, the Christians fearing a mystical creatures wrath had to make it their own in one way or another.

Answer 7

nothing easter is a day when God went to heaven and i dont get the rabit and the egg becuase rabits dont lay eggs and for them to pass them out is stupid

Answer 8

Regeneration and bringing up life.

Answer 9

fertility

Answer 10

Well Easter and the rabbit comes from paganism as well as the easter eggs. All has to do with fertility, mating, etc.
(see sites)
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http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-&p=Easter%20Time%20%3d%20spring%20%3d%20fertility

EASTER EGGS
Note: these sites tell where Easter Eggs came from.
http://www.nobleknights.com/~eagle1/eostre1.htm
http://www.rightdivision.com/html/easter_pagan_influences.html

EASTER NOT FOUND IN THE BIBLE
"The English word 'Easter' came from the Anglo-Saxon Eastre or Estera, a Teutonic goddess to whom sacrifice was offered in April, so the name was transferred to the Pashal Feast. The word does not properly occur in Scripture although the AV (King James Translation) has it in ACTS 12:4 where it stands for 'Passover' as it is rightly rendered in RV (Revised Version). There is no trace of Easter celebration in the New Testament..." (INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA VOL.2, P.889). The word 'Easter' has confused some but the word in the original form is "Pascha" meaning "Passover". It occurs 29 times in the New Testament & everytime it's translated Passover except in Acts 12:4. If you read carefully (ACTS 12:1-4); it says that Herod killed James and was trying to kill Peter in an effort to "vex the church"(Please the Jews). Then in VERSE 3 "were the days of unleavened bread"; see LEV.23. He put him in prison intending to try him "after Easter" (KJV). Now if Herod was trying to "please the Jews" & "vex the church" Why would he have delayed the trial until after 'Easter?'" If this was a "christian holy day", especially one in honoring Christ's resurrection, he would surely not be pleasing the Jews, Wouldn't it be more pleasing to the Jews to vex the church by killing one of it's Apostles on it's own "holy-day," would it not?

ORIGIN OF EASTER: WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
Easter was never observed by the Apostles of Christ or Christ's Religion. "The name 'Easter' comes to us from the mythlogical writings of the Ancient Teucrians (who lived 1200BC along the southern coast of Palestine) where it's known as 'Ostern'" BY GROVER STEVENS. "The name 'Easter' is merely the slightly changed English spelling of the name of the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian idol goddess, Ishtar (pronounced eesh-tar)." WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY says "Easter is from the pre-historic name of a pagan spring festival." THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY says, "Easter is derived from the name of goddess whose feast was celebrated at the vernal equinox." THE SCHOLARY NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA says, "This goddess is also widely known as Astarte...The cult originated in Babylonia and spread to Assyria, Mesopotamia, Syria & Palestine, then through the Phoenicians to all of the Meditteranean peoples...Ishtar was in fact primarily and chiefly identified as Venus, the most beautiful of celestial objects & from the terrestrial side, the primarily motive of the worship of Ishtar was the impulse to deify sensuous and sensuality." ALEXANDER HISLOP SAYS IN THE TWO BABYLONS (P.103), "Easter bears its Chaldean origin on its forehead. Easter is nothing else than Asarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven..."
http://family.webshots.com/photo/1370351068049373547hLMhYB
http://www.matrifocus.com/IMB04/spotlight.htm
http://www.albatrus.org/english/festivals/easter/is_easter_pagan.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar
http://www.lcg.org/search/search.php?query=easter&type=and&results=10&search=1

VERSES-- DEUT.4:19,28-31; 11:26-28; 17:3 & GAL.4:8-10.

EXODUS 20:3 = "Thou shalt not have other gods before me." It tells us in verse 5 = "not to bow to them nor serve them".

Here are the texts of gods that should not be worshipped:
EXOD.20:23; 32:3,4,8-10,19-23,30
DEUT.4:19,28-31; 11:26-28; 17:3
JER.10
EZEK.8:13-18
DAN. 3:1-18 (tried to make Daniel's friends to bow to the image, but they didn't)

New Testament Texts:
GAL.4:8-10 (pagan feasts are: New Year's, Valentine's-Cupid, Patrick's Day, Easter-Ishtar, Halloween, Christmas, Sunday-sun{from sunset Sat. to sunset Sunday = GEN.1:5), Monday-moon-{worship after sunset Sunday which would be Sunday evening(Sun.even to Mon.even)= considered to be Monday according to GEN.1:8}. Birthdays come from pagan origin too. = (only 2 birthdays are mentioned in Bible; they are: Pharoah and King Herod)
You can find most of things in sources like encyclopedias, history, etc. that tell you it's pagan or that it comes from pagan origin.