Why does the Easter Bunny bring chicken eggs? Shouldn't it be the Easter Chicken?

Answer 1

The lunar Goddess Eostre. Her chief symbols were the rabbit (for fertility, and her worshippers often saw the image of a rabbit in the full moon), and the egg (representing the cosmic egg of creation). This is where the customs of "Easter Eggs" and the "Easter Bunny" originated.

And so we get into the complicated pagan traditions of celebrating the Vernal Equinox, mixed with the complicated tradition of hunting for eggs and rabbits, mixed with the Christian church coming in and appropriating pagan holiday festivals and adapting them to the Christian religious celebration calendar, and you end up with Easter.

Answer 2

The Easter chicken is busy laying the Easter eggs, and the bunny has a better union.

Answer 3

easter chickens never worked out, besides the urge to cross busy roads. they aren't very fast. and though the egg is the same, it's not colored, but it is fresh.

the ostrich eggs are too big, and canary are too hard to find.

the chicken egg is simply easier to find and eat. bunnies are a great way to move things around. people aren't suspicious of the rabbit, they are everywhere - a huge cheap work force.

they hide eggs in plain site.

which would you be more suspicious of?

a bunny on your lawn?

or a chicken?

chickens belong on my plate, or in jokes.

Answer 4

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 5

remember that Cadbury commercial with the Easter Lion and turtle etc...?! I miss that one.

Answer 6

Rabbits are cuter than chickens.