The Bunny laying eggs, or the Chicken hatching rabbits???
2007-04-02 04:53:15 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Tanx - Chali
2007-04-02 05:02:18 · update #1
bunny was first.
a symbol of fertility.
Easter was chosen to be celebrated during the spring fertility holy days, so of course some symbols remain.
also the cadberry bunny has been around for at least 25 years laying eggs, never seen the chicken hatch bunnies though...
2007-04-02 04:58:55 · answer #1 · answered by Chali 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The rabbit is a symbol of fertility and the egg is a symbol of birth. Both are pagan symbols adopted by Christianity. The egg is particularly important since Christ rises from his tomb.
Some joker somewhere had a rabbit delivering colored eggs, probably to entertain his children and give them a chance to look for the eggs. The idea caught on. Advertisers picked it up.
As far as I know, the bunny doesn't lay eggs. Even in the old cartoons the bunnies are collecting eggs from the chickens, then dyeing them.
The whole story of a bunny laying eggs is linked to the Cadbury bunny alone. It's safe to say those eggs were never connected with a chicken.
2007-04-02 05:16:54 · answer #2 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have this little "Intellectual Devotional" that has a blurb everyday on some intellectual subject....Religion, philosophy, history, science, etc. Somewhere I read in there that some woman, a saint, or something presented an egg to some king, in some kind of tribute to the resurrection of Jesus.....Apparently he scoffed and said this egg will turn red sooner than I believe that or something, and supposedly it turned red in his hand. I have no idea really about whether this is just some legend, but supposedly that may be where the brightly colored Easter eggs come from.
2007-04-02 05:16:13 · answer #3 · answered by chavito 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL
very cute
An actual answer: Easter was created as a religious holiday that coincided with a pagen holiday, celebrating rebirth and fertility (stands to reason the holiday to celebrate the resurrection, or in other words, rebirth, of Christ would be scheduled to fit with this particular pagen holiday). You know the way rabbits mate, and have unbelievable amounts of offspring? That's why there's a bunny.
2007-04-02 05:57:52 · answer #4 · answered by CrazyChick 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Eggs, rabbits and hares were all fertility symbols in Pre-Christian spring rites in Europe.
Like many pagan gods were turned into christian saints, the eggs were turned into a christian symbol linked with fasting. As you couldn't eat eggs during fasting, there were a lot of them around at Easter when Lent ended.
German immigrants introduced the story of the Easter Bunny ("Oster Hase") in Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
And the rest is history.
2007-04-02 05:18:10 · answer #5 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bunny and the egg are symbols of fertility. When the Catholic Church was forming thier holiday calendar, they "borrowed" many symbols, and ideas fron the Pagan religions, in order to make conversion for these religions easier. Hence the rabbit/egg symbolism. In an interesting side note...christmas is not really the birth of christ, given that he was a pisces. But it was easier to make christmas december 25, as that was around the time that pagan religions celebrated easter. Another interesting side note is the name of a particular pagan holiday called Ostara, which when said out loud sounds suspiciously like easter. Also, many of the Catholic rituals during mass resemble pagan rituals rather closely.
2007-04-02 07:04:32 · answer #6 · answered by Roger W 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea... and I'm sure science has no answers for it either. It has to have something to do with wanting to get kids into the idea of it, otherwise, it would be a pretty boring holiday... not that it isn't already-- I lost interest in it after age eleven.
But evidently, the Cadbury Bunny lays chocolate-filled, cream-filled and caramel-filled eggs, wrapped in foil. While impossible to the average bunny, the Cadbury Bunny was imbued with special powers. I'm surprised it can't fly, too.
But yeah, I'm not sure how that one was done. How do you go from: crucifixion and resurrection to, cholocate bunnies and colored eggs? I guess you'd have to ask the corporations who came up with that tripe how they managed it.
2007-04-02 05:09:46 · answer #7 · answered by bloodline_down 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just for jollies, you might want to google Eoster, the pagan goddess of the dawn and, by extension, new beginnings, to get some perspective on the subject.
2007-04-02 05:03:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋