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2007-04-03 15:29:08 · 7 answers · asked by pyrodexter101 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Easter
Rabbits and eggs are both symbols of the fertility goddess Eostre/Ishtar/Ostara. Her symbol is also the moon, in which some cultures see a rabbit instead of a face. Eggs also symbolize the moon and are the ultimate symbol of creation and new life. The basket is a symbol of the womb in which this new life is carried.
The feast day is pagan and was widely celebrated way before the time of Jesus. Like pretty much all holidays, it was adopted by Christians to help get more converts. However, since the point is to celebrate new life and the hope of continuance, Christian symbols of a Resurrection day and the old pagan symbols mean the same thing. Just like Christmas, we are all celebrating the same thing, just using different symbols.
2007-04-03 16:12:52 · answer #1 · answered by KC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Easter Bunny (originally the hare) and the egg both symbolize fertility and renewal of life and are not co-dependent. But many people still think the Easter Bunny lays the brightly colored egg treats that kids find during the Easter hunt every year. To know more about Easter bunnies, you can click on the link below which has ample ideas on Easter!
2007-04-04 09:27:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Encyclopedia: "A great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring...The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility."-(1913), Vol.V,p.227.In the book The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop, it reads: "What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven whose name...found...on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar...Such is the history of Easter. The popular observances that still attend the period of its celebration amply confirm the testimony of history as to its Babylonian character. The hot cross buns of Good Friday, and the dyed egs of Pasch or Easter Sunday, figured in the Chaldean rites just as they do now."-(New York, l942)pp.103, 107, 108.
The Encyclopedia Britannica comments: "There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the apostolic Fathers."-(1910), Vol. VIII, p.828.
World history reveals that it was the Roman Catholic Church that adoped these pagan customs and called them "Christian".
2007-04-07 22:09:26 · answer #3 · answered by sunshine 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easter is a time of rebith and Spring. Eggs are symbols of birth. Bunnies and chicks are new spring animals.
2007-04-03 22:33:39 · answer #4 · answered by Karrose 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well this is the other Easter more to celebrate Spring and for the Kids. The real "Easter" is for all who believe in HIM
2007-04-04 07:11:28 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to add onto the first answer colored eggs used to be given to women at Easter as a sign of fertility and it just exploded from there
2007-04-03 22:38:06 · answer #6 · answered by badluckbear1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's nothing more than marketing...just like mothers day and other exploited holidays. Cinco de mayo is associated with parties and getting drunk.
2007-04-03 22:37:52 · answer #7 · answered by wwpetcemetery 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋