I never understood where the Easter Bunny part of the hoilday came from... The loads of candy put into a basket does it mean anything?
2007-04-05 08:09:25 · 9 answers · asked by Who knows 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Easter
The Easter Bunny has a long history. It was brought to America from Germany by immigrants in the Pennsylvania Dutch area. It has become an integral part of the American Easter tradition and has to a lesser degree been accepted in the UK.
The Easter Bunny is usually considered to be a benevolent, vaguely supernatural creature that brings gifts to good boys and girls. Today these gifts are usually in the form of chocolate Easter eggs.
The origin of the Easter Bunny probably goes back to the festival's connection with the pagan goddess Eostre. Eostre (sometimes spelled Oestre) was a fertility goddess from whom we derive the word "estrogen" and she is closely associated with fertility symbols such as eggs. The rabbit is known as a highly fertile creature and hence an obvious choice for Easter symbolism.
In fact the use of a rabbit is probably a mistake - the Easter "bunny" is more likely to be a hare, since it is the hare that is usually considered the sacred creature of Eostre. Hares have been considered sacred by many cultures including the ancient Egyptians who believed them to watch the moon during the night. Although hares and rabbits are related they are most definitely different creatures, as a certain Bugs keeps reminding us!
2007-04-08 22:22:42 · answer #1 · answered by J 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The call 'easter' is a bastardisation of the call Eastre who's the Saxon goddess of fertility and the moon.(She is likewise additionally primary as Ostara or Eostre).Her sacred animal strengthen into the hare and the logo of fertility strengthen into the egg.Her competition is with regards to the comparable time of 365 days as easter and it truly isn't any coincidence. while Christians first got here to England and had to transform the Saxon Pagans they further many Pagan components to their very own competition so they could make a faith from the midsection jap desert seem extra appropriate to a warrior race from Northern Europe.Eastre's call strengthen into bastardised to offer the call for the competition marking the resurrection of Jesus.Her sacred symbols-the hare and the egg-have been additionally secure. The egg grew to become the easter egg however the hare strengthen into too solid a Pagan image to circulate unaltered so it strengthen into put in human clothing to make it seem stupid and grew to become right into a rabbit-enter the easter bunny. Hares are sacred to distinctive ecu Pagan religions and eggs are an very almost time-honored image of fertility so the comparable trick strengthen into repeated oftentimes someplace else.
2016-10-02 05:40:46 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure it does. 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.
2007-04-05 08:39:53 · answer #3 · answered by KC 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually it DOES! Easter comes from Eostre,(Anglo-Saxon goddess) which celebrated the return of spring and the rabbit was her symbol. As for the other part, you could say that both rabbits and eggs symbolize fertility. The fact that the Church hijacked the religion and turned it into something else is secondary. Oddly enough, though, even the Church echoes the theme of rebirth in that the resurrection of Jesus is celebrated at this time. I can't say that candy played a part in the original celebration per se. I suspect that is more of a modern invention ( a nod to crass commercialism. . .).
2007-04-05 08:45:42 · answer #4 · answered by Strawberry Fields 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm very very angry at the Easter Bunnies because nobody knows that if they sneeze too hard they'll blow their fluffy little ears off!
2007-04-06 08:53:20 · answer #5 · answered by Freesumpin 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the pagens belive bunnies are fertile and eggs symbol of life
2007-04-05 09:16:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
they had to get rid of all those eggs some how so they boiled and colored them and add the bunny to deliver them just to get the kids to eat them
2007-04-05 08:42:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i know its supposed to be chickens not bunnies b/c of the eggs
im confused
2007-04-05 09:33:49 · answer #8 · answered by Dania 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I never got that one either i am still lost
2007-04-05 11:32:08 · answer #9 · answered by stayathomemom 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋