Why is there Easter Eggs, when rabbits dont lay eggs?

Answer 1

The rabbits never do lay eggs. on the contrary it is the chicken that lays them but as to the Easter Eggs, you must remember that our folks boiled the eggs and we had to paint it then our folks would hide it in the backyard for us to find.

Now with my nephews and nieces I begin to understand why I painted the Easter Eggs and now they are enjoying it very much to find the Easter Eggs.

Answer 2

The rabbits never do lay eggs. on the contrary it is the chicken that lays them but as to the Easter Eggs, you must remember that our folks boiled the eggs and we had to paint it then our folks would hide it in the backyard for us to find.

Now that I am grown up I begin to understand why I painted the Easter Eggs as a child and now my nephews and nieces (the children of my several friends of mine) are enjoying it very much to find the Easter Eggs.

Answer 3

Yeah. it really is because the egg got here first. It became left to the bunny to guard the eggs until eventually the chicken arrived. yet a shopkeeper shrink a cope with the bunny and heritage became forgotten. it really is from at the same time as human beings believed the March Hares layed the eggs of floor nesting birds.

Answer 4

Decorated Easter eggs are much older than Easter, and both eggs and rabbits are age-old fertility symbols. The Passover Seder service uses a hard-cooked egg flavored with salt water as a symbol both of new life and the Temple service in Jerusalem. The Jewish tradition may have come from earlier Roman Spring feasts. The ancient Persians also painted eggs for Nowrooz, their New Year celebration falling on the Spring Equinox. This tradition has continued every year on Nowrooz since ancient times.


Easter egg origin stories abound—one has an emperor claiming that the Resurrection was as likely as eggs turning red (see Mary Magdalene); more prosaically the Easter egg tradition may have celebrated the end of the privations of Lent. In the West, eggs were forbidden during Lent as well as other traditional fast days. Likewise, in Eastern Christianity, both meat and dairy are prohibited during the fast, and eggs are seen as "dairy" (a foodstuff that could be taken from an animal without shedding its blood).

Another Orthodox tradition is the presenting of red colored eggs to friends while giving Easter greetings. This custom had its beginning with Mary Magdalene. After the Ascension of Christ, she supposedly went to the Emperor of Rome and greeted him with "Christ is risen", as she gave him a red egg. She then began preaching Christianity to him. The egg is symbolic of the grave and life renewed by breaking out of it. The red symbolizes the blood of Christ redeeming the world, represented by the egg, and our regeneration through the bloodshed for us by Christ. The egg itself is a symbol of the Resurrection while being dormant it contains a new life sealed within it.

One would have been forced to hard boil the eggs that the chickens produced so as not to waste food, and for this reason the Spanish dish hornazo (traditionally eaten on and around Easter) contains hard-boiled eggs as a primary ingredient.

In the North of England, at Eastertime, a traditional game is played where hard boiled pace eggs are distributed and each player hits the other players egg with their own. This is known as "egg dumping" or "egg jarping". The winner is the holder of the last intact egg. The losers get to eat their eggs. It is also practiced in Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, the Republic of Srpska and other countries. They call it tucanje.

In Germany children throw their colored and hard boiled Easter eggs as far as they can across meadows. Amazingly, the eggs break only when hitting a small rock or other hard object hidden in the short grass of early spring, This game seems similar to the egg rolling referred to above, and the winner is the one whose egg or eggs do not break.

Answer 5

Why does a fat man in a red suit slide down peoples chimneys in the middle of winter? Christians make up whatever they want and justify it however they want.
To answer YOUR question, Jesus had a pet rabbit with him in his tomb that he had go and collect eggs so he could eat. Needed his protein for moving that huge rock in front.

Answer 6

Because the Christian Easter celebration replaced the pagan celebration of the Goddess Astarte.
She was Goddess of fertility...thus the eggs and rabbits.

The early church was afraid to outright condemn the pagan celebrations, so they slowly incorporated the pagan beliefs into their own church until meaning became intertwined.

Answer 7

That is a great question. At one time people use to buy children little chicks for Easter. Could have something to do with it.

Answer 8

Good question I'll be waiting for the answers myself.

Answer 9

I think they started using the bunnies cause they were cuter.

Answer 10

Ohemgee!!