2007-04-08 16:45:14 · 28 answers · asked by zvl 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-04-08 16:48:11 · answer #1 · answered by A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with the person above. They have nothing to do with the real meaning of Easter, but it's still fun to do. All my little cousins had an Easter egg hunt after church and they had a blast!!! If you are a Christian, just keep your mind on the real meaning of the holiest day on the Christian calendar. Did you know know that Easter is the holier than Christmas? (Ask me why and I'll tell you.) And Christmas never became a big holiday (like it is today, with all the commercial trappings) until the 1800s. And it only became as significantly commercial as it is during the past 50 years or so, with the advent of more wealth after WW2, i.e., with the birth of the baby boomers. Christmas wasn't even celebrated until the 5th century. Prior to that it was outlawed by the Church because Christmas was (and still is) an adaptation of a pagan holiday, and anything having to do with pagans was forbidden by the church. In fact, most of our religious holidays are adaptions of pagan celebrations. But Easter (and Pentacost) have always been celebrated since the earliest days of the Church.
2007-04-08 23:52:09 · answer #2 · answered by Eileen G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Easter Rabbit is very interesting, and one of the oldest symbols of the Spring. In Indo-European mythology, the hare is sacred to the
Goddess, being supposedly seen in the markings on the moon (another goddess symbol, though not universal by any means).
In Germany, children were told that the Easter Hare would bring them eggs on Easter if they were good. This is the origin of our Easter
Bunny. It is first mentioned in Germany in the 1500's.
We don't know exactly when or where the custom of eggs at Easter originated. There is a grave excavated at Worms, Germany that
contains two goose eggs painted with stripes and dots, but it is unknown if the grave is Christian. We do have evidence of Easter eggs from 11th Century CE Poland and from Britain around the time of Edward I.
Pope Gregory the Great (590-604 CE) forbade eggs during Lent, and they therefore became a great delicacy after Lent at Easter.
2007-04-08 23:50:45 · answer #3 · answered by dmbarry777 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Rabbits, nothing, except they are signs of spring and renewed (and renewed and renewed) life. Eggs, though, have a venerable history. I've heard that roasted eggs often appeared as a peace offering as part of the Passover Feast, the holiday Jesus celebrated with his disciples at the Last Supper. (I'm not implying that eggs were at that particular dinner.) Since the Lord's atonement is a sort of "peace offering" to everyone, the symbolism is appropriate. Then, of course, the egg as a symbol of life and birth works with the Christian notion of "rebirth" through Christ. Those traditions combined with some pagan egg coloring rituals (Egyptians and Persians, I believe) and ended up as our Easter Egg tradition.
2007-04-08 23:56:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Easter was based on an old fertility celebration. Thats where the eggs and rabbits come from. Ostara is one of the many spring fertility rites. If I remember correctly the lunar goddess also goes into the underworld for 3 days and returns at Easter, like Jesus was said to have done.
2007-04-08 23:50:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Among the different vernal celebrations throughout human history, the onset of spring is customarily celebrated for it's life-renewing or life-beginning properties. This is why the fertile rabbit and the egg are symbols of that new or renewed life.
Likewise, Jesus successful resurrection following His successful death on the cross for our sins makes available (to all who believe) forgiveness of sins and eternal life. The Bible refers to our new life in Christ as our being made like a new creation. This is why some Christians don't see the harm in using secular Easter symbols as analogies for what Christ accomplished on that wonderful week in which He died and rose from the dead. Our church calls it "Easter Sunday," but we don't mean to give glory to Ishtar (from which the word "Easter" is derived). We just use the term because it's the most efficient way to refer to a set of resurrection celebrations we have every year about this time. Thanks for asking.
2007-04-08 23:52:00 · answer #6 · answered by chdoctor 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
NOTHING at all.. Easter Sunday is originally used to celebrate Jesus' resurrection 3 days after His death on Good Friday. But just as Christmas there wasn't SAnta Claus at all, there isnt easter eggs. its just human ideas to make this a celebration for everyone
2007-04-16 23:47:11 · answer #7 · answered by answer machine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing. the eggs and rabbits come from the Christians forcing the pagans to convert. it was/is a celebration that the pagans had. Christians thought that it would make it easier to conform the pagans.
2007-04-09 00:12:07 · answer #8 · answered by cynthia i 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. Easter was a pagan fertility ritual. Where people rolled eggs. Quick like a bunny. It is pagan. Chritians observe passover,and Christs resurrection,not easter.
2007-04-08 23:49:37 · answer #9 · answered by dispesational7 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Man, didnt you watch South Park last week? Jesus left the church to Peter when he died, but Peter was a rabbit. Peter Rabbit. Humans try to take over everything and run the church there own way, Jesus knew this, so he made a bunny the head of his church. Jeez get with the picture.
2007-04-08 23:49:10 · answer #10 · answered by p_rob22 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Absolutely nothing. The colored eggs and other trappings of Easter come from much older religions than Christianity.
2007-04-08 23:50:14 · answer #11 · answered by Tara R 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋