2007-05-06 11:34:00 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Easter
* Why does the Easter bunny carry eggs? Rabbits don't lay eggs.? *
ahahahaha,
A rabbit with a basket of chicken eggs, somehow combined with a revered day for a prophet of The Creator. That is incomprehensible, something is wrong for sure. The rabbits probably do that because of the pagan traditions of men rather that the commandments of God. Those Easter eggs always tasted like hard boiled eggs to me. The chocolate ones with the creme in the center are the best, ummm.
Have a pleasant day.
2007-05-06 13:19:58 · answer #1 · answered by zurioluchi 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wow...you have three correct answers here. Paswa17, and His Way are right on...zuriduc... is pretty close also. Paganism is responsible for having the fertility thing introduced to the world. The Roman Catholic church converted it to its own form of Christianity some 300+ years after Christ. Easter was celebrated long before Christ's resurrection. It should not be celebrated with the thought of Ishtar/Easter, nor with the commercialism that it currently has. Celebrating the resurrection of Christ is supposed to come the first Sunday after Passover. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Easter. Some have invented a connection in respect to new life/resurrection and eggs and rabbits...it's somewhat fuzzy how the connection is made since logic is not the mode used to make that connection. There are many studies on the pagan injection into Christianity, and how ungodly things such as the Crusades took place as a result of it.
2007-05-09 22:49:56 · answer #2 · answered by Jalapinomex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At Easter time most Christians celebrate the resurrection on Christ. We know it cannot be the day of Hes resurrection because Easter is never on the same date. Easter always comes the first Sunday after the first full moon, after the equinox.
Long before Christianity, Bablyon had a goddess named "Ishtar," the goddess of reproduction. In the spring she was honored as the giver of all new life. Eggs, a symbol of fertility, were worshipped, and rabbits, prolific reproducers, were also worshipped. That's where we get Easter rabbits and Easter eggs. Ishtar's day was always celebrated the first Sunday, after the first full moon, after the equinox. As we progress through history, we come to Rome around 300 A.D. Constintine, the ruler, claimed he had become a Christian. He simply took Ishtar's day and transferred it to honor Jesus Christ the giver of life, on Easter. Papal Rome then continued this, and spread it to the whole world.
2007-05-09 14:39:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Easter traditions, as with many Christian holidays, took ceremonies from Pagan cultures and incorporated them into their customs. The egg and the rabbit are both symbols of fertility. Most cultures have a holiday celebrating Spring and it usually falls around the vernal equinox (March 21), which is the first day where it is light out longer than it is dark in the northern hemisphere. These symbols were adapted into what we now celebrate as Easter from their Pagan beginnings.
2007-05-06 18:41:21 · answer #4 · answered by paswa17 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Isn't it crazy how these holidays have evolved from customs of a variety of other countries? You can read about the history of any holiday on the historychannel.com
2007-05-08 04:16:54 · answer #5 · answered by Sweet n Sour 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a great question! I never thought of that before.
2007-05-06 19:17:05 · answer #6 · answered by BamaBelle810 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-05-06 18:45:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋