What is the connection between easter eggs, the bunny and Easter?

Question

I mean rabbits dont have eggs so how did the concept of the the bunny having the eggs and painting them?
also how does it relate to the story of Easter?

Answer 1

In Christianity it is really the Passover, the bunny and the egg represent the god of fertility. It has nothing to do with the Resurrection of Jesus. When Jesus shed his blood at Calvery he washed away our sins just like the blood on the doors of the children of Isreal in Moses's day. We are covered by the Blood. Praise the Lord

Answer 2

Basically the Easeter Bunny comes from ancient pagan symbolism relating to Spring and procreation. The traditions of pagan people were often adopted by the early church as a method of converting them to Christianity. In this sense the custons and culture of the poeple was preserved while they were taught about Christ. In this sense too the Easter Egg, which was traditionally eaten, came to represent the tomb of Christ and, when broken open, the resurrection. Early eggs were often coloured red symbolizing the blood of Christ.

The Easter Bunny came to deliver the eggs and this explained very well in an earlier answer. Needless to say however Easter, althought not to the degree of Christmas, has become more of a "commercial" holiday than a religious one.

Answer 3

The bunny and the eggs are from the pagan celebration of Ostara (sometimes called Estora). Which is a hoilday to promote fertilty and to honore the goddess Eostre. Both eggs and bunnies are very fertile, and are a symbol of life returing after the long cold winter. Fertility of both livestock and crops were very important to survial. here is a link to some history. http://www.vinland.org/heathen/mt/ostara.html

As for how it relates to the story of Easter.... About the only thing simmular is the pronouncation for the two hoildays. Christianity incorperated many of the pagan tradtions into their hoildays to convert pagans to christanity.

Answer 4

I don't know about the rabbits but it is said that Mary Magdalene gave the first Easter egg to I think ?Pontius Pilate? to tell him the news of the resurrection. It was red. I will see if I can look this up. I don't remember the whole story.

Answer 5

Eggs have nothing to do with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ it is just a commercialized way of getting even more money, you'd have to google about how they polluted this wondeful holiday with the 'easter bunny.'

Answer 6

Well I'm not sure but just like with Santa Claus and him coming down the chimney and putting the presents under the tree it's just something they made to make it fun for kids. It doesn't really relate to the story of Easter but it's just fun!

Answer 7

Easter coincides with an ancient pagan festival (can't remember its name) about rebirth/new life/ spring. Scholars believe that as Christanity spread across Europe and people were being converted the Church overtook pagan festivals so that Christianity slowly integrated with the populations.

Answer 8

Eggs, like rabbits and hares, are fertility symbols of extreme antiquity; since birds lay eggs and rabbits and hares give birth (to large litters) in the early spring, these became symbols of the rising fertility of the earth at the Vernal Equinox.

The saying "mad as a March hare" refers to the wild caperings of hares as the males fight over the females in the early spring, then attempt to mate with them. Since the females often rebuff the males' advances before finally succumbing, the mating behavior often looks like a crazy dance; these fights led early observers to believe that the advent of spring made the hares "mad". Rabbits and hares are both lagomorphs; they are prolific breeders. The females can conceive a second litter of offspring while still pregnant with the first (the two are born separately); this phenomenon is known as superfetation. Lagomorphs mature sexually at an early age and can give birth to several litters a year (hence the saying, "to breed like bunnies"). It is therefore not surprising that rabbits and hares should become fertility symbols, or that their springtime mating antics should enter into Easter folklore; however, the notion of a rabbit that lays eggs has an uncertain past. It may have simply arisen from a confusion of symbolism but, like much of the holiday of Easter itself, it could be a direct heritage from older traditions. In English, the word "Easter" is hypothesized to come from an ancient pagan goddess of the spring named Eostre, related to German Ostara. According to a popular piece of folklore, Eostre once saved a bird whose wings had frozen during the winter by turning it into a rabbit. Because the rabbit had once been a bird, it could still lay eggs, and that rabbit became the modern Easter Bunny[1].

The precise origin of the custom of coloring eggs is not known, although it too is ancient; Greeks to this day typically dye their Easter eggs red, the color of blood, in recognition of the renewal of life in springtime (and, later, the blood of the sacrificed Christ). Some also use the color green, in honor of the new foliage emerging after the long "dead" time of winter. Other colors, including the pastels popular in the United States and elsewehere (possibly symbolizing the rainbow), seem to have come along later. German Protestants wanted to retain the Catholic custom of eating colored eggs for Easter, but did not want to introduce their children to the Catholic rite of fasting. Eggs were forbidden to Catholics during the fast of Lent, which was the reason for the abundance of eggs at Easter time.

The idea of an egg-laying bunny came to the United States in the 18th century. German immigrants in the Pennsylvania Dutch area told their children about the "Osterhase". "Hase" means "hare", not rabbit, and in Northwest European folklore the "Easter Bunny" indeed is a hare, not a rabbit. According to the legend, only good children received gifts of colored eggs in the nests that they made in their caps and bonnets before Easter.

A hundred years later Jakob Grimm wrote of long-standing similar myths in Germany itself. Noting many related landmarks and customs, Grimm suggested that these derived from legends of Ostara.

Answer 9

Haha, we talked about this in class at school. It doesnt have anything to do with Jesus or anything! Easter is in spring, and in Spring everything blooms, and birds are born, so eggs represent new-born baby birds.

Answer 10

well, Saint Peter was a rabbit (the first pope of the catholics christian church) and you can see that by the way the pope hat is, it fits on a bunnies ears. Anyway, Jesus said that men were too easily misguided, so he picked a rabbit to be the head of the church, something you would know if you joined the hare club for men or women. Well, I hope I helped hahaha