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senseandsensibility Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:27 AM
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Why bunnies and eggs on Easter?
What's that all about? Now I could google it, but I KNOW you guys know. Libruls are smart. (myself excluded!)
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:29 AM
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1. Eggs are symbols of fertility...
goes back to the Pagan thing, I think...
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:30 AM
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3. Those bunnies, they multiply like...
rabbits!
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senseandsensibility Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:32 AM
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7. LOL
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:33 AM
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8. But they're so damned adorable...


aww...
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:36 AM
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9. You better believe it
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:29 AM
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2. Its all about the FERTILITY, silly.
and, if I'm not mistaken, the word Easter itself is from the same root as Estrus. It's all about the fertility, baby!
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senseandsensibility Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:31 AM
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6. I really AM silly
cuz I don't get the connection between Easter and fertility. Help. Easter for Dummies needed.:P
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BlackVelvetElvis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:40 AM
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11. Which comes from the Saxon goddess, Eostre.
The easter bunny (known as the "moonhare" ) predates Christianity and was sacred to the goddess.
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DIKB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:31 AM
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4. Easter
was taken from the Spring Pagan festival Oestre

One aspect of the spring festivals was the giving birth, the new life. Bunnies are associated with reproduction, as are eggs for the avian and reptilian life forms. The many colors of spring (new flowers blooming) became incorporated in celebrations as well.

As for where chocolate bunnies came from ? I'm lost.
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:47 AM
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12. Yes. The early church couldn't compete with the pagan holidays
So they subverted them and made them their own. Easter was a pagan holiday and fertility rite celebrating the return of spring. Christmas was originally a pagan holiday celebrating the equinox.

And don't even get me started about the trinity and the virgin birth.
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:31 AM
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5. They are both signs of fertility
Easter is a celebration of the Resurrection. The story of the Passion of Christ is modeled on older Mediterranean vegetative myths, such as Osiris or Persephone.
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I Clenis Donating Member (69 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:37 AM
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10. The Bible has a mistranslation
Edited on Sun Mar-27-05 12:38 AM by I Clenis
Jesus actually came back as a bunny.

It's Bunny Jesus, not Buddy Jesus.
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senseandsensibility Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 10:28 AM
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13. LOL
NOW I get it. Duhh....:P
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 10:35 AM
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14. Jesus had a cholestrol problem so...
Whenever they saw him coming, the apostles saw him coming they had to hide the eggs.

(Don't get mad at me! I'm a Christian with a sense of humor! LOL)
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