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brian29715 · 46-50, M
How did bunnies and eggs get mixed together?
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@brian29715 This is one of my favorite topics, so I hope you don't mind if I go on for a bit about it.
Rabbits and eggs are both pagan symbols of fertility. What that has to do with Christianity is technically nothing. You see, Easter is placed on the calendar where it is because of the spring equinox. The early Christian church needed to compete with the more popular religions, and the easiest way for them to do that was to sort of co-opt existing holidays. In the Middle East, the spring equinox festival was a celebration of the fertility goddess Éostre.
As for how it is that we have this image of a bunny delivering eggs, that's just a centuries long game of telephone (or Chinese whispers, if you're English).
Rabbits and eggs are both pagan symbols of fertility. What that has to do with Christianity is technically nothing. You see, Easter is placed on the calendar where it is because of the spring equinox. The early Christian church needed to compete with the more popular religions, and the easiest way for them to do that was to sort of co-opt existing holidays. In the Middle East, the spring equinox festival was a celebration of the fertility goddess Éostre.
As for how it is that we have this image of a bunny delivering eggs, that's just a centuries long game of telephone (or Chinese whispers, if you're English).
bookerdana · M
@LordShadowfire I think more like England and a few parts of Germany🤓
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