What does the Easter bunny have to do with Easter ?
Actually, the Easter Bunny has everything to do with Easter. Easter is derived from an ancient Germanic name for the month of April, Eostremonat--or rather Eostre Month, in dedication to the goddess Eostre. Eostre, or Ostara was a German goddess of fertility and her return was marked by the coming of spring and the sun. The Ost in her name refers to the East--the rising of the sun. The rebirth of the day and the rebirth of the spring were her specialties, and her celebrations occured during the vernal equinox--the first day of spring. Of course calendar dates have gotten juggled about for quite a few different reasons over time and now April is no longer where it once was on the calendar at what is now March 21st. The rabbit was a traditional symbol of the goddess because of its great fertility, and the fact that the coming of spring marked the time when all of the little bunnies were seen starting to be born. When Christianity became the predominant religion it was an easy transition to introduce the rebirth of the Christ figure into the already extant birth and rebirth tradition. Old ways die hard, and the bunny stuck around. Although there are several explanations for the eggs the Easter bunny brings, (other than eggs are another traditional symbol of birth/rebirth) the most likely is that eggs were forbidden during the fast of lent, and were decorated and eaten in abundance to mark the end of the fast. German protestants although breaking with Roman Catholocism liked the egg tradition and kept it. And when German immigrants came to America, they brought with them the traditions of the Osterhase (Easter hare) and his eggs. Inasmuch as Christianity has stolen the ancient goddess' name for their own holiday, it seems only fitting that its original mascot still puts in an appearance each year.
What does the Easter bunny have to do with Jesus?
Nothing. Dont worship/celebrate Easter, that demon was worshipped in the name of Babylonian Supreme Goddess Ishtar Inanna - Wikipedia /Astarte - Wikipedia/Ēostre - WikipediaEaster, Ishtar and EostreBeyond Ishtar: The Tradition of Eggs at EasterEaster was originally the celebration of Ishtar, the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility and sex. Her symbols (like the egg and bunny) were and still are fertility and sex symbols (or did you actually think eggs and bunnies had anything to do with the resurrection?) After Constantine decided to Christianize the Empire, Easter was changed to represent Jesus. But at its roots, Easter (which is how you pronounce Ishtar) is all about celebrating fertility and sex.Who is Ishtar?Ishtar’s son is goat-headed Lucifer/Baphomet - Wikipedia/Pan (god) - Wikipedia and Satan and death of the worldIshtar = Sirius/Isis - Wikipedia (in Egypt) = Aphrodite(in Greek)Tammuz = Dumuzid - Wikipedia = Horus/Ra(in Egypt) = Pan(in Greek) = BaphometShe is also known as Tinker Bell/Sirius Black in media. Whole Hollywood is run by Satan.Tinker Bell = Ishtar = Sirius BlackPeter Pan = Pan = Baphomet = Harry Potter/Peter Parkar = SatanNote the constant name Peter/Potter and Star(Ishtar) in all the characters that are fed to young children that promote witchcraft, atheism and vulgarity to defile people and take them to Hell.
What does the Easter Bunny have to do with the Christian's most important holiday?
Nothing. But so what? It’s a cute fun (and actually fairly recent) custom that kids love.The tradition of the Easter Bunny was unknown until the 1600s, when it originated in a small village in Lutheran Lorraine, and slowly spread across Lutheran Germany, Calvinist Netherlands, and Anglican England during the 1700s. Martin Luther invented “the Easter Egg hunt” as a homily on finding the empty tomb — the men of the congregation would hide the Paschal eggs (then still painted only red for the Blood of Christ) and the women and children would search for them in a kind of allegory for the women finding the empty tomb. But the introduction of a spring hare who delivered the paschal eggs didn’t come until over a century later.The tradition of the paschal eggs themselves goes back to Judaism — salted eggs figure prominently in the Passover rite. From at least the 2nd century Christians were fasting for Lent before Easter, during which eggs - among other things - could not be eaten, but of course hens did not stop laying. So the Lenten eggs would be boiled, salted and preserved, and then eaten at the Easter feast. The tradition of painting the eggs red began either in upper Iraq or Armenia in about the 9th century, and the tradition slowly spread up through the Russias, and then westward into Poland, Germany, and the Balkans, and from their to the rest of Europe. It was in Protestant Europe, starting in the 1700s where it became common to paint them in a wide range of pastels. In the Middle East and in Eastern and Southern Europe the eggs are still painted red.The myth that Easter eggs and the Easter bunny are some ancient pagan practice from some pagan spring festival that the Church either allowed to corrupt it or deliberately adopted is an urban legend that became popular in the late 19th century among anti-Christian worldly cynics on the one hand, and among some novel sects on the other (like Adventists and Jehovah’s Witnesses). It still gets passed on uncritically as an “everybody knows that”, sometimes even in primary and secondary school textbooks. The claims are usually never sourced, but when they are they’re invariably to 19th or 20th century tertiary sources that either don’t say what is claimed or don’t source the claim themselves.
Easter Eggs? Or Chocolate Easter Bunnies? Which do you prefer?
Oh my goodness the lovely choices we have mmmmmm malted eggs, special flavors of jelly beans, peanut butter eggs, and milk chocolate bunnies mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I love them all. Excuse me as I run to the store. :)
What does the easter bunny have to do with the holiday easter?
Every festival the Christians celebrate has a Pagan root, except Christians don't know the history of their religion and things like, eggs and rabbits at Easter are an enigma to them.. Easter was originally the festival of Ostara, named after the Teutonic Goddess Eostra..She was the Goddess of Spring and fertility... Under Constantine in the 4th century AD, the Christians assimilated this festival and called it the Resurrection.. I will cut a long story short.. The name Easter is derived from the Goddess Oestare, Ostern, Eostra or Eostre, depending upon which literature you read...How's this girls.. The female hormone oestrogen can claim its roots to this Goddess..The fertility aspect of Ostara is symbolised by the egg, which appears as a prominent icon in both Christian and Eastern Orthodox Easters... It is believed that eggs and another symbol of fertility - the rabbit - surrounded the Spring Goddess, Eostra.. The rabbit, popularly known as the Easter Bunny, is another ubiquitous sign of modern Easter.. Let's talk about hot cross buns..... The cross represents the cross that Jesus died on ..... Right Christians ??? Wrong to the power of 2... Hot cross buns were another stolen aspect of Ostara... At the feast of Oestre, an ox was sacrificed.. The ox horns symbolised the feast and were carved into ritual bread . The symmetrical cross has been continued to decorate the buns, that are now commonly called hot cross buns.. So you see it was stolen from the Pagans, Life, Death, Rebirth, it represents to us.. The Christians stole it to represent the Resurrection... Love and Light.. Blessed Be.. )O(
Do bunnies, lay eggs, if not, why do people celebrate easter? And what does a bunny has to do with Christ?
What do these all have to do with Christianity? The answer is, NOTHING! People find it hard to believe that the traditions for their favorite holidays didn't originate with that holiday. Easter is the Christian celebration of the rebirth of Jesus. The holiday was set at this time of the year because it coencides with Passover, a Jewish tradition remembering the night when the angel of death came and killed the sons of Egypt. It also conincided with the pagan celebration of the Spring Equidox, and the coming of Spring. The traditions of modern Easter, though, are very Pagan. The name of easter is linked to the goddess Ester, of firtility. Some of her symbols were: rabbits, young animals (such as chicks), eggs, and chocolate. (Do these seem familiar?) When christians would convert pagans, they would bring some of their traditions with them. There are many other influences in this holiday as well. Ditto with the oriigns of Christmas. If you study the Bible, and the climate of the Middle East, topography etc. you will find that Jesus was most likely born in the Spring,and not December 25. So what's with celerbrating Chirstmas 24 ~ the Winter Solstice ~ you've got it ~ another orginal Pagan holiday!
Why does the Easter Bunny carry eggs and give them out to children (what do rabbits have to do with eggs)?
The proper answer for a Pagan is that Christians appropriated the long existing Spring celebration of the goddess Eostre who put the hare, not rabbit as symbolic of rebirth (each Spring). The hare is easily seen on the moon as opposed to the “man in the moon” while the cosmic egg of life/creation is fully associated with Eostre and the hare. Eostre has been garbled into Easter probably to better hide the Pagan origins of that particular celebration of Spring and the apparent rebirth of nature each year. So we still have a “rabbit” delivering eggs to delight the children.