From pagan religion, both the egg and the bunny are symbols of fertility. In the pagan religion, Easter was the "spring festival", celebrating fertility and requesting that the Gods give good crops. It makes sense that the rabbit and the egg would be symbols of spring festival.
Easter is also a symbol of the Anglo-Saxon goddess, Eostre, as the holiday was originally named after. Easter is a relatively new adoption of spelling which was used, as said above, to help make the coexistence and/or transition of religions go much smoother.
There is no REAL Christian relation between them. The whole thing about bunnies and Easter comes from pagan religions that were popular in ancient times. The bunny was a fertility symbol, associated with pagan worship. The Roman Catholic church, in around the year 300 AD, merged some non-Christian beliefs and customs with their version of what they believe Christianity to be. The Protestants did not accept these changes at the time, but only much later (centuries later) started to accept them. The celebration of the resurrection of Christ is a good thing, but not with bunnies and eggs and other symbols used in pagan worship. And even the very term Easter is from the name of a pagan goddess, Ishtar.
The bunny rabbit is a prolific reproducer because the species is prey for a number of other animals and therefore is a symbol for the pagan goddess Easter, a variant of Astarte/Ishtar/April.
The original Easter Bunny was probably associated with the Pagan equinox festival that predated Easter. The Saxons devoted the month of April to celebrating their goddess of spring and fertility, who was, not coincidentally, named Eastre. Eastre's sacred animal was the hare (a rabbit) - not surprising since the rabbit is one of the most common symbols of fertility and rebirth.
The colored eggs carried by today's Easter bunnies have another, even more ancient origin. Eggs have long been associated with fertility and springtime festivals - for so long, in fact, that the precise roots of the association are unknown. Ancient Romans and Greeks utilized eggs in festivals celebrating resurrected gods. The egg also featured prominently in the Jewish rituals of Passover - and still today the roasted egg has prominence on the seder table as an essential symbol of springtime and rebirth.
Scholars believe that the pairing of the hare and the egg together in Easter may also have Pagan roots. During springtime, when days and nights were equal length, the hare was identified with the moon goddess and the egg with the sun god. Pairing the two together offered a kind of ying and yang to spring equinox celebration.
The bunny was used in many pagan holidays to represent fertility and growth, and spring is when many things grow and are born. When Christians made their celebrations on pagan holidays the bunny was just inter grated in.
Originally Easter was a festival that had to do with spring and fertility Rabbits have a bit of a reputation in the fertility side of things as do eggs. the Christians made their festival a part of Easter at a later date.
Rabbits and eggs are pagan fertility symbols of extreme antiquity.
Birds lay eggs and rabbits give birth to large litters in the early spring these became symbols of the rising fertility of the earth during the spring season.
Since Easter also occurs in the early spring, people brought the beloved pagan symbols into the Christian celebration of Easter.
These pagan symbols have become part of the Christian tradition. They do not take anything away from the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and they add to the celebration.
Christianity has frequently absorbed the positive and neutral symbols of pagan religions while leaving the negative symbols behind, similar to Christmas trees and Halloween costumes.
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The Easter Bunny brings the eggs and the Bunny Rabbit eats them!
A baby rabbit and eggs symbolize Easter because they both symbolize new life, and Easter is the day Jesus Christ rose from the dead. so naturally, Easter is a day known for new life.
because it symbolizes a new life
No, rabbits aren't actually associated with Easter or lent. That's that.
The rabbit is associated with the holiday, "Easter". This is because in the spring time, many animals are born -- especially rabbits.
White Rabbits or any bunny in general (the Easter Bunny) and yellow chicks. Sometimes Winnie the Pooh and friends as well.
Yes. Red is associated with Easter because of the blood of Christ.
Of course jelly beans are eaten during Easter. Nearly every child's Easter basket has jelly beans as part of their candy, along with chocolate rabbits and marshmallow peeps. Jelly beans are also often used as decorations on top of Easter cakes.
They are carryovers from the ancient Babylonian festival of Ishtar (pronounced Easter).
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Basically, because chickens and rabbits are born in the spring. They have therefore become symbols of the pagan holiday of Eostre, celebrating the start of the growing season. Christians later incorporated this celebration into the Easter holiday, which is how the incongruous picture of rabbits laying chocolate eggs came to be associated with Christ's resurrection.
God created them as all other things. What do rabbits and eggs have to do with Easter? Nothing really. They are related to the fertility rites that Easter is built upon. Rabbits can have several litters of babies a year, so they are symbols of procreation. Eggs are, to some ancient peoples, the source of life. They have nothing to do with Easter.
The religious aspect of Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus.
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