To most people, including pagans, the hare meant one thing: food. As a pest, they have always been hunted.
Symbolically many groups used the rabbit or hare as a symbol of fecundity (childbearing). The early Germanic goddess Ēostre or Ostara (her name is still remembered in our word Easter) has the rabbit as her companion animal. She represented the rebirth of the world in the Spring.
When you say that the early Anglo-Saxons were pagans you mean that the people did not believe in a Supreme Being.
No a hare is a rabbit but a grown female horse is called a Mare.
Hare = English Rabbit = American English They mean the same thing.
The early civilization people worshiped the sun, moon and stars. They also created idols or pagans and worshiped it as God.
If you mean hair rather than hare then it's because it makes you look good.
It means that Ireland was primarily inhabited by the Druids who were pagans and did not believe in the Christian God. St. Patrick preached to them and brought them to Christianity.
Due to the persecution from the Meccan pagans who had boycotted and regularly attacked the early Muslims.
The original pagans developed pretty much at the same time humankind became self aware. As the word derives from an old Roman word for country dwellers, all of humankind fell into that category in the beginning. Modern Neo-pagans trace their roots back to the early part of the twentieth century.
Lepus (genitive leporis) is "hare."
Rapid multiplication. Go do it a lot.
The Pagans was created in 1977.
H. H. Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji says we should chant, Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare. Please check related links for the mantra.