Bunnies, Eggs and the Easter.
By rekhum
@rekhum (2420)
India
March 27, 2013 6:16pm CST
Researchers claim that bunnies, eggs and chicks have nothing to do with the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Nevertheless, the Easter bunny and the Easter Eggs have become a prominent symbol of Christianity's most important holiday, the Easter Holiday.
Besides, they claim that as per our modern solar calendar, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ took place on April 3 and therefore, Easter Day would be on April 5. They have also added that, though Christians have long celebrated Jesus Christ's Last Supper on Maundy Thursday; however, new research claims to show it took place on the Wednesday before the crucifixion. And although there is no mention of the bunnies and the Easter eggs in The Bible, I must say the 'Easter Bunny, Easter Eggs and Easter Goodies' traditions will long be ingrained in Easter Sunday.
http://news.discovery.com/history/what-does-easter-bunny-come-have-to-do-easter-120406.htm
Happy Easter!
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@Hopefull90 (921)
• United States
28 Mar 13
So many of our customs come from pagan heritage. Eastra or something like that was a goddess who had something to do with the name Easter. Tumuz was also involved as a god who was suppose to appear to his followers on Sunday morning thus starting the sun rise worship services. All these spring like things were put into a store about a fish rolling an egg upon the shore(hence eggs rolling on Sunday). Many different nationalities seem to have a story about a god dying and coming alive. Christmas was suppose to be the birth of one of these gods. It has been a long time since I read how these holidays came about. The Catholic church just put christian names to these holidays as the pagans didn't want to give them up. We get the cross(T for Tumuz), beads, and wedding band all from these pagans. We also have the hot cross buns. Of course, Christmas also has a lot of pagan celebrations that came from the celebrations the pagan participated in. A lot of drinking and dancing went on.
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@iuliuxd (4453)
• Romania
28 Mar 13
The catholic church didn`t named the Easter that way. That is the English name of the holiday and has nothing to do with any goddess. Stop believing everything you read on internet. In the latin countries the name of the holiday comes from the jewish Pesach, for example in my country it is called Pasti and in Italy i believe it is Pasqua.What that has to do with the goddess ? 
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@Dominique25 (9464)
• United States
28 Mar 13
@iuliuxd it's not about believing everything that they may have read on the internet. It's about finding out the origin of things and not just naively following what everyone else does. The Catholic Encyclopedia tels us: "A great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring... The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility.- Vol. V Pg 227
In the book The Two Bablyons, by Alexander Hislop, it states: "What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name... as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar... Such is the history of Easter. The popular observances that still attend the period of its celebration amply confirm the testimony of history as to its Babylonian character. The hot cross buns of Good Friday, and the dyed eggs of Pasch or Easter Sunday. figured in the Chaldean rites just as they do now."-New York, pg 103,107,108
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
28 Mar 13
Originally it was the Hare, not the rabbit, the term 'breed like rabbit's' became the symbol of fertility. It was the Romans who initially believed that all life comes from an egg and Christians deem eggs to be 'the seed of life' ergo symbolic of Jesus Christ's resurrection. Which is why bunnies and eggs are popular at Easter time.
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@dfollin (25351)
• United States
28 Mar 13
Hi Hatley, Last night I was at church and was helping them put candy in the eggs for the children's Easter egg hunt that hey
have every year.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
28 Mar 13
hi Yes I imagine in the bible it does not talk of Easter e gs and bunny rabbits or Easter baskets.But to me while i will go to church on Easter Sunday I will also buy some Easter candy and make Easter baskets and dyese some eggs as its all traditional in my household.
@RandomnessPrincessx3 (280)
• United States
28 Mar 13
It seems to me the dates of such are always being predicted different, and I never understood why religious holidays have bunnies or santa being symbolic to them. I just roll with it though.
@Hopefull90 (921)
• United States
28 Mar 13
A lot of things have lost their original meanings like the steeple on the church has lost its original pagan meaning. Now, it just means that building is a church.
