Does Anyone Know Where The Legend Of The Easter Bunny Came From?On 02.07.10, In article
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Easter is co-opted from pagan religions celebrating the coming of spring. The rabbit was a symbol of fertility, as was the egg.
Shut up!
It’s not a legend!
It’s real. It’s real I tell you………
(Mooommmmmmmmm!)
according to my hyper religious baptist dad the devil. me? i am not so sure to be honest with you.
Easter is a rip-off of the pagan spring celebration Ostara. Bunnies, chicks, eggs, are all symbols off fertility. Europe was pagan for a very long time. In order to convert people to Christianity, they had to let people have their spring party, still.
Easter supposedly commemorates the resurrection of Christ, but reputable sources link it with false worship. The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible says that Easter was “originally the spring festival in honor of the Teutonic goddess of light and spring known in Anglo-Saxon as Eastre,” or Eostre. In any case, the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th Edition) states: “There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament.” Easter was not an early Christian observance.
The Encyclopædia Britannica comments: “There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the apostolic Fathers. The sanctity of special times was an idea absent from the minds of the first Christians.”—(1910), Vol. VIII, p. 828.
The Catholic Encyclopedia tells 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.”—(1913), Vol. V, p. 227.
In the book The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop, we read: “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, 1943), pp. 103, 107, 108; compare Jeremiah 7:18.
Bede writing in the 8th century CE wrote that the feast of Easter was originally an Anglo-Saxon festival in honour of the goddess Eostre, but that by his time no-one revered the goddess. It seems likely that a pre-Christian religion did celebrate the rebirth of life in spring and that when Christianity was imposed, instead of abolishing the festival, the reason for it was changed from the resurrection of the crops to the resurrection of Christ. The use of fertility symbols – Easter Eggs and Easter Bunnies – is a pointer to the pre-Christian meaning of Easter.
A website (About.com: Easter in Germany) states that the Easter bunny, symbolizing fertility, was first mentioned in German writings in the 16th century. The bunny was then imported to America by Pennsylvania Dutch settlers, who called it "Oschter Haws" ("Easter Hare"). Around 1800, the first edible Easter bunnies were made in Germany.