What do EGGS and RABBITS have to do with EASTER?

I found this info to be pretty interesting about Easter

http://mysite.du.edu/~ssadler/Easter.html

Happy Easter

Easter is set by the first full moon after the vernal equinox. This is the one day in the year when day and night are roughly equal!

It varies by more than a month over the years and so it simply cannot represent the date of anyone's death!!!

It is in fact a combination of several pagan festivals most notably the spring festival.

The name Easter comes from “Eastre” an Anglo-Saxon pagan goddess. Even the Chinese have the festival of Ching Ming where flowers and sweets are put on their ancestors graves!!

The egg and the rabbit are symbols of springtime and rebirth!

Fun to watch the Christians worshiping a pagan festival though - makes it just like Christmas when they do the same thing!!!

"Pagan Elements of Modern Easter Celebrations:

As you might be able to tell, the name “Easter” was likely derived from Eostre, the name of the Anglo-Saxon lunar goddess, as was as the name for the female hormone estrogen. Eostre’s feast day was held on the first full moon following the vernal equinox — a similar calculation as is used for Easter among Western Christians. On this date the goddess Eostre is believed by her followers to mate with the solar god, conceiving a child who would be born 9 months later on Yule, the winter solstice which falls on December 21st.

Two of Eostre’s most important symbols were the hare (both because of its fertility and because ancient people saw a hare in the full moon) and the egg, which symbolized the growing possibility of new life. Each of these symbols continues to play an important role in modern celebrations of Easter. Curiously, they are also symbols which Christianity has not fully incorporated into its own mythology. Other symbols from other holidays have been given new Christian meanings, but attempts to do the same here have failed. "

http://atheism.about.com/od/easterholidayseason/p/...

Spring and renewal, the eggs fit in with this, Rabbits are a symbol of fertility, also there is a Myth that a rabbit saved a bird and was rewarded with the gift of eggs.

Good question

Easter is a pagan holiday. It's original roots have to do with the goddess of fertility. Her name was Ishtar, or Eostar, I am not sure of the spelling. Eggs are symbol of fertility. Likewise, rabbits, with their well-known prolific breeding habits, are a symbol of fertility.

I'm not sure.

I think it's like the santa clause deal. But the chocolate is yummy!

(and yes, I do know the real meaning of Easter and it hits me very hard every year.)