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- PhoenixWaterLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
Not a damn thing. Both are Pagan rituals stolen by Christians.
- OkapiLv 41 decade ago
Good question. The answer is: Absolutely nothing. The celebration of Easter far predates Christianity, to Pagan and Wicca traditions. Conveniently, there is no set date for the celebration, being instead on a day of the week, because there is no certain date that Christ died and no set date that He ascended. The Pagan holiday is the spring celebration of Oester or Ostara, a celebration that occurs on the spring equinox, one of two dates that the day is exactly as long as the night, the other being Samhain, the autumn equinox and Pagan equivalent of All Hallows' Eve. It is most likely that these holidays occur when they do and with such similarity to the Pagan holidays as an age-old technique of conversion, to convince heathens and Pagans to convert, since the two were, to judge by holidays, not all too different.
Incidentally, the reason for the eggs and the bunny are frightfully obvious. Thinking, for a second, of Easter as a springtime celebration and not a celebration of Christ's resurrection, we come to the fact that spring is the time of fertility, when birds, mammals, and fish mate, laying eggs to become young. And, what's the ultimate symbol of fertility? An egg. The bunny, on the other hand, is because, frankly, children, those most excitable about holidays, would pretty soon get suspicious about mysterious, brightly coloured eggs, if they were precocious. So, it is sold as a magical rabbit that hides eggs.
I hope that, if this isn't the answer that you were looking for, then that it is at least informative and perhaps entertaining.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Jesus wore a Easter bunny suit for the first Easter so children could take pictures with Him. He used this extra money for traveling expenses until God beamed Him up into a spaceship that was hidden by an artificial cloud.
- 1 decade ago
Easter (also known as Ostara) is the Norse goddess of the spring. She was wakened from her winter slumber by the mating dances of the rabbits. The offerings to Easter were traditionally eggs.
Christianity co-opted the holiday when they failed to suppress it in the lands settled by the nordic peoples, and their explanation is pretty lame, and does little to explain the practices associated with the holiday.
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- Allie QLv 71 decade ago
Nothing. They are pagan traditions for the pagan celebration that the Christians stole in their quest to convert everyone to Christianity.
Eostre - goddess of fertility
Bunnies and eggs - symbols of fertility/new life/rebirth...
- 1 decade ago
Here they have the story of someone passing with a basket of eggs by Jesus' cross and put them down at his feet. Jesus' blood poured on them and they got red.
Bullshit! That's a story to scare kids (and it does scare them).
The eggs stuff is Pagan. Why would you go with a basket of eggs to a crucified person anyway?
- 1 decade ago
Nothing at all. Its a marketing tool! Take christmas for example. What does santa have to do with jesus? Stores make a lot of money off of the Easter Bunny and santa!
- 1 decade ago
nothing really they use an egg as a metaphor of new life when christ resurrected it was almost like he was born again and they use eggs because when a animal creates a offspring its a new life so basically the chocalate egg is a symbol of new life and the reason why its chocalate is to appeal to children so they want more children to be religous so when they grow up they can make their children religous and so on
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Nothing, it's a pagan festival adopted by early Christians so they could try and convert those that worshipped the goddess Eastre.