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Christians. What do bunnies have to do with Jesus's resurrection?
Since it's on Easter. When he was resurrected, did bunnies hop out of nowhere around his cross?
12 Answers
- AthenaLv 74 years ago
The same thing that trees have to do with his birth.
The advantage of Christianity is its ability to adapt local customs into the Religious calendar. It is not an all or nothing affair.
- ?Lv 74 years ago
The Bunnies (actually Hares) are sacred to the Germanic Goddess Eostre (AKA Easter) and when the Germanics adopted Christianity both the Goddess (in name alone) and the Hare came along for the ride. In other words rabbits were adopted from pagan mythology.
- John de WittLv 74 years ago
You'd probably have to ask Bede the Venerable to have a good handle on it, but there's a reasonable chance that bunnies and eggs are associated with Eostre because spring is the time the Earth comes back to life, so it ties in rather well with the story of the Resurrection.
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- FredLv 54 years ago
If you live in the country (rural) ; little bunnies show up in early Spring... about the time of Easter.
- Anonymous4 years ago
No, they didn't, and I assume that by your drug-assisted logic that somehow proves that God doesn't exist, or that Elvis killed Vince Foster, or something, right?
- MoriartyLv 74 years ago
It was the pagan Spring Festivals of "sol invictus" (unconquered sun) and "Eostre" a Northern European goddess whose symbol was a rabbit or hare, and whose name sounds uncannily similar to "Easter".
They were both festivals of the growth of new life (hence eggs, chocolate or otherwise, being symbolic of this) and sex and fertility - and what are rabbits renown for?
Saturnalia and Yule are the Winter Festivals, which fall around modern Christmas (or the Feast of Mithras, on the 25th Dec). The Roman conversion to Christianity just changed the names of these special feast/celebratory days and whacked Jesus in there, which was a simple way to get converts.
- Anonymous4 years ago
Rabbits have nothing to do with the christian festival of easter, it comes from a pagan festival that included eggs and rabbits that symbolised new life and fertility that began in the spring,that is why easter takes place in the spring, so that the pagans were encouraged to celebrate that as well, and get them to believe in jesus and god.
- MariaLv 74 years ago
That is offensive. There were no bunnies at the crucifixion. When the women went to the cave where Jesus was placed, the stone was rolled back and revealed the Easter Bunny and his basket of chocolate.
- Anonymous4 years ago
Nothing, it's just something fun for the kids