The Easter Bunny & Colored chicken eggs

[MagicFingers]

I was wondering how the Easter bunny came about to give kids lots of candy and hide the multi-colored eggs that the chickens laid for the occasion, and what that has to do with the Resurrection of Jesus.
South park explained some about how Peter the rabbit was at the last supper and became Saint Peter the Rabbit.

Which made be wonder about that age old question:
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Answer to follow, but think about it first.

 

[MagicFingers]

Answer: Neither

Actually, the Rooster came first.

And, sadly, the poor chick never did!

 

[KingOrfeo]

Easter Bunny:

The Easter Bunny (also called the Easter Rabbit or Easter Hare) is a folkloric figure and symbol of Easter, depicted as a rabbit bringing Easter eggs. Originating among German Lutherans, the "Easter Hare" originally played the role of a judge, evaluating whether children were good or disobedient in behaviour at the start of the season of Eastertide.[1] The Easter Bunny is sometimes depicted with clothes. In legend, the creature carries colored eggs in his basket, candy, and sometimes also toys to the homes of children, and as such shows similarities to Santa Claus or the Christkind, as they both bring gifts to children on the night before their respective holidays. The custom was first[2][unreliable source?] mentioned in Georg Franck von Franckenau's De ovis paschalibus[3] ('About Easter Eggs') in 1682, referring to a German tradition of an Easter Hare bringing Easter eggs for the children.

Now, as we all know, the above is just a cover story for a gruesome and inexplicable incident involving a crucified rabbit with hard-boiled eggs rammed up its ass, but let's not get into that.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Hard_Rom]

Eostre is a pagan celebration and goddess. Hares/rabbits and eggs are fertility symbols of spring. Same as Yule, a pagan celebration. Christianity just co-opted the dates and symbols. Hallowe'en is the Celtic New Year when the veil between this world and the Otherworld is thinnest. Hence ghost, goblins and things scary. Days of the week are named after pagan gods too. Just a thin glossing over by a foreign religion.

 

[MagicFingers]

Bunnies are really cute

And I LOVE eggs for breakfast.

Thanks for the explanation, King.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Eostre is a pagan celebration and goddess. Hares/rabbits and eggs are fertility symbols of spring. Same as Yule, a pagan celebration. Christianity just co-opted the dates and symbols. Hallowe'en is the Celtic New Year when the veil between this world and the Otherworld is thinnest. Hence ghost, goblins and things scary. Days of the week are named after pagan gods too. Just a thin glossing over by a foreign religion.

Which is why some Protestants won't celebrate Halloween (but I think all celebrate Easter, because, well, if you're Christian you got to, but maybe some just make it a church service and leave out the eggs and bunnies). OTOH, none I know of insist on using the Hebrew names for the days of the week.

 

[phrodeau]

It's a conspiracy of poulterers and dye makers.

 

[KingOrfeo]

It's a conspiracy of poulterers and dye makers.

The Order of the Knights Templar never really died, it simply went underground and . . . transformed.

 

[phrodeau]

The Order of the Knights Templar never really died, it simply went underground and . . . transformed.

Somebody should make Knights Exemplar out of Knights Templar.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Somebody should make Knights Exemplar out of Knights Templar.

https://media1.britannica.com/eb-media/49/193749-131-C8B53493.jpg

Jacques de Molay, thou art avenged!

 

[MagicFingers]

What, no comment about the rooster?

I loved writing that and am still smiling 'cause it's so true.

 

[Libsam]

In Sweden kids dress up like a witch and knock on doors for candy.

The Easter Witch, Glad Pask.

The story goes, the witches would fly off to have sex with the devil and on their way back the Swedes would light bon fires in an attempt to scare them away, hoping they wouldn't return.