The rabbit doesn’t lay eggs. They are both Celtic fertility symbols. Ostara is a spring festival tied to the spring equinox focused on awakening and rebirth. The church of Rome repurposed it into Easter.
Got it. The Easter Bunny is an immigrant, over 1,500 years old, and has at least one ovipositor. Let me restate the remaining question: Why does it lay/bring Celtic fertility symbols??
I learn so much here.
The bunny is primarily a German tradition. It became prevalent in the US because of the high volume German immigrants. However, the bunny was already spreading throughout the Hapsburg Monarchy prior to America exporting its version. Decorating eggs is also a Slovenian tradition that came to prominence when what would be become the US was still just colonies. Not a lot of pop culture getting shipped back to Europe back then.
The rabbit/hare as a fertility symbol is a pretty frequent one across a lot of cultures, kinda like solar deities with solstice holidays. The cult of Ishtar died out in the 600s, the first mention of a tradition of an egg laying hare in connection with the Christian holiday is specifically from Germany a thousand years later.
Well where I live most of the exposure to the rabbit is american. If the origin is not american it does not mean it’s not being proliferated by them. Same as santa claus. 20-30 years ago almost nobody here got gifts from Santa. It was either saint Nicholas on 6. December or father frost whenever he decided to come (no set date).
But now with just how prevalent american made media is it’s annoying how many of their customs are coming here and displacing local ones.
The rabbit doesn’t lay eggs. They are both Celtic fertility symbols. Ostara is a spring festival tied to the spring equinox focused on awakening and rebirth. The church of Rome repurposed it into Easter.
Got it. The Easter Bunny is an immigrant, over 1,500 years old, and has at least one ovipositor. Let me restate the remaining question: Why does it lay/bring Celtic fertility symbols?? I learn so much here.
The bunny, and the eggs are both symbols of fertility. I’ve no idea why it’s the way it is nowadays though. Commercialisation?
Oh so that’s who americans got it from and are jow raping everybody with them. Good to know the historical context.
I didn’t realize Easter was an America-specific holiday.
No. But I have never locally seen the easter hunny as traditional. It was imported by the americans
The bunny is primarily a German tradition. It became prevalent in the US because of the high volume German immigrants. However, the bunny was already spreading throughout the Hapsburg Monarchy prior to America exporting its version. Decorating eggs is also a Slovenian tradition that came to prominence when what would be become the US was still just colonies. Not a lot of pop culture getting shipped back to Europe back then.
Could have sworn it was from ishtar, who was from Babylon, but I’m no expert
The rabbit/hare as a fertility symbol is a pretty frequent one across a lot of cultures, kinda like solar deities with solstice holidays. The cult of Ishtar died out in the 600s, the first mention of a tradition of an egg laying hare in connection with the Christian holiday is specifically from Germany a thousand years later.
The Easter Bunny has been around since the 1500s but if it helps you to think that all of the evils in the world are American you’re free to do that.
Well where I live most of the exposure to the rabbit is american. If the origin is not american it does not mean it’s not being proliferated by them. Same as santa claus. 20-30 years ago almost nobody here got gifts from Santa. It was either saint Nicholas on 6. December or father frost whenever he decided to come (no set date). But now with just how prevalent american made media is it’s annoying how many of their customs are coming here and displacing local ones.
This reads like the hipster version of history. “It was fine until America started doing it.”
Lol. No.
You don’t onow where I am from.
You’re the wizard pope, you’re from wherever I get my weed gets my weed from.
I have a rough estimate. and if it’s correct, it’s certainly not imported from the US
Well where is it imported from then?
It’s an amalgamation of multiple events (like mentioned before). With the origins in central europe