The concept of easter is a bizarre one when you take into consideration that the holiday was meant to be a Christian one. Although a lot of holidays are like that. Christmas was another Christian holiday. Halloween was a Celtic festival. St. Patrick's Day was about an Irish Patron Saint who brought Christianity to Ireland. Valentine's Day was meant to represent two Roman martyrs. The list of holidays that have now become hallmark card holidays goes on for quite a while.
So where did the bunny laying its colorful eggs come from? Well, the eggs were meant to be colored with the blood of sins but why does the bunny put them out for us and why do we have to search for them? Queen Victoria and her mother are to be thanked for the egg hunt component. They made it up as a game to keep the kids entertained while the adults were at services. The bunny did not come into the picture until the tradition stretched over to the United States and the Germans who had settled in Pennsylvania.
I just enjoy eating the ham and deviled eggs at this point.
As a child, I definitely loved the candy and the pennies I would get from the eggs hidden around the yard the most.
If you could write the origin story for Easter and the Bunny, what would your story look like? Would it be a little something more like the Rise of the Guardians where the bunny is more like a kangaroo? Or would it be like Hop and have a musician for a Bunny.
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