The story of Easter is less well known than Christmas, something to do with the Easter Bunny coming back to life is my understanding of it all, but while many Christians believe that the Easter Bunny died for our sins, originally it was a pagan festival in honour of me, the Germanic Godess Eostre, as i was very popular with the Anglo-Saxon pagan brigade who worshiped me as the Goddess of the dawn and the month of April was called Eostremanod – or Easter-month and kicked off the whole Easter business without a Jesus in sight but there was eggs and cute bunnies.
While desperately grafting their own story to replace me, the Christians lazily kept the eggs, which was my symbol of fertile purity and were painted and eaten during my celebrations but they just said eggs represents Christ's rebirth.
The bunny which was my sacred animal and symbolises fertility as we all know that bunnies get pretty busy if you know what I mean so they are a perfect animal to symbolically represent the fertility of springtime.
Hoped that cleared up what chocolate eggs and bunnies have to do with crucifixion and resurrection, the answer is absolutely nothing.
So over time the Spring Goddess of Fertility and the very first bunny girl's feast was pushed aside for a man with a big wooden plus sign and it's not just members of the KKK who loves a hot cross, they are now on top of buns also.
Despite being told Easter is the more important date on the religious calendar it's not celebrated that much so until songwriters manage to find a way to make a catchy ditty about crucifixion and resurrection, it it is always destined to be the poor relation in religious holiday but you do get a 4 day weekend so if you plan to spend Good Friday getting as hammered as Jesus but in a different way, you have 3 days to get over it. Enjoy.
While desperately grafting their own story to replace me, the Christians lazily kept the eggs, which was my symbol of fertile purity and were painted and eaten during my celebrations but they just said eggs represents Christ's rebirth.
The bunny which was my sacred animal and symbolises fertility as we all know that bunnies get pretty busy if you know what I mean so they are a perfect animal to symbolically represent the fertility of springtime.
Hoped that cleared up what chocolate eggs and bunnies have to do with crucifixion and resurrection, the answer is absolutely nothing.
So over time the Spring Goddess of Fertility and the very first bunny girl's feast was pushed aside for a man with a big wooden plus sign and it's not just members of the KKK who loves a hot cross, they are now on top of buns also.
Despite being told Easter is the more important date on the religious calendar it's not celebrated that much so until songwriters manage to find a way to make a catchy ditty about crucifixion and resurrection, it it is always destined to be the poor relation in religious holiday but you do get a 4 day weekend so if you plan to spend Good Friday getting as hammered as Jesus but in a different way, you have 3 days to get over it. Enjoy.
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