Why is the mythology behind easter and other popular holidays?

Mother God: Why is the mythology behind easter and other popular holidays?
I always wondered why an easter bunny was always in on easter, or why we dye eggs for easter. Easter is about Jesus’s Crucifixion.

Answers and Views:

Answer by Gil
Most of these popular holidays were bought over from pagan religions. To make christianity more palatable, they just transferred the holidays (holy days) into christian mythology.

Answer by KC
Rabbits and eggs are both symbols of the fertility goddess Eostre/Easter/Ishtar/Ostara. Her symbol is also the moon, in which some cultures see a rabbit instead of a face. Eggs also symbolize the moon and are the ultimate symbol of creation and new life. The basket is a symbol of the womb in which this new life is carried.

There is a lovely legend about the moon goddess Eostre, in which she came upon a dying bird. To save its life, she turned it into a rabbit, her strongest symbol. It lived but continued to lay eggs. In gratitude for its life, the rabbit gives her some of the eggs every year.

The feast day is pagan and was widely celebrated way before the time of Jesus. Like pretty much all holidays, it was adopted by Christians to help get more converts. However, since the point is to celebrate new life and the hope of continuance, Christian symbols of a Resurrection day and the old pagan symbols mean the same thing. Just like Christmas, we are all celebrating the same thing, just using different symbols.

Answer by Wesley B
Actually easter is not about that at all. The easter Bunny was a symbol of fertility this really has nothing to do with the Christian holiday It originally symbolized the Goddess Astaroth. “Easter” was stolen from the goddess Astaroth by the church with the intent of converting pagans. It was originally Originally known as “Ashtar.” This holiday coincides with the Vernal Equinox of spring when day and night are of equal length. Known as “Eastre” to the Anglo-Saxons. As the Goddess of fertility, she was associated with rabbits and eggs. The Christians stole this holiday and twisted its meaning. Other names include: Easter, Eastre, Eos, Eostre, Ester, Estrus, (Estrus is when an animal goes into heat; mating season) Oestrus, Oistros, and Ostara. The “Lamb of God” (refereed to as Jesus on this holiday) was stolen from the Zodiac sign of Aries the Ram which occurs every spring. Many of the other popular holidays were stolen from pagan culture as well with the intent of converting pagans of the time.

Answer by greenshootuk
It’s an old German custom brought to the USA by immigrants. They have the Easter Hare (not a rabbit) – more like a jack rabbit. The European hare doesn’t burrow like a rabbit but lives in the open. It makes a sort of nest on the ground to raise its young. These forms look a bit like a bird’s nest so a country myth, or joke or tease, started that hares lay eggs – you could tease children or city folk by sending them out to search for hare’s eggs..

So it’s not religious, though lots of people have made up stories about how it came into being, none of any historical value.

The eggs are connected to Christianity, or Judaism. Jews use eggs for their Passover meal and Passover is at the root of Easter. Christians used to give up eating eggs for Lent, the 6 weeks before Easter so they became a special Easter food.

The basic roots of Easter are to be found in the JEWISH Passover. Some people seem to prefer a made-up myth about a supposed White Anglo-Saxon Goddess to the true story about Jews and Chrsitanity.