Somethin' Funny 'Bout the Bunny?!?!

[STRESS]

Can somebody please tell me what bunnies, let alone chocolate bunnies, have to do with Easter. :dunno

We'll talk about eggs later.

[lorazepam]

Ok, here is my take on the subject. You have a new religion that you are attempting to get all these pagans (like me) who celebrate the changes of the seasons. The two most important to them are the Winter Solstace and the spring equinox.

You set your major religious holidays (christmas and easter) to happen around the same times as these events. your thinking is that it will be easier to get them to join if they can celebrate the new religious holidays around the same time. You let them keep the christmas tree, and rabbits and eggs, as a reminder of the old ways.

If this doesnt work you arrest them and torture them until they believe what you believe.

Eggs, represent the rebirth of things after the sleep of winter. It is the time when most animals begin to reproduce, since they now have food to sustain them and their young. Rabbits are about as fertile as any critter out there, and that is why they are showing up at this time.

Distort this over centuries, add commercialism and you have the easter bunny handing out chocolate eggs.

[einnar]

Blatantly copy-pasted from another site :


In pagan times, the "Easter hare" was no ordinary animal, but a sacred companion of the old goddess of spring, Eostre. The Easter bunny has its origin in pre-Christian fertility lore. The Hare and the Rabbit were the most fertile animals known and they served as symbols of the new life during the Spring season. Since long before Jesus Christ was born, parents told their children that the magic hare would bring them presents at the spring festival. The presents were often painted eggs, as these represented the new life starting at this time of year." Hares are animals which look like rabbits, but are larger and in many countries quite rare. In most places, the Easter rabbit (bunny) has replaced the Easter hare completely.

The bunny was first used as a symbol of Easter in 16th century Germany, where it was first mentioned in German writings. The first edible Easter bunnies, made primarily of pastry and sugar, were produced in Germany as well, during the early 1800s. Also in Germany, children made nests of grass and placed them in their yards. They believed the Easter Bunny would fill these baskets with brightly decorated eggs during the night.

The Easter bunny was introduced to American folklore by the German settlers who arrived in the Pennsylvania Dutch country during the 1700s. The arrival of the "Oschter Haws" was considered "childhood's greatest pleasure" next to a visit from Christ-Kindel on Christmas Eve. The children believed that if they were good the "Oschter Haws" would lay a nest of colored eggs.

Thus the custom of making nests also spread to America. Children would build their nest in a secluded place in the home, the barn or the garden. Boys would use their caps and girls their bonnets to make the nests . The use of elaborate Easter baskets would come later as the tradition of the Easter bunny spread through out the country.

[BubbaZanetti]

it all harkens back to the legend of the Esquilax................

"its the Esquilax, with the head of a rabbit and the body of a rabbit"

http://www.sqx.dk/esquilax/wiggum.gif

[BradfordBenn]

Cause who would want to eat a chocolate crucifix.

[iRene]

Esquilax?
Isn't that what you slip into the chocolate goodies you make and take to work to get even with co-workers who steal your chocolate goodies?

[BradfordBenn]

Actually I just saw on the news, someone is selling chocolate crucifixes. Saw it on MSNBC. Who would have thought it?

[DLilah]

Actually I just saw on the news, someone is selling chocolate crucifixes. Saw it on MSNBC. Who would have thought it?

That's soooo wrong on soooo many levels. However, not as wrong as STRESS just telling me that he'll eat the head off a bunny, but not off a crucifix.

[BradfordBenn]

That's soooo wrong on soooo many levels. However, not as wrong as STRESS just telling me that he'll eat the head off a bunny, but not off a crucifix.

See that makes sense to me. Here is why. So you are riding along minding your own business having a good time, and then all of a sudden a bunny jumps out in front of your bike. So you have two options, swerve or run it over - both of which have bad repurcussions. Well if there is no head on the bunny, it is not going to be able to dart out in front of you.

Now have you seen how big those crucifixes are, think about it. How do you put one of those in your mouth.




Oh wait you were talking about the chocolate ones. :doh :brow

[DLilah]

Ummm, I have no idea how to respond to that. :dunno :D

[Braddog]

They were chocolate crosses, though, not exactly chocolate crucifixes.

No, I didn't buy one. :brow

Bunnies? Because, that's why.

[BradfordBenn]

Here is a link to the story...

http://ljworld.com/section/stateregional/story/199978

Thanks to Big Sis for the crackerjack reporting. Hmmm Russell Stover Chocolate. Drat - diet. :cry

[GeoffMiller]

So if the bunny sees his shadow, how many weeks before we can go riding? :D

[RTRandy]

Esquilax?

Is this like Festivous? . . . for the restofus ?

[Voni]

Lil Bro wrote:
Thanks to Big Sis for the crackerjack reporting. Hmmm Russell Stover Chocolate. Drat - diet.


But DARK chocolate is now on every health conscious dieter's good list ; )

That and RED wine.

Life is very very good when you live it!

Voni
sMiling

[BubbaZanetti]

sorry, it's a simpson's quote, i have no idea what an esquilax is

[RTRandy]

sorry, it's a simpson's quote, i have no idea what an esquilax is

That's ok, Festavous is a Seinfield quote.

[Joecubana]

Actually I just saw on the news, someone is selling chocolate crucifixes. Saw it on MSNBC. Who would have thought it?

Gee, maybe it's just my Catholic school background but we used to get chocolate crucifixes we we were kids. (maybe it was something peculiar to NW PA?!)

But then...chocolate is chocolate...