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3.28.2005

Humping Like Rabbits

So I was "getting in the mood" this weekend, when I started wondering what the hell a fuzzy bunny and chicken eggs had to do with the resurrection of the J-dog, our lord and savior. For the life of me, I couldn't figure it out. When I pressed for an explanation, I blurted something out about pagans and fertility.

Guess what?

I was so right. From Easter-traditions.com:
The first documented use of the bunny as a symbol of Easter appears in Germany
in the 1500s; although the actual matching of the holiday and the hare was
probably a much earlier folk tradition. Not surprisingly, it was also the
Germans who made the first edible Easter Bunnies in the 1800s.

Apparently some hardcore fundies think that we shouldn't be celebrating such a pagan holiday.

And just for fun, test your Easter knowledge!

posted by Fletch at 9:36 AM

3 Comments:

  • eggs symbolize fertility and rebirth. just like jesus and the natural world are reborn in late march/early april. rabbits are just some fucked up German shit
    -b

    By Blogger 8yearoldsdude, at 9:00 AM  

  • Do eggs symbolize fertility and rebirth? Or are they representative of the cycle of death and mortality. I guess this is really a question of the chicken or the egg.

    By Blogger Fletch, at 1:53 PM  

  • ho,
    eggs, symbolize life and fertility. why? because live baby animals come out of them. nothing dead comes out of eggs. no one dies coming out of an egg. eggs are all about life and babies. stupid christian theologists trying to coopt pagan symbols made the death bit. for the jews, it's all life for the egg at passover. oh, and the egg came first, it was layed by a chicken-like ancestor with a gametal mutation or an effective recombinant DNA
    -

    By Blogger 8yearoldsdude, at 9:02 AM  

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