Why does the Easter Bunny carry eggs? Rabbits don't lay eggs!?

yes that is what i have been trying to tell my 9 year old sister but she insist that they lay eggs but that is like talking to a brick wall in till i am blue in the face chickens in birds only lay eggs


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Rabbits and eggs are pagan fertility symbols of extreme antiquity.

Birds lay eggs and rabbits give birth to large litters in the early spring these became symbols of the rising fertility of the earth during the spring season.

Since Easter also occurs in the early spring, people brought the beloved pagan symbols into the Christian celebration of Easter.

These pagan symbols have become part of the Christian tradition. They do not take anything away from the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and they add to the celebration.

Christianity has frequently absorbed the positive and neutral symbols of pagan religions while leaving the negative symbols behind, similar to Christmas trees and Halloween costumes.

With love in Christ.

It's a German custom originally - the "Easter Hare". Not a rabbit, though related to the Jack rabbit which, like the European Hare, does not raise its young in a burrow but "rather in a shallow depression or flattened nest of grass called a form". These forms look a bit like some bird's nests which lead to the link between hares and eggs.

The stuff about pagan origins is a modern myth and not supported by any historical evidence.

Easter eggs are specially decorated eggs given to celebrate the Easter holiday or springtime.
The egg was a symbol of the rebirth of the earth in Pagan celebrations of spring and was adopted by early Christians as a symbol of the rebirth.
The oldest tradition is to use dyed or painted chicken eggs, but a modern custom is to substitute chocolate eggs, or plastic eggs filled with confectionery such as jelly beans. These eggs are often hidden, allegedly by the Easter Bunny, for children to find on Easter morning. Otherwise, they are generally put in a basket filled with real or artificial straw to resemble a bird's nest.

The egg is widely used as a symbol of the start of new life, just as new life emerges from an egg when the chick hatches out.
The ancient Persians painted eggs for Nowrooz, their New Year celebration, which falls on the Spring equinox. The Nawrooz tradition has existed for at least 2,500 years. The decorated eggs are one of the core items to be placed on the Haft Seen, the Persian New Year display. The sculptures on the walls of Persepolis show people carrying eggs for Nowrooz to the king.
At the Jewish Passover Seder, a hard-boiled egg dipped in salt water symbolizes the festival sacrifice offered at the Temple in Jerusalem.
The pre-Christian Saxons had a spring goddess called Eostre, whose feast was held on the Vernal Equinox, around 21 March. Her animal was the spring hare. Some believe that Ēostre was associated with eggs and hares, and the rebirth of the land in spring was symbolised by the egg. Ēostre is known from the writings of Bede Venerabilis, a seventh-century Benedictine monk. Bede describes the pagan worship of Ēostre among the Anglo-Saxons as having died out before he wrote about it. Bede's De temporum ratione attributes her name to the festival, but does not mention eggs at all.
Other theories such as Jakob Grimm’s in the 18th Century believe in a pagan connection to Easter eggs via a putatively Germanic goddess called Ostara.
The English name for the festival of Easter derives from the Germanic word Eostre. It is only in Germanic languages that a derivation of Eostre marks the holiday. Most European languages use a term derived from the Hebrew pasch meaning Passover. In Spanish, for example, it is Pascua; in French, Pâques; in Dutch, Pasen; in Greek, Russian and the languages of most Eastern Orthodox countries: Pascha. In Middle English, the word was pasche, which is preserved in modern dialect words. Some languages use a term meaning Resurrection, such as Serbian Uskrs.
Pope Gregory the Great ordered his missionaries to use old religious sites and festivals, and absorb them into Christian rituals where possible. The Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ was ideally suited to be merged with the Pagan feast of Eostre, and many of the traditions were adopted into the Christian festivities. There are also good grounds for the association between hares (later termed Easter bunnies) and eggs, through folklore confusion between hares' forms (where they raise their young) and plovers' nests.

I dont know but bunnies are cute.. in australia we have the easter bilbi .. its some weird rabbit thing with big ears

The Romans as well as most of the pagan people thought of the rabbit/hares and chicks as prolific creatures and used them in their Eostre/Easter festivals as sacrifices to honor their fertility goddess.

Eggs were considered sacred by the pagan and were used in the Eostre/Easter rituals. A human baby was sacrificed to the fertility goddess. The child was cut down the middle and the sacred eggs were dipped into its warm blood. Leather cord was then tied around the blood-soaked eggs and they were hung in the pagan temples and in trees for the duration of the festival.

God the Almighty hated the pagan worship system and forbid His people to worship Him with it (Deuteronomy 12:4).

He also commanded that His people destroy the worship system (Deuteronomy 12:3).

The Roman Catholic church brought her pagan festivals, rituals and pagan symbolism into the Holy Church when she infiltrated it.

But, the Lord hated the pagan worship system then and He hates it now.

We should be very careful the way we worship the Lord as we can see in 2 Kings 17:26 - "So a message was sent to the king of Assyria: "The people whom you have resettled in the towns of Israel do not know how to worship the God of the land. He has sent lions among them to destroy them because they have NOT WORSHIPED HIM CORRECTLY."

Be Blessed:-)

easter eggs began with an old fertility holiday...some old perverts....lemme look for a link...

Rabbits and eggs are both ancient symbols of fertility, chosen for pretty obvious reasons. They were associated with the old pagan holiday celebrating the start of spring, and when Christianity coopted the holiday, it kept the symbols.

Well, in a nutshell the bunny is leftover from the Pagan celebration of easter, which used the rabbit as a fertility symbol, and the eggs representing children. After christianity became the state religion in rome, they kept the celebration of life but changed it's meaning to the rebirth of jesus, rather than the earth's rebirth which had previously been celebrated.

Why they're combined the way they are today I don't know, but that's why they seem so out of context, because christians changed easter to something less good.

Rabbits and eggs are both symbols of the fertility goddess Eostre/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.

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.