![]() ![]() It's their "rutting season," when the simultaneous hectic activities of gorging themselves to make up for their winter fast, mating, and nest-building all happen at once. (The movie Rise of the Guardians is correct in using a hare for the Easter bunny, by the way.) Hares are seen most often in the spring. I make a point of saying "hare," because that's how the "Easter bunny" tradition started in Germany. Why are Hares and Bunnies Universal Icons of Spring? Since the original "myth" is a hoax, and all of the back-stories are also hoaxes, both groups are wrong from the start, but neither group is anxious to admit they've been "had." Now they claim that it is the "real reason" Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus.Īt the other extreme, hyper-legalistic sects have taken the myth of the "bird-bunny myth" so seriously that they actually believe that "Easter eggs" and the "Easter bunny" were once connected to the worship of a pagan goddess and therefore evil in and of themselves. But within the last half-century, New-Agers have added back-stories to the fairy tale, and back-stories to the back-stories. The short version is that no such myth was ever associated with Eostre or any similar goddess before 1987. (Supposedly we've been keeping the newly-created "ancient legends" hidden since - in one version - before the birth of Jesus.) Since then, many "New Agers" have gone way beyond that silly story to fabricate an entire mythology around it and to blame Christians for the fact that they are just now "finding out" about it. But it's not an ancient myth - it was invented about 1987 * but didn't receive widespread popularity until it was published in a children's magazine in 2002. That would be a very convenient explanation for the history of the Easter bunny. Realizing that even if she healed it, it would never fly again, she turned it into a rabbit. According to the most common version of the story, Eostre saw a wounded bird. The Myth of the Myth of the Easter Bunny - from Family Christmas Online TMĪ modern-day hoax popularized by "New Age" circles and reposted by gullible bloggers and the Huffington Post every spring is that the "Easter bunny's" origins trace to an ancient Saxon goddess named Eostre.
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