Do you celebrate the Birth of the Easter Bunny?

[Santa_Claus]

Yum Yum

[Feck]

It's a HARE ! It's EASTER It's not a fucking bunny ! ...why not just call it happy Turkey day ? There is a cure for for Xians ..It's cheap fire and nails !

[hadespussercats]

Yeah! I love bunnies and eggs, and I think chocolate is definitely worth celebrating.

Mom used to have like 60 people over every year for spanakopita, lamb, ham, and other buffet items, plus barrelsfulls of bloody marys (maries?) etc. Us kids would have a giant hunt for eggs all over the back yard.

These days my aunt hosts, and I and the other grown-up kids help hide the eggs (mostly plastic, filled with candy-- not hard-boiled) for the hunt.

It's all about getting drunk and eating candy, then celebrating the spring by getting it on (that last part is private-- not part of the family festivities!)
What's not to love?

[hadespussercats]

It's a HARE ! It's EASTER It's not a fucking bunny ! ...why not just call it happy Turkey day ? There is a cure for for Xians ..It's cheap fire and nails !

Are hares and bunnies THAT different? You sound really angry. Here, have a Cadbury egg.

[Santa_Claus]

It's a HARE ! It's EASTER It's not a fucking bunny ! ...why not just call it happy Turkey day ? There is a cure for for Xians ..It's cheap fire and nails !

Turkey at Easter is hardly appropriate it's used by the Jews to celebrate killing Jesus sometime in the Autumn. That's why it's called Thanksgiving - from the Hebrew for "Lets nail Jesus to a stick".

FACT.

[Twoflower]

Turkey day is what we call Thanksgiving.

[hadespussercats]

It's a HARE ! It's EASTER It's not a fucking bunny ! ...why not just call it happy Turkey day ? There is a cure for for Xians ..It's cheap fire and nails !

Turkey at Easter is hardly appropriate it's used by the Jews to celebrate killing Jesus sometime in the Autumn. That's why it's called Thanksgiving - from the Hebrew for "Lets nail Jesus to a stick".

FACT.

I think it was native Americans getting nailed to sticks. Not Jesus.
Still-- awesome holiday. One of my favorites. I consider it to be primarily about pie.

[charlou]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

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[Feck]

Does anyone know WHY they thought Hares laid eggs ?

[hadespussercats]

Does anyone know WHY they thought Hares laid eggs ?

All I know is that hares and eggs are both fertility symbols with pagan roots, that are associated with the baby boom amongst the birds and bees and such in the spring. Eggs, for obvious reasons, and bunnies (or HARES) because they like to get it on. Yay fertility!

[Tero]

I think we skip this year but maybe some chocolate eggs next year. My kid is 16 but we will have 2 kids in the house then. An exchange kid.

[hadespussercats]

Does anyone know WHY they thought Hares laid eggs ?

All I know is that hares and eggs are both fertility symbols with pagan roots, that are associated with the baby boom amongst the birds and bees and such in the spring. Eggs, for obvious reasons, and bunnies (or HARES) because they like to get it on. Yay fertility!

Oh, while I was thinking of it...

I'm pretty sure the tie-in with Jesus and the Resurrection has to do with seasonal re-birth. Xtianity is like the Borg when it comes to Pagan traditions, but Jesus being resurrected is a lot like Dionysus, who used to get torn apart at the end of the year and re-born as a beautiful babe every spring. This is linked with the trees returning to bloom, and other plants and animals re-emerging after winter "death"/dormancy----> spring celebrations of sex, renewal, and rebirth, with eggs, rabbits, flowers, dancing flower-children, and phallic imagery like maypoles and such.

Because this holiday has so many roots-- some of which having little or nothing to do with any concept of God or the supernatural-- I still have a lot of fun celebrating it. Even if Xtians try to claim it's THEIR special high holy day.