[UA] The Easterbunny

[graver]

Russell, thanks for the youtube link, that was hilarious!  And is it bad that I think my players (or one of them at least) would be able to relate to the various victims in that flick XD

As symbology goes, nice thinking on the bunny... but what about the eggs, the hiding of them, the plastic vs colored eggs, and the candy?  Ya, I'm just fishing for more ;)

VariableX, you are dead right in your statement that the bunny was barrowed from fertility rites and celebrations of more "pagan" people that were converted over to Christianity.  As you pointed out, most all Christian holidays are barrowed in this manner, but to be fair to Christianity, this is true of all religions, and to be fair to all religions, this is also true of most all cultures.  It's just simple cultural exchange and has happened for as long as there have been people of differing ideas and mind sets.  

When two such peoples meet up, no matter the outcome, whether bloody or harmonious, ideas and concepts will be exchanged and those gaining the new ideas will warp them a bit to own them and make them a part of their paradigm.  No religion or culture grew out of nor exists in a vacuum.  They were birthed and shaped by what had come before and continue to be shaped by what is.

How ever, I was wanting to know what the easterbunny means to industrialized nations today, 2007, not what it used to mean.  We are a far different people now then the ones that first imagined him.  He has mutated and changed over time, from a fertility symbol to an odd seemingly tacked on after thought of a take on the rebirth archetype in the mythology of a predominant chunk of western religions.  As time goes by, more and more people in the industrialized nations put less stock in the myth cycles of their religion... at least in comparisons to 50 years ago.  That being said, I was wondering what he is today and what he is to most people today.

       
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