[UA] The Easterbunny

[Unknown VariableX]

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-Variable (It's an honest question!)



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From: graver <graver_13x at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
To: The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
Subject: Re: [UA] The Easterbunny
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 08:40:36 -0700 (PDT)

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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