What does Easter have to do with bunny
Easter Bunny is one of the symbols of Easter. As a prolific animal, the rabbit symbolizes the resurgence of spring and the birth of new life. The rabbit is the pet of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, and the candle holder of Horta, the German goddess of land. Therefore, the rabbit now serves as a messenger for the children to give Easter eggs. Although the custom of Easter eggs also originated in ancient times, its provenance is still unverifiable. The Greeks usually painted their eggs red on this day, using the color of blood to represent the resurrection of all things in the spring (later, this also represented the blood of the crucified Christ). Some people also paint with green to commemorate the new green after a winter withered. Other colors, including the soft pastels popular in the United States and elsewhere (perhaps symbolizing the rainbow) also appeared.
There is a saying called "crazy like a rabbit in March", which refers to the things that hares become crazy in early spring. At that time, male rabbits fought fiercely with each other to mate with female rabbits. At the same time, the female rabbits usually refuse the male rabbits before giving in to the male rabbits, making the pairing behavior look like a crazy dance. This kind of scene made early observers think that the arrival of spring caused the hares to send off. mad. Both domestic rabbits and hares belong to the family Lagopus, and they are breeds that reproduce quickly. The female can conceive the second litter of rabbits at the same time as the first litter of rabbits (the two litters will be born separately).
This phenomenon is called re-pregnancy. The sexual maturity of rabbits is very early, and they can give birth to several litters of rabbits within a year (hence the saying "can give birth to like rabbits"). Therefore, white rabbits and hares have become prolific and prolific representatives. Their behavior during mating is also affected. Introduced folk myths and legends. The March Rabbit in "Alice in Wonderland" also came from this. Even so, there is still no way to determine where the concept of a rabbit that can lay eggs comes from. It may only come from a confusion of symbolic concepts, but it may be like Easter itself, an inheritance of an old tradition.
In the language of the Germans and Slavs, the word ‘Easter’ comes from an ancient pagan goddess, the spring goddess ‘EOSTRE’. According to that legend, EOSTRE once saved a bird that was frostbited in winter and turned it into a rabbit. Since it was once a bird, it still retains the ability to lay eggs. It was later the Easter Bunny.
