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268 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 20 Apr \ on: What Do Bunnies Have To Do With Easter? AskSN
What I've heard, but have no backing for, is that Easter coopted pagan holidays that fell in the spring and were related to fertility. Eggs and rabbits were related to those.
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @kr OP 20 Apr
Got it, so eggs and rabbits are separate things, but Cadbury tried to pull a fast one on us and combine them? The mini eggs do taste good, I'll give them that.
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @nerd2ninja 21 Apr
The rabbit has to do with how much reproduction rabbits do and the egg is literally like "Living things are born from this". It's the sex holiday. Go forth and make babies
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37 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 21 Apr
Nice.
All the pagan celebrations be sex holidays. Good life
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr OP 21 Apr
interesting. not sure if there’s a seasonality thing too. I went on a run today and for the first time this year, I saw a bunny.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @nerd2ninja 21 Apr
Of course the season is important to the holiday! It's spring! Everything in winter died, but in spring everything comes back to life! Life, children, and reproduction that's what the holiday is all about.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 20 Apr
I'm not sure about that. Something like an Easter Bunny sort of feels like a thing that could have been part of some traditional mythology. I think this all predates Cadbury.
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