Khloe
What eggs have to do with Easter
Did you ever wonder what eggs have to do with Easter? Where did the idea for the Easter Bunny come from anyway? Perhaps you’ve never stopped to think about what eggs and the Easter Bunny have to do with each other – after all, rabbits don’t even lay eggs
It’s a bit bizarre, isn’t it? Decorating eggs, passing them out as gifts, hunting for them, paying homage to a mysterious rabbit !!
Anglo-Saxon pagans celebrated this time of rebirth by invoking Ēostre or Ostara, the goddess of spring, the dawn, and fertility. Particularly in ancient times, fertility was of singular importance to ensure the survival of a species or group of people – after all, if you didn’t get it on, there would be no future generations. To celebrate nature’s “rebirth,” the ancients would hold festivals in April to honor the Goddess, which most likely included lavish sex rituals, and even full-on orgies, sounds familiar!! Did they smear each other with chocolate?? If not why not.
Ancient tribal people were no strangers to sex rituals: worshippers of Dionysus, the Greek God of wine, fertility and madness, would hold orgies in order to celebrate and evoke the ecstatic state of the son of Zeus. Ultimately, in the ancient traditions, sex didn’t have the same shameful taboos like it does today.
Just remember when you are crowding around the Easter Bunny’s lap at the mall, you’re actually paying homage to the ancient pagan rituals of the past. I do that all the time.
Khloe: Happy Easter to every-bunny. Why not hippity hop over here for an eggscellent time 💋
