![]() ![]() Easter bunnies turned edible in 1800s Germany when they were first made of pastry and sugar.Īnimal rights activists have protested against the ritual of coloring chicks by infusing dye into the embryo before it hatches. ![]() It wouldn't be Easter if we didn't eat candy animals. Either way, the kids always look forward to his arrival, and decorating eggs, consuming candy, and community Easter egg hunts have become a huge part of the evolved Easter holiday. Before giving colored eggs found its way into the modern Christian tradition, early Mesopotamian Christians dyed eggs red to symbolize the blood shed by Christ during his crucifixion.Īn "Easter egg," as it relates to hidden symbols or messages planted in a pop culture medium by its creator, was first coined by the Atari programmer Warren Robinett, who designed a secret room in the 1979 video game, Adventure. The origins of the concept of the Easter bunny have been disputed, but many agree that it started in Germany. ![]() Cracking open the eggĮgg decorating is at least a 60,000-year-old activity, practiced by the likes of Egyptians, Persians, Greeks and Kalahari Bushmen, who engraved ostrich eggs. What springtime animals better represent fertility than the rabbit or the hare, which produce so many offspring The rabbit symbolism had its origin in pre-Christian fertility lore, while the hare was the Egyptian symbol of fertility. As many Southwestern German immigrants settled in America, the Easter Bunny lived on in Pennsylvania Dutch tales of the Bunny as the "Oschter Haws," where Germantown, Pa., children were gifted with eggs in their Easter bonnets that, today, are replaced by Easter baskets. One idea of the Easter Bunnys origins goes back to the 18th century when the Easter Bunny was thought to have been first introduced in the Pennsylvania Dutch. Easter comes during spring and celebrates new life. Legends featuring bunny imagery associated to Easter continued to be written down in 1500s Germany and the first story about a rabbit hiding eggs in a garden was published in 1680. Its believed the story of the Easter Bunny, or at least his precursor, was brought to America with the first German immigrants, who arrived in Pennsylvania in the 1700s. The story of the Easter Bunny is connected to Pagan tradition, and is thought to have become common in the 19th Century. ![]()
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