# Easter bunny - Olden days life cycle. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 4, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-bunny-olden-days-life-cycle/703612 "2014-11-04T12:57:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-bunny-olden-days-life-cycle/703612/21 "2014-11-04T15:40:17Z")
Spring comes and people noticed more little bunnies around. Then thought, “Hey I bet they would taste great covered in chocolate.” Praise Jebus. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-bunny-olden-days-life-cycle/703612/22 "2014-11-04T15:46:08Z")
Why does the Easter Bunny hide his eggs? Because he doesn’t anyone to know he’s been screwing a chicken. Hey, it makes as much as sense as any of the evolving spring-celebration answers… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-bunny-olden-days-life-cycle/703612/23 "2014-11-04T15:50:48Z")
> [@Henryunderborn](#): > > uhg :smack: > > the entire post was in reference to the useage of the bunny as an easter symbol. clearly i am not talking about cave man grunt praise, or egypts pharoh crypt texts. > church laws = to ensure conservative life. to keep with the sacred of lifes inhabitance. > > so easter is depicted with the symbol of a rabbit… for people to start getting at it. > how could one of gods order, ever exact characteristics equivalent to an animal. > That would be sacrilige or herecy or blasphemy. > but…-cough cough-… jesus was reborn on this day… so uh… remember what life has been brought by… -cough cough - (get like rabbits) and bring new life next year. > > 😉 Are there bunnies in church? I thought they were more on the secular end of the Easter celebration. I’ve seen lots of crosses and flowers and flowing drapey things in church around Easter, but no bunnies. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-bunny-olden-days-life-cycle/703612/24 "2014-11-04T16:44:43Z")
The OP really isn’t a General Question and the follow ups aren’t clarifying anything for me. Moved to MPSIMS. **samclem** , moderator ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-bunny-olden-days-life-cycle/703612/25 "2014-11-04T17:58:16Z")
In England there is no tradition of Easter Bunnies except that which is bought in by the supermarkets who want to sell chocolate. We certainly have chocolate Easter Eggs, and baby chicks have always featured. When I was a child bunnies were for eating not for Easter. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-bunny-olden-days-life-cycle/703612/26 "2014-11-04T18:25:39Z")
November is Thanksgiving and winter squash, not birth. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-bunny-olden-days-life-cycle/703612/27 "2014-11-04T18:31:35Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > November is Thanksgiving and winter squash, not birth. Winter squashing leads to spring birthing. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-bunny-olden-days-life-cycle/703612/28 "2014-11-04T18:53:02Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Winter squashing leads to spring birthing. I was going to make a bad winter squash pun here, but then I thought I butternut. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-bunny-olden-days-life-cycle/703612/29 "2014-11-04T19:48:51Z")
> [@Henryunderborn](#): > > uhg :smack: > > the entire post was in reference to the useage of the bunny as an easter symbol. clearly i am not talking about cave man grunt praise, or egypts pharoh crypt texts. > church laws = to ensure conservative life. to keep with the sacred of lifes inhabitance. > > so easter is depicted with the symbol of a rabbit… for people to start getting at it. > how could one of gods order, ever exact characteristics equivalent to an animal. > That would be sacrilige or herecy or blasphemy. > but…-cough cough-… jesus was reborn on this day… so uh… remember what life has been brought by… -cough cough - (get like rabbits) and bring new life next year. > > 😉 If only you were Harrison Ford from Regarding Henry. I’d have loved to have stuffed you with lunch Most Horrible… discussed it all… and tried to share laughter most grand. Why? American Graffitti… Star Wars movies, Indiana Jones movies, and the fact that on occasion… I’m occasionally One Humerous Son-of-a-Bitch. And for the Rest? …Damn Useful… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-bunny-olden-days-life-cycle/703612/30 "2014-11-04T19:55:56Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > The OP really isn’t a General Question and the follow ups aren’t clarifying anything for me. So you’re going to rabbit on us? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-bunny-olden-days-life-cycle/703612/31 "2014-11-05T02:24:24Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > If only you were Harrison Ford from Regarding Henry. > > I’d have loved to have stuffed you with lunch Most Horrible… discussed it all… and tried to share laughter most grand. > > Why? American Graffitti… Star Wars movies, Indiana Jones movies, and the fact that on occasion… I’m occasionally One Humerous Son-of-a-Bitch. > > And for the Rest? > > …Damn Useful… 😉 I didn’t think anything could be more baffling than the OP, yet as usual, you manage with ease. In other words: What. The. Fuck? ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-bunny-olden-days-life-cycle/703612/32 "2014-11-05T02:36:06Z")
Leave Jesus out of it, Easter is a moveable lunar feast built upon Passover, which according to the New Testament is when Jesus was crucified. Jewish calendar, which is pretty durn old. There are no bunnies in church, at Easter. Them are pagan lagomorphs. Their gestation cycle is about a month. Also, I would like some of what the OP is smoking, please. My mind is too linear for this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-bunny-olden-days-life-cycle/703612/33 "2014-11-05T02:44:28Z")
I don’t think the rabbit is meant to be archetypal regarding the birthing cycle outside of a context. Two thousand years since the birth of Christ references not only that time but the periphery as well. It’s the whole thoughts=motives again, but without the said historical context. Without that we might all seem to be f\*\*king like rabbits, eh? The Harrison Ford reference from\*\* Count Blucher\*\* is rich, but why the “lunch Most Horrible?” The heavy pregnant July perhaps. I thought so. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-bunny-olden-days-life-cycle/703612/34 "2014-11-05T16:29:40Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > I was going to make a bad winter squash pun here, but then I thought I butternut. Acorn-y response if I ever saw one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-bunny-olden-days-life-cycle/703612.md?page=1)