It's all about the bunny...
[from Wikipedia]
In English, the etymology of the word "Easter" comes from an ancient pagan goddess of the spring named Eostre, related to German Ostara. According to popular folklore, Eostre once saved a bird whose wings had frozen during the winter by turning it into a rabbit. Because the rabbit had once been a bird, it could still lay eggs, and that rabbit became the modern Easter Bunny.
How cool is that?
3 comments:
Thank You so much for that, Elin -- I have never ever made the connection with the Easter Bunny and eggs. That IS pretty darn cool. Cool carving, too.
that explains it! I always wondered what the heck....
That explains a lot. What did we ever do before Wikipedia??
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