It is the day of celebration of when Jesus rose from the dead. This is known to many as Easter, but it is also known as Zombie Jesus Day, because Jesus rose from the dead. Easter Sunday is always held two days after Good Friday and three days after Maundy Thursday, because it follows along the path of when Jesus died and was reborn (as a zombie) to walk out of his tomb miracuously. To the die-hards of the Christian faith, Easter ends Lents and lasts forty to fifty days - depends who you argue with. Now what I fail to understand is how you go from death and rebirth to a bunny that hides feminine colored eggs.
Easter was once simply a holiday to feast, as all great holidays start off - another
Thanksgiving with a fancy name. But soon it had its own mascot, Eostre, a goddess named after a month from the Germanic calendar.........no copy rights in the 8-900s. Some where along the line, Easter's mascot became associated with hares and eggs. Now how it does and why, I have not a clue, but even further down Eostre the Easter mascot changed into the Easter Bunny a half-naked white rabbit that scares young children and hides eggs. Now Easter has become the day to go to church with your family, hunt for colored eggs that a rabbit stole and stashed away from you, then a feast.
My Thoughts on Easter (if they haven't already been put in):
Basically the candy companies have taken over Easter. From Peeps, to candy Easter eggs, to the chocolate rabbits the candy franchises have cashed in every year. The eggs just became a past time for people to do since Easter was a boring and kind of creepy holiday. Come on, a holiday about the
zombification of your savior, that could creep out many small children and some adults. Some how the farmers who produce eggs said, "birth, re-birth: close enough," and brought eggs into the Easter equation. At the same time, the mascot changed itself to a white rabbit that sits half-naked in it's throne in the mall. The only reason I can see the Easter bunny needing to be white, though I have ideas for changing that, is that if the Easter Bunny was brown or black the Easter Bunny would fit the stereotypes by stealing the rich white boy's eggs and stashing near by to come pick them up again. Then Easter wouldn't be so innocent. Then again, the Easter Bunny sitting in the malls is pretty menacing, scares many young kids, especially babies, being that it's probably the first costumed character without any pants on.
