The twin miracles of the murder of a Jewish carpenter, (who by all accounts was quite a nice bloke and really, the whole crucifixion thing was pretty bloody unnecessary) coupled with my adopted country’s obsession with the perpetuation of hereditary privilege (even if that means being ruled by in-bred Germans), has led to two four day weekends in a row. The weather is so unseasonably awesome, we bought a BBQ. Science Guy spent several hours (and beers) last night putting it together and that is totally getting christened today.
And while I’m all for the hot cross buns and I get the slightly odd re-birth symbolism of the eggs (because the other options involve eating chocolate babies or slightly manky three-days-dead Jewish carpenters), but the whole Easter bunny thing is just fucking WEIRD AND CREEPY.
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I believe the Easter bunny originates from the pagan goddess, Oestre’s familiar of a hare. Oestre was the goddess of spring whose symbol was an egg. Eggs, birth, bunnies, fertility malarky. I may be wrong on this however but I think not.
sas Replied:
you is so wise lady!
it seems easter is actually just a Big JC vs. The Pagans Mash-up
Spelled Eostre, of course.