[AccessD] Friday musings

It's all in the name. 'Easter' is derived from the Germanic goddess Ostara or Eostre (who also gives us 'oestregen') - far from being an add-in, it predates Christianity by centuries. It is a celebration of the Spring Equinox (and fertility rites are obviously associated with spring). Some people report that Eostre was symbolised or accompanied by a rabbit or a hare, and there is a story that it was orginally a bird that she transformed into an egg-laying rabbit.

The Wikipedia entry on Easter claims Easter eggs are evidence of secularisation, but I'm tempted to call them out on it - the entry on the Easter Bunny is more balanced. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Bunny 

----- Original Message ----
From: Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, 21 March, 2008 5:23:55 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Friday musings

I think it's a springtime, renewal, fertility thing.  Indiscriminate sex,
unbridled reproduction, etc. Do the phrase multiplying like rabbits strike a
familiar note? 

Rocky



    
    

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:39 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Friday musings

Since it's about to become Good Friday, I once again muse about the
symbology inherent in this weekend -- not the Christian part of it, which is
fairly easy to comprehend, but the Easter Bunny part. I don't know the
history of this add-in, but I do find it curious.

This alleged benign bunny distributes chocolate and pure sugar eggs to
millions of children. All right, bunny rabbits, last time I turned one
upside down, don't lay eggs. Therefore they must steal them. Millions of
chickens victimized annually (presumably only certain chickens can lay
chocolate or pure sugar eggs, which makes the crime even worse). Robbed of
their progeny. And if that isn't enough, the Easter Bunny doesn't just give
his booty away, but hides it, forcing the children to hunt and search for
the booty, thereby compromising their integrity twofold.

>From whence hath this tradition emerged? Was it purely a marketing scam 
>by
the drug dealers known as chocolate|sugar manufacturers? How long have these
drug dealers been able to purvey their wares, while the constabulary turns a
blind eye?

A.
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