• nomy@lemmy.zip
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        1 day ago

        The Easter Bunny has been around since the 1500s but if it helps you to think that all of the evils in the world are American you’re free to do that.

        • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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          Well where I live most of the exposure to the rabbit is american. If the origin is not american it does not mean it’s not being proliferated by them. Same as santa claus. 20-30 years ago almost nobody here got gifts from Santa. It was either saint Nicholas on 6. December or father frost whenever he decided to come (no set date). But now with just how prevalent american made media is it’s annoying how many of their customs are coming here and displacing local ones.

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        1 day ago

        The bunny is primarily a German tradition. It became prevalent in the US because of the high volume German immigrants. However, the bunny was already spreading throughout the Hapsburg Monarchy prior to America exporting its version. Decorating eggs is also a Slovenian tradition that came to prominence when what would be become the US was still just colonies. Not a lot of pop culture getting shipped back to Europe back then.

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            14 hours ago

            The rabbit/hare as a fertility symbol is a pretty frequent one across a lot of cultures, kinda like solar deities with solstice holidays. The cult of Ishtar died out in the 600s, the first mention of a tradition of an egg laying hare in connection with the Christian holiday is specifically from Germany a thousand years later.

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              5 hours ago

              by grabthar’s hammer are you telling me that stargate ess gee one the… Historical Documents contain minor innacuracies? hahhaaaa i am aware of the ruse known as deception but i would not expect it in our… Historical Documents.