The Easter Bunny is of German origin. He shows up in 16th century literature as a deliverer of eggs, in his own way at springtime St. Nicholas bent on rewarding the good.
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In Celtic mythology and folklore the hare has links to the mysterious Otherworld of the supernatural.
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The Celts believed that the goddess Eostre's favourite animal and attendant spirit was the hare.
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Many Buddhist and Hindu texts describe the hare as a creature of fire, but not just any fire, the same consuming sacrificial fire of the phoenix, then to rise again out of the ashes.
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To the Romans, the hare is an emblem of fertility, abundance, sexuality, lust, rampant growth and excess.
