En förklaring till påskharen finns i den grekiska mytologin: Det var en gång en liten fågel som precis hade lagt ägg i sitt bo på marken, men då kom jägaren Orion och trampade sönder boet. Vårens gudinna Ostara undrade varför fågeln var så ledsen och fick veta vad som hänt. Fågeln önskade att den vore ett snabbfotat och listigt djur i stället, så Ostara förvandlade den till en hare som hette Lepus. Ett år senare träffade vårgudinnan haren igen och fick veta att en sak gjorde denne ledsen: när alla fåglar byggde bo och lade ägg under våren. Då gjorde Ostara så att haren kunde lägga ägg en gång om året.
The Goddess Ostara and the Easter Bunny Feeling guilty about arriving late one spring, the Goddess Ostara saved the life of a poor bird whose wings had been frozen by the snow. She made him her pet or, as some versions have it, her lover. Filled with compassion for him since he could no longer fly (in some versions, it was because she wished to amuse a group of young children), Ostara turned him into a snow hare and gave him the gift of being able to run with incredible speed so he could protect himself from hunters. In remembrance of his earlier form as a bird, she also gave him the ability to lay eggs (in all the colors of the rainbow, no less), but only on one day out of each year. Eventually the hare managed to anger the goddess Ostara, and she cast him into the skies where he would remain as the constellation Lepus (The Hare) forever positioned under the feet of the constellation Orion (the Hunter). He was allowed to return to earth once each year, but only to give away his eggs to the children attending the Ostara festivals that were held each spring. The tradition of the Easter Bunny had begun.
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