What are examples of cultural appropriation? Taking anything from one culture and using it for your own. Regardless, cultural appropriation is wrong, whatever your motivation. This cultural appropriation is similar in deed but smaller in scale than the appropriation of pagan Yule traditions (decoration of an evergreen tree in the home, mistletoe, holly, wreaths, garlands, candle, bells and stars) and calling them Christmas. I guess a dragon couldn't quite so easily be worked into their narrative. Really the only symbol of Eostre the Christian church hasn't appropriated for Easter is the dragon/serpent. The eggs aren't part of Easter, they're symbols of Eostre. The bunny isn't for Easter, it's for Eostre. In reality, Christianity should be embarrassed that it has needed to embellish its Easter tradition by appropriating pagan symbols and rituals for its own use. Brightly colored eggs, egg hunts themselves, bunnies as bearers of said eggs, the colors, the stories of rebirth after the dead of winter - all are taken from Eostre legends and rituals.
I've had Christians become quite upset when I've mentioned that many of the Easter symbols and rituals they hold dear have been co-opted from ancient pagan fertility rites. Her name and festival rituals have been appropriated by Christianity for the church's rebirth-after-death story. In Ukraine, Pysanka eggs historically honored the sun god father of Eostre's child until Christianity came to Ukraine.Įostre is the namesake of the female fertility hormone estrogen.
Colored eggs have been associated with the spring celebration since at least 580 BCE in Persia.
The subject of fertility and new life and its relationship to Eostre can be found throughout many cultures. Legend has it that Eostre mated with the solar god of the spring equinox and nine months later, at Yule/winter solstice, gave birth to a man/god child.
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