Lomography

Jonathan Polkest's Rabbit Story

Eggs , like rabbits and hares are fertility symbols of extreme pungencey and historical relevance, since birds lay eggs in comparitevly large numbers and Hares and Rabbits also inherit an ability to give birth to large numbers of litters in early spring, these animals became ready symbols for the rising fertility of youth and spring as well as the general ferility of the Earth at Vernal Equinox. Mad as a March Hare refers to the wild stand up dancing of male Hares in their attempted, rebuffed advances before finally secumbing. Rabbits and Hares are both lagomorphs (prolific breeders) Females can concieve a second litter of offspring whilst pregnant a phenomenon known as superfetation. Maturing sexually earlier and with the ability to give birth to several litters a year, sayings like "breeds like a rabbit" proliferate. As symbols Hares and Rabbits epitomise fertility and the springtime rituals of Easter, extremely succinctly.The type of poo that rabbits excrete has led to a rather tasteless evocation about chocolate eggs, particularly in America where the idea has "grown wings" via a story about a bird whose wings gotr "frozen off" but that this bird was somehow transformed into a rabbit......no it doesnt even deserve ending up on wikepedia, but unfortunatly it has.The goddess Eostre lends her name to etymology via the word Easter, Eostrogen. Colouring eggs is a common universal act of adorning a symbol of renewal, a lot of this stuff has been elected by christianity in order to gentrify our pagan origins.Protestant rituals have survived their Catholic origins, since fasting at Lent was denied by protestants a surfeit of eggs ensued at easter. Grimms Fairytales reference tghe Goddess Ostara in Germanic mythology, The Bilby in Australia has been suggested as a good native inclusion for the otherwise European Indigenous Rabbit that happlessly got introduced to