Easter Bunny Hunt

Peter Rabbit

Peter Cottontail

Br'er Rabbit

White Rabbit

Peter Rabbit, Peter Cottontail, Br'er Rabbit, the White Rabbit all failed the audition to become the Easter Bunny for they knew not the Saxon goddess of radiant dawn— Eastre from whom Easter got its name. Some say it goes even further back to Ishtar, the Assyrian goddess of fertility who journeys to the Underworld only to rise again or like the Egyptian goddess Isis who brought Osiris back from the dead. Perhaps the Hare in the Moon would be the best Easter Bunny who understands the meaning of Easter and its link to all those fertility goddesses and the rabbit's rapid offsprings in spring. Pounding the Elixir of Immortality, he reminds us of Moon's eternal return from emptiness to fullness, her death for three days in the night sky before her rebirth as the crescent New Moon much like Christ's entombment in the cave before his resurrection on Easter Sunday. Hare in the Moon Moon Rabbit             — Peter Y. Chou                 Mountain View, 4-9-2010