The eggs go without comment. There aren't really any indigenous fertility symbols, and eggs work as well as anything. But I can't really point to any particular time of year as symbolising fertility more than others. We're much more affected by rain - we've been in drought the last five years, and this summer has seen the first proper rain for a long time. So currently, we are in a very fertile phase - lots of things are hurrying up and reproducing while they can. A lot of plants have been flowering and producing new shoots out of whack with my memory of when I've seen them other years. (Again, native trees tend not to be deciduous, but drop leaves and produce new shoots according to water conditions.)
Now the rabbit - it's an introduced pest species. There's a lot of very ambiguous feeling around it as an easter symbol (other than, of course, eating it :-) ). There's something of an attempt to replace it with the easter bilby. But you're watching a culture slowly developing and changing.
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Date: 2008-03-24 02:07 am (UTC)Now the rabbit - it's an introduced pest species. There's a lot of very ambiguous feeling around it as an easter symbol (other than, of course, eating it :-) ). There's something of an attempt to replace it with the easter bilby. But you're watching a culture slowly developing and changing.