Eggs are another obvious sign of fertility, and brightly-colored eggs have been exchanged as spring gifts in a wide range of pagan cultures, including Celtic Britain. Oestre was supposed to have been approached by a gigantic bird that wanted to be a rabbit, and when she turned him into one, in his gratitude he laid eggs each spring as a ritual offering. Hence the Easter Bunny. It makes perfect sense that animals and plants have become fertility symbols over the centuries. And we still use them.
Fertility symbols are everywhere, deeply seated in our culture.
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