Yet another reason cited for associating the egg with Easter is this. Before Easter falls the period of Lent. Lent is a period of austerities, fasting and prayers. Devout Christians visit the church two or three times a day to offer prayers. Even today, several families visit the church or have family prayers at home two or three times a day during the period of Lent. Egg was forbidden during the period of Lent. It is said that people were so glad to see eggs after so many days that the tradition of coloring and eating eggs was adapted as a traditional practice by the Christians.

Just as the egg is an integral part of Easter celebrations, so is the Easter hare. Long before Christianity, in the ancient legends of Egypt, the hare was associated with the moon. The moon is a symbol of fertility. Therefore, the hare too came to be a symbol of renewal of life and fertility. Both the moon and the hare are linked with night. The moon fills darkness with light. It is a hope, a light in the darkness. Again, in other words, the moon too is a symbol of renewal of life. The hare is also linked with night, because that is when it comes out to feed. Early Christians, it is believed, adopted the symbol of the hare too. That is how the egg and the hare came to be associated with the celebration of Easter.