In the Babylonian worldview, Ishtar was the force of nature that drove animals to mate and plants to bloom. The rabbit was chosen as her ultimate emblem for a singular, blunt reason: its extraordinary fecundity. Rabbits are known for their ability to conceive while already pregnant and for the sheer volume of their offspring. To the cult of Ishtar, the rabbit was a living idol of “unrestrained reproduction”—a symbol of the sexual energy the goddess supposedly unleashed upon the earth after her “resurrection” from the underworld.
The egg, likewise, was the Babylonian symbol of the “cosmic beginning” and the mystery of life. Babylonian legend speaks of a giant egg that fell from heaven into the Euphrates River, from which the goddess Ishtar was hatched. This “Ishtar Egg” became a focal point of springtime rites. The ancients would dye these eggs in the colors of the sunrise or the blood of sacrifices, representing the “rebirth” of the earth under her hand.
The Modern Inversion
In American life today, we see a chilling inversion of these symbols. In Babylon, the rabbit and egg represented the proliferation of life at any cost. In modern America, we have kept the symbols but stripped them of their reverence for life. We have decoupled the “sexual energy” of the rabbit from the “life” of the egg.
Our culture celebrates the “rabbit”—the pursuit of unrestrained sexual license—while simultaneously waging war on the “egg”—the actual life that results from that pursuit. We see this play out every spring:
- The Bunny as a Mascot for Lust: It is no coincidence that the most famous emblem of the American “sexual revolution” was the rabbit. It is the spirit of Ishtar repackaged for a pornographic age.
- The Egg as a Disposable Commodity: While children hunt for plastic eggs, the real “eggs” of our generation—human embryos—are treated as medical waste in clinics across the nation.
The Forensic Analysis: A Culture of Death
The forensic trail is clear: we have taken the pagan symbols of fertility and used them to decorate a civilization that is effectively sterile. By celebrating the symbols of Ishtar while practicing the rituals of Molech (abortion), the American springtime has become a grotesque masquerade.
The Prophet Jeremiah warned that the people were “gathering wood” and “kneading dough” to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven (Jeremiah 7:18). Today, we gather plastic grass and dye eggs, but the underlying heart is the same: a refusal to acknowledge the God of Life in favor of a goddess of “experience.” The result is a society that celebrates “rebirth” with its mouth while its hands are stained with the blood of the innocent.
The Verdict
The rabbit and the egg are the “unclean things” of our era. They are not mere toys; they are the lingering shadows of a Babylonian war-goddess who demands that we prioritize our carnal impulses over the sanctity of life. As long as the church continues to “dye the eggs” of Ishtar, she cannot effectively stand against the “culture of death” that Ishtar helped create.
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?” (II Corinthians 6:14).