The Osterhase or Easter Hare was just one of several animals associated with Easter, including the Easter Fox, the Easter Stork and the Easter Goose. So Ishtar had nothing to do with Easter, Eostre had little to do with the Christian festival other than its name in England and Easter eggs and the Easter Bunny aren’t pagan either. Sermon makes it completely clear, as I detailed above, that Easter began as a Christian feast day and had no pagan origins and also explains the origins of the Easter Bunny and Easter egg traditions, exactly as I do above.