and why rabbit is used as Easter Bunny? If you want to know the connection between the word Easter and the Assyrian Goddess Ishtar, and if you want to know why we dye eggs at Easter time with red ...

An article on World Sensorium mentions that in Sumerian culture, the rose was linked to Inanna, the goddess of love and war, who was later worshiped as Ishtar in Mesopotamian tradition.