Sumerians of Mesopotamia wrote of this on cuneiform tablets. No Christians in 2100 BC. They also had tortured death followed by a 3rd day resurrection and son-of-father-god. The gift egg laying bunny was a later Germanic thing. (Goddess saves wounded bird by turning it into hare. Hare still has characteristics of bird, and so lays eggs.)
Sumerians of Mesopotamia wrote of this on cuneiform tablets. No Christians in 2100 BC. They also had tortured death followed by a 3rd day resurrection and son-of-father-god. The gift egg laying bunny was a later Germanic thing. (Goddess saves wounded bird by turning it into hare. Hare still has characteristics of bird, and so lays eggs.)