Rabbits in Culture, and the Origin of "Rabbit Hole"
Rabbits have long been regulars in our stories.
The same animal shows up wearing a different costume from culture to culture.
In East Asia, people looked up at the moon and saw a rabbit.
In the patterns on the moon's surface, they pictured a rabbit pounding rice in a mortar.
Korea, China, and Japan each tell slightly different versions of the tale, but the idea that a rabbit lives on the moon is widely shared.
The rabbit even claims a spot among the twelve zodiac animals.
In the West, the rabbit became a symbol of spring.
The bunny that shows up every Easter originally came from a German folk custom, standing for new life and abundance.
It's an image born from how many babies rabbits tend to have.
And then there's the phrase that gave this game its name: the "rabbit hole." In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the whole adventure begins when Alice chases a waistcoated rabbit and dives into its burrow.
Ever since, "falling down the rabbit hole" has come to mean getting drawn into a deep, strange world that's hard to climb back out of once you're in.
This burrow you descend with Mocha is exactly like that.
Take one step in, and you'll want to see just how far down it goes.