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The annual 'Origin of Easter' thread
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The annual 'Origin of Easter' thread
Quote:Most historians, including Biblical scholars, agree that Easter was originally a pagan festival.

http://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-leg...ter-001571

Quote:The name "Easter" originated with the names of an ancient Goddess and God. The Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE), a Christian scholar, first asserted in his book De Ratione Temporum that Easter was named after Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). She was the Great Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe.

Many religious historians and liberal theologians believe that the death and resurrection legends were first associated with Attis, many centuries before the birth of Jesus. They were simply grafted onto stories of Jesus' life in order to make Christian theology more acceptable to Pagans. Others suggest that many of the events in Jesus' life that were recorded in the gospels were lifted from the life of Krishna, the second person of the Hindu Trinity, or were taken from the life of Horus, an Egyptian god.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/easter1.htm

Quote:Although the Christian festival of Easter celebrates the torture and death of Jesus on a cross and, especially, his alleged resurrection, and has links to the Jewish Passover, most people, including Christians, unknowingly celebrate its pagan influences, including the bunny, a symbol of fertility, and colored eggs, representing the sunlight of spring.

It took over 300 years before Christians established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon following the March Equinox at the First Council of Nicaea in 325 C.E. The pagan Easter, however, was celebrated long before Christianity (although the festival went by many names).

In the 8th century, Christian scholar Bede claimed in his book, De temporum ratione, (The Reckoning of Time) that Easter derived from the Saxon Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). The ancient Saxons in Northern Europe worshiped the Goddess Oestre at the time of the Spring Equinox. The Goddess Easter represents the sunrise, spring-time and fertility, the renewal of life.

Pagan Anglo-Saxons made offerings of colored eggs to her at the Vernal Equinox. They placed them at graves especially, probably as a charm of rebirth. (Egyptians and Greeks were also known to place eggs at gravesites).

Only later did the Christians pilfer the name for themselves and graft their religion onto a pagan celebration.

http://www.nobeliefs.com/easter.htm
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In the 8th centuryChristian scholar Bede claimed in his bookDe temporum ratione, (The Reckoning of Timethat Easter derived from the Saxon Eostre (a.k.aEastre). The ancient Saxons in Northern Europe worshiped the Goddess Oestre at the time of the Spring EquinoxThe Goddess Easter represents the sunrisespring-time and fertilitythe renewal of life.

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Bedar Venerabilis is remarkable also in a secular manner. His book was the first written attempt at universalising the measuring of time. In a religious sense, he was the one establishing the date of Easter. To historians he's of particular interest in dating events and documents, since he was also the one to introduce AD and BC.

And it's not really surprising that the Jesus story is based on a death and rebirth theme. The festival of Eostre or Ostara, how she's called in our lands celebrated the rebirth of nature, after it lay seemingly dead in the grasps of winter.
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RE: The annual 'Origin of Easter' thread
"Easter" only applies in the northern regions of Europe.

In France, it is called Paques and the eymology goes:


Quote:From Old French pasches, from Ecclesiastical Latin pascha, from Ancient Greek πάσχα ‎(páskha), from Aramaic [script needed] ‎(pasḥa), from Hebrew פסחא ‎(pasḥa).

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Whereas in the Anglo-Saxon world:

Quote:The modern English term Easter, cognate with modern German Ostern, developed from an Old English word that usually appears in the form Ēastrun, -on, or -an; but also as Ēastru, -o; and Ēastre or Ēostre.[nb 3] The most widely accepted theory of the origin of the term is that it is derived from the name of a goddess mentioned by the 7th to 8th-century English monk Bede, who wrote that Ēosturmōnaþ (Old English 'Month of Ēostre', translated in Bede's time as "Paschal month") was an English month, corresponding to April, which he says "was once called after a goddess of theirs named Ēostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month".[22]

But, WTF is that when 'jesus'

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is made to look like a Swedish goalie

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RE: The annual 'Origin of Easter' thread
BUMP

Since it is drawing nearer.
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I still celebrate Easter. Not as a religious holiday, but a secularized version. kind of like a Spring-time Christmas. The Easter Bunny brings little gift baskets. And I wear bunny ears. It's a lot more fun than going to church. Plus Spring break always comes afterward for me. That's a cause for celebration.
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Fuck easter.
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(March 20, 2016 at 1:08 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Fuck easter.

Fuck Ostara, rather. She's supposed to be a very appealing goddess.
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Three more days...
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What was it south of the equator?
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A sacrilicious treat for Easter!
"In three words I can sum up everything about life: it goes on."- Robert Frost
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