Is Easter based on a pagan tradition?

[A_Nony_Mouse]

I think it is but who knows, lets argue about it in this thread and come to a conclusion!

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Ishtar, Astarte, Ashara, Isis, Aphrodite and other variations on the goddesses closely related but also reinvented for the local culture. Even the sun rises in Ishtar, Easter, East. Despite the lunar calender method of deciding when it happens it is a vernal equinox celebration. As to pagan Christians seem to have renamed her Mary while copying mainly the Isis imagining of the story.

Reimagining: What Hollywood does to reboot a franchise.

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I don't like arguments. I like debates.

debate: my honorable opponent

argument: that son of a bitch

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Doesn't Eostre derive from Ishtar?

Quite likely but comparing their stories is how to tell. The Indo-European gods are all fairly similar in name and stories.

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That being said, I have no horse in this race.

My attitude, especially as we use eggs and shit in Passover which is a completely fabricated event of momentous bullshittery with some fucking awesome food so...meh. Maybe we should have a spring festivus with eggs and chocolate and matzo ball soup and charoset and call it a day.

Passover (with variations of pascal in Romance languages) is an interesting case. As we know Moses and get out of Egypt are myths. What was Passover before the Moses myth was invented? Of was the celebration invented along with the myth?

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Let's look at the word gay. It has two meanings.1 to be happy.2sexual orinatation. But in what context in todays world do we understand the word gay means? We know that christmas trees have pagan origen.But in the context of the world today the association is the birth of jesus. Hitler tried in nazi germany to regress the meaning of the christmas tree back to the understanding of pagan ritutal. He failed because nazism failed. Symbols and traditions don't define ideal...but its the idea that defines the contents of the symbol and traditions message.

The traditional symbol used in Germany was called the Hakenkreuz, the hooked cross. The Nazis always called in the hooked cross. It was the Brits who started calling is by its northwest India (which included today's Pakistan) by the Indian name swastika.

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... Hitler tried in nazi germany to regress the meaning of the christmas tree back to the understanding of pagan ritutal. ...

Technically that was Himmler. Reportedly Hitler attended only one of is revival attacks and after listening to the singing commented, "It will never replace Silent Night."