RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition?
April 15, 2013 at 9:32 am
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2013 at 9:34 am by KichigaiNeko.)
It is just a spring festival.... from time immemorial and ergo a "Pagan" festival as far as I understand it.
Yes the rising of our star Sol on or about the 22 March each year indicated the "birth" or "death" (depending on which hemisphere you are in) of the agricultural year. As hominids who just LOVE stories, many have been made to cover this time of year for many reasons.
Our historians can fill you in on the details, but I am to understand that "Easter" and "Ishtar" are the same thing.
A celebration of "new life" as represented by the eggs (of "promise" and the rabbit of "reproduction")
Yeah poetic I know but this is what people remember and want in their myths.
Which is why they are invwented.
Yes the rising of our star Sol on or about the 22 March each year indicated the "birth" or "death" (depending on which hemisphere you are in) of the agricultural year. As hominids who just LOVE stories, many have been made to cover this time of year for many reasons.
Our historians can fill you in on the details, but I am to understand that "Easter" and "Ishtar" are the same thing.
A celebration of "new life" as represented by the eggs (of "promise" and the rabbit of "reproduction")Yeah poetic I know but this is what people remember and want in their myths.
Which is why they are invwented.
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