Question by Remain Close to Jehovah, while you still can: Is easter really about Chocolate eggs & Bunnies and Hot Cross Buns? or could it be the sacrifice of children?
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Is It Easter—or Astarte?
This family’s holiday festivities begin early in the morning as they rise to greet the sunrise with reverent awe. The children are decked in the best new finery, complete with new bonnets. The celebration includes emblems of rabbits, baskets full of gaily colored eggs, and hot cross buns. It must be Easter. Or is it?
Springtime was sacred to the sex worshipers of Phoenicia. Their fertility goddess, Astarte, or Ishtar (Aphrodite to the Greeks), had as her symbols the egg and the hare. She had an insatiable thirst for blood and immoral sex. Her statues variously depicted her as having rudely exaggerated sex organs or with an egg in her hand and a rabbit at her side. Sacred prostitution was part of her cult. In Canaan, the sex goddess was styled the wife of Baal. She was honored by drunken sex orgies, the worshipers believing that their sexual intercourse helped to bring about the full awakening and mating of Baal with his wife. According to the book Recent Discoveries in Bible Lands, “in no country has so relatively great a number of figurines of the naked goddess of fertility, some distinctly obscene, been found.”
Beneath memorials to her in Carthage, brightly colored urns were discovered containing the charred bones of little children. Their parents, commonly people of rank and title, sought the blessing of the gods on their wealth and influence. Some of the urns were found to contain the remains of several children of different ages, perhaps of the same family.
A look at the box above will show how thinly disguised the modern versions of these ancient rites are. Even the name Easter is barely different from the ancient pagan name. Is this, then, the way to honor the holy Son of God?
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Answer by Sheeni
are you jewish?
i am, and i was raised that all these holidays are pagan.
nice to see someone else who see’s these things for what they really are.
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
Have you researched this and traced the evidence back to primary documentation? What is the motive of the person who wrote this? What are the credentials of the author of this? What most people believe about the history of holidays is very mistaken.
Halloween, for example, began as a feast to honor the Christian saints (All Hallows Eve means All Saints Eve). In Ireland, All Hallows Eve lost its Catholic character and became a secular holiday. Then America adopted Halloween and changed it once again. It was never evil or Satanic. Of course, this is an extremely oversimplified, short version of Halloween’s history, but I was just using it to make a point.
As for Easter:
Begin by reading what was written by the Catholic church leaders who founded Easter, and read as many contemporaneous accounts as you can. Then trace the holiday’s evolution through time by reading descriptions of how Easter was observed over the centuries. Read the actual records from the Council of Nicaea and what Bede himself wrote. Learn when the word “Easter” was first used and where. Make use of bibliographies and references. This kind of study takes a bit of work, but you will learn Easter’s true history.
Rabbits and eggs are both symbols of the fertility goddess Eostre/Easter/Ishtar/Ostara. Her symbol is also the moon, in which some cultures see a rabbit instead of a face. Eggs also symbolize the moon and are the ultimate symbol of creation and new life. The basket is a symbol of the womb in which this new life is carried.
There is a lovely legend about the moon goddess Eostre, in which she came upon a dying bird. To save its life, she turned it into a rabbit, her strongest symbol. It lived but continued to lay eggs. In gratitude for its life, the rabbit gives her some of the eggs every year.
The feast day is pagan and was widely celebrated way before the time of Jesus. Like pretty much all holidays, it was adopted by Christians to help get more converts. However, since the point is to celebrate new life and the hope of continuance, Christian symbols of a Resurrection day and the old pagan symbols mean the same thing. Just like Christmas, we are all celebrating the same thing, just using different symbols.
Lulz, instead of using copy pasta, why not actually do some research?
Easter comes from the old Germanic folk traditions. In case you couldn’t tell Germany is no were near Phoenicia. The name for the holiday comes from Ostara or in old Anglo-Saxon Eostre. Baal has nothing to do with Easter, or with Germanic Heathenism, neither for that matter does Aphrodite.
As for what the holiday is about? The springtime and the renewal of life. Eggs and bunnies are symbols of that.
Edit @ “That Old Rascal”, actually I do know what I am talking about since I do practice Germanic Heathenry. You do realize that Pagan is an umbrella term for any non-Abrahamic religion, of which there are thousands, right? Various pagan religions vary widely in what they believed, practiced, etc… or are you going to assume that the ancient Mayans had the exact same beliefs and practices as the ancient Norse?
Bones has no idea what he is talking about.
My dad got back from iraq in january and he had this plaque that had the babylonian “Ishtarre Gate” on it.
I started laughing when i saw it, and told him what it was about.
My parents are christian so they have a hard time accepting anything like that.
Ishtar had nothing to do with the germans, though they were definitely pagan too.
I was raised “christian” but i only realized about a year or two ago that God doesn’t change and how we worship Him shouldn’t either.