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Easter

Here at WB we like to side with the Pagans this time of year and celebrate the rights of spring as attributed to Ishtar. We love fertility symbols and can’t wait to dye eggs! The Christians will be glad to know that a popular controversy that comes up every year around now has been settled by the fact checkers in their favor. Contrary to popular belief, “The word Easter does not appear to be derived from Ishtar.

Cue the Easter bunnies

Eggs and bunnies are automatically associated with Easter even though they have a lot more to do with the fertile rebirth of spring after winter than the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That has been annoying fundamentalists for centuries. Scientific American decided to look into it.

The big internet meme making the rounds of Facebook says “Easter was originally the celebration of Ishtar, the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility and sex.” Her egg and bunny symbols “were and still are fertility and sex symbols.

At the infamous Council of Nicaea, Christians decided arbitrarily on the dates for the birth and resurrection of Jesus. They hijacked the winter solstice for Christmas and decided the locals would accept his Easter resurrection celebration as a replacement for their regular spring festivities.

Easter

While nobody would use Facebook as a serious source of information, hard scholars will confirm it’s “well known that under the Roman Empire, Christianity did indeed adopt the pagan rituals of conquered peoples in an effort to help convert them.” It works like a charm.

The whole problem is the Ishtar meme is forced together fantasy. She was indeed “the goddess of love and war and sex, as well as protection, fate, childbirth, marriage, and storms.” The fertility aspects were almost secondary to “an element of power.

The reason her services were so popular is because her “cult practiced sacred prostitution, where women waited at a temple and had sex with a stranger in exchange for a divine blessing.” A big tip was expected as well. Her symbols were “power” symbols of “the lion, the morning star, and eight or sixteen pointed stars.” Easter really comes from Eostre, Scientific American says.

A light in the East

The German goddess of the dawn, Eostre, is just like Jesus, “a bringer of light.” Especially when light is considered synonymous with TRUTH. Jesus is the bringer of Truth. Sin is error to be corrected. Not something to beat yourself up over.

Evil is deception and lies which lead the faithful from the path of honest truth, not through honest mistake, or “error,” but through intentional misdirection. Easter is correct and Christians can claim the name for their own. Attributing it to Ishtar is error. That doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate the resurrection with a naked orgy in the park.

All the sun gods have egg symbols in common. The Ancient Egyptians, for instance, “believed in a primeval egg from which the sun god hatched.” Hindus see the egg as a symbol for the “connection between the content of the egg and the structure of the universe.” In their philosophy, “the shell represents the heavens, the white the air, and the yolk the earth.” Long before Easter became controversial, the Zoroastrian creation myth theres an endless war between good and evil.

Easter

During a lengthy truce of several thousand years, evil hurls himself into an abyss and good lays an egg, which represents the universe with the earth suspended from the vault of the sky at the midway point between where good and evil reside.” Things get really interesting when “Evil pierces the egg and returns to earth, and the two forces continue their battle.

When you get out the vinegar and start bending egg holder wires you can tell the family about how “the act of coloring eggs is tied to the idea of rebirth and resurrection.” Back in the days of early Christianity, they didn’t have neon and glitter egg dye kits. They used red paint.

Christians love blood as a symbol because red symbolizes the blood of Jesus. It’s a necessary color for Easter. “Among Macedonians, it has been a tradition to bring a red egg to Church and eat it when the priest proclaims ‘Christ is risen‘ at the Easter vigil and the Lenten fast is officially broken.


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Written by Mark Megahan

Mark Megahan is a resident of Morristown, Arizona and aficionado of the finer things in life.

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