Who hear knows where easter originated from (really), and the pagan meaning of it?

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I ask this to spark interest in finding out the truth about easter. Many don't know that satan has brought this in to christianity and in return has almost completely done away with Passover. The 'Perfect Passover Lamb'. easter is worship of the sun. Hence the 'easter sunrise service'....
Any thoughts??

Sorry but easter is not a translation of 'Pesach'. That is a proven "MISTRANSLATION". It is derived from Ashtoreth the sun god. Where are your sources Mrs. J?? That is the answer that you are blinding yourself with. Pesach is simply passover. easter is a pagan holiday celebrated thousand s of years before messiah!!

Oh, and His name is not JHVH (The letter J is only 500 years old!!) Jehovah was created by taking YHVH, inserting vowels from adonay YaHoVaH, and translating that into the made up false name of the english Jehovah....almost a good answer though!

Answer 1

THE ORIGINAL WORD EASTER IS A DISTORTION OF THE NAME ASHTORETH WHO WAS A GOD THAT WAS WORSHIPED BACK IN BIBLICAL TIMES. SHE WAS CONSIDERED TO BE THE GODDESS OF FERILITY.EASTER COMES AS A RESULT OF CONSTANTINE COMBINEING THE DIFFERENT FAITHS OF HIS TIME TO SATISFY EVERYONE WHEN CREATING A RELIGION FOR ALL, WHICH WE KNOW TODAY AS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

Answer 2

Easter is a spring Celebration often associated with a Dawn Goddess such as Ostara, Eostre or Eos. Basically, it's a celebration of new beginnings.
Think of this.
If it were several hundred years ago, all your food had to be hunted, gathered or grown and you had to survive the whole winter on your stores. By spring you're pretty sick of dried meat and fruit, eh? And nothing is growing yet. Then your child comes home with a pocketful of eggs! Yummy! Your cows and sheep have babies and lo, now you have milk and butter for those tasteless biscuits you've been subsisting on the past few months. All of the old winter business is tossed aside, buried, (or burned as the new grass grows and the old stinky straw from your mattress can be replaced) and now is the promise of a great new summer season. Easter is the beginning of planting. The fields are prepared and blessed, the children search for eggs while the parents work and then, as the sun goes down, everyone tucks in on eggs, cheese and fresh tender greens and maybe one of those new baby animals is sacrificed as part of the feast in thanksgiving for the evidence it provides that things are about to get alot sunnier.

The Dawn Goddess is not just the Goddess of daybreak, but also of the end of one era or phase and the beginning of the next.

However, there are many Gods who were died and reborn at the same time. There is a misconception that Easter itself is a celebration also of these, but it is a recent incorporation. These Gods were celebrated at the same time, but the word Easter is specifically associated with the Dawn Goddess. There were many different Gods living side by side at this time and they all had celebrations that often overlapped. Right around the same time as these celebrations took place, we also see the celebrations of the resurrections of Attis, Osiris and Dionysus, among others. Therefore, it's natural that the celebration of Jesus's resurrection should take place at a similar time.

In modern practice, the resurrection of the God and the appearance of the Dawn Maiden are often celebrated as part of the same celebration, the Spring Equinox, or Ostara. Of course we don't sacrifice baby lambs anymore, but we may present an offering of eggs. Generally it's celebrated the same among Pagans as anyone else. We have easter egg hunts and gather together for a worship service.

As for the rabbit, well, the hare, being a harbinger of spring (it was hibernating all winter) and a symbol of fertility (i.e. breeding like rabbits) and showing up in the full moon (if you look at it just right) is sacred to the Dawn Goddess (full moon is the beginning of the month, you see) and spring itself.

Answer 3

Easter, also known as Pascha (Greek Πάσχα: Passover), the Feast of the Resurrection, the Sunday of the Resurrection, or Resurrection Day, is the most important religious feast of the Christian liturgical year, observed between late March and late April (early April to early May in Eastern Christianity). It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, which occurred after his death by crucifixion in AD 27-33 (see Good Friday). In the Catholic Church Easter is actually an eight-day feast called the Octave of Easter.

Easter also refers to the season of the church year, lasting for fifty days, from Easter Sunday through Pentecost. (see Easter Season)

In most languages of Christian societies, other than English, German and some Slavic languages, the holiday's name is derived from Pesach, the Hebrew name of Passover, a Jewish holiday to which the Christian Easter is intimately linked. Easter depends on Passover not only for much of its symbolic meaning but also for its position in the calendar; the Last Supper shared by Jesus and his disciples before his crucifixion is generally thought of as a Passover seder, based on the chronology in the Synoptic Gospels. The Gospel of John has a different chronology which has Christ's death at the time of the slaughter of the Passover lambs, which may have been for theological reasons but which is regarded by some scholars as more historically likely given the surrounding events. This would put the Last Supper slightly before Passover, on 14 Nisan of the Bible's Hebrew calendar (Leviticus 23:5). According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, "In fact, the Jewish feast was taken over into the Christian Easter celebration."

The English and German names, "Easter" and "Ostern", are not etymologically derived from Pesach and are instead related to ancient names for the month of April, Eostremonat and Ostaramanoth respectively. According to the 8th century Christian monk and historian Bede, this month was dedicated to the pagan fertility goddess Eostre. The Easter Bunny is often identified as a remnant of this fertility festival, although there is no evidence of any link.

Answer 4

Easter is tied to pagan fertility rites and named for the pagan goddess Eoster. Even the timing goes back to the pagan roots - 40 days after the last frost of the season. Spring was a traditional pagan fertility rite because as the earth was blossoming the pagans prayed to have a good crop. Additionally, the normal accoutrements of Easter - chicks, eggs & rabbits - are also part of the fertility culture, for somewhat pobvious reasons - eggs & rabbits especially.

P.S. I'm also a Christian... have you ever looked at the paganism around the Christmas celebration? Forget the old saw about Martin Luther & the starlight on the trees. Druids decorated conifers to worship them since they were unaffected by the wintry weather. They also prayed for the sun and warm seasons to return - that's the true beginning of Christmas trees. And not the only pagan practice associated with that season.

Answer 5

The English and German names, "Easter" and "Ostern", are not etymologically derived from Pesach and are instead related to ancient names for the month of April, Eostremonat and Ostaramanoth respectively. According to the 8th century Christian monk and historian Bede, this month was dedicated to the pagan fertility goddess Eostre. The Easter Bunny is often identified as a remnant of this fertility festival.

Answer 6

Since its conception as a holy celebration in the second century, Easter has had its non-religious side. In fact, Easter was originally a pagan festival.

The ancient Saxons celebrated the return of spring with an uproarious festival commemorating their goddess of offspring and of springtime, Eastre. When the second-century Christian missionaries encountered the tribes of the north with their pagan celebrations, they attempted to convert them to Christianity. They did so, however, in a clandestine manner.

It would have been suicide for the very early Christian converts to celebrate their holy days with observances that did not coincide with celebrations that already existed. To save lives, the missionaries cleverly decided to spread their religious message slowly throughout the populations by allowing them to continue to celebrate pagan feasts, but to do so in a Christian manner.

As it happened, the pagan festival of Eastre occurred at the same time of year as the Christian observance of the Resurrection of Christ. It made sense, therefore, to alter the festival itself, to make it a Christian celebration as converts were slowly won over. The early name, Eastre, was eventually changed to its modern spelling, Easter.

The Date of Easter

Prior to A.D. 325, Easter was variously celebrated on different days of the week, including Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. In that year, the Council of Nicaea was convened by emperor Constantine. It issued the Easter Rule which states that Easter shall be celebrated on the first Sunday that occurs after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox. However, a caveat must be introduced here. The "full moon" in the rule is the ecclesiastical full moon, which is defined as the fourteenth day of a tabular lunation, where day 1 corresponds to the ecclesiastical New Moon. It does not always occur on the same date as the astronomical full moon. The ecclesiastical "vernal equinox" is always on March 21. Therefore, Easter must be celebrated on a Sunday between the dates of March 22 and April 25.

Answer 7

Easter is a pagan holiday that was originally detecated to the pagan God of fertility. That is why we see bunnies around in Easter, and i've always asked, why do bunnies and eggs have to do with Jesus being resurrected? Well, we know that bunnies are a symbol of fertility because they can reporoduce tons of little bunnies, so that's why the bunny is the symbol of Easter. It's all dedicated to the pagan holiday.

Answer 8

The first day of school is a pagan holiday... Memorial day is a day to worship dead people..

Man, stop it with the BS. The Easter Holiday is when the church plunked it down on the calender and said, let's remember Christ's death and reserrection on this day...

What difference does it make if in the dawn of time it used to be something else.

Answer 9

true, very true, Easter is a pagan mutation of the christian passover, (the passover being the true 'holiday' which was directed by Jesus himself.)

the rabbits and chicks are pagan symbols of fertility, and hence, are for the god of fertility itself, the very holiday has been mixed up with paganism, like many christian holidays, and hence, should be avoided by true Christians. the passover is the correct way to remember Jesus and what he did. for it's right down to the bible itself, and not contaminated by false beliefs and pagan customs.

ressurectionist- god's name is JHWH. or in english jehovah.

Answer 10

it wasn't satan (btw, he's the best friend the church ever had - he's kept them in business all these years).

xians co-opted the existing spring festivals. simple as that. easter was a celebration of the rebirth of the natural world after winter. how convenient that the time was picked to celebrate the "rebirth" of jesus, too.

ditto xmas - an existing celebration (yule, saturnalia, etc) co-opted by xians. even the bible indicates jesus wasn't born in december.

BUT, xians still yell and scream that "jesus is the reason for the season". what a complete fabrication. isn't there somehting about not bearing false witness in your religion?