Chapter 7 - Happy Easter
Easter
is a big celebration for the Christians.
Easter has to be on a Sunday and usually it is observed on a Sunday
between March 22 and April 25. The Eastern Orthodox church (ex. Greek Orthodox
church), on the other hand observes Easter between April 4 and May 8. (Because
of the differences between the Gregorian calendar and the Julian
calendar.)
How Does Easter Relate to the Full Moon? https://www.almanac.com/easter-paschal-full-moon
Easter
is the celebration of Death and the Rebirth of Jesus Christ. And the Rebirth
happens 3 days after Death. But looks like there are so many other examples of
Death and Rebirth, many that are even very similar, and long before
Christianity. Again, I look at the Romans and lesser to the Greeks on what was
their end game with writing of the Bible?
Easter is what’s known as a
“movable feast”—in other words, a religious holiday that may fall on
a different calendar date from year to year.
The date
of Easter is tied to the relationship between the Paschal
full Moon, whose dates are based on calculations
made long ago, and the Church’s fixed date of the March
equinox (also called the spring or
vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere), which is March 21. Thanks to
this, the determining when Easter will be, can get more than a
bit confusing because of the occasional differences between these
ecclesiastical dates and the astronomical dates.
Or … the first
full moon after the spring equinox (March
20). https://www.foxweather.com/lifestyle/easter-bunny-eggs-ancient-spring-traditions-christian-pagan
When Is the Paschal Full Moon in 2023?
“Paschal” stems from Pascha, the
Greek, Aramaic, Hebrew and Latin word for Passover.
https://www.almanac.com/easter-paschal-full-moon
Technically, the Paschal
Full Moon occurs on the 14th day of the lunar month that occurs on or
after March 21 according to ecclesiastical calculations using the Metonic
cycle. But in many cases, it coincides with the astronomical full Moon on or
after the actual March equinox.
Using the astronomical dates
for 2023, the vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere occurs on Monday, March
20. The first full Moon to occur after that equinox date is April’s full Pink Moon, which
reaches peak illumination on Thursday, April 6, at 12:37 A.M. Eastern
Time (or Wednesday, April 5, for more westerly time zones). According to this
general guideline, this makes April’s full Moon the Paschal Full Moon
and therefore Easter will be observed on the first Sunday after April 6:
Sunday, April 9!
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That’s right. Easter follows the
moon cycles.
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And Easter follows the Spring
Equinox.
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So Easter cannot show an exact
date for the Death of Jesus? While they know exact date of birth of Jesus?
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Easter is basically copying the
centuries old Pagan celebrations and repackaging as a new religion?
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Easter timing is the functional
beginning of planting season for the Mediterranean region for thousands of
years.
Thus Easter date was celebrated by many cultures for
thousands of years before Christianity?
Correct!
The Saxons: Eostre or Eastra is the name of the Goddess of Spring. https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/ancient-pagan-origins-easter-001571
The name “Easter” was derived from “Eostre”, “originally a Saxon word (Eostre), denoting a goddess of the Saxons, in honor of whom
sacrifices were offered about the time of the Passover.” This very fact causes many to wonder if Easter is really
a pagan holiday and if it should be celebrated by Christians.
Germans/Austrians: The origins of Easter are wrapped up in a celebration of
seasonal renewal that has taken place in numerous cultures for thousands of
years around the time of the Spring Equinox. Some argue that even the Christian
version of Easter merely perpetuates a pagan age-old, familiar theme of
resurrection rather than honoring an actual person or event in history.
The Sumerians: According to an ancient “Sumerian legend of Damuzi
(Tammuz) and his wife Inanna (Ishtar); https://www.christianity.com/wiki/holidays/what-are-the-pagan-roots-of-easter.html
Tammuz
dies, Ishtar is grief–stricken and follows him to the underworld.” Here,
“‘naked and bowed low’ she is judged, killed, and then hung on display. In her
absence, the earth loses its fertility, crops cease to grow and animals stop
reproducing. Unless something is done, all life on earth will end.”
Ishtar
is missing for three days after which her assistant seeks help from
other gods. One of them goes “to the Underworld” gives Tammuz and Ishtar “the
power to return to the earth as the light of the sun for six months.
Often,
these themes are regarded as part of recurring cycles, like the seasons. Every
spring, the world comes back to life. Flowers emerge. Birdsong fills the
air. Animals give birth to their young. Death always leads to new life.
Some elements, such as the three-day timeline and the hero going to
Hell, are also scattered among the myths.
After
Ishtar has been missing for three days her assistant goes to other gods for
help. Finally one of them GOD Enki (see Chapter 6), creates two
creatures who carry the plant of life and water of life (Communion?)
down to the Underworld, sprinkling them on Ishtar and Damuzi, resurrecting them.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/ancient-pagan-origins-easter-001571
The Egyptians: One of the oldest resurrection myths is Egyptian Horus.
Born on 25 December, Horus and his damaged eye became symbols of life
and rebirth. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/apr/03/easter-pagan-symbolism
The Iranians: (Zoroastrianism)
Mithras was born on what we now call
Christmas day (December 25), and his followers celebrated the spring equinox.
Even as late as the 4th century AD, the Sol Invictus (a Syrian Sun GOD), associated with
Mithras, was the last great pagan cult the church had to overcome
The Greeks: Dionysus was
a divine child, resurrected by his grandmother. Dionysus also brought his mum,
Semele, back to life.
The Greeks: In
an ironic twist, the Cybele cult flourished on today's Vatican
Hill. Cybele's lover Attis, was born of a virgin, died and was reborn annually.
This spring festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday, rising to
a crescendo after three days, in rejoicing over the resurrection.
There was violent conflict on Vatican Hill in the early days of Christianity
between the Jesus worshippers and pagans who quarreled over whose God was the
true, and whose the imitation.
Today many churches are offering "sunrise
services" at Easter – an obvious pagan solar celebration.
The date of Easter is not fixed, but instead is governed by the phases
of the moon – how pagan is that?
Keynote:
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Easter is the actual name of the
Goddess of Spring! Easter gets its name from the Saxon Pagan celebration of the
Goddess Eostre.
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The idea of Passover also came
from the Saxon Pagan celebration of the Goddess Eostre.
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Easter is the celebration of Death
(of plants during winter) and the Resurrection of the planting season in Spring
that all the other religions have already celebrated for thousands of years.
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Easter follows the Sun and the
Moon, and the Spring Equinox just like all the Pagan religions, worshiping the
Sun and the Moon, and Darkness and Light, and Death and Rebirth/Resurrection,
and Good over Evil. This is the standard of popular stories at that time.
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PS. Do you remember the
circle seen around the head of the Christian holy people in pictures? Take a
look at the pictures of the circle above the heads of the GODs in Egypt. Sun GOD Worship!
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Dying for 3 days for a cause and
then being resurrected by a spiritual force is a common story in many religions
for thousands of years.
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Spilling of Blood is a common
story in many religions for thousands of years.
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Born of a Virgin.
Miracle/Immaculate birth.
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A Black Friday. (Cybele and Attis)
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Sunrise services – a celebration
of the Sun GOD.
Fun Easter
activities
Fun Easter activities
All the fun things about Easter are pagan.
Bunnies are a leftover from the pagan
festival of Eostre, a great northern goddess whose symbol was a rabbit
or hare.
According to Hann, rabbits and hares are
associated with ancient symbols of fertility, particularly the idea of
fertility in the spring and the spring equinox. This time of year when life
returns is then linked to the Resurrection.
Exchange of eggs is an ancient custom,
celebrated by many cultures.
Hot cross buns are very ancient too. In the
Old Testament we see the Israelites baking sweet buns for an idol, and
religious leaders trying to put a stop to it. The early church clergy also
tried to put a stop to sacred cakes being baked at Easter. In the end, in the
face of defiant cake-baking pagan women, they gave up and blessed the cake
instead.
Hot Cross Buns.
"Even the humble hot
cross bun," Hann said. "You would think that obviously has this
Christian association because of its association with the cross of simply
symbolizing a crucifixion of Christ; but also that the pagan god Eostre
had buns that were marked with a cross to celebrate the four seasons on
the four primary phases of the Moon." And the date for Easter is
decided by the moon which is a Pagan culture.
"Rebirth is
very central to traditions going right back to the very early days of
civilization," Hann said. "The story is going through all these
different religions that have this idea of rebirth in the spring and which is
very, very closely linked to the Christian tradition."
Hann
said. "Sometimes you see the paintings of the Virgin Mary and you see a hare
at one side of her."
Here
you see the inter-mix of Pagan Goddess Eostre and Mother Mary (baby Jesus
and the rabbit).
Then,
the Easter hare became associated with another symbol of fertility: eggs.
The Easter Bunny https://www.foxweather.com/lifestyle/easter-bunny-eggs-ancient-spring-traditions-christian-pagan
Death – of the Sun (Son) on the Crux (Cross) https://www.globeatnight.org/mythology/crux
The
constellation Crux “the Cross” (also referred to as “the Southern
Cross”) is the smallest constellation in the sky but it has held an
important place in the history of the southern hemisphere. The brilliant cross
is formed by bright stars making it one of the most familiar sights to southern
hemisphere observers. The constellation has been used as insignia on the flags
and stamps of many southern hemisphere nations, including Australia, New
Zealand, Brazil, Papua New Guinea and regions of Chile and Argentina.
The
general symbolic story of the death of the son (sun) on a cross (the
constellation of the Southern Cross) and his rebirth, overcoming the
powers of darkness, was a well worn story in the ancient world. There were
plenty of parallel, rival resurrected saviors too.
The
constellation of the Cross disappears over the horizon in Winter and is re-born
in Spring. And as mentioned before, the sun is farthest from the northern
hemisphere thus darkest time of the year around December 25 (winter
solstice). https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/72659/10-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-winter-solstice
Keynote:
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The
date for Easter changes every year based on the full moon. So Christians cannot
decide which day Jesus died on the cross? It should be one day like Christmas.
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Sacrifices
and Death – of the Sun with Winter and then rebirth of the Sun shining high up
in the sky for planting season is ancient Pagan dates.
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Resurrection
– of the Sun in the Spring.
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Light
conquering darkness; Barren winter giving way to Spring birth.
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Life
conquering death; Good vs. Evil.
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Passover
= Pascha = Pagan Pascha Moon that is used to determine what day to celebrate
Easter?
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Pesach = Passover = Hebrew
o
Greece,
Easter is called Pascha,
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Italy it is
Pasqua,
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France it is
Paques,
o
Denmark it is
Paaske.
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Germany and English-speaking
countries like England, Easter took its name from the pagan goddess Eostre
– the goddess of spring and fertility
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Plant of life and water of life (Pagan symbols of Communion?)
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Resurrection
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These stories are prevailing themes of fertility,
conception, renewal, descent into darkness, and the triumph of light over
darkness or good over evil. https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/ancient-pagan-origins-easter-001571
Previous Chapters
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Chapter 1 - Bible
Story
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https://newnan-blog-01-01.blogspot.com/2022/07/chapter-1-bible-story-ok-i-have-spent.html
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Chapter 2 -
Review of the classical GODs
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https://newnan-blog-01-01.blogspot.com/2022/07/chapter-2-review-of-classical-gods-yet.html
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Chapter 3 - The Vatican, NASA and Shivkar Talpade
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https://newnan-blog-01-01.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-vatican-nasa-and-shivkar-talpade.html
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Chapter 4 - Photographic
memory, Tesla, Einstein and Srinivasa Ramanujan
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https://newnan-blog-01-01.blogspot.com/2022/08/chapter-4-photographic-memory-tesla.html |
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Chapter 5 - NASA,
Asteroid Belt, Pluto and Planet X |
https://newnan-blog-01-01.blogspot.com/2022/09/chapter-5-pluto-asteroid-belt-telescope.html |
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Chapter 6 – Season 1 End
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https://newnan-blog-01-01.blogspot.com/2022/12/chapter-6-season-end-conclusion.html |
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Chapter 7 - Happy Easter |
https://newnan-blog-01-01.blogspot.com/2023/03/chapter-7-happy-easter.html |
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