Subject:  Info on Easter
Date:      Wed, 1 Apr 1998 21:57:59 +0000
 
 
 

From:          Paul Jablonowski
To:            "Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup" <heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>
Subject:       Easter

The English word "Easter" is derived from the name "Eostre" or Eastre".
Easter is none other than Astarte or Ashtaroth who was introduced into the
British Isles by the Druids and is just one more name for Beltis or Ishtar
of the Babylonians.  "And the children  of Israel did evil in the sight of
the Lord and served Baalim, and Ashtorath..." (Judges 10:6).  Many
goddesses have displayed the same characteristics - all claiming the title
"Queen of Heaven." (Jeremiah 44:17-19).

Astarte was worshipped in Egypt, Ugarit, among the Hittites, and Canaan.
Her Akkadian counterpart was Ishtar.  Later she became assimilated with the
Egyptian deities Isis and Hathor.  In the Greco-Roman world she was
Apohrodite, Artemis, and Juno, all assuming the aspects of the "Great
Mother."

History records that spring festivals in honor of the pagan fertility
goddesses and events associated with them were celebrated at the same time
as "Easter".  In the year 399 A.D. the Theodosian Code attempted to remove
the pagan connotation from those events and banned their observance on
"Easter" and "Christmas".  People still celebrated the pagan festival in
honor of Isis -  they just called it something else:  EASTER.  In the book
"On the Roman Time Codex Calendar of 354 A.D.", the author, Salzman, states
that many of the rites associated with Iris were retained in the Christian
celebration of Easter.

The historian Socrates said in the 5th century, "This much already laid
down may seem sufficient treatise to prove that the celebration of the
feast of Easter began everywhere more of the custom than by any commandment
either of Christ or the Apostle."

EASTER IS NOT ANOTHER NAME FOR PASSOVER!  Easter was not considered a
"Christian" festival until the fourth century.  Early Christians celebrated
Passover on the 14th day of the first month.  The first month began on the
first visible moon after the vernal equinox.  After much debate, the
Nicaean council of 325 A.D. decreed that "Easter" should be celebrated on
the first Sunday after the vernal equinox.  Why was so much debate
necessary if "Easter" was a tradition passed down from the Apostles?  The
answer is that it was not an Apostolic instituition, but, an invention of
man!

Taken from the writings of Richard Rives' book "Too Long in the Sun"
A well documented easy to read book showing the similarities of all "gods"
to sun worship - Satan worship

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