| ▲ | photios 5 days ago |
| > I find it odd how Easter, a pre-Christian Pagan festival (worshipping goddess of fertility: Eostre) has become seemingly-arbitrarily connected to the purported events at the end of Jesus' life.. The Eostre connection is unconvincing. Eostre is a Saxon goddess with earliest sources about her cult from 8th century and: - Easter has been celebrated before 8th century. - And it has been celebrated by people that have never heard of Saxons or their gods. |
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| ▲ | tptacek 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| The whole thing is super weird, because "Easter" isn't the canonical term for the day to begin with. |
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| ▲ | teunispeters 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%92ostre covers a lot of ground and has references (thankfully) |
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| ▲ | pkphilip 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The connection goes further back to Asheroth - the Cannanite goddess of fertility. |
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| ▲ | rolandog 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | The world was not ready for such religions then [0]: > There are several reasons why the worship of Baal and Asherah was such a problem for Israel. First, the worship of Baal and Asherah held the allure of illicit sex, since the religion involved ritual prostitution. [...] The Asherahs/Ashtoreths probably needed better branding. [0]: https://www.gotquestions.org/Baal-and-Asherah.html | | |
| ▲ | krapp 5 days ago | parent [-] | | "the world?" Ritual prostitution was common in many ancient religions, and Baal and Asherah were commonly worshipped at the time. It only seems aberrant in hindsight because we live in a world formed from the strict patriarchy and sexual taboos of one specific Semitic religion, and a narrative of history written by its adherents. That said as far as I know the whole Easter/Eostre connection has been discredited by the actual evidence. Which is unfortunate because it would be such an enjoyable thing to annoy Christians with if it were true. |
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| ▲ | anon291 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | No it does not. Asheroth is a Canaanite language term. Easter comes from the Proto-Indo-European for dawn of east, the direction of the sunrise. A very fitting name for the rising of the Son of Man. The direct cognates to Easter are Usas (Indic languages), East, or Aurora. | | |
| ▲ | eitland 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Remember, Easter is only called Easter (or something similar) in a few languages, I'm only aware of English and German (Oster). |
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