(The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible)
The rabbit "was the escort of the Germanic goddess Ostara"
(Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of folklore, Mythology and legend)
Eggs " were dyed and eaten at the spring festivals in ancient Egypt, Persia,
Greese and Rome".
The Easter bonnet "was a wreath of flowers and the new Easter
outfit was due to the believe that "it was considered bad luck to
greet the scandinavain goddess of Spring, or Eastre, in anything but new garb.
(The Giant book of Superstitions)
Hot cross buns: "Like the Greeks, the Romans ate bread marked with a cross...at public sacrifices."
They were eaten by pagan Saxons in honor of Easter. (The Encyclopaeda Britannica)
Sunrise services parallel rites "performed at the vernal equinox welcoming
the sun and its great power". (Celebrations)
Family's all got together early to greet the sunrise with their children all
dressed up in their sunday best with bonnets.
The celebration includes emblems of rabbits, baskets full of colored eggs and hot cross buns.
Easter?
Springtime was sacred to the sex worshipers of Phoenica. Astarte, their fertility goddess ( Aphrodite to the Greeks),
had as her symbols the egg and the hare. She had an insatiable thirst for blood and immoral sex. Her statues depicted her as having
grossly exaggerated sex organs, with an egg in her hand and a rabbit at her side. Sacred prostitution was part of her cult.
In Canaan, the sex goddess was styled the wife of Baal. She was honored by drunken sex orgies, the worshipers believing that their
sexual intercourse helped to bring about the full awakening and mating of Baal with his wife.
According to the book Recent Discoveries in Bible Lands, "in no country has so relatively great a number of figurines of the naked goddess
of fertility been found."
Beneath memorials to her carthage, brightly colored urns were discovered containing the charred bones of little children,
some of the urns contained the remains of several children of different ages, perhaps of the same family
Their parents, commonly people of rank and title, sought the blessing of the gods on their wealth and influence. The name Easter
is barely different from the ancient pagan name. We might ask ourselves, is it Easter. Or is it Astarte?
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Post a CommentHello, great post! Did you get this information from a 1993 "Awake!" article? I've been researching this for a Bible Study of mine, and I would like to find a source such as an Encyclopedia or something that I can reference it to, so I was just curious where you found this article. I'm a Jehovah's Witness, are you? :)