Superimposed over an image of Ishtar are these words: “This is Ishtar: pronounced ‘Easter.’ Easter was originally the celebration of Ishtar, the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility and sex. Some people claim there exists a connection between Ishtar and Easter. were also part of a long tradition of goddess worship with traceable linguistic roots means that 'easter = ishtar', just that easter was derived from a tradition, a european one, of course (oestre) which arguably included ishtar as distant precursor.. way way back in time.Many use the same word for Easter and Passover since that is what Christians consider Easter to be. I really have wonderful memories of the sun coming up just as the preacher told the age old story of resurrection.
Now if you want to say that Passover was originally a pagan feast -well OK. It was originally a harvest feast coordinating with the barley harvest - Pentecost being the wheat harvest. Every other language is ‘Pascha. Constantine’s language was Latin. )“After Constantine decided to Christianize the empire, Easter was changed to represent Easter. So the farmers couldn’t eat the eggs, and they’re going bad. The Ishtar Meme. I blame Barbara Walker for that nonsense. A case could be made for pronouncing it Eesh-tar, but I have yet to come across a credible source that gives the original pronunciation as Easter. A popular meme has been circulating the internet making that very claim. There is some very bad pagan 'scholarship' that lazily thinks that if something sounds similar it must have the same 'root'. Ishtar is pronounced “Ishtar.” Check Wikipedia. You couldn’t eat eggs after a certain point during Lent. Actually, in modern English we pronounce it the way it looks.
But first here is the meme: 1. A … just because ishtar (and astarte, asher, etc.) This is generally held to have originally referred to the name of an Anglo-Saxon goddess, Ēostre, a form of the widely attested Indo-European dawn goddess. Medieval people thought that rabbits, because of how quickly they reproduce, must have been able to reproduce asexually.“Lent used to be much more strict. In Latin, following the Greek, the holiday English speakers call “Easter” is called Pascha. A less than common findng, IMO, but I reflected with her my magical memories of sunrise ceremony in the Baptist church. But it’s only in English. 2. Easter is originally the celebration of Ishtar, the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility and sex. A web page by someone who is an actual polytheist:
And as for births -- we know you are on birth-watch in your family, so joy to you and your missus. If “Easter” has a similar sounding pronunciation to the Pagan Ishtar and Eostre, it must therefore be a pagan holiday, right? '”“If you look at early medieval art, there are bunnies and rabbits everywhere,” Scheel “So many times, you’ll see an image of Our Lady with rabbits around her.“Everyone knows the phrase, ‘breeding like rabbits.’ They explode in population every spring. © 2001 - 2020 Democratic Underground, LLC. But at its roots, Easter (which is how you pronounce Ishtar) is all about celebrating fertility and sex.”As we know, Christians celebrate Easter by remembering Jesus’ resurrection from the dead after his crucifixion. Though this is a fertility holiday with a little cruxifiction and resurrection on top. Our helpful meme places the egg in Ishtar’s domain, but Ishtar doesn’t seem to be connected to eggs in any explicit way. It proclaims: Easter was originally the celebration of Ishtar… Back in 2013 someone posted the “Ishtar = Easter” meme on the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science’s Facebook page.
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