I just thought this was worth sharing right now. I’m not sure who made it, but if you actually do some research, you’ll see that Ishtar has nothing to do with Easter.
The Christian celebration of Easter may involve some fertility symbols nowadays, but, as I understand it, the actual concept originated with the Jewish celebration of Passover. This is why, in most languages, “Easter” actually takes its name from Passover. Either way, none of this is Mesopotamian, and history does matter.
I will add that, last year, I received death threats and was called every name in the book for posting this on a Facebook group, because apparently a lot of Facebook pagans get extremely upset by it.
One last thing – it has occurred to me that this whole “Ishtar = Easter” thing might’ve originated in American Protestant anti-Catholic propaganda. I’m just curious if that’s the case, but it would make sense to me because it resembles some of that kind of thing. I’ll research it some more, and might make a post later. If anyone knows more, please let me know!
I have no idea how the bunny thing happened but the egg part is because of the tradition that when the emperor told Mary Magdalene that the idea of a man rising from the dead was just as likely as the egg in her hand turning red, it immediately turned blood red. This is why we dye eggs on Easter. It’s not arbitrary. There’s other egg stories surrounding the resurrection also, but this one is the most famous.
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