Passover is the Jews marking their homes and then at night 'Angels of death' visit all unmarked houses killing the residents. The slaughter led to the freeing of the Jewish slaves.
Easter is the un-dying of a minister who was killed by the State during the same month about 1200 years later.
It's like a student whose Fall Break from class includes the Thanksgiving holiday: some people will refer to that Thursday as Thanksgiving, others will just say 'on fall break'. Both are right, referring to different events on the same day.
Russian is somewhat weird in that regard, since the word for Easter does indeed translate to Passover... but the word for Sunday translates as "resurrection" - as in, that of Jesus, the word coming from Church Slavonic.
Meanwhile, most of the other Slavic languages simply call Easter the Great Day. Yeah, I know it's generic, but it gets the job done and doesn't get tangled up in etymological quagmires connected to pagan customs.
Passover is the Jews marking their homes and then at night 'Angels of death' visit all unmarked houses killing the residents. The slaughter led to the freeing of the Jewish slaves.
Easter is the un-dying of a minister who was killed by the State during the same month about 1200 years later.
It's like a student whose Fall Break from class includes the Thanksgiving holiday: some people will refer to that Thursday as Thanksgiving, others will just say 'on fall break'. Both are right, referring to different events on the same day.
Russian is somewhat weird in that regard, since the word for Easter does indeed translate to Passover... but the word for Sunday translates as "resurrection" - as in, that of Jesus, the word coming from Church Slavonic.
Meanwhile, most of the other Slavic languages simply call Easter the Great Day. Yeah, I know it's generic, but it gets the job done and doesn't get tangled up in etymological quagmires connected to pagan customs.