According to folklore, Easter, recognized under various names like Ishtar, Astarte, Ashtoreth, Semiramis, and Biblically the one revered by idolaters as the “queen of heaven” in Jeremiah 7:18; 44:17–25, is commonly believed to be the widow of Nimrod, who was the first on earth to be a mighty and powerful man (see Genesis 10:8–9), and the mother of Tammuz. She is portrayed as a Pagan fertility goddess, often depicted bare-breasted, originating from the east. The legend describes her descent from heaven within a giant egg, landing in the Euphrates River during sunrise on the first Sunday following the vernal equinox. It is said that upon emerging from the egg, she transformed a bird into an egg-laying rabbit.
To honour this event, Pagan sun worshippers would gather early in the morning and face eastward to witness their sun-god's rise over the horizon (see an example of this in Ezekiel 8:16). Following this, they would partake in a mass ritual, often involving sacrifices. In these ceremonies, the priests of Easter would impregnate young virgins on the altar at sunrise on Easter Sunday. The following Easter, the priests would sacrifice these now three-month-old babies and dye the eggs of Easter in their blood. These blood-red-coloured Easter eggs were believed to hatch on December 25th, the same day as the birth of her son Tammuz, considered the reincarnate sun-god, and the traditional winter solstice. This December 25th celebration underwent a process of Christianisation, being recognized today as "Christmas" or Xmas.
According to folklore, following on from the death of Nimrod, his now widowed wife and queen Semiramis (Easter) married and entered into a sexual relationship with her son Tammuz, whom she deified as the reincarnate sun-god. Tammuz met his demise while hunting wild pigs, fatally gored by a boar. This is purportedly the origin of the tradition of consuming ham on Easter among Pagans. Additionally, Tammuz's death at the age of forty led Pagans to observe a fast, allegedly lasting one day for each year of his life. This is likely the Biblically mentioned practice of "weeping for Tammuz" (see Ezekiel 8:14). In Catholic tradition, this fasting period is referred to as Lent.
There is no mention of Easter in the Bible, nor is its celebration mandated. These holidays are ancient Pagan feasts that were ushered in by the Roman Catholic church during the reign of Emperor Constantine. Constantine was a Pagan follower of the sun-god Mithra who had what he thought was a "Christian experience" that led him to victory in battle. He aimed to unify his empire, encompassing both Christian and Pagan populations, under a single, universal (Catholic) religion. To accomplish this, he assimilated ancient wisdom and spiritual elements from various cultures and beliefs. This involved revising historical narratives and assigning Christian names to previously Pagan festivities, beginning at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.
The LORD God hates worship in this way. As it is written,
"When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?--that I also may do the same.' You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the LORD hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods. "Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it. (Deuteronomy 12:29-32 ESV)
Thus says the LORD: "Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them, for the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman. They decorate it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so that it cannot move. Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good." (Jeremiah 10:2-5 ESV)
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. (Colossians 2:8 ESV)
There is a great sacrifice every Easter. Sometimes the Boston bombing, sometimes the Notre Dame fire. Sometimes the Baltimore Bridge.
Always happens leading into Easter. Once you see it you can't unsee it.
Very interesting. Never linked the disasters and Easter together. Thanks for your insight, will be on the lookout from now on.
Some autistic contrarian in the comments below forced me to admit that "the spring equinox is the beginning of the season of sacrifice, but Easter is not a hard cutoff date." So keep that in mind at least.
the ides of march?
Beware them bitches
Boston Marathon bombing happened on April 15th, 2013, after Easter, March 31st, 2013
Let's look at the past decade though:
2024 - Baltimore Bridge
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019 - Notre Dame Fire
2018
2017
2016
2015
What were the others?
I'd have to look them up, I don't know/remember other examples. It was what axolotl_peyotl said on reddit /conspiracies about the ¿luciferian? cult or whatever term he called them.
There's like a sacrifice of fire, of death and maybe something else. But he predicted the Notre Dame fire saying something is coming because it's the season of sacrifice.
I'm only merely an apprentice.
Columbine, all the 4/20 shootemup fags? I don't know. Type the dates into Wikipedia and sort by human and financial damage. Look for things tangential to (((them))).
I did some digging, didn't find much.
Columbine happened a few weeks after easter, and I don't really know what you mean by "all the 420 shootemup" business.
It just seems weird to claim that "it always happens" and that you can't unsee it, but even looking through the past couple decades there are few examples
Idk, I did a Google search to make sure I'm not the crazy one and right at the top was this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/04/20/the-weird-bloody-history-of-april-20-mass-murders-a-fake-news-war-and-environmental-disaster/
But Virginia Tech shooting was April 16 so there's one. Now you've got one every 5 years. A pattern. Fill in the gaps. I know there's others, I'm sorry I hadn't done all the digging for you.
Bro this is me doing the digging for you lol.
If you're gonna make a claim, you should at least know any of the facts. Now you're changing it to every five years. This kind of shows me that you just latched onto a belief without even doing any research into it haha
And Easter that year was on April 8th.
Still no pattern.
You're arguing like a retarded faggot.
You asked about the 420 shootemup killers, I gave you two examples within 4 days.
Now you act like you don't know Easter moves every year.
Fuck all the way off. I gave you data points.
When did your nation declare a covid state of emergency? Right around the spring equinox right? Easter blessings.
Uh, no I didn't. I just said I didn't get what you meant by them, considering they don't really have much relevance to what your claim was anyway, since it's pretty rare that easter falls around april 20th
Yes, Easter moves every year. I know that. That's kind of my point in showing you that your claims don't seem to be correct.
You said that there is a sacrifice leading into Easter every year, and mentioned only the Notre Dame Fire and the Baltimore Bridge. It's hard to believe something happens every year and once you see it you can't unsee it when you've only got three examples (third being lockdowns).
Let's go through all the way to the turn of the century, just for fun
2024 - Baltimore Bridge
2023
2022
2021
2020 - COVID lockdowns
2019 - Notre Dame Fire
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
Surely, if it always happens, it should be easy for you to recall some more examples.
Because right now there's not much of a pattern.
Terri Schiavo and John Paul II.
Exactly what I came here looking for
My Easter tradition in recent years is revisiting the real story about this time of the year
Thanks for sharing
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No worries. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
I asked this question on another post yesterday. Thanks for the info op
No worries Dregan_ya. I'm glad you found it informative.
This guy gets it. Catholics were just pagan politicians who infiltrated Christianity to control the masses. They then proceeded to kill off real Christian’s and any who opposed them while collecting the largest collection of knowledge (Vatican archives) and keeping their members dumb and uneducated so they couldn’t even read the Bible and had to believe what priests told them.
People like Martin Luther were helpful in getting past all of that.
Yes. The Roman Catholic church is Babylon, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.
Orthodox Christians celebrate Jesus Ressurection not Easter or Pesakh. For some reasons this holiday named Easter on the West, but it have only connection to the Easter/Pesakh only by timeline - Ressurection should be celebrated after Jewish Pesakh. This is the main reason Orthodox Church use Julian calendar (Old Style), in that calendar Ressurection is always after Jewish Pesakh and that does have important religious sense - Ressurection replaced and abolish Jewish Pesakh, so those who still celebrate Pesakh arre pagans.
In Orthodox Christianity Ressurection is more important holiday than Christmas, since everybody could be born, but not all could ressurect, and that is the holy gift of Christ to the humanity.
Traditional Ressurection greeting conversation here is "Христос Воскресе!" - "Воистину Воскресе!" i.e. "Christ is risen!" - "Risen indeed!".
Many Christian holidays are coincide with pre-Christian ones and kind of have meaning close to them. One could describe that like replacement or celebrations inheritance of natural cycles holidays.
However, once I met with one interesting and inspirational interpretation one Orthodox priest told me about: Christ Advent and Earth life with following Ressurection was not just regular human historical event, but real God-driven event in time-space continuum. So, that 4-dimensional (as minimun) event manifested itself not only in space, spreading out of small geographical point of Judea in all directions, but equally in time to the past and the future. That is why our ancestors had similar holidays long before they had a chance to know Christ. Not that I insist on that interpretation, but it imspire me a lot, because that is how real manifestation of God in our universe should look like.
Христос Воскресе!
Воистину Воскресе! but it's too early for Orthodox Church. We will celebrate Christ Ressurection at May 5 this year. :)
In any case, if you celebrate today - "He is Risen!". Have a nice celebration.
He is risen indeed.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/2936992/fairfax-countys-board-supervisors-mocks-christians-designating-easter-transgender-visibility-day/
This is not that far from.the place where i attempt to sleep at night. I'm SURE it's unrelated, just thought you would like to know.
Interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Nice start, I'll provide color. Semiramis lived much later than Nimrod and was templated onto the extant lore; probably true of some of the other names too. The oldest name is Hawah (stolen from the real Eve), shortly templated onto Inanna (her grotesque caricature), who then picked up the other familiar Ishtar threads. Tammuz comes from Dumuzid of the Sumerian King List. The names in the attachment come from a wide and varied field and many do not syncretize them so it's best to stick to the clearest threads.
"The legend describes her descent from heaven within a giant egg, landing in the Euphrates River during sunrise on the first Sunday following the vernal equinox." That's not at all ancient, way too specific, but is a conflation of several later strands, including AD.
"The following Easter, the priests would sacrifice these now three-month-old babies and dye the eggs of Easter in their blood." Same imaginativeness. We do no credit to the enemy to admit him such farsightedness, Easter eggs are very ad hoc and do not have this hyperspecific root. Plus the legend of the dying husband reincarnated as the baby was usually not conflated with the legend of the baby sacrificed for the sins of others, as the latter defeats the purpose of the former.
There's one mention of Easter in KJV but it translates Pascha, the Passover season, which is mandated in Leviticus 23 with different rules (including having the Jews worship on what is now Resurrection Sunday, there called Firstfruits: Jews on Sunday, a real shocker). However, there are plenty of mentions of Ashtarte/Ashtoreth and Asherah/Asherim in the Hebrew, and they should be consulted for this narrative.
I've found ways to accommodate the followers of Jesus who also like "Easter", and the ways of peace are very beneficial here. However, for each person who is convicted against celebration of Easter, and who finds other ways to celebrate an annual Resurrection Day as God indicates, I uphold entirely the right of conscience as long as the facts are stuck to. There are some good bits in the above.
Oh! I GET IT! REZ-ERECTION (sic)
You want to celebrate a Christian Easter? WWWJD? Go donate your time instead of spending it at a church or feasting.
What did Jesus do? He feasted, with His friends.
a) RE (respond to) COGNIZE (perception)...name implies as suggested by another. Suggestion contradicts cognition.
b) VA'RIOUS, adjective (Latin varius) - "different; several; manifold; changeable; uncertain; unfixed"...notice that ones consent to any suggested variable (words; names; numbers) tempts one to affix it within self, hence for example living "in the name of" such a suggested variable.
Being implies VARI (different perception) within ATION (perceivable same)...suggested variations tempts one to ignore that.
CELEBRATE (to give to) TION (action) implies action (inception towards death) giving to re-actions (life).
Suggested CELEBRATE implies the inversion of perceivable CELIBATE, which is what action gives...each ones single/separated life.
Only this and not without edits either: "VA'RIOUS, adjective (Latin varius) - "different; several; manifold; changeable; uncertain; unfixed"... https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/various
WASTE, verb - "to diminish by gradual dissipation or loss"...what if being implies growth (life) within loss (inception towards death)? What if waste (ongoing loss) generates resources (temporary growth)?
a) If cause (inception towards death) generates effects (life), then can there be another cause?
b) If energy implies cause for each effect within; then what does "otherwise" imply?
c) If WISE implies to know (to perceive); then what if suggested wisdom by another tempts one to ignore that?
tl; dr...does suggestion contradict cognition?
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