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MrO ago

Easter didn't come from Ishtar. Eostre is not Ishtar (very different goddesses from different countries). And it's only English and German speaking Christians who refer to the celebration of Jesus' resurrection as "Easter." Nearly everyone else uses a variation on Pesach (Paschal). Although it comes at around the same time as Easter (indeed, the Last Supper was probably a Pesach seder), it is not Easter. According to the Venerable Bede (7th century), The word Easter does not come directly from the deity Eostre, but from the fact that the celebration of the resurrection usually falls in what in Bede's time was still called Eostremonth ( now April), even though it had been centuries since the Anglo Saxons had worshiped Eostre the month still bore her name. This seems reasonable enough, since we still use the names of Roman, Greek, and Nordic gods for the names of some of our months and days.