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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.

kestrel9 ago

Thank you...cakeoflightylight needs to study history as to why Catholics and Orthodox Christians don't celebrate Pascha on the same day, and why they are not in communion with each other.

Pascha, what Westerners know only as ..."Easter and the holidays that are related to it are moveable feasts, in that they do not fall on a fixed date in the Gregorian or Julian calendars (both of which follow the cycle of the sun and the seasons). Instead, the date for Easter is determined on a lunisolar calendar similar to the Hebrew calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established two rules, independence of the Jewish calendar and worldwide uniformity, which were the only rules for Easter explicitly laid down by the Council. No details for the computation were specified; these were worked out in practice, a process that took centuries and generated a number of controversies. (See also Computus and Reform of the date of Easter.) In particular, the Council did not decree that Easter must fall on Sunday. This was already the practice almost everywhere.[49][incomplete short citation] In Western Christianity, using the Gregorian calendar, Easter always falls on a Sunday between 22 March and 25 April inclusive, within about seven days after the astronomical full moon.[50] The following day, Easter Monday, is a legal holiday in many countries with predominantly Christian traditions." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter