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Happy Easter
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The bells of Hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling
For you but not for me:
O death, where is thy sting-a-ling-a-ling?
O grave, thy victory?
Crux-Emperor Baracus X
Rectidolor
Happy Easter....here's a little contribution.
(Plenty more where that came from...ask nicely and you shall receive...
)
(Plenty more where that came from...ask nicely and you shall receive...
)
ON A PROFESSIONAL LEVEL, I CAN'T SEE MYSELF ENDORSING ALL THIS RESURRECTION AND COMING BACK TO LIFE STUFF. UNOFFICIALLY I WOULD LIKE, OF COURSE TO WISH EVERYONE THE BEST OF THE SEASON. AND JUST TO GET INTO THE SPIRIT, I'VE PAINTED A CHEERFUL PICTURE.
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!
ON A PROFESSIONAL LEVEL, I CAN'T SEE MYSELF ENDORSING ALL THIS RESURRECTION AND COMING BACK TO LIFE STUFF. UNOFFICIALLY I WOULD LIKE, OF COURSE TO WISH EVERYONE THE BEST OF THE SEASON. AND JUST TO GET INTO THE SPIRIT, I'VE PAINTED A CHEERFUL PICTURE.
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HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!
And a masterpiece it is!
ON A PROFESSIONAL LEVEL, I CAN'T SEE MYSELF ENDORSING ALL THIS RESURRECTION AND COMING BACK TO LIFE STUFF. UNOFFICIALLY I WOULD LIKE, OF COURSE TO WISH EVERYONE THE BEST OF THE SEASON. AND JUST TO GET INTO THE SPIRIT, I'VE PAINTED A CHEERFUL PICTURE.
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HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!
I consider myself duly cheered up!
Happy Easter!
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Still annoyed by that event, on the only one sunday, almost 2000 years ago, you exceptionally took a day of leave?
Happy Easter everybody!
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Happy Easter, FSG!
AnimaSinistra
Governor
Happy Easter to all the people and friends I have met here!
Yupar
Regina Iudaeorum
Queen of Jews is unsafe
foggybottom
Venator imaginum
Some History for Those Who Were Wondering About The Origin of Easter
Easter is historically the most confusing holiday. Besides the calculation being complex, the traditions are also a blend of various different cultures. I have written how New Year’s Eve is really a Roman tradition celebrating the god Janus who was pictured with two faces one looking back and the other to the future. Christmas is December 25th was selected because it was a pagan festival for the sun god Sol. We have even borrowed how Sol was pictured with a halo that was the sunlight around his head. Today the original meaning fades into history and people just enjoy the day off. More or less, December 25th was just embedded in the culture so it was easier to just rename it Christmas than outlaw the holiday.
Then there is the tradition of Easter. Where does the word even come from? Was this too a pagan ritual transformed into Christianity? The holiday was originally called Eostre as late as the 8th century. It is mentioned by Saint Bede who was an English Benedictine monk at the monastery in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles. He noted the native Anglo-Saxon calendar in De Temporum Ratione (On the Reckoning of Time) had named April as Eostremonath after the goddess Eostre who he tells us she was associated with the spring and was a time when “feasts were celebrated” in her honor.
In Germany, there was Jacob Grimm, known for his fairytales. He seems to have borrowed the Anglo-Saxon goddess calling her Ostara explaining that she was “the divinity of the radiant dawn, upspringing light, a spectacle that brings joy and blessing.” In Christianity, Easter is preceded by Lent, which was to reflect a period of fasting in memory of Christ’s 40 days in the wilderness. Nonetheless, in medieval times, this was also a period of ending winter when the food stored from the summer was naturally running low. The spring fever we tend to feel is also felt by animals and this is when hens to start laying and cows begin to give milk. Easter was a natural feast celebrating the end of winter’s hardship.
We know that Easter is associated with the lamb which comes from Jewish tradition at Passover and of course, Jesus and his disciples celebrated with their Last Supper. The date is also tied to the Jewish festival of Passover. So Easter is not a pagan ritual historically as was Christmas. But it is still a blend of cultures that seem to have all come together to form what we call Easter retaining the Anglo-Saxon goddess name.
Now we have to understand where did the bunny laying eggs come from or the traditional Easter Egg hunt. The earliest documented mention of decorating eggs for Easter comes in 1290 England. There, buried in the household accounts of King Edward I for 1290, we discover records for the purchase and decoration of 450 eggs that were dyed and some were gilded with gold probably for the special guests. The English tradition was for children to play with their “pace-eggs” by rolling them on the ground before eating them. Hence, the Easter eggs are rolled on the lawn of the White House, which seems to be a tradition that began in 1878.
The tradition of a bunny rabbit seems to have begun in Bavaria (southern Germany). There appears to be the origin of a hunt for children to find eggs that were hidden in the garden. They were supposed to have been placed there by a rabbit or hare. There are some accounts dating back to the early 17th century where they also eat the rabbit. This may be part of the spring feast. Accounts are not very clear from that period in time. But we know there was a hunt looking for eggs placed there by a rabbit, which they may have eaten as well. We do know that in England they would hunt rabbits and eat them for the spring which dates back to the 16th century.
An Easter tradition of eggs makes sense insofar as it was the symbol of life. The rabbit seems to be just the traditional meal after winter. Thus, Easter is a curious blend of customs that are connected with celebrating spring and the end of a hard winter, with the resurrection of Christ and thus the egg being life, the lamb is the sacrifice, and the rabbit was just a good meal.
Easter is historically the most confusing holiday. Besides the calculation being complex, the traditions are also a blend of various different cultures. I have written how New Year’s Eve is really a Roman tradition celebrating the god Janus who was pictured with two faces one looking back and the other to the future. Christmas is December 25th was selected because it was a pagan festival for the sun god Sol. We have even borrowed how Sol was pictured with a halo that was the sunlight around his head. Today the original meaning fades into history and people just enjoy the day off. More or less, December 25th was just embedded in the culture so it was easier to just rename it Christmas than outlaw the holiday.
Then there is the tradition of Easter. Where does the word even come from? Was this too a pagan ritual transformed into Christianity? The holiday was originally called Eostre as late as the 8th century. It is mentioned by Saint Bede who was an English Benedictine monk at the monastery in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles. He noted the native Anglo-Saxon calendar in De Temporum Ratione (On the Reckoning of Time) had named April as Eostremonath after the goddess Eostre who he tells us she was associated with the spring and was a time when “feasts were celebrated” in her honor.
In Germany, there was Jacob Grimm, known for his fairytales. He seems to have borrowed the Anglo-Saxon goddess calling her Ostara explaining that she was “the divinity of the radiant dawn, upspringing light, a spectacle that brings joy and blessing.” In Christianity, Easter is preceded by Lent, which was to reflect a period of fasting in memory of Christ’s 40 days in the wilderness. Nonetheless, in medieval times, this was also a period of ending winter when the food stored from the summer was naturally running low. The spring fever we tend to feel is also felt by animals and this is when hens to start laying and cows begin to give milk. Easter was a natural feast celebrating the end of winter’s hardship.
We know that Easter is associated with the lamb which comes from Jewish tradition at Passover and of course, Jesus and his disciples celebrated with their Last Supper. The date is also tied to the Jewish festival of Passover. So Easter is not a pagan ritual historically as was Christmas. But it is still a blend of cultures that seem to have all come together to form what we call Easter retaining the Anglo-Saxon goddess name.
Now we have to understand where did the bunny laying eggs come from or the traditional Easter Egg hunt. The earliest documented mention of decorating eggs for Easter comes in 1290 England. There, buried in the household accounts of King Edward I for 1290, we discover records for the purchase and decoration of 450 eggs that were dyed and some were gilded with gold probably for the special guests. The English tradition was for children to play with their “pace-eggs” by rolling them on the ground before eating them. Hence, the Easter eggs are rolled on the lawn of the White House, which seems to be a tradition that began in 1878.
The tradition of a bunny rabbit seems to have begun in Bavaria (southern Germany). There appears to be the origin of a hunt for children to find eggs that were hidden in the garden. They were supposed to have been placed there by a rabbit or hare. There are some accounts dating back to the early 17th century where they also eat the rabbit. This may be part of the spring feast. Accounts are not very clear from that period in time. But we know there was a hunt looking for eggs placed there by a rabbit, which they may have eaten as well. We do know that in England they would hunt rabbits and eat them for the spring which dates back to the 16th century.
An Easter tradition of eggs makes sense insofar as it was the symbol of life. The rabbit seems to be just the traditional meal after winter. Thus, Easter is a curious blend of customs that are connected with celebrating spring and the end of a hard winter, with the resurrection of Christ and thus the egg being life, the lamb is the sacrifice, and the rabbit was just a good meal.
Now, there are two very bored looking Romans.
Nice image. Happy Easter to you too.
Shall I release...
Messaline
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Sorry Messa, the consensus seems to be crucifixion...
Happy Easter
3D figures courtesy of @hornet1ba
Happy Easter 3D figures courtesy of @hornet1ba
Yes, this has become a popular modern reading in the English speaking world. It doesn't work at all where the feast isn't even called Easter, such as most of the non English speaking world, where the term derives from pascha, itself related to the Hebrew pesach, the Passover. Easter is of course the feast of Christ's death and resurrection, and it took place at the time of the Jewish Passover, to which it is linked. Christ is referred to as the paschal lamb. The use of "Easter" in English may or may not be related to a goddess Eostre, we only have Bede' musings on that, but the feast itself really isn't. Anyone using the term Eostre in the 8th century would have belonged to a very small subset of all Christians, living on the remote northern edge of Christendom.
Crux-Emperor Baracus X
Rectidolor
What about this grenade..... ??
Pretty much covered by my previous post.
a) Ishtar is not pronounced Easter
b) Easter as a Christian feast derives from the Jewish Passover if anything, not some pagan goddess whose name sounds a bit like the English word for the feast.
c) Constantine spoke Latin, not English, so he certainly didn't decide to change Easter from representing Ishtar to representing Jesus. He lived in the 4th century, a time when none of the speakers of what would become English were even Christian.
Can these people get their story straight? Is it Eostre, the obscure Anglo Saxon goddess, or Ishtar, the Babylonian one? And why does the goddess in both cases only sound like the English word easter, not pascha?
There are piles of refutations of this meme, it's not hard to find them. As one says:
Hey! Guess what language Constantine, the Roman Emperor, spoke? Not English, that’s for sure! In fact, when he was alive, English didn’t even exist yet. He would have spoken Latin or Ancient Greek, so would likely have referred to Easter as Pascha or Πάσχα.
Another points out:
Those who peddle this stupid New Age “Ishtar = Easter” meme also don’t explain how the word somehow jumped all the way from the Middle East to England, skipping pretty much every single other Christian nation on the way. This is why, despite the fact the festival is called “Easter” in the English speaking world, in almost every other European language it is some variant on the Greek Πάσχα:
French: Pâques; Romanian: Paşti; Portugese: Páscoa; Italian: Pasqua; Spanish: Pascua; Faeroese: Páskir; Swedish: Påsk; Icelandic: Páskar; Welsh: Pasg; Norwegian: Påske; Danish: Påske; Dutch: Pasen; Russia: Paskha.
Scientific American points out here:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.co...eyond-ishtar-the-tradition-of-eggs-at-easter/
Ishtar may well have some connection to the rites of Spring, and admittedly Easter itself is an observance of Spring, but in an age when so much wrong has been done in the name of religion, and religion is a focal point for criticism and debate, it's worth remembering that the overlap of time and history has given us richer traditions than any of us can truly be aware of—and that memes shouldn't be taken at face value.
Just remember, if you indulge in Bad History, Alien Mummy will hunt you down and kill you. Just saying
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Crux-Emperor Baracus X
Rectidolor
Don't worry @phlebas I don't religiously believe it either....lol.
Let's just Crucify a guy with a Spanish-sounding name and dedicate it to him.....