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 Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 11:20 pm
Found this the other day; someone linked it for Stephen Fry who retweeted. Quite good!
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 11:50 am
Nice Now if only I could find some solid research on that "Ishtar is the origin of Easter" thing that's been making the rounds on Facebook.
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 12:11 pm
I saw that. I was gonna ask about that too. Reminds me of when Lent was starting and me and one of the other club officers got into a heated debate over if Christians were practicing Lent wrong or not. cat_rolleyes
For clarification: One of my friends had posted that she wasn't going to give up anything for Lent because she's not Catholic but was instead going to indulge herself because she usually lets work rule her life. One guy they used to roleplay with (he quit before I joined) made a comment about how she still actually was participating in Lent because of the whole meaning behind it and I made a comment to the guy about how it was backwards because she wasn't sacrificing something she needed to bring herself closer to God. Then the other officer jumps in completely derailing the topic to tell me that I was wrong and my friend was doing it right because Lent used to be Pagan so Christians have been doing it wrong. He even told me that he would have done the same thing if we were talking about a different Christian holiday etc. So I'm just convinced that when it comes to stuff like that he doesn't know what he's talking about. Plus he's a drama starter so...
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 4:56 pm
CalledTheRaven Nice Now if only I could find some solid research on that "Ishtar is the origin of Easter" thing that's been making the rounds on Facebook. Yeah, I've pretty much wanted to vomit every time I've seen that quoted. Looks like this might be a good article to smack back at it with... Beyond Ishtar: The Tradition of Eggs at Easter
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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 2:35 am
too2sweet CalledTheRaven Nice Now if only I could find some solid research on that "Ishtar is the origin of Easter" thing that's been making the rounds on Facebook. Yeah, I've pretty much wanted to vomit every time I've seen that quoted. Looks like this might be a good article to smack back at it with... Beyond Ishtar: The Tradition of Eggs at EasterYay! Thanks for that.
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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 5:27 am
Did you read some of the comments at the bottom of the page? Good grief. The article itself was very good though.
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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 10:17 am
iKillCaustic--uKillMe Did you read some of the comments at the bottom of the page? Good grief. The article itself was very good though. I tend to avoid reading quotes on that kin of thing unless I'm in a mood for a fight. This one was comedy gold though. Quote: “Eastre” or “Eostre” (in the Northumbrian dialect) is the Anglo-Saxon name of the Indo-European Goddess of the dawn. She was an important divinity, and her name shows up in various forms in the kindred languages: Latin “Aurora,” Greek “Eos” (Homer’s “Rosy-Fingered Dawn”), Vedic Sanskrit “Ushas,” Old High German “Ostara.” All of these names ultimately go back to a root *aus- which meant something like “shine” and was used to describe the rising sun and the direction of the sunrise. “East” in Modern English is from the same root. The newly-converted Anglo-Saxons chose to name the Christian holiday after their beloved Goddess: “Eastredaeg.” Most other Christian communities kept the name of the Jewish spring festival during which the crucifixion was supposed to have taken place. As the author points out, Ishtar was a completely different Goddess form a completely different culture and time period.
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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 7:02 am
CalledTheRaven iKillCaustic--uKillMe Did you read some of the comments at the bottom of the page? Good grief. The article itself was very good though. I tend to avoid reading quotes on that kin of thing unless I'm in a mood for a fight. This one was comedy gold though. Quote: “Eastre” or “Eostre” (in the Northumbrian dialect) is the Anglo-Saxon name of the Indo-European Goddess of the dawn. She was an important divinity, and her name shows up in various forms in the kindred languages: Latin “Aurora,” Greek “Eos” (Homer’s “Rosy-Fingered Dawn”), Vedic Sanskrit “Ushas,” Old High German “Ostara.” All of these names ultimately go back to a root *aus- which meant something like “shine” and was used to describe the rising sun and the direction of the sunrise. “East” in Modern English is from the same root. The newly-converted Anglo-Saxons chose to name the Christian holiday after their beloved Goddess: “Eastredaeg.” Most other Christian communities kept the name of the Jewish spring festival during which the crucifixion was supposed to have taken place. As the author points out, Ishtar was a completely different Goddess form a completely different culture and time period. Heh heh. Yes I did find that one rather humerous.
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