The Origin of 'Easter,' Bunnies and Eggs
Today, all over the world, Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ in America as "Easter".
But how can we call vacation? It is not so difficult to determine the origin of the name of Christmas, at least, it's a short jump on the "mass of Christ" or service on the date of the birth of Jesus.
And then there's the crazy looking rabbit, and why are all decorated eggs.
What does all this with the miracle of the resurrection to do? Exactly, not much.
But that could be happening in the earlier tradition of the people instead mostly glass, and although the data can not change the fundamental not.It story and life rhythms of the seasons of a surprise to see that His name is holy, holy days of Christianity to its roots probably just the name (s) of the pagan goddess and the death and resurrection of Christ.
In Europe, the festival of the goddess of the dawn, Eostre (also Eastre, Ostara, and a variety of other spellings, depending on the site) is celebrated, usually on the first full moon after the spring equinox.
So what we now call, "April" was once "Eosturmonath" or "Eostre months" mentioned in the Germanic calendar, about 8 Century, "said the Venerable Bede us.
Compared to celebrate Easter on the first Sunday of the Christians of the West after the full moon of the vernal equinox after or the March 21 .*
Did not always formally the case now for the first time by the Council in Nicaea 325 Previously, the date to celebrate the resurrection of an important question. Was also that Easter always falls on Sunday.
It was still very early days of Christianity, and other, older religions were still flourishing. Church officials were not unaware of this festival cooptation and compare existing done to limit the seeds of a new religion on the existing beliefs.
In the East, the festival of Ishtar (correctly pronounced "Easter") and resurrection of Tammuz was held shortly after the day and night are equal.
However, they could be lying there something, even if it is not really new. The house he was tied to many of the same connotations.
The mystery of the death and resurrection remarkably similar in many places and times, and time of year when it will be recognized, there is almost universal across the north of hemisphere.
Some trees or branches that would be brought to the temple, or in some cases, the number would be the figure of the young god to be hung on a sacred tree, and a central stem. For Tammuz, the "tree" and not high-'T ', by the way on this form is a "cross" was used for life in Roman times.
In the final days of fasting, the faithful gathered to sing hymns mourning, and when it was finally finished, it was removed and placed in the twilight of the pain and continued into the night.
In the morning, a big fire was lit and ...
"The faithful have turned pain to pleasure ... opened the tomb. God raised from the dead, and when the priest's lips was the weeping mourners with balm, he said softly in the ear of the good news of salvation, The resurrection was God's promise to his disciples as they celebrated triumphantly from the grave corruption issue. ... In the morning, the divine resurrection was celebrated with joy outburst. wild in Rome, and probably elsewhere, the celebration took the form of a carnival ... "- The Golden Bough, Sir James Frazer, 1922.We remember today when we go to the supermarket and pick up a dozen at any time, when the eggs were a seasonal product. In nature, birds know not to lay eggs throughout the year. their spawning cycles are regulated by natural light, and when the days get shorter, so do the eggs.
If you look at old books food, you'll need some ways to get people from eggs preserved by the cold of winter. Surprisingly good, if the methods, it would be difficult to maintain supplies to all winter, and even if you have an egg would have been welcome.
When the season started? you guessed it.
And if you ever have free range chickens kept, you know that this time of year, they hide them everywhere. Yes, even in the grass. (Maybe not, I've never raised chickens, but when I was in college, my landlord, and there are things I saw personally.)
But there's no Easter bunnies to make the chicken lay eggs?
Well, actually, according to myth, at least one. And it's not a hare, rabbit.
In Europe, the rabbit animal night until the mating season, that is. Then there are rabbits around all day crazy fertility.
Eostre is the totem of a rabbit and after story, the goddess is transformed into a hare. In one legend, the goddess saves a wounded bird she is coming with a rabbit, it is the largest animal. But there was a bird, it could still decide that rabbit eggs, and in gratitude for the goddess, add the eggs of birds of color on festival days ago.
Looking to the Babylonian Ishtar reaching the earth from heaven in a golden egg, although tied with rabbit Tammuz.
The hare in the moon-man saw a rabbit, long before he saw a man.
And the golden egg in the sky to give Mother Nature? Although the sun.
The two met up relations between the sun and the moon, ideal for holidays at the vernal equinox, time of day and night the same venue, and also to show the fruitfulness of the season.
If all this is not enough, there's always the Easter bunny in German, literally the "Easter Bunny" in English, German settlers brought to America in the 1700s. In a variant of the above legend, Eostre changed her pet bird on a bunny to amuse the kids colored eggs, which she very well might.
Since the influence of German origin in the region and the date fixed for Easton, although there is no evidence it is quite possible, in conjunction with one of the first Christmas tree, is Easton, Pennsylvania, home to some of U.S. older versions of Easter bunny or the Easter Bunny as well.
Christos Annest! Have a happy Easter.
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