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What is the meaning of Easter?

by Moe | Apr 5, 2015 | Gods & Goddesses, History of the Brotherhood, Irish History | 0 comments

"Easter is actually an ancient pagan celebration that is centered ona fertility

goddess cult. This time of year represents both the astrological events of the
spring equinox, and also the
harvesting of the eggs with
the golden seed that this
goddess hides around the
world, and thatwe now
celebrate today as a
Christian Holiday." - Moe
Bedard
"The children gather wood,
the fathers kindle the fire,
and the women knead their
dough, to make cakes to the
queen of heaven" (Jer. vii.
18.)
Not many people are aware
thatin Christianity the
holiday that we celebrate as
Easter which represents the
allegorical resurrection of
Jesus Christ, had actually
been derived from an
ancient fertility cult that had
been centered on the
astrological events of the
spring equinox. These springtime celebrations had occurred for thousands of

spring equinox. These springtime celebrations had occurred for thousands of

years long before Christ had been born or the stories of his allegorical death
were told.
It was during the 6th-7th centuries AD when this original pagan holiday was
incorporated into Christianity and the Catholic Church. It would officially
become a Christian Holiday and would be assigned in the bible of the New
Testament to the day of Christ's resurrection and thereafter was called Easter.
The English word Easter is derived from an Old English or Anglo-Saxon word
astre or ostre (or Estarte/Astarte), who was an ancient fertility Goddess that
various Anglo-Saxon Tribes worshiped during the start of this Sixth Age when
they had celebrated this time of year as the suns Passover time, andto whom
sacrifices were annually offered.
Before the Anglo-Saxons had
worshiped Estarte, she was called by
the Sumerian Inanna and later the
Akkadian Ishtar, whose temple
priestesses were the "women of
Ishtar"; ishtaritum and sacred
prostitution was part of this religion
or cult and their temples served as
houses of prostitution, in which the
priestesses were prostitutes. In the
East, to the Phoenicians, Canaanites
and Babylonians she was the Goddess that was known as Astoreth or Ishtar.
She was also theBabylonian Venus orGoddess of love and the consort of the
pagan Fire God, Baal.
Isaiah 57:3-5:"But you, draw near hither, sons of the sorceress, offspring of
the adulterer and the harlot. Of whom 'are you making sport? Against whom
make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? Are ye not children of
transgression, a seed of falsehood? Inflaming yourself with idols under every
green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the cleft of the rocks?"
During the fourth century BC, in Greek mythology she is called Aphrodite who
is the goddess of love, beauty, sexual rapture, pleasure, and procreation, and
her counterpart is the Roman Venus.

The connection of Ishtar (Estarte) and Easter is in the AS ABOVE with Venus
and the zodiacal sign of Virgo, where she bears the child or carries the ear of
corn in her hand. Spica, "ear" (of corn) is the brightest star in Virgo.

On the monuments of the Assyrians they had called her Ishtar and they had
worshiped her as the "Queen of Heaven with Crescent Horns." On an
impression of a Neo-Assyrian seal, dated 883-612 BCE, she is called Ishtar-ofthe-Stars with her striding left leg protruding from a overskirt, revealing a
warrior's kilt indicating her warrior aspect.

Manly P. Hall had written in 'The Secret Teachings of All Ages,' "Ishtar
represents the spirit of fertility, her loss prevents the ripening of the crops
and the maturing of all
life upon the earth. The
gods, realizing that the
loss of Ishtar is
disorganizing all Nature,
send a messenger to the
underworld and demand
her release; and M. P.
Blavatsky in 'Isis Unveiled'
had said, "Sovereign
goddess, lady of the
nether abyss, mother of
gods, queen of the earth,
queen of fecundity....As
the primordial humidity,
whence proceeded all,
Belita is Tamti, or the sea,
the mother of the city of
Erech, therefore, an
infernal goddess. In the world of stars and planets she is known as Ishtar or
Astoreth."
Author Edward Davies, in 'The Druids' wrote; "As Easter is associated with
eggs, we find that Venus, or Astarte, is said to have been hatched by doves
from a wondrous egg that fell from heaven into the Euphrates River and was
rolled ashore by fishes. The ancient Druids bore an egg as the sacred emblem
of their order." (Davies' Druids, p. 208)

It was the descendants of the Canaanites, Babylonians and the Phoenician

Bards (Cohanim, Kohanim or Cohen) who had brought these teachings from
the East. These Phoenician priests would become known as the ancient
Druids of Ireland, Scotland, Gaul and Britain. They were the priests who
introduced this Goddess to the West and into the folds of Christianity during
the 5th-10th centuries. This was the time that the Celtic Druid Church had
merged with the Roman Church to then form the Universal (Catholic) Church
of the East, the West, and a tribe known today as the Anglo-Saxons.
Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old
Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the
resurrection.When the early Church was first forming, one of the issues in
uniting the Brotherhood was the Easter dating controversy. According to the
Celtic Church rule, Easter Day could not be observed later than the 21st of
April, and the Romans would celebrate as late as the 25th of April. The First
Council of Nicaea (325) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after
the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the March equinox. The
modern Jewish Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread is seven days.

In 725, Bede had written, "The

In 725, Bede had written, "The

Sunday following the full Moon
which falls on or after the
equinox will give the lawful
Easter." The Venerable Bede
had helped formulate the date
of Easter by instead of
calculating it from the year of
the building of Rome (A.U.C.),
753 or 754, he had figured the
dating from the beginning year
of the birth of Christ, and
calculated the Easter date for
ninety-five years, from 531 to
626. His calculations and
writings helped establish unity
amongst the various tribes at
the time, to help form the Anglo-Saxons. He also helped establish the
foundation of the early history of England in regards to the Church and the
State.
Saint Bede had attributed the eventual agreement for the Easter date to the
great work of a fellow Celtic Culdee Monk from Iona named Adamnan
(Adomnn), who had helped persuade the king of Northumbria, Aldfrid
(Aldfrid, Aldfridus, or Flann Fna mac Ossu) to agree to this dating of Easter.
Adamnan was a descendant of Colmn mac Stna, a cousin of Saint Columba
and the ancestor, through his son Ainmire, of the kings of Cenl Conaill. For
converting King Aldfrid and several others to Christianity, Adamnan would
become a Saint in the Catholic Church.

In Bede's, "Ecclesiastical History of England," he quotes King Aldfrid

acceptance to the dating of the true celebration of Easter;
"This letter having been read in the presence of King Naiton and many
learned men, and carefully interpreted into his own language by those who
could understand it, he is said to have much rejoiced at the exhortation
thereof; insomuch that, rising from among his nobles that sat about him,
he knelt on the ground, giving thanks to God that he had been found
worthy to receive such a gift from the land of the English."
And indeed," he said, "I knew before, that this was the true celebration of
Easter, but now I so fully learn the reason for observing this time, that I
seem in all points to have known but little before concerning these
matters. Therefore I publicly declare and protest to you that are here
present, that I will for ever observe this time of Easter, together with all my
nation; and I do decree that this tonsure, which we have heard to be

nation; and I do decree that this tonsure, which we have heard to be

reasonable, shall be received by all clerks in my kingdom." Without delay
he accomplished by his royal authority what he had said.
Soon after the conversion of the king of Northrumbia, a priest named
Egbercht would help convert his fellow Druid-Culdee monks on the Island of
Iona (Isle of Hii). Bede again writes about the events at this time;
THE MONKS OF HH AND THE MONASTERIES SUBJECT TO THEM BEGIN TO
CELEBRATE THE CANONICAL EASTER AT THE PREACHING OF EGBERCHT.
Nor long after, those monks also of the Scottish nation, who lived in the
isle of Hii, with the other monasteries that were subject to them, were by
the assistance of our Lord brought to the canonical observation of Easter,
and the right mode of tonsure. For in the year after the incarnation of our
Lord 716, when Osfred was slain, and Coenred took upon him the
government of the kingdom of the Northumbrians, the holy father and
priest, Egbercht, beloved of God, and worthy to be named with all honour,
whom we have often mentioned before, coming among them, was joyfully
and honourably received.
Being a most agreeable teacher, and devout in practicing those things
which he taught, and being willingly heard by all, he, by his pious and
frequent exhortations, converted them from that inveterate tradition of
their ancestors, of whom may be said those words of the apostle, "That
they had the zeal of God, but not according to knowledge." He taught them
to perform the principal solemnity after the catholic and apostolic manner,
as has been said, under the figure of a perpetual circle; which appears to
have been accomplished by a wonderful dispensation of the Divine
goodness; to the end, that the same nation which had willingly, and
without envy, communicated to the English people the knowledge of the
true Deity, should afterwards, by means of the English nation, be brought
where they were defective to the true rule of life.
Even as, on the contrary, the Britons, who would not acquaint the English
with the knowledge of the Christian faith, now, when the English people
enjoy the true faith, and are thoroughly instructed in its rules, continue
inveterate in their errors, expose their heads without a crown, and keep
the solemnity of Christ without the society of the Church.
The monks of Hii, by the instruction of Egbercht, adopted the catholic rites,
under Abbot Dunchad, about eighty years after they had sent Aidan to
preach to the English nation. This man of God, Egbercht, remained thirteen
years in the aforesaid island, which he had thus consecrated again to
Christ, by kindling in it a new ray of Divine grace, and restoring it to the
unity of ecclesiastical discipine. In the year of our Lord's incarnation 729, in
which the Easter of our Lord was celebrated on the eighth day of the
kalends of May, he performed the solemnity of the mass, in memory of the
same resurrection of our Lord, and dying that same day, thus finished, or
rather never ceases to celebrate, with our Lord, the apostles, and the other
citizens of heaven, that greatest festival, which he had begun with the
brethren, whom he had converted to the unity of grace. But it was a
wonderful dispensation of the Divine Providence, that the venerable man

wonderful dispensation of the Divine Providence, that the venerable man

not only passed out of this world to the Father, in Easter, but also when
Easter was celebrated on that day, on which it had never been wont to be
kept in those parts.
The brethren rejoiced in the certain and catholic knowledge of the time of
Easter, and rejoiced in the protection of their father, departed to our Lord,
by whom they had been converted. He also congratulated his being so
long continued in the flesh till he saw his followers admit, and celebrate
with him, that as Easter day which they had ever before avoided. Thus the
most reverend father being assured of their standing corrected, rejoiced to
see the day of our Lord, and he saw it and was glad.
Easter is the fundamental and most important festival of the Eastern and
Oriental Orthodox Churches:
This is the Expected and Holy Day,
The One among the Sabbaths,
The Sovereign and Lady of days,
Feast of feasts, Celebration of celebrations,
On which we praise Christ for all eternity!

In the British Museum

there can be found on an
ancient tablet, the story of
the descent of Ishtar into
Hades and herreturn to
the world of the living.
Ishtar, daughter of the
Moon-god San, turned
her mind to the land of
Hades, the region of
her desire. She
determined to go to
the house where all
meet, the dwelling of
the god Irkalla; to the
house which men
enter, but cannot
depart from; to the road men go, but cannot return. In that abode of
darkness and famine earth is their food, clay their nourishment. No light is
there seen; they dwell in darkness. There ghosts, like birds, flutter their
wings; the dust lies undisturbed on the door and gate posts.
When Ishtar arrived at the gate of Hades she spoke to the keeper of the
gate: "O keeper! Open thy gate! Open thy gate! I say, that I may enter! If
thou openest not thy gate, I will assault the door; I will break down the
gate; I will attack the entrance; I will split open the portals. I will raise the
dead to be the devourers of the living! The dead shall prey upon the living!"

dead to be the devourers of the living! The dead shall prey upon the living!"
In the book, 'Persian literature, ancient and modern,' by Elizabeth Armstrong
Reed, there is a good description of what her name changes and her rites
were at the time;
In column II of the tablet under consideration, we find the story of the king
whom Ishtar changed into a leopard, "and his own dogs bit him to pieces."
No one can doubt that we see here the original of the Greek fable of
Actaeon, the hero who offended the goddess Diana, when she revenged
herself by changing him into a deer, and his dogs no longer knowing their
master, fell upon him and tore him to pieces.1 The classic authors of
Greece and Home, however, attribute the fate of Actaeon to the vengeance
of the strong and graceful Diana, whom he offended by allowing his eyes
to rest upon her rich beauty, while the tablet ascribes the fate of the king
to the wanton cruelty of Ishtar.
Diana is sometimes identified with Hecate, the daughter of Asteria or
Ishtar, and she retains the characteristics of her mother by appearing as
the goddess of the moon. Her temple at Ephesus, with its hundred and
twenty-seven columns of Parian marble, was one of the "Seven Wonders of
the World," but the hideous idol within it was roughly carved of wood, not
as a beautiful huntress, but as an Egyptian monster, whose deformity was
hidden by a curtain.
33 Degree Freemason Manly P. Hall said this in the encyclopedia outline
"Masonic, Hermetic, Quabbalistic & Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy;"
At the first gate the great crown is removed from her head, at the second
gate the earrings from her ears, at the third gate the necklace from her
neck, at the fourth gate the ornaments from her breast, at the fifth gate
the girdle from her waist, at the sixth gate the bracelets from her hands
and feet, and at the seventh gate the covering cloak of her body. Ishtar
remonstrates as each successive article of apparel is taken from her, but
the guardian tells her that this is the experience of all who enter the
somber domain of death. Enraged upon beholding Ishtar, the Mistress of
Hades inflicts upon her all manner of disease and imprisons her in the
underworld.
As Ishtar represents the spirit of fertility, her loss prevents the ripening of
the crops and the maturing of all life upon the earth...The gods, realizing
that the loss of Ishtar is disorganizing all Nature, send a messenger to the
underworld and demand her release.

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