The Roots of Easter

by

Anthony Valasek

Every year in April, Christians around the world celebrate Easter. They think it is a holiday dedicated to our savior Yahshua (Jesus Christ). Though they are celebrating a religious holiday, the problem is they are not sure whose religion this holiday comes from. I've gathered some sources together to show how the Easter holiday is nothing more than the worship of Nimrod and his mother/wife Semiramus.

In Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, under EASTER it states; pascha (Strong's #3957), mistranslated "Easter" in Acts 12:4, KJV, denotes the Passover. The term "Easter" is not of Christian origin. It is another form of Astarte, one of the titles of the Chaldean goddess, the queen of heaven.

In Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Dictionary, under EASTER, we find; Easter was originally a pagan festival honoring Eostre, a Teutonic goddess of light and spring. At the time of the vernal equinox, sacrifices were offered in her honor.

In The Two Babylons, Alexander Hislop states that Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven (Jeremiah 7:18), whose name, as pronounced by the people of Nineveh, was evidently identical with that now in common use in this country. That name as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar (the goddess of love and fertility).

The hot cross buns of Good Friday, and the dyed eggs of Pasch or Easter Sunday, figured in the Chaldean rites just as they do now. The "buns" were used in the worship of the queen of heaven, the goddess Easter, 1500 years before the Christian era.

These cakes were often covered or baked with honey in direct violation of Leviticus 2:11.

The Nelson Study Bible, on Jeremiah 7:18 states, "The queen of heaven refers to the goddess Ishtar (Astarte), who was worshiped in open-air cultic centers throughout the eastern Mediterranean region and Mesopotamia."

Referring back to The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop; the origin of the Pasch (not to be confused with Pesach) eggs is just as clear. The ancient Druids bore an egg, as the sacred emblem of their order. In the mysteries of Bacchus, as celebrated in Athens, one part of the nocturnal ceremony consisted in the consecration of an egg. In ancient times eggs were used in the religious rites of the Egyptians and the Greeks, and were hung up for mystic purposes in their temples.

Bacchus was none other than Tammuz (Ezekiel 8:14), who is none other than Ninus or Nimrod (Genesis 10:8-9).

Hyginus, the Egyptian, wrote, "An egg of wondrous size is said to have fallen from heaven into the river Euphrates. The fishes rolled it to the bank where the doves having settled upon it, and hatched it, out came Venus, who afterwards was called the Syrian Goddess, Astarte. Hence, the egg became one of the symbols of Astarte or Easter.

Along these same lines, knowing that Ishtar was the goddess of fertility, the symbols of fertility were the egg, which gives life, and the rabbit, that multiplies exceedingly.

Easter was officially recognized by the Roman Catholics in the Council of Nicea in 325 AD for converting pagans to the ways of Christianity by blending the two religions.

I could go on and on about the links to Nimrod. Those of you that have read my articles covering Christmas and Valentine's Day should by now be able to see the links of our "Christian" holidays with the worship of Nimrod.