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Some suggest an etymological relationship between Eostre and the Sumerian goddess Ishtar ([2] [3] [4] [5]) and the possibility that aspects of an ancient festival accompanied the name, claiming that the worship of Bel and Astarte was anciently introduced into Britain, and that the hot cross buns of Good Friday and dyed eggs of Easter Sunday figured in the Chaldean rites just as they do now.
At best, any connection between Ishtar and Easter is geographically and linguistically distant, and tangential. In Old English, "Easter" was the name of Goddess of the Dawn, whose festival was observed at the vernal equinox. Her festival is believed to be responsible for the bunnies and the chicks and the Easter eggs - at least as they were celebrated in England.
Otherwise, claiming a connection between Ishtar and Easter ignores the fact that Easter is called "Passover" in almost every other language in the world. (The only exceptions appear to be the languages of those people who first learned Christianity at the hands of English or other Anglophone missionaries.) The Hebrew Pesach became the Greek Paskha and the Latin Pascha, and from their became Spanish La Pascua and Las Pascuas, Scots Gaelic An Casca ("p" sound mutated to "k" sound), and so on.
There is the additional problem that the very lands where Ishtar was once known have never been known to use a name like "Easter" for this or any other spring holiday. |
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