Easter - Pagan or Christian? (Video)

Hello friends! This is the first out of three videos about the Vernal Equinox (Spring). In this one the question is simple - is Easter Pagan or Christian?. On the next video I will talk about the goddess Eostre and the connection between Easter and rabbits/hares and eggs. On the final video I will talk about the Northern-European pagan celebration called Sigrblót/Sigerblot/Ostarablot. Enjoy friends and tack för idag! :D

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Eostre - Goddess of Fertility

In the mythologically traditions of the Germanic and Anglo-Saxon peoples, the goddess Eostre represents the forces/the powers of rebirth and fertility of the earth. Her celebrations, Ostara, gave birth to the origins of the Christian celebrations of Easter. It is interesting to note that the date of Easter changes every year, unlike most of the other christian celebration, being calculated "in a pagan way" - as the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. Thus it hasinto account a solar principle (equinox), and a beginning of the moon  ( fullmoon) and a ground/earth principle (Spring).This triad is then a direct equivalence to a generator principle in which there are two polarities that are necessary (man - Sun and woman - moon), to be created the necessary conditions for the birth of a third element (Child - Earth).

The tradition of the "Easter Bunny" has ancient origins, because this animal - that perfectly embodies the principle of fecundity, reproducing in large numbers and speed - it was consecrated by Eostre long before the advent of Christianity, as were the eggs. t may be something strange at first sight, coupled with the symbol of the rabbit with the egg, because the rabbits are mammals and do not generate eggs.However, the presence of these two symbols will function to enhance the principle of generation, the egg representes the "primordial egg" - "feminine" polarity, nurturing and generative - where all life was created, acording to several ancient traditions of mankind, and the rabbit as a "masculine" principle - fertilizer.


Eostre has a Proto-Germanic root which means "to shine", which leads this goddess as a link with the dawn. There is also a Proto-Indo-European connection, the words Ausos, with roots to the goddesses Usas ( Indian ), Eos ( Greek ) and Aurora ( Latin ).
Eostre symbolizes the fruitful and regenerative character resulting from the union between the sun and the earth.

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Easter - Pagan or Christian ?

When we celebrate Easter, do we know what the rabbit and eggs symbolize and do they actually have anything to do with Jesus’ resurrection? Its quite interesting to know where these symbols came from...

When the christian missionaries wanted to convert the Pagans to Christians they thought the easier way would be to incorporate some Pagan beliefs with the story of Christ.
Many people celebrate Easter, thinking that this was the time when Christ resurrection took place, but Easter is a pagan festival, it is the coming of spring and the actual rebirth of nature after the dark times of the harsh winter, and the church adopted this concept, and turned it into the ressurection of jesus, it was a very affective propaganda, and so the pagans used to celebrate this time, would easily welcome a person who was actualy the rebirth of the seasons himself, into their celebrations.

This is the time for joy, and to welcome the harm sun and the power of nature, after its "death" at winter time, it can return in such a beauty and a cosy feeling, when people can start their crops again and enjoy and take what the earth has to give.

So is Easter Pagan or Christian?

In reality, Easter does not represent the "historical" crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, in fact, the gospel tale reflects the annual "crossification" of the sun through the vernal equinox (Spring) at which time the sun is  "resurected", as the day begins to become longer then the night. Rather then being a "chirstian" holiday, Easter celebrations date back into remotest antiquity and are found around the world as the blossoming of spring did not escape the notice of the ancients, who revered this life-renewing time of the year, when winter had passed and the sun was "born again".

To the Anglo-Saxons, Easter or Eostre is the goddess of the dawn, but i will make a post about it, just to talk about Eostre.

The word "Easter" shares the same root with "east" and "eastern", the direction of the rising sun.

The Syrian sun and fertility god Attis, was annualy hung on a tree, dying and rising on March 24th and 25th, an "Easter celebration" that occured at Rome as well.

This tradition which placed the death of Christ on the twenty-fifth of March was ancient and deeply rooted. This "coincidence" between the  deaths and resurections of Christ and the older Attis was not lost on easly Christians, whom it distressed mightily. In their attempt at explaining the existence of these pre-christian motifs, easly christians apologists, claimed  the devil had gotten there first!
The rises of the "crucified Adonis", another dying and rising  saviour god, were also celebrated in Syria at Easter time.

"When we  reflect how often the church has skillfully contrived to plant the seeds of the new faith on the old stock of paganism, we may surmise that the Easter celebrations of the dead and risen christ,  was grafted upon a similar celebration of the dead  and risen Adonis, which, as we have seen reason to believe, was celebrated in Syria at the same season."

The Salvific death and resurection at Easter of the god, the initiation as remover of sin, and the notion of becoming "born again" are all ages-old pagan motifs or mysteries rehashed in the later Christianity.

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