Topic: Ishtar-Easter. Sex, fertility, drugs, then,
willing2's photo
Sun 03/31/13 05:50 PM
Rock-n-freakin' Roll.:banana: smokin



Hell no. This ain't sacrilegious, it's about separating one truth from another.

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Sun 03/31/13 05:59 PM
Edited by MetalShadow6 on Sun 03/31/13 06:00 PM
I am aware the Easter is a pagan holiday of sex. Passover was incorrectly translated for a dumb reason. It was a way to try to bring the pagans into the church. I prefer Resurrection Day or Passover.

willing2's photo
Sun 03/31/13 06:12 PM
So, is everyone supposed to try and knock someone up for Ishtar?smokin

I'll volunteer to donate a load.

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Sun 03/31/13 06:17 PM
EGGS !
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.....And BUNNYS !

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willing2's photo
Sun 03/31/13 06:35 PM

EGGS !
lol
.....And BUNNYS !

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Must mean women drop the eggs and men fck 'rm like rabbits.smokin

JustDukkyMkII's photo
Sun 03/31/13 06:54 PM
This seems like the most appropriate thread to wish everyone a Happy Spring Fertility Rites. (I was beginning to think nobody else knew about my favourite seasonal celebration.)

It also happens to occur about a week after the Passover, which would be about the time the invitations would have gone out for the spring fertility rites, which implies that maybe "passover" refers to getting passed over for the Great Party. The story of G-d's vengeance for the "snub" (with a plague that killed all the firstborns) probably grew from that.

Dodo_David's photo
Sun 03/31/13 09:30 PM
The image used in the OP is promoting an error.

Here is an excerpt from a Discovery News article titled "What Does the Easter Bunny Have To Do With Easter?"

According to the University of Florida's Center for Children's Literature and Culture, the origin of the celebration — and the origin of the Easter Bunny — can be traced back to 13th-century, pre-Christian Germany, when people worshiped several gods and goddesses. The Teutonic deity Eostra was the goddess of spring and fertility, and feasts were held in her honor on the Vernal Equinox. Her symbol was the rabbit because of the animal’s high reproduction rate.


History.com states, "Some sources claim the word Easter is derived from Eostre, a Teutonic goddess of spring and fertility."

Examiner.com reports the following:

The name “Easter” itself shows the holiday’s pagan origin. Eostr, sometimes spelled Eastr, Eostra, or Oestr, was a Germanic mother goddess who was celebrated during the “Eostur-monath”,or Easter-month, which was at the same time as what we now call the month of April by pagan Anglo-Saxons. Her Easter celebration included feasts and, yes, decorated eggs (to symbolize the rebirth of spring and hopes for a season of fertility). Hares, because of the legendary reproductive cycles of rabbits, were one of the images associated with this goddess and it is thought that our modern Easter Bunny myths are what remain of this tie to the ancient goddess.


Pro-Christian websites (as well as Britannica.com) dispute the Teutonic origin of the word Easter as cited in the above quotes.

Britannica.com states the following.

The English word Easter, which parallels the German word Ostern, is of uncertain origin. One view, expounded by the Venerable Bede in the 8th century, was that it derived from Eostre, or Eostrae, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring and fertility. This view presumes—as does the view associating the origin of Christmas on December 25 with pagan celebrations of the winter equinox—that Christians appropriated pagan names and holidays for their highest festivals. Given the determination with which Christians combated all forms of paganism, this appears a rather dubious presumption. There is now widespread consensus that the word derives from the Christian designation of Easter week as in albis, a Latin phrase that was understood as the plural of alba (“dawn”) and became eostarum in Old High German, the precursor of the modern German and English term.