Visste du at påsken er en kristen høytid?

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Jeg synes det er fint at så mange i Norge omfavner kristendommen i denne perioden. Alle blir litt kristne i påsken, virker det som Kjempekoselig. Alle husker at Jesus døde for oss, og stod opp igjen. Og feirer det. Hver gang jeg ser butikkene støtte kristendommen, og bidrar til at folk får feiret påske med lam og det som hører med, så blir jeg så happy! 

Tusen takk Norge, for at dere støtter kristendommen. Og sier: Ja - kristendommen er sann. Derfor vil vi fortsette å feire påsken

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Jeg synes det er fint at så mange i Norge omfavner kristendommen i denne perioden. Alle blir litt kristne i påsken, virker det som Kjempekoselig. Alle husker at Jesus døde for oss, og stod opp igjen. Og feirer det. Hver gang jeg ser butikkene støtte kristendommen, og bidrar til at folk får feiret påske med lam og det som hører med, så blir jeg så happy! 

Tusen takk Norge, for at dere støtter kristendommen. Og sier: Ja - kristendommen er sann. Derfor vil vi fortsette å feire påsken

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Eller du kan slå opp gudinnen Ostera og lete opp hvorfor det heter mad March Hare... Og tygge lenge og grundig på hvorfor kristendommen knabbet alle de eksisterende årsfestene, satte kirkene oppå eksisterende seidesteiner og offersteder og forbød symbolhandlinger som henviste til tidligere religionspraksis. Kan det være fordi prestene ikke var helt trygge på at de ville få noen til å feire de faktiske (kristne) datoene? 

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Eller du kan slå opp gudinnen Ostera og lete opp hvorfor det heter mad March Hare... Og tygge lenge og grundig på hvorfor kristendommen knabbet alle de eksisterende årsfestene, satte kirkene oppå eksisterende seidesteiner og offersteder og forbød symbolhandlinger som henviste til tidligere religionspraksis. Kan det være fordi prestene ikke var helt trygge på at de ville få noen til å feire de faktiske (kristne) datoene? 

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Vel, ikke mye til historiker du om du virkelig tror det 

Jødene feiret påske lenge før Jesus ble født, og påsken ble feiret i mange tusen år før det også 

Her har du oppsummeringen om du gidder lese noe annet enn din egen vri 

https://grenserforpolitikk.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/kristne-ateister-god-paske/amp/

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Eller du kan slå opp gudinnen Ostera og lete opp hvorfor det heter mad March Hare... Og tygge lenge og grundig på hvorfor kristendommen knabbet alle de eksisterende årsfestene, satte kirkene oppå eksisterende seidesteiner og offersteder og forbød symbolhandlinger som henviste til tidligere religionspraksis. Kan det være fordi prestene ikke var helt trygge på at de ville få noen til å feire de faktiske (kristne) datoene? 

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Der kom den myten! Ventet egentlig bare på den

http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/2009/april/was-easter-borrowed-from-pagan-holiday.html

 

Was Easter Borrowed from a Pagan Holiday?

Anyone encountering anti-Christian polemics will quickly come up against the accusation that a major festival practiced by Christians across the globe—namely, Easter—was actually borrowed or rather usurped from a pagan celebration. I often encounter this idea among Muslims who claim that later Christians compromised with paganism to dilute the original faith of Jesus.

The argument largely rests on the supposed pagan associations of the English and German names for the celebration (Easter in English and Ostern in German). It is important to note, however, that in most other European languages, the name for the Christian celebration is derived from the Greek word Pascha, which comes from pesach, the Hebrew word for Passover. Easter is the Christian Passover festival.

Of course, even if Christians did engage in contextualization—expressing their message and worship in the language or forms of the local people—that in no way implies doctrinal compromise. Christians around the world have sought to redeem the local culture for Christ while purging it of practices antithetical to biblical norms. After all, Christians speak of "Good Friday," but they are in no way honoring the worship of the Norse/Germanic queen of the gods Freya by doing so.

But, in fact, in the case of Easter the evidence suggests otherwise: that neither the commemoration of Christ's death and resurrection nor its name are derived from paganism.

A celebration with ancient roots

The usual argument for the pagan origins of Easter is based on a comment made by the Venerable Bede (673-735), an English monk who wrote the first history of Christianity in England, and who is one of our main sources of knowledge about early Anglo-Saxon culture. In De temporum ratione (On the Reckoning of Time, c. 730), Bede wrote this:

In olden times the English people—for it did not seem fitting that I should speak of other nations' observance of the year and yet be silent about my own nation's—calculated their months according to the course of the Moon. Hence, after the manner of the Greeks and the Romans, [the months] take their name from the Moon, for the Moon is called mona and the month monath. The first month, which the Latins call January, is Giuli; February is called Solmonath; March Hrethmonath; April, Eosturmonath … Eosturmonath has a name which is now translated "Paschal month" and which was once called after a goddess of theirs named Eostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month. Now they designate that Paschal season by her name, calling the joys of the new rite by the time-honoured name of the old observance.

 

The first question, therefore, is whether the actual Christian celebration of Easter is derived from a pagan festival. This is easily answered. The Nordic/Germanic peoples (including the Anglo-Saxons) were comparative latecomers to Christianity. Pope Gregory I sent a missionary enterprise led by Augustine of Canterbury to the Anglo-Saxons in 596/7. The forcible conversion of the Saxons in Europe began under Charlemagne in 772. Hence, if "Easter" (i.e. the Christian Passover festival) was celebrated prior to those dates, any supposed pagan Anglo-Saxon festival of "Eostre" can have no significance. And there is, in fact, clear evidence that Christians celebrated an Easter/Passover festival by the second century, if not earlier. It follows that the Christian Easter/Passover celebration, which originated in the Mediterranean basin, was not influenced by any Germanic pagan festival.

What's in a name?

The second question is whether the name of the holiday "Easter" comes from the blurring of the Christian celebration with the worship of a purported pagan fertility goddess named "Eostre" in English and Germanic cultures. There are several problems with the passage in Bede. In his book, The Stations of the Sun, Professor Ronald Hutton (a well-known historian of British paganism and occultism) critiques Bede's sketchy knowledge of other pagan festivals, and argues that the same is true for the statement about Eostre: "It falls into a category of interpretations which Bede admitted to be his own, rather than generally agreed or proven fact."

This leads us to the next problem: there is no evidence outside of Bede for the existence of this Anglo-Saxon goddess. There is no equivalent goddess in the Norse Eddas or in ancient Germanic paganism from continental Europe. Hutton suggests, therefore, that "the Anglo-Saxon Estor-monath simply meant 'the month of opening' or 'the month of beginnings,'" and concludes that there is no evidence for a pre-Christian festival in the British Isles in March or April.

There is another objection to the claim that Eosturmonath has anything to do with a pagan goddess. Whereas Anglo-Saxon days were usually named after gods, such as Wednesday ("Woden's day"), the names of their months were either calendrical, such as Giuli, meaning "wheel," referring to the turn of the year; metereological-environmental, such as Solmónath (roughly February), meaning "Mud-Month"; or referred to actions taken in that period, such as Blótmónath(roughly November), meaning "Blood Month," when animals were slaughtered. No other month was dedicated to a deity, with the exception (according to Bede) of Hrethmonath (roughly March), which he claims was named after the goddess Hrethe. But like Eostre, there is no other evidence for Hrethe, nor any equivalent in Germanic/Norse mythology.

 

Another problem with Bede's explanation concerns the Saxons in continental Europe. Einhard (c. 775-840), the courtier and biographer of Charlemagne, tells us that among Charlemagne's reforms was the renaming of the months. April was renamed Ostarmanoth. Charlemagne spoke a Germanic dialect, as did the Anglo-Saxons in Britain, although their vernacular was distinct. But why would Charlemagne change the old Roman title for the spring month to Ostarmanoth? Charlemagne was the scourge of Germanic paganism. He attacked the pagan Saxons and felled their great pillar Irminsul (after their god Irmin) in 772. He forcibly converted them to Christianity and savagely repressed them when they revolted because of this. It seems very unlikely, therefore, that Charlemagne would name a month after a Germanic goddess.

Spring holiday

So why, then, do English-speaking Christians call their holiday "Easter"?

One theory for the origin of the name is that the Latin phrase in albis ("in white"), which Christians used in reference to Easter week, found its way into Old High German as eostarum, or "dawn." There is some evidence of early Germanic borrowing of Latin despite that fact that the Germanic peoples lived outside the Roman Empire—though the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes were far very removed from it. This theory presumes that the word only became current after the introduction of either Roman influence or the Christian faith, which is uncertain. But if accurate, it would demonstrate that the festival is not named after a pagan goddess.

Alternatively, as Hutton suggests, Eosturmonath simply meant "the month of opening," which is comparable to the meaning of "April" in Latin. The names of both the Saxon and Latin months (which are calendrically similar) were related to spring, the season when the buds open.

 

So Christians in ancient Anglo-Saxon and Germanic areas called their Passover holiday what they did—doubtless colloquially at first—simply because it occurred around the time of Eosturmonath/Ostarmanoth. A contemporary analogy can be found in the way Americans sometimes refer to the December period as "the holidays" in connection with Christmas and Hanukkah, or the way people sometimes speak about something happening "around Christmas," usually referring to the time at the turn of the year. The Christian title "Easter," then, essentially reflects its general date in the calendar, rather than the Paschal festival having been re-named in honor of a supposed pagan deity.

Of course, the Christian commemoration of the Paschal festival rests not on the title of the celebration but on its content—namely, the remembrance of Christ's death and resurrection. It is Christ's conquest of sin, death, and Satan that gives us the right to wish everyone "Happy Easter!"

 

 

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Is Easter a Pagan Holiday?

Q: Isn’t Easter a pagan rather than a Christian holiday, as shown by its very name by the fact that its date is determined by the full moon after the Spring equinox?

A: Anyone making this charge shows a total lack of comprehension of global Christianity. In fact, only a person speaking English or German could even possibly make this charge.

First, let’s deal with the date. Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon following March 21 (historically, the Spring equinox). The reason, however, has nothing to do with paganism. It has everything to do with Judaism and with Christ’s Resurrection.

Christ was resurrected on Sunday — the first day of the week (Matthew 28:1) — thus since the First Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325 all Christians have celebrated his Resurrection on Sunday. Prior to that, most celebrated it on Sunday, but some, known as Quartodecimians (“Fourteenth-ers”) celebrated it on the 14th day of the Jewish month of Nisan, when Passover occurred. At First Nicaea all Christians agreed to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ on first Sunday after 14 Nisan because that was the day Christ was Resurrected in the first century — the Sunday after Passover.

Because first century Jews used a lunar calendar, every month was twenty-eight days long, beginning with the new moon and having the full moon on the 14th of the month. Nisan, being the month in which the Spring equinox occurred, always had Passover — the 14th of Nisan — falling on the first full moon on or after the Spring equinox.

Thus since Passover was always on or after the first full moon after the Spring equinox, and since the Resurrection was the first Sunday after Passover, Easter is always the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 21 (historically, the Spring equinox). There is nothing about a pagan lunar celebration in here. It has nothing to do with paganism, but everything to do with the Resurrection of Christ in its Jewish-Passover context.

Now let us deal with the name of Easter. The fact is that there are only two languages in which the name has any pagan associations whatsoever — English and German. This, of course, is a problem for King James Only-ites, since the term “Easter” appears in the King James Version in Acts 12:4 as a translation for the Jewish holiday of Passover.

In English, of course, tha name is “Easter” and in German “Ostern.” These are related in name to a pagan spring festival, whose name, if you check a dictionary, was derived from the prehistoric West Germanic word akin to the Old English term east, which means, simply enough, “east,” the direction of the rising sun. It has nothing to do, contrary to what you will hear from some anti-Easter-ites, with the goddess Ishtar.

But in virtually every language except English and German, the name of Easter is derived from the Jewish word Pesach or “Passover.” Thus in Greek the term for Easter is Pascha, in Latin the term is also Pascha. From there it passed into the Romance languages, and so in Spanish it is Pascua, in Italian it is Pasqua, in French it is Paques, and in Portugese it is Pascoa. It also passed into the non-Romance languages, such as the Germanic languages Dutch, where it is Pasen and Danish, where it is Paaske.

Thus only in the highly Protestant countries of Germany (where the Reformation started) and England (where the intense persecution and martyrdom of Catholics was the harshest), does the term “Easter” have any pagan associations at all. So perhaps in these two Protestant countries paganism was not sufficiently stamped out to use the Judeo-Christian term for the celebration of Christ’s Resurrection that was used everywhere else in Europe.

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Mens jeg driter en lag masj i hele kristendomsmølet oghsr FRI, FRI, FRI! Det finnes ingen kjeft som har dødd for mine synder... Ikke har jeg tenkt meg noen steder når jeg legger på røret, annet enn inn i en forbrenningsovn! 

Jeg pynter ikke til påske, kaller dagene torsdag og fredag, men skjønner at jeg er  "kristen" for noen dager med å ta ski på beina og spise kvikklunsj og appelsin. Ikke minst for å kose meg over våren og ha FRI :-) 

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Christianity today som kilde? Jeg får vondt i hypofysen.

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Akkurat nå, Anonym bruker skrev:

Mens jeg driter en lag masj i hele kristendomsmølet oghsr FRI, FRI, FRI! Det finnes ingen kjeft som har dødd for mine synder... Ikke har jeg tenkt meg noen steder når jeg legger på røret, annet enn inn i en forbrenningsovn! 

Jeg pynter ikke til påske, kaller dagene torsdag og fredag, men skjønner at jeg er  "kristen" for noen dager med å ta ski på beina og spise kvikklunsj og appelsin. Ikke minst for å kose meg over våren og ha FRI :-) 

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Du har ikke fri, da. Du har pause fra jobben Det er en forskjell; du er ikke fri! Før du innser at du er en slave. 

God påske! Det er jo snart Synes det er så hyggelig at alle støtter oss kristne så mye som de gjør. Hver gang noen ønsker meg god påske, føler jeg at kristne er velkomne i Norge. Det er godt! 

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Akkurat nå, Anonym bruker skrev:

Christianity today som kilde? Jeg får vondt i hypofysen.

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Sikker på at det ikke er den underutviklede apehjernen din som får spasmer ?

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Du har ikke fri, da. Du har pause fra jobben Det er en forskjell; du er ikke fri! Før du innser at du er en slave. 

God påske! Det er jo snart Synes det er så hyggelig at alle støtter oss kristne så mye som de gjør. Hver gang noen ønsker meg god påske, føler jeg at kristne er velkomne i Norge. Det er godt! 

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Har du snubla og slått hodet ditt? 

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Det er forresten mange ateister som innser at påsken er kristne. 

Det er tre grupper som får spasmer i den underutviklede.. nei, sorry, som ikke liker sannheten:

Muslimer

Noen ateister

Fundamentalister

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Akkurat nå, Anonym bruker skrev:

Har du snubla og slått hodet ditt? 

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Nei, jeg fikk meg nettopp nye sko. De er faktisk veldig gode å gå i! Og det er så deilig at isen har gått, er ikke så glatt ute lenger. Så det går egentlig veldig greit å gå ute for tiden. Ja, egentlig om vinteren og... de nye broddene man får kjøpt til å sette på tuppen av skoene er egentlig veldig praktiske. 

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Sikker på at det ikke er den underutviklede apehjernen din som får spasmer ?

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Hersketeknikker din er like lite saklig og troverdig som kildene dine.

At du tror på eventyr er din sak, men ikke forsøk å forandre historien til påsken. Det blir så stupid at det er smertefullt. Litt på linje med flat earthers og creationists. 

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11 minutter siden, Anonym bruker skrev:

Sikker på at det ikke er den underutviklede apehjernen din som får spasmer ?

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Det var jammen meg kristent sagt av deg! Hva skjedde med å vende det annet kinn til?

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Du har ikke fri, da. Du har pause fra jobben Det er en forskjell; du er ikke fri! Før du innser at du er en slave. 

God påske! Det er jo snart Synes det er så hyggelig at alle støtter oss kristne så mye som de gjør. Hver gang noen ønsker meg god påske, føler jeg at kristne er velkomne i Norge. Det er godt! 

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Folk tenker på at du må nyte fridagene, og gir jevnt f#%* i om du er kristen. Jeg sier god påske til muslimer også, og de er blide fordi det sksl bli hyggelig å være med familie og venner. 

Og det er å kverulere om semantikk om man vil tolke det som fri eller pause. På sett og vis er vi alle slaver, fordi samfunnet er lagt opp til at vi må jobbe for å få mat på bordet. 

Mat du er så desillusjonert at du velger å tolke folks glede over fri som støtte til kristendommen, sier jo mer om deg og din fantasiverden. For meg er kristendom (religioner) en ubegripelig indoktrinerende massesuggesjon helt uten appell i min virkelighetsoppfatning. Selv om jeg ser at kulturer er tuftet på religioner, betyr det ikke at religionen har noe betydning for meg og mange andres liv. 

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11 minutter siden, Anonym bruker skrev:

Det er forresten mange ateister som innser at påsken er kristne. 

Det er tre grupper som får spasmer i den underutviklede.. nei, sorry, som ikke liker sannheten:

Muslimer

Noen ateister

Fundamentalister

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Spørsmålet er ikke om intensjonen med påskefeiringen i Norge er kristen, men om den i dag har et kristent innhold/budskap. Der må jo selv mange som definerer seg som kristne innrømme at de driter i om Jesus hang på korset langfredag. Påsken har mistet sitt innhold og mange, mange folk som gleder seg til påske, hopper bukk over det opprinnelige kristne budskapet og ser fram til FRI og tid med FAMILIEN. Derfor er mange av oss ikke litt kristne i påsken fordi vi sier god påske, fordi vi har ingen tanker knyttet til religion ved å si og gjøre det. 

Hvis du føler deg mer verdsatt i påsken fordi du tror folk anerkjenner kristendommen, så du blir rent våt i øyekroken, tror jegdu må ta deg en vitkelighetssjekk. 

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Bare jeg som tror dette er et tulleinnlegg for å provosere og er sjokkert over at Hi faktisk lykkes i å engasjere folk?

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Hehe...Jeg er kristen fordi jeg har fri fra jobben?

Jeg skjønner kristne har senket kravene her. Jeg går ikke i kirken, ber aldri, tror ikke på gud...men jeg er likefullt kristen fordi jeg reiser på hyttetur, går på ski og drikker rødvin til lam.

Who knew!  Må være den ultimate skapkristne jeg

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54 minutter siden, Anonym bruker skrev:

Har du snubla og slått hodet ditt? 

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Jeg er en enkel sjel. Jeg måtte le av denne. 

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Har du røyka en bibel?

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Jøss, her er påska en tid hvor vi spiser kvikk lunsj og appelsiner, reiser bort, går påskeeggjakt og finner ut hvor påskeharen har gått. Ingen kristne tradisjoner eller tanker, altså

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Der kom den myten! Ventet egentlig bare på den

http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/2009/april/was-easter-borrowed-from-pagan-holiday.html

 

Was Easter Borrowed from a Pagan Holiday?

Anyone encountering anti-Christian polemics will quickly come up against the accusation that a major festival practiced by Christians across the globe—namely, Easter—was actually borrowed or rather usurped from a pagan celebration. I often encounter this idea among Muslims who claim that later Christians compromised with paganism to dilute the original faith of Jesus.

The argument largely rests on the supposed pagan associations of the English and German names for the celebration (Easter in English and Ostern in German). It is important to note, however, that in most other European languages, the name for the Christian celebration is derived from the Greek word Pascha, which comes from pesach, the Hebrew word for Passover. Easter is the Christian Passover festival.

Of course, even if Christians did engage in contextualization—expressing their message and worship in the language or forms of the local people—that in no way implies doctrinal compromise. Christians around the world have sought to redeem the local culture for Christ while purging it of practices antithetical to biblical norms. After all, Christians speak of "Good Friday," but they are in no way honoring the worship of the Norse/Germanic queen of the gods Freya by doing so.

But, in fact, in the case of Easter the evidence suggests otherwise: that neither the commemoration of Christ's death and resurrection nor its name are derived from paganism.

A celebration with ancient roots

The usual argument for the pagan origins of Easter is based on a comment made by the Venerable Bede (673-735), an English monk who wrote the first history of Christianity in England, and who is one of our main sources of knowledge about early Anglo-Saxon culture. In De temporum ratione (On the Reckoning of Time, c. 730), Bede wrote this:

In olden times the English people—for it did not seem fitting that I should speak of other nations' observance of the year and yet be silent about my own nation's—calculated their months according to the course of the Moon. Hence, after the manner of the Greeks and the Romans, [the months] take their name from the Moon, for the Moon is called mona and the month monath. The first month, which the Latins call January, is Giuli; February is called Solmonath; March Hrethmonath; April, Eosturmonath … Eosturmonath has a name which is now translated "Paschal month" and which was once called after a goddess of theirs named Eostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month. Now they designate that Paschal season by her name, calling the joys of the new rite by the time-honoured name of the old observance.

 

The first question, therefore, is whether the actual Christian celebration of Easter is derived from a pagan festival. This is easily answered. The Nordic/Germanic peoples (including the Anglo-Saxons) were comparative latecomers to Christianity. Pope Gregory I sent a missionary enterprise led by Augustine of Canterbury to the Anglo-Saxons in 596/7. The forcible conversion of the Saxons in Europe began under Charlemagne in 772. Hence, if "Easter" (i.e. the Christian Passover festival) was celebrated prior to those dates, any supposed pagan Anglo-Saxon festival of "Eostre" can have no significance. And there is, in fact, clear evidence that Christians celebrated an Easter/Passover festival by the second century, if not earlier. It follows that the Christian Easter/Passover celebration, which originated in the Mediterranean basin, was not influenced by any Germanic pagan festival.

What's in a name?

The second question is whether the name of the holiday "Easter" comes from the blurring of the Christian celebration with the worship of a purported pagan fertility goddess named "Eostre" in English and Germanic cultures. There are several problems with the passage in Bede. In his book, The Stations of the Sun, Professor Ronald Hutton (a well-known historian of British paganism and occultism) critiques Bede's sketchy knowledge of other pagan festivals, and argues that the same is true for the statement about Eostre: "It falls into a category of interpretations which Bede admitted to be his own, rather than generally agreed or proven fact."

This leads us to the next problem: there is no evidence outside of Bede for the existence of this Anglo-Saxon goddess. There is no equivalent goddess in the Norse Eddas or in ancient Germanic paganism from continental Europe. Hutton suggests, therefore, that "the Anglo-Saxon Estor-monath simply meant 'the month of opening' or 'the month of beginnings,'" and concludes that there is no evidence for a pre-Christian festival in the British Isles in March or April.

There is another objection to the claim that Eosturmonath has anything to do with a pagan goddess. Whereas Anglo-Saxon days were usually named after gods, such as Wednesday ("Woden's day"), the names of their months were either calendrical, such as Giuli, meaning "wheel," referring to the turn of the year; metereological-environmental, such as Solmónath (roughly February), meaning "Mud-Month"; or referred to actions taken in that period, such as Blótmónath(roughly November), meaning "Blood Month," when animals were slaughtered. No other month was dedicated to a deity, with the exception (according to Bede) of Hrethmonath (roughly March), which he claims was named after the goddess Hrethe. But like Eostre, there is no other evidence for Hrethe, nor any equivalent in Germanic/Norse mythology.

 

Another problem with Bede's explanation concerns the Saxons in continental Europe. Einhard (c. 775-840), the courtier and biographer of Charlemagne, tells us that among Charlemagne's reforms was the renaming of the months. April was renamed Ostarmanoth. Charlemagne spoke a Germanic dialect, as did the Anglo-Saxons in Britain, although their vernacular was distinct. But why would Charlemagne change the old Roman title for the spring month to Ostarmanoth? Charlemagne was the scourge of Germanic paganism. He attacked the pagan Saxons and felled their great pillar Irminsul (after their god Irmin) in 772. He forcibly converted them to Christianity and savagely repressed them when they revolted because of this. It seems very unlikely, therefore, that Charlemagne would name a month after a Germanic goddess.

Spring holiday

So why, then, do English-speaking Christians call their holiday "Easter"?

One theory for the origin of the name is that the Latin phrase in albis ("in white"), which Christians used in reference to Easter week, found its way into Old High German as eostarum, or "dawn." There is some evidence of early Germanic borrowing of Latin despite that fact that the Germanic peoples lived outside the Roman Empire—though the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes were far very removed from it. This theory presumes that the word only became current after the introduction of either Roman influence or the Christian faith, which is uncertain. But if accurate, it would demonstrate that the festival is not named after a pagan goddess.

Alternatively, as Hutton suggests, Eosturmonath simply meant "the month of opening," which is comparable to the meaning of "April" in Latin. The names of both the Saxon and Latin months (which are calendrically similar) were related to spring, the season when the buds open.

 

So Christians in ancient Anglo-Saxon and Germanic areas called their Passover holiday what they did—doubtless colloquially at first—simply because it occurred around the time of Eosturmonath/Ostarmanoth. A contemporary analogy can be found in the way Americans sometimes refer to the December period as "the holidays" in connection with Christmas and Hanukkah, or the way people sometimes speak about something happening "around Christmas," usually referring to the time at the turn of the year. The Christian title "Easter," then, essentially reflects its general date in the calendar, rather than the Paschal festival having been re-named in honor of a supposed pagan deity.

Of course, the Christian commemoration of the Paschal festival rests not on the title of the celebration but on its content—namely, the remembrance of Christ's death and resurrection. It is Christ's conquest of sin, death, and Satan that gives us the right to wish everyone "Happy Easter!"

 

 

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Så en forklaring som baserer seg på Bibelen er IKKE en myte? 

Vårfeiringen var der, den.

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Eller du kan slå opp gudinnen Ostera og lete opp hvorfor det heter mad March Hare... Og tygge lenge og grundig på hvorfor kristendommen knabbet alle de eksisterende årsfestene, satte kirkene oppå eksisterende seidesteiner og offersteder og forbød symbolhandlinger som henviste til tidligere religionspraksis. Kan det være fordi prestene ikke var helt trygge på at de ville få noen til å feire de faktiske (kristne) datoene? 

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Tror du bør prøve å komme over det, det er 2000 år siden! 😁

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Det er forresten mange ateister som innser at påsken er kristne. 

Det er tre grupper som får spasmer i den underutviklede.. nei, sorry, som ikke liker sannheten:

Muslimer

Noen ateister

Fundamentalister

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Det er da ingen som nekter DEG å feire Jesu oppstandelse 365 dager i året, om så. Det er bare litt latterlig at du innbiller deg at ingen ting ble feira før kirkemøtet i Nikea.

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