But what do we really know about Easter? Where did the name Easter come from? Why not call it Resurrection Sunday? Why is it on a Sunday? Easter used to follow the end of Passover by two days regardless of which day of the week it fell on. That means one year it might be Easter Monday, and the next, Easter Thursday.
It was determined at The Council of Nicea that Easter would always fall on a Sunday, the day Christ rose, and always after the first full moon following the spring equinox. As the people moved into other lands, many of them took their pagan practices with them.
Contemporary traditions such as the Easter Bunny and the Easter egg can also be traced back to the practices established by Semiramis. Because of their prolific nature, rabbits have long been associated with fertility and its goddess, Ishtar. Ancient Babylonians believed in a fable about an egg that fell into the Euphrates River from heaven and from which Queen Astarte another name for Ishtar or Semiramis was "hatched. Origin of Easter - Resurrection Day for Christians For Christians, the origin of Easter is simply the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ about 2, years ago.
According to the Gospel accounts, Jesus Christ, the true Messiah promised in the Old Testament , was crucified and resurrected at the time of the Jewish Passover. Since that awesome event took place, those who believe Christ is their Messiah have honored that day and often celebrated it with the traditional Passover.
As the Gospel of Christ spread throughout non-jewish nations, among people who did not have a history of celebrating the Passover, the pagan rites of Easter gradually became assimilated into what the Christian church called "Resurrection Day. Actually, American history teaches us that Easter was dismissed as a pagan holiday by the nation's founding Puritans and did not begin to be widely observed until just after the Civil War.
Those interested in a Christian view of American history and the gradual compromise of America's Biblical foundations may wish to read books such as The Light and the Glory by Peter Marshall and David Manuel. Read More Now! Yes, I want to follow Jesus.
Sign in. All Football. News Joseph Gamp. Moses tells the Israelites to slaughter a passover lamb and paint its blood on their door lintels. Paul was the first to connect the risen Christ to Passover. Add to that the fact that Jesus celebrated the Last Supper with his disciples during Passover and it makes sense that even today the Feast of the Resurrection is connected with the Jewish holiday. In English, this tie remains in our practice of lighting the Paschal candles and celebrating the Paschal mystery.
The short answer is that nobody really knows. In Old German, the word became esostarum and, eventually, Easter. The Venerable Bede, a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon historian, writes that the word Easter comes from the goddess Eostre, an ancient goddess of fertility and the goddess of the dawn who originated in what is now Scandinavia.
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