In the New Testament of the Bible, the event is said to have occurred three days after Jesus was crucified by the Romans and died in roughly 30 A.D. Not biblical but traditions of men that Christ talked about.
These links are clearly seen in the Last Supper, which occurred the night before Jesus’ arrest and the sufferings Jesus endured following his arrest.Today, Easter is a commercial event as well as a religious holiday, marked by high sales for greeting cards, candies (such as Peeps, chocolate eggs and chocolate Easter bunnies) and other gifts.In some households, a character known as the Easter Bunny delivers candy and chocolate eggs to children on Easter Sunday morning. Many non-Christians choose to observe these traditions while essentially ignoring the religious aspects of the celebration.It’s believed that eggs represented fertility and birth in certain pagan traditions that pre-date Christianity.
Eostre was the Saxon mother goddess, the source of all things and the bringer of new life. He feels fortunate to have been able to visit many of the ancient wonders that he read about in history books. As Christianity rose to prominence alongside those pagan beliefs, elements of the celebrations of Eostre, Ostara, Attis and other deities became inextricably intertwined with the Christian narrative of Jesus’ death and resurrection.Historic Mysteries provides captivating articles on archaeology, history, and unexplained mysteries. Around 200 BCE, the mystery cult of the goddess Cybele was popular in Rome and its surrounding areas. In Northern Europe, Easter imagery often involves hares and rabbits.The first scholar to make a connection between the goddess Eostre and hares was Adolf Holtzmann in his book Deutsche Mythologie.Holtzmann wrote of the tradition, "the Easter Hare is inexplicable to me, but probably the hare was the sacred animal of Ostara; just as there is a hare on the statue of Abnoba." It’s also a celebration by pagan cultures to welcome the arrival of the long days of spring and summer.Jim has always had a strong passion for travel, archaeology, and history. Eastertide ends on the 50th day after Easter, which is known as Pentecost Sunday. Ask yourself do you want to fall into/be deceived into spiritual fornication against the true God or do you want to find yourself in hell one day. Paganism is now a religion of its own. Exodus 20:3-5 Everything about Easter is pagan. It begins on Ash Wednesday, and lasts for 40 days (not including Sundays).Easter 2021 occurs on Sunday, April 4.
Bunnies are a leftover from the pagan festival of Eostre.” Hot cross buns are related to “Israelites baking sweet buns for an idol, and religious leaders trying to put a stop to it.” Eventually, “defiant cake-baking pagan women” were successful and a cross was added to the buns to Christianize them.