Talk:Ostara
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Does anyone have any evidence or anything indicating a possible linking of both Ostara and Easter with the Feast of Ishtar?
It seems to me a strange co-incidence if there is no link, as Ishtar was said to descend to earth in the spring in a giant egg.
- It's a bunch of rubbish. In all lands where "Ishtar" was known/worshipped, the Christian holiday was NEVER called "Easter", "Ostern", or anything resembling such words. It's called "Passover" (or some variant)--the Greek "Pascha" (usually translated as "Easter" in English) simply is the Greek word for "Passover". Such speculation regarding Ishtar is purely a modern product of people who do not bother actually doing some linguistic and historical study. Dogface 21:16, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
So... what you're saying here is that it's a strange co-incidence and futhermore that this strange co-incidence and anyone who makes note of it in any way makes you really, really angry for some reason.
Enlightening.
By the way -- how exactly do you know? The Christian holiday 'Hallowe'en' is NEVER called 'Samhain' except in Ireland, yet it's derived from it.
- 'Said to descend to earth' - 'said to' by whom? What are the sources? Are you actually citing a direct Sumerian source, or a modern neopagan work? Unfortunately, a lot of 'said tos' turn out to be modern invention, *especially* in the case of putative links to the past; and the giant egg business would only be a 'strange coincidence' if it was an authentic piece of Sumerian or Babylonian myth. If you want to look into the history of festivals, I recommend Hutton's 'Seasons of the Sun'. Cavalorn 11:23, 26 May 2005 (UTC)