Dragan
>>>>To those who believe have a Happy Easter as we celebrate a risen Savior.
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>>>>To those who don't believe, have a nice weekend.
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>>>In a unbeliever's family there's 52 colored eggs today... because the Easter is far older than Christianity, it's just an old (Egyptian, AFAIK) springtime fertility rite.
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>>No, anglo-saxon, from the worship of Eastre, the ango-saxon goddess of firtility, whose symbol was a rabbit (because they breed so prolifically)
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http://wilstar.com/holidays/easter.htm>
>Now I understand what I wrote :). The custom of painting the eggs was Egyptian; as Doug said, Astarte (aka Ashtoreth) is the origin. I've also found somewhere that the Aphrodite (and its Roman replica Venus) are actually the same deity, renamed.
Yes, you are quite correct. Aphrodite is the Latin (?) for Astarte. Also, eggs and rabbits were the ancient symbols of fertility and used in religious sex rites.
Best,
DD
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