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  1. Mockingbird0

    Easter Celebrations are Worship of the Sun

    Horus's birthday, if he had one, would have been on a fixed day in the old Egyptian calendar which had 365 days each year without any intercalations. So in the Gregorian calendar, Horus's birthday (if he had one) would shift by about 1 day every 4 years, and so would not be on a fixed date in...
  2. Mockingbird0

    Easter Celebrations are Worship of the Sun

    I should modify this statement. In the middle to late Empire, the Romans had a festival on March 25, the hilaria matris deorum, the "merrymaking of the mother of the gods." But it is plain from the sources that eggs and hares were not part of the celebration.
  3. Mockingbird0

    Easter Celebrations are Worship of the Sun

    Concerning the questions of whether pagan habits sometimes were carried over into Christian worship, the use of incense is one obvious case. Historian Ronald Hutton has given some other likely examples: But the Easter Hare is not one of these cases.
  4. Mockingbird0

    Easter Celebrations are Worship of the Sun

    I have yet to see a primary historical source indicating that any ancient Mediterranean people venerated hares, or sacrificed them to their gods.
  5. Mockingbird0

    Easter Celebrations are Worship of the Sun

    Evidence? All we know about Eostre comes from the 8th-century English author Bede. Bede does not associate Eostre with any animal. Hares are not obviously symbols of fertility in medieval Christian art. If anything, they are symbols of virginity.
  6. Mockingbird0

    Here comes Peter Cottontail! Happy Easter! (Warning; long post)

    Evidence? Bede never associates Eostre with any animal. Can you name one ancient springtime holiday in which eggs were used in the rituals?
  7. Mockingbird0

    Easter Celebrations are Worship of the Sun

    "Most" ? I can think of plenty of pagan holidays that the church did not "co-opt". In one case in which the church is said to have taken over a pagan festival, Christmas, the facts might very well be the other way around: it could be a Christian festival that the pagans adopted. "A lot" ...
  8. Mockingbird0

    A Pagan Holiday

    Easter is the Sunday of Unleavened Bread according to the Christian calculation of the week of Unleavened Bread. The Sunday of Unleavened Bread is, according to one interpretation of Leviticus 23.11, the day of waving the barley sheaf. St. Paul compares Jesus to the barley sheaf in 1...
  9. Mockingbird0

    Easter Celebrations are Worship of the Sun

    The spring equinox was not an important holiday in "many religions", but in some. One ancient people who celebrated on the equinoxes were the Israelites, from whose spring equinox festival (Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread) Easter derives. I know of no evidence linking the Noruz...
  10. Mockingbird0

    Easter Celebrations are Worship of the Sun

    Neither the Romans nor the Greeks had a Spring equinox festival that I know of. The closest nation to the ancient Mediterranean to have a Spring equinox festival were the Iranians, and they were far away. Once again, show me an ancient Mediterranean society that has a Spring equinox festival...
  11. Mockingbird0

    Latin Language

    I took Latin in college and have continued to read it sometimes.
  12. Mockingbird0

    Easter Celebrations are Worship of the Sun

    Can you point to one Anglican, Roman Catholic, or Orthodox Easter service in which prayers were addressed to the sun?
  13. Mockingbird0

    Here comes Peter Cottontail! Happy Easter! (Warning; long post)

    You did not quote Bede accurately.
  14. Mockingbird0

    Easter Sunday vs Bible recorded Resurrection Day

    Leviticus 23.11: "On the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it" 1 Corinthians 15.20: "Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep." The Sunday practice may be the oldest practice. Sunday was a Christian holiday from the beginning. Nothing...
  15. Mockingbird0

    Easter Sunday vs Bible recorded Resurrection Day

    All the Gospels agree that Jesus rose on the Sunday of Unleavened Bread. According to the synoptic Gospels, it was 17 Nisan; according to the Gospel of John, it was 16 Nisan. The Sunday of Unleavened Bread was the day of waving the sheaf according to an alternative interpretation of Leviticus...
  16. Mockingbird0

    CNA explains: Why Eastern and Western Easter dates differ — and why 2025 is different

    Patriarch Bartholomew can get the ball rolling by stating that he will not break communion with parishes that celebrate Easter using the Gregorian paschalion. In order to get people united, we need to let them be disunited for a while.
  17. Mockingbird0

    Is there a Christian Passover?

    The Julian calendar Easter, used by most Eastern Orthodox churches, in 2 years out of every 19 is about a month after Rabbinic Jewish Unleavened Bread. The rest of the time it is roughly a week or two after.
  18. Mockingbird0

    Is there a Christian Passover?

    The Easter computation defines a Christian month of Nisan (which of old the English called "Eastermonth", hence our name "Easter") which has a Christian Passover on its 14th day (the Paschal Full Moon, this year 2025 on April 13) and a Christian week of Unleavened Bread on the 15th to the 21st...
  19. Mockingbird0

    Churches East and West celebrate Easter the same day in 2025 — could it be a step to unity?

    The Zonaras Proviso was formulated by Ioannes Zonaras based on a misreading of Apostolic Canon 7. Zonaras frankly did not know that the Alexandrian paschalion contains an explicit Spring equinox on March 21. This is the equinox that Apostolic Canon 7 refers to. But Zonaras only knew of a...
  20. Mockingbird0

    Churches East and West celebrate Easter the same day in 2025 — could it be a step to unity?

    There is no such canon of Nicea. The 20 canons of Nicea deal with different matters. The Nicene decision on Easter was to compute the Christian Passover independently, not relying on the Jewish calendar, which at that time sometimes set the Feast of Unleavened Bread before the Spring equinox...
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