Good morning.
Eng 11 will
start at 9.
Tomorrow is
a holiday- Good Friday
Monday is a
holiday – Easter Monday
We will be
back in class on Tuesday
Tuesday 9am
Zoom class
Next week
will be our last week.
One or two more
tests or essays.
Easter –
Christian holiday, crucifixion of Jesus Christ
death and
rebirth
Easter is
celebration of rebirth, new life
Springtime –
new life, new flowers, new life
many
cultures celebrate the new life of Spring –
Japan Cherry
Blossom Festival
older pagan
holiday – celebrate the new life and rebirth of spring
Easter –
symbols are ancient pagan symbols –
rabbits – no
rabbits in the Bible, ancient symbol of life and fertility
eggs – new life
comes from eggs, birds are having their babies now, eggs in nests
nothing to
do with the Bible
chocolate?
why chocolate?
Easter –
estra – estrogen – hormone that makes girls into women
testosterone
– hormone that makes boys into men
Easter is Christian holiday
celebration marks the end of Holy Week- Christians
commemorate crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ
according to Gospel- he was bodily
raised from the dead on the third day — Sunday, the day of Easter
Easter does not appear in Bible-
developed later
Easter Sunday can fall anywhere between
March 22 and April 25- Sunday immediately following the Paschal Full Moon-
lunar festival- feminine
governed by the phases of the moon
Good Friday- day that Jesus was
crucified
Easter is a pagan festival.
celebrate the spring equinox, whilst
religious culture celebrates the resurrection
pragmatic acceptance of ancient pagan
practises, most of which we enjoy today at Easter
. The general symbolic story of the death
of the son (sun) on a cross (the constellation of the Southern Cross) and his
rebirth, overcoming the powers of darkness- ancient world.
long dark winter, sun is back, longer
days, rebirth
plenty of parallel, rival resurrected
saviours
Sumerian goddess Ishtar, was hung naked
on a stake, and was subsequently resurrected and ascended from the underworld.
oldest resurrection myths is Egyptian
Horus. Born on 25 December
Cybele cult flourished on today's
Vatican Hill. Cybele's lover Attis, was born of a virgin, died and was reborn
annually.
This spring festival began as a day of
blood on Black Friday, rising to a crescendo after three days, in rejoicing
over the resurrection.
There was violent conflict on Vatican
Hill in the early days of Christianity between the Jesus worshippers and pagans
who quarrelled over whose God was the true, and whose the imitation.
All the fun things about Easter are
pagan. Bunnies are a leftover from the pagan festival of Eostre, a great
northern goddess whose symbol was a rabbit or hare.
Exchange of eggs is an ancient custom,
celebrated by many cultures. Hot cross buns are very ancient too. In the Old
Testament we see the Israelites baking sweet buns for an idol, and religious
leaders trying to put a stop to it. The early church clergy also tried to put a
stop to sacred cakes being baked at Easter. In the end, in the face of defiant
cake-baking pagan women, they gave up and blessed the cake instead.
rabbits represent fecundity
eggs represent rebirth
easter- names on board Ishtar, Eostre,
Easter
estrogen- female sex hormone
philipino cultish violent easter
celebrations “cruc” pics
Mel Gibson- gory, violent- Braveheart,
Passion of the Christ
I’d rather celebrate spring
chocolate eggs
– 19th Century development, French confectionary
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