Recent content by Kavik

Wrong again. And no, I'm not "born again".

No it does not, I would encourage you to research why that actually is - everything to do with Judaism and early Christianity.

Can't even go there - Pick up a few books and do some research. Zero AI (sorry to disappoint).

The first Easter Sunrise Service ever recorded took place in 1732 in the Moravian congregation at Herrnhut in the Upper Lusatian hills of Saxony. After an all-night prayer vigil, the Single Brethren—the unmarried men of the community—went to the town graveyard, God's Acre, on the hill above the...

And what exactly do you find faulty?

Guess we'll have to agree to disagree - seriously think you need to reexamine your facts.

Patently false. Again, you're trying to connect Easter to Ishtar (and/or variants of her name in various cultures). To put it in simplest terms - there is none. There are myriad theories as to why the KJB has both Easter Passover. I tend to think Occam's razor prevails.

As stated in my previous posts (including the one you quoted), there is zero connection between Easter and Ishtar - that utter nonsense has been thoroughly debunked for over a century now. It comes primarily form Hislop's drivel, "The Two Babylons". There is zero way historically, culturally...

No, that's not at all what I'm saying - perhaps reread my original post (and subsequent posts), but to summarize the pertinent section: Easter takes its name from the Anglo-Saxon month name in which it occurs; namely, Ēosturmônað which, in turn, is named for the West Germanic goddess of dawn...

Yeah, another similar issue is with the month of March - Anglo-Saxon "Hređmōnaþ" named after another A/S goddess, Hređa (Mod. English "Rhetha") of whom, like Eostre, virtually nothing is known. These appear to be the only two month names in the A/S calendar named after deities. Rhetha is...

It should be noted that the quoted text above is from Hislop's drivel The Two Babylons - it is patently false. There is no way historically, culturally and linguistically to connect Easter to Ishtar. See some of the discussions in this thread.

With respect to Bede's mention..... Many people will assert, that since Ēostra is only attested in a written text from the works of Bede, that he invented her, and this Germanic deity never existed – the place and personal names based on her name however, certainly seem to contradict this...

There is no link whatsoever - You're trying to link a somewhat similar sounding word to two completely different language families - Ishtar is Semitic; Ēostra/Ēostre is Indo-European. The etymology of Ēostra/Ēostre comes from the Indo-European root word *hewsôs, meaning “to shine, glow red”...

Some of this may have been covered by other posters, but.... Many people, typically Christians of more fundamentalist oriented denominations, have been trying to connect Easter with Ishtar and Easter’s traditions with those of ancient Babylon and other pagan traditions for well over 100 years...

As what other posters have indicated - Biblical unicorn = rhino; a single horned animal. More common in rivers in the ancient Middle East/North Africa than it is today. Not so much in Europe so when texts were translated they went with an animal they knew, even if it was just mythical.