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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 for well over 100 years; since about the late 1800’s. The simple truth is that “Easter” does *not* derive from “Ishtar” - this association represents a complete false etymology, and a completely fabricated origin. The idea that Easter has pagan roots actually comes from die-hard Protestant fundamentalists in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. In those centuries, many Protestants regarded holidays like Christmas and Easter as “popery” and therefore sought to discredit them by linking them with ancient paganism. One particularly influential writer was Alexander Hislop (1807-1865), a minister for the Free Church of Scotland who published a pamphlet in 1853 titled _The Two Babylons._ In this pamphlet, Hislop claimed that Roman Catholicism is really nothing more than re-branded Babylonian paganism and that all the holidays associated with Catholicism are actually ancient Babylonian religious festivals in honor of the heathen gods. Hislop was a zealot and a crank whose ideas had almost no factual basis whatsoever, but his work became extremely influential among Protestant fundamentalists. His book, of course, has been thoroughly discredited (as early as the 1920’s). Indeed, there is no serious self-respecting Biblical scholar who would give any credence to Hislop’s “theories”. Scholars today recognize it for the vehemently anti-Catholic drivel that it is and note that most of his theories come either from the realm of his very overactive imagination, or his complete misunderstanding of both Catholicism and the religion of ancient Babylon. As one historian puts it: _“Hislop’s book is wonderful because it’s full of imagination and nonsense. It’s fantastic but utterly misconceived. Hislop’s tendency was to think if it sounds the same, it must be connected.”_ Some Christian denominations took Hislop’s explanations to be “gospel truth” and ran with them; and it seems, that some still strongly hold to these beliefs even today (particularly the JW sect). In 1966, Ralph Woodrow published his "Babylonian Mystery Religion", in which he essentially paraphrased Hislop's "The Two Babylons". Not long afterwards, Woodrow completely recanted his book, acknowledging, that, like Hislop's book on which he based it, both books contain numerous misconceptions, fabrications, logical fallacies, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, and grave factual errors. To put it in the simplest terms possible, there is just absolutely no way historically, culturally, and particularly linguistically, to connect Ishtar with Easter….but that certainly has not prevented people from making some rather valiant and, in some cases, even impressive attempts. The two words may ‘sound alike’, but just because two words sound alike, does not equate to them being related to one another. Furthermore, people are basing this similarity on the _modern_ pronunciation of the word Easter; a pronunciation that has only been around since about the early 1500’s. Easter derives from Ēostra; the Anglo-Saxon name variation of the West Germanic goddess of dawn (definitely *not* fertility, and likely not Spring either). Indeed, an entire month was named after her; April. In Anglo-Saxon (Old English) it was called Ēosturmônað - Ēostra-month). The etymology of her name comes from the Indo-European root word *hewsôs, meaning “to shine, glow red” - a reference to dawn. In Proto-Germanic, the name has been reconstructed as *Austrô(n). To the early Germans, she was Ostara, from which modern German gets “Ostern” for Easter. Ēostra’s name has also given us the name of the cardinal direction “East”, many place names in England, and even a few female first names (none of which I believe are used anymore). Ēostra has lent only her name to the holiday in exactly the same way that other Germanic deities have lent their names to our weekdays in English. Nothing more “pagan” than that. Neither eggs nor the hare were associated with her - both are a considerably later addition to her story/mythos. The Easter Hare ( not a bunny or a rabbit - that’s a considerably more modern version) comes from the Lutherans of Germany (yep, the Easter Bunny is a _Protestant_ thing). The Easter Hare, however, does not symbolize a thing. None of the egg-bringing animals of folklore are in any way ‘symbolic’ of any one thing, any more than the Tooth Fairy is symbolic of anything. The hare is not symbolic of ‘fertility’ nor of anything else. These are supposed attributes which have been repeated so often, they have become accepted as legitimate truth. Indeed, the hare is not known to be as “prolific” as the bunny or rabbit. Hares are also known for constructing nest-like structures in fields and meadows - not a huge stretch for parents to tell their kids that’s where all those colorful eggs they were going to hunt came from. There are a lot of folktales regarding the Easter Hare, some of which are still told today. The Easter Hare came to America by way of German immigrants to Pennsylvania in the 1700’s. As for eggs at Easter, they were forbidden food during the Lenten fast. Eggs are the product of a warm-blooded animal, all of which were forbidden during Lent; the fish being cold-blooded was an allowed food; hence the association of Lent with eating fish. Because eggs were forbidden during Lent, on Easter Sunday, eating eggs was regarded as a ‘treat’ of sorts. This was especially true for poorer people who did not keep animals for slaughter and could not afford to buy meat. In anticipation of Easter, in many traditions, the eggs were colored during the last days of Lent to mark the end of penance and fasting. In many countries, the colors used are highly symbolic - the traditional red of the Eastern Orthodox tradition, for example, symbolizes the blood Christ shed for mankind. The secular traditions and customs of Easter are deeply rooted in the past, but that past is firmly planted in an early Medieval Christian Europe, not an ancient pagan one.