It ain’t Ishtar, people. So Would You Kindly stop talking about mythology and philology when you have not undertaken their study?!
And that goes for Christians too.
You and the Messies both retcon Easter to your own desire. Messy preachers need it to be creepy so they can scare the faithful away from it. And church preachers need it to be no big deal so they won’t have to change.
Don’t let the ignorant talk you into believing either nonsense. Check for yourself. It doesn’t matter that bunnies and rabbits were never Ishtar symbols, nor that her name is unrelated to Easter in any way. And it doesn’t matter that Easter wasn’t adopted because it came from a word that means Dawn and the tomb was found empty at dawn.
People will believe what they want, and both are revisions and backformations.
Get away from Easter or keep it as you desire but know why either way and be all the way in.
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What I see is that the association of Ishtar and Easter can only be done in English and maybe a very small handful of other languages.
In most languages the name for the period still translates to "Passover".
As example in Afrikaans, my native language, it still is "Paasfees" and does not come close to Ishtar/Easter but transliterated means "pass feast" ("the feast of passing [over]".
I had a look over the weekend and the origins of the bunny looks to be from the Germanic hare traditions in the 1700's in Europe and then travelled to good-old USA and as hares aren't as prolific there it was "localized" into a bunny.
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