Paganfest

[den]

Celebrating on a date set as the first Friday after the first full moon after the northern autumnal Equinox sounds like a pagan festival date to me. I upset a Christian friend today by calling Easter "a paganfest." "Don't you celebrate our Lord's sacrifice?" Well, I thought the whole point of the bread and wine thing was to remember that every week.

Anyway


I heard a rumour that a company was producing chocolate easter Wombats, but I couldn't find any in the shops. Bugger. I'll just have to settle for easter bilbies.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed chocolate wombats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Not to get off topic, but where did you get that face icon? I neeeeed to make one of my own, because I'm seeing different ones a lot.

Haven't seen chocolate wombats nearly that much except for the ones Damien Saunders sent me that got eaten:). And AW Donut Wombat.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I saw it in a link in someone's journal, but I don't know where now. Sorry.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

The avatar-making toy can be found here (http://www.dookyweb.com/index.php?seccion=avatars). (I've made a bunch, but I keep using my same old boring icon ...)

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

I've gotten that question from poeple, too. I've replied several ways, but especially with this: "No, I celebrate the dawning of the Oak King's fertility and the reunion of Lord and Lady in the full flower of their union. I celebrate the planting of the seeds, signifying both human life renewed and human life preserved by the continuation of our agricultural ways. In other words, I celebrate the same thing you do, only I do it the older way without all the slavery imagery you're talking about."

[weibchenwolf.livejournal.com]

I generally reply "What is this 'our' business?" But then I'm like that.

[azhreia.livejournal.com]

Pink Lady is the brand, I believe.

a friend of mine gave me a Pink Lady bunny, and a mutual friend a chocolate wombat. ;-)

anyway, a quick search on google pulled up a lot of hits for the phrase "chocolate wombat" ;-)

http://www.wildshop.com.au/SSL/product_pages/9310477008043.asp (http://www.wildshop.com.au/SSL/product_pages/9310477008043.asp) for example.

apparently cadbury makes them too.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Pink Lady and Darrell Lea donate to Save THe Bilby, so I'm inclined to buy them rather than Cadbury's.

[elektron.livejournal.com]

From here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/anyasy/217909.html),
For all the Christians, here's something originally in Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" and confirmed via Google: Easter is derived from Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon mother Goddess of the Dawn/Fertility. The goddess Ostara was the Norse equivalent whose symbols were the hare and the egg. Eostre is still celebrated by Wiccans. ; )

I don't recall anything about pagan festivals having to do with weeks, but Christian festival dates only need to be reasonably close to pagan festivals for the purposes of drowning it out.

The bread and wine thing is the first Sunday of every month, not every week.

[guruwench.livejournal.com]

The bread and wine thing is the first Sunday of every month, not every week.

ObNit: That depends on the flavour of Christian church, IME. When I used to go to Anglican church (ie the Church of England), communion/eucharist/the bread and wine thing actually was every week. Catholics IME do bread every week, but the wine seems to be special occasions only (never did figure out just when).

[copperwolf.livejournal.com]

No, bread and wine are both featured at every Eucharist, which most practicing Catholics celebrate once a week.

[guruwench.livejournal.com]

Whups! My apologies for being unclear. You are, of course, correct, and the wine is featured along with bread each week at a Catholic mass. What I think I meant to say was that, IME, the wine was only offerred to the congregation on special occasions rather than every week. The church I went to briefly as a child had the bread offerred to all each week, but the wine was only ever served to the priest(s).

Thanks for the correction. :)

[ms-interpret.livejournal.com]

No, not at any of the Catholic churches I went to growing up. The wine is offered to the congregation every week.

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Mine are / were Pink Lady wombats...

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I WANT THEM!

[tygermoonfoxx.livejournal.com]

You'd be correct. The picking of the date goes back to Roman times. It replaces a pagan festival in an effort to encourage attendance in the Catholic church. The very name of the day, Easter, originates from Oestre, a Teutonic goddess of fertility whose sacred animal was the rabbit and who was associated with eggs.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]