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

[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.