1.What are the origins of Easter? Is it about the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus? Or is it based on a pagan celebration? Where do the symbols come from? #SymbolismWillBeTheirDownFall

http://2.In  325 AD The Council of Nicaea decided Easter would be on the first Sunday following a full moon after the Spring Equinox. So the date of Easter is not fixed, but governed by the phases of the moon.

http://3.Is  the story of the crucifixion and resurrection symbolic of the resurrection of the sun? The story of the death of the son(sun)on a cross(the constellation Southern Cross) and his rebirth, defeating the darkness. This isn't the only story of resurrection.

http://4.One  of the earliest recorded stories of resurrection is from Sumer. The story of Inanna, who is more commonly known as Ishtar, and her husband Damuzi, who is also know as Tammuz. Tammuz dies, Ishtar filled with grief, follows him to the underworld.

http://5.In  the underworld Ishtar was stripped of her clothes, judged, killed, and hung for all to see. While she was gone life on earth began to die. After 3 days the god Enki resurrected Ishtar and Tummaz.

6.Enki gave Ishtar and Tammuz the power to return to earth as the sunlight for 6 months, then return to the underworld. Giving us the cycles of winter death and spring life. Similar stories are told through out time such as the resurrection of Egyptian Horus.

7. Sumerian Inanna is more commonly known as Babylonian Ishtar. She's also known as Eygpt-Isis, Greek-Aphrodite, Roman-Venus, Assyrian-Nina, Roman-Cybele, and Phoenician-Astarte. In Roman empire she was depicted with her son Horus,she was "Queen of Heaven" and "Mother of God".

Ishtar is also Ashtoreth in Hebrew and the counterpart to Ba'al, Anglo-Saxon goddess of fertility Eastre and what we know as Easter. She's the goddess of Venus, love, war, and above all sexuality and sacred prostitution.

Her symbol is a star in middle of a circle. She was the wife and mother of Nimrod. Though her name changed through civilizations she has always been depicted as a mother with child. By the time Christianity came around the image of her was a major part of paganism.

Christianity renamed the statues and paintings of her as the virgin Mary and her god incarnate son Jesus. This is how worship of the pagan goddess became part of the Roman Catholic Church. Now let's go back to Ishtar in Babylon.

I will finish this thread later today.