One sign of Easter this this poll by Rumpel aka Larix aka Waldbaum!

>>>>> https://debatepolitics.com/threads/may-t...-easter.441841/ <<<<

I am surprised to see that the Easter Rabbit was invented by German Lutherans - of all people!

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The Easter Bunny (also called the Easter Rabbit or Easter Hare) is a folkloric figure and symbol of Easter, depicted as a rabbit bringing Easter eggs. Originating among German Lutherans, the "Easter Hare" originally played the role of a judge, evaluating whether children were good or disobedient in behavior at the start of the season of Eastertide.



The Easter Bunny is sometimes depicted with clothes. In legend, the creature carries colored eggs in his basket, candy, and sometimes also toys to the homes of children, and as such shows similarities to Santa Claus or the Christkind, as they both bring gifts to children on the night before their respective holidays.



The custom was first mentioned in Georg Franck von Franckenau's De ovis paschalibus ('About Easter Eggs') in 1682, referring to a German tradition of an Easter Hare bringing Easter eggs for the children.

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More about that friendly Easter Rabbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Bunny

It was clever of the Lutherans to invent the Easter Rabbit!
Just in the nick of time.
Else the Catholics had invented some Saint and claimed that he was the bringer of gifts.
e. g. some Saint like the Holy Pascalis osterhasensis, or some such.

Easter Sunday is on April the 4th this year.

@ Easter and Istar

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In 1853, Scottish protestant minister Alexander Hislop published The Two Babylons, an anti-Catholic tract. In the tract, Hislop connects modern English Easter with the East Semitic theonym Ishtar by way of folk etymology. For example, from The Two Babylons, third edition:



What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, as pronounced by the people of Ninevah, was evidently identical with that now in common use in this country. This name as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar.

Because Hislop's claims have no linguistics foundation, his claims were rejected, but the Two Babylons would go on to have some influence in popular culture.

In the 2000s, a popular Internet meme similarly claimed an incorrect linguistic connection between English Easter and Ishtar.

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More about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%92ostre

Today I will now open a similar thread for Christmas signs.