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To: Elsie
"That 'pagan' EASTER really jumps around on the calendar. I'll bet that drove PAGANS nuts trying to plan for it..."

Sorry but this shows a profound lack of understanding of how the ancients tracked time.

It also ignores the etymology of the name 'Easter', coming from the name for the pagan goddess of fertility - Eostre; also known as Aphrodite, Ashtoreth, Astarte, Ishtar, etc in other cultures.

509 posted on 10/21/2010 6:07:02 AM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: GourmetDan
Sorry but this shows a profound lack of understanding of how the ancients tracked time.

And I'm sorry that my little joke about EASTER being tied to PASSOVER got lost in the telling...

520 posted on 10/21/2010 7:30:08 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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