[MHGinTN]

You can learn a lot about the pagan world prior to Jesus resurrection by looking deeply at the Catholic Religion, because it has incorporated so many of the pagan rites and holidays into that religion. Easter is a prime example, with the Ishtar holiday (Ishtar is Easter) being put into the rituals as a Sunday cewremony to replace what the earliest Christians celebrated on Nisan 14, The Passover, as Jesus established it.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Ishtar and Easter are totally unconnected. The supposed connection has been so thoroughly debunked at all levels that I'm almost, almost, surprised that the anti-Catholic crowd here still runs with it.

There is a far more compelling theory regarding the origin of the word that you people should switch to.

[ronnietherocket3]

You can learn a lot about the pagan world prior to Jesus resurrection by looking deeply at the Catholic Religion, because it has incorporated so many of the pagan rites and holidays into that religion. Easter is a prime example, with the Ishtar holiday (Ishtar is Easter) being put into the rituals as a Sunday cewremony to replace what the earliest Christians celebrated on Nisan 14, The Passover, as Jesus established it.

Here is a list of translations of the greeting "Happy Easter" into other languages. E.g., Latin is "Prospera Pascha sit". The official language of the Catholic Church is Latin and uses the word "Pascha" derived from the greek word Pascha which St. Paul uses.

The word Easter is the word in English, which is not the official language of the Catholic Church.

[Mad Dawg]

I don't think you can find serious support for the idea that Easter and Ishtar are related.

Easter

Ishtar

It MAY be worthy of mention that Ishtar seems associated with Aphrodite (and Venus, the goddess and the planet) and is the goddess of sexual love.

But the goddess of the dawn (and there MIGHT be a link as far back as Indo-European between Εως ροδοδακτυλος and ~Proto-Germanic *austron-, "dawn," also the name of a goddess of fertility and spring. But Ishtar and Eos are in two very different businesses, and the Nordic people had another goddess of sexual love.

[terycarl]

You can learn a lot about the pagan world prior to Jesus resurrection by looking deeply at the Catholic Religion, because it has incorporated so many of the pagan rites and holidays into that religion. Easter is a prime example, with the Ishtar holiday (Ishtar is Easter) being put into the rituals as a Sunday cewremony to replace what the earliest Christians celebrated on Nisan 14, The Passover, as Jesus established it.

It was brilliant planning, what better way to get a large crowd at your celebration than to schedule it on, or very near, a date when they were having a celebration of their own....they soon changed the intent of the celebration without having to reschedule it.