>> In most places, it’s a variation of the word “Pascha” which means “Passover.”<<
Actually Easter predates Passover. The celebration of that day started with Semeramis and her illegitimate son Tammuz. Semeramis was the wife of Nimrod.
The word Easter is derived from goddes Astarte who Semeramis claimed she was.
Thank you Alexander Hislop. Do you think the Jews got Passover from the Babylonians? The Bible says God commanded it.
The word Easter is derived from goddes Astarte who Semeramis claimed she was.
Care to explain why the English and Dutch would be naming things after Babylonian goddesses? They weren't Babylonians; they weren't even Semites. (If you want to look for pagan influences on their culture, they'd come more from India via the Indo-European Germans and Celts, than from a Semitic culture like Babylon.)
Nobody between Holland and Babylon knew or cared anything about "Easter" or "Astarte". Did this alleged Babylonian influence just blow into England on the wind?
It kind of blows a big hole in Hislop's foolishness when we point out that Rome -- Papal Rome -- doesn't call Easter, "Easter," or any word related to it, but either "Pascha" (from the Hebrew through the Greek) or "Dominica Resurrectionis", the "Lord's Day of the Resurrection". So much for that "Babylonian" influence.
Throw away your Hislop. It's full of errors, loaded with falsehoods, and some of the dumbest malarkey ever packed between two covers.