April 05, 2010 journal, a shared Easter with the possibility of exposing world paganism. Origins of Easter. "The meaning of Easter is Christ victory over death, according to the Bible. The Internet site offers the following information about the word "Easter". The term "Easter" did not always symbolize (the true) Christ's resurrection. The feast day of Easter was once a pagan celebration of renewal & rebirth. Held in early spring, it honored pagan Saxon goddess Eastre. When Krishna and the missionaries converted the Saxons, the holidays, which fell around the same time as the memorial of Christ resurrection, was merged with the pagan celebration and became known as Easter. "I don't know how much of the following is reliable", but here is more Internet-available legendary details about "Easter": Soon after the global flood Genesis 6-9, Nimrod, a grandson of Noah, turned from following God and became a tyrannical ruler. According to the Bible, Nimrod created Babel, Asshur, Nineveh, Babel, Calla and other cities known for promoting evil. Nimrod died, and his wife, Queen Semiramis, deified him as the sun god, or life giver. He became known as Baal, and those who followed the religion which Semiramis created in his name were called Baal worshipers. They were associated with idolatry, demon worship, human sacrifice and such. The origin of "Easter" involves the birth of Semiramis' illegitimate son, Tammuz, Semiramis convinced people that Tammuz was Nimrod reborn. People had looked for the promised savior Genesis 3:15 and were persuaded by Semiramis to believe Tammuz was that savior, even that he had been supernaturally conceived. Before long, in addition to worshiping Tammuz (or Nimrod reborn), the people also worshipped Semiramis herself as the goddess of fertility. In other cultures, she has been called Ishtar, Ashtur and, yes, Easter. The origin of Easter goes back to the springtime ritual instituted by Semiramis following the death of Tammuz, who according to tradition, was killed by a wild boar. Legend has it that through the power of his mother's tears, Tammuz was "resurrected" in the form of a new vegetation that appeared on the earth. In the city of Babel, people created a tower to defy God. Until that time, people on earth spoke one language. God refused their language Genesis 11: 7 to keep them from further unifying in false beliefs. As people moved to other lands, many took pagan practices with them. (Remember the golden calf the Israelites were so quick to build and worship.) The Easter Bunny and Easter eggs can be traced to practices established by samarium. Rabbits are prolific and have long been associated with fertility and its goddess, Tammuz, Astarte, many ancient Babylonians believed a fable about an egg that fell from heaven into the U.S. treaties River. Queen Astar another name for Astor or Semiramis was "hatched" from that egg, according to fable. For Christians, the origin of Easter is simply the crucifixion and resurrection of "Jesus" Christ. According to Gospel accounts, "Jesus" Christ, the true Messiah promised (by Prophets) in the Old Testament, was crucified and resurrected at the time of the Jewish Passover. Since that event took place, those who believe Christ is their Messiah have honored that day and often celebrated it with the traditional Passover. As Christianity spread throughout non-Jewish nations, where Passover had not been celebrated, pagan rites of Easter ("rites of Spring" and traditions) are assimilated into what the Christian church called "Resurrection Day". Easter was generally dismissed as a pagan holiday by American founding Puritans and was not widely observed in America until just after the Civil War". Revelation 1-18 "I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive forevermore, amen; and have the keys of hell and of death". Salvation is obtained by faith.