BA Goswami on Easter and ISHTAR / STAR

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vediculture, "Vrin Parker" <vrinparker>

wrote:

> Jaya Bhakti Ananda Goswami. Happy Easter to you too.I am sure all

is

> well. great to hear from you.

> quick question. what is the history of Goddess Ishtar and any

> supposed connection to Easter?

> Ys Vrn

>

 

DERIVATION OF THE ENGLISH WORD EASTER

 

HARE BOL !

 

GREETINGS DEAREST VRIN AND FAMILY,

 

CHRIST'S PEACE AND LOVE TO YOU AT THIS HOLY TIME.

 

 

 

HERE IS THE DERIVATION OF THE LATE ENGLISH WORD EASTER, AND WHY THE

MONTH'S FESTIVAL OF THE RISEN LORD IS CALLED EASTER.

 

PLEASE EXCUSE MY USE OF ALL UPPER CASE AS THESE ARE SO MUCH EASIER

FOR ME TO SEE AND TYPE.

 

WHY THE FESTIVAL OF THE RISEN CHRIST IS CALLED EASTER

 

EASTER IS THE CHRISTIAN FESTIVAL OF THE RISEN CHRIST. IT ALWAYS

OCCURRED AT THE SAME TIME OF THE YEAR, IN THE MONTH THAT WAS CALLED

EASTER, BECAUSE OF ITS INCREASING LIGHT AND WARMTH. SO THE FESTIVAL

TIME WAS COMMONLY IDENTIFIED BY THE SEASON / MONTH OF EASTER. SINCE

JESUS WAS IDENTIFIED WITH THE SON OF HELIOS / ELI-YAHU, AND HIS

RESURRECTION AS THE LORD OF LIFE WAS IDENTIFIED WITH THE RETURN OF

LIFE IN THE SPRING, WITH THE RETURN OF THE LONGER SOLAR DAYS, IN EACH

CULTURE THAT WORSHIPED HIM, HIS MAIN 'RESURRECTION' FESTIVAL OF NEW

LIFE CELEBRATION ALWAYS COINCIDED WITH THE 'EASTER' (SPRING) MONTH OF

THAT CULTURE.

 

DERIVATION OF THE NAME ENGLISH EASTER

 

IN EUROPE VARIOUS LANGUAGES ARE MORE-OR-LESS CLOSELY RELATED TO

SANSKRIT THROUGH LATIN AND GREEK. PHILOLOGISTS HAVE BEEN STUDYING

THESE CONNECTIONS FOR CENTURIES. WHEN WE ARE LOOKING FOR CONNECTIONS

BETWEEN DEITIES AND THE NAMES OF DEITIES, IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER

THAT THE SAME DEITY MAY HAVE MANY BY-NAMES. SO SOMETIMES THEIR

NAMES IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES ARE NOT ACTUALLY RELATED, BUT THEY ARE

STILL NAMES OF THE SAME DEITY. FOR EXAMPLE SRI KRISHNA-VISHNU HAS

HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS OF HOLY NAMES. IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION,

THE SAME SUPREME LORD OF THE JEWS, GREEKS, ROMANS AND EGYPTIANS ETC.

ALSO HAD HUNDREDS OF NAMES. THIS MULTIPLICITY OF NAMES MAY LEAD TO A

LOT OF CONFUSION. IN FACT, MUCH OF THE MODERN IDEA OF ANCIENT

POLYTHEISM IS SIMPLY A MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE MANY LOCAL NAMES OF

THE ONE SUPREME LORD.

 

OFTEN TIMES TODAY WE SEE DEVOTEES WHO ARE NOT ACTUALLY TRAINED IN

PHILOLOGY OR ANCIENT LANGUAGES OTHER THAN SANSKRIT, WHO ARE MAKING

MANY SERIOUS ERRORS BY CONFOUNDING UNRELATED NAMES WITH SANSKRIT

NAMES , BECAUSE THESE NAMES SUPERFICIALLY SEEM RELATED, AND IT SEEMS

A SURE THING THAT THEY REFER TO THE SAME DEITY. THIS POPULAR

PROLIFERATION OF ERRORS IS NOT HELPFUL FOR ESTABLISHING ANY TRUTH

ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF THE CONNECTIONS IN QUESTION. SO WHILE I AM

GLAD WHEN DEVOTEES TAKE AN INTEREST IN EAST-WEST CONNECTIONS, I

CAUTION THEM NOT TO POLLUTE THE FIELD OF INQUIRY WITH A LOT OF

UNTRAINED NONSENSE SPECULATIONS. PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO QUALIFICATION TO

SPEAK AUTHORITATIVELY ON A SUBJECT, SHOULD BE HUMBLE AND NOT POSE

THEMSELVES AS EXPERTS IN AREAS OUTSIDE OF THEIR ACTUAL EXPERTISE.

UNFORTUNATELY, LACKING THE SELF-HONESTY OF GENUINE HUMILITY, SOME

DEVOTEES ARE PUBLISHING BOOKS IN WHICH THE CLAIM MANY SUCH ERRONEOUS

CONNECTIONS, MISLEADING AND CONFUSING COUNTLESS SOULS BY POSING

THEMSELVES AS EXPERTS, WHEN THEY ARE COMPLETELY UNQUALIFIED.

 

HAVING SAID THAT, HERE ARE SOME ACTUAL CONNECTIONS OF THE

WORDS "EAST" AND "EASTER", TO THEIR ANCIENT WORD-RELATIVES, INCLUDING

SANSKRIT.

 

THE MEANING OF THE ENGLISH WORD "EAST" IS DERIVED FROM THE DIRECTION

OF THE DAWN. DAWN, AS A SOLAR-MONOTHEISM GODDESS, WAS OFTEN

CONSIDERED THE MOTHER OF THE SUN. EVERYDAY SHE GAVE BIRTH TO THE

SUN.

 

(F. = FEMININE GENDER)

 

SANSKRIT USHAS, USRA F. DAWN

 

GREEK EOS F. DAWN

 

LATIN AURORA / AUSOSA F. EAST DAWN

 

LITHUANIAN AUSZRA F. DAWN

 

GERMAN OST EAST

 

SWEDISH OSTAN EAST

 

DANISH OST EAST

 

ICELANDIC AUSTR EAST

 

ANGLO-SAXON EASTRE, EOSTRE F. THE NAME OF THE GODDESS OF APRIL THE

EASTER-MONAO (EASTER MONTH)

 

MIDDLE ENGLISH EST THE AREA OF THE SUNRISE (DAWN), EAST

 

MIDDLE ENGLISH ESTER DEI EASTER DAY

 

DAWN IS ONE COMMON FORM OF THE SUPREME MOTHER GODDESS, AND AS SUCH

WOULD BE ONE NAME OF ISHTAR. BUT THE ENGLISH NAME EASTER DOES NOT

ETYMOLOGICALLY DERIVE FROM ISHTAR.

 

NAMES THAT ARE PROBABLY RELATED TO ISHTAR ARE ASTARTE, AND THE STAR

NAMES AND WORDS LIKE ...

 

SANSKRIT TARA, ASTRAYA, STARA

 

GREEK F. ASTREA, M. ASTROS (WHICH ARE BY-NAMES OF KORE AND KOUROS ON

RHODES...SEE THEIR MILKY-WAY COWHERDING STAR-LOVERS TANABATA CIRCLE

DANCE FESTIVAL IN JAPAN )

 

LATIN ASTRUM

 

LATIN STELLA (STELLA MARIS IS ONE OF MOTHER MARY'S TITLES)

 

GERMAN STERN

 

GOTHIC STAIRNO

 

DANISH STJERNE

 

SWEDISH STJERNA

 

ICELANDIC STJARNA

 

ANGLO-SAXON STEORRA

 

MIDDLE ENGLISH STERRE

 

THE PRIMARY 'STAR' MEANING OF ISHTAR'S NAME IS GENERALLY UNDERSTOOD

FROM THE FOLLOWING FACTS.

 

ISHTAR STAR ASTREA TARA STELLA ETC.

 

http://sangha.net/messengers/ishtar.htm ISHTAR'S IDENTIFICATION WITH

THE MORNING AND EVENING STARS ETC. (A STAR WAS ONE OF HER MOST COMMON

SYMBOLS.)

 

Ishtar, chief goddess of the Babylonians and the Assyrians and the

counterpart of Astarte, a Phoenician goddess. The name appeared in

different forms in every part of the ancient Semitic world; thus it

was Athtar in Arabia, Astar in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), and Ashtart

in Canaan and Israel. The sex of the divinity also varied: Athtar and

Astar were male deities. Ishtar of Erech (in Babylonia) was a goddess

worshiped in connection with the evening star, but Ishtar of Akkad

(also in Babylonia) was a god identified with the morning star. As a

goddess, Ishtar was the Great Mother, the goddess of fertility and

the queen of heaven. On the other hand, her character had destructive

attributes; she was considered, especially by the Assyrians, a

goddess of hunting and war and was depicted with sword, bow, and

quiver of arrows. Among the Babylonians, Ishtar was distinctly the

mother goddess and was portrayed either naked and with prominent

breasts or as a mother with a child at her breast. As goddess of love

she brought destruction to many of her lovers, of whom the most

notable was her consort Tammuz, the Babylonian counterpart of Adonis.

 

Another source adds: Ishtar (Chald.). The Babylonian Venus,

called "the eldest of heaven and earth", and daughter of Anu, the god

of heaven. She is the goddess of love and beauty. The planet Venus,

as the evening star, is identified with Ishtar, and as the morning

star with Anunit, the goddess of the Akkads. There exists a most

remarkable story of her descent into Hades, on the sixth and Seventh

Assman tiles or tablets deciphered by the late G. Smith. Any

Occultist who reads of her love for Tammuz, his assassination by

Izdubar, the despair of the goddess and her descent in search of her

beloved through the seven gates of Hades, and finally her liberation

from the dark realm, will recognise the beautiful allegory of the

soul in scarch of the Spirit.