It's that time of the year again, the commemoration of the ressurection of Jesus, an annual season which we have come to know as Easter and is celebrated all over the world amongst Christians. A lot of Africans would have gone to church this morning, wishing each other happy easter, without a clear understanding of what Easter really means. Many Africans say stuff like "he is risen" "Jesus is the reason for the season" but does Easter have any bearing on Jesus at all? the answer is NO.
A little History about Easter
Easter is a pagan festival which the early Church fathers adopted and cleverly too, in their attempt to make Christianity acceptable to the very pagan Europe of that time, hence the secular celebration of the Spring Equinox has been syncretised into this religious celebration which we now call Easter from it's original name Ishtar...a pagan godess of fertility and sex and the mother of Tammuz, another pagan god whom was supposed to have risen from the dead and ascended to his father baal in heaven (ill come to that later) all in their efforts to make it easier to transition from paganism into Christianity.
The death of the son of God and his ressurection is actually a copy work and an adaptation of a compilation of symbolic narrative from ancient Babylonian, Assyrian and Sumerian religion. The death of the Sun god (not Son of God) because these were sun worshipers, how he triumphed over evil, the story of the Crux (check the constellation of the Southern cross) and various Pre-Jesus crucifiction and ressurection story are pointers to the fact that not only is this ressurection story not unique nor genuine but is also completely pagan and has been padded and repackaged into what we now celebrate today as Easter.
Let's go back to Ishtar. According to the mythology, Cush was the son of Ham...grandson of Noah and he married a woman called Semiramis and they bore a son called Nimrod, the one who built the infamous tower of Babel. When Cush died, Nimrod married his mum Semiramis and Nimrod was like a god-man during his reign. Eventually he was killed by one of his many enemies but his wife/mother Semiramis proclaimed that Nimrod has risen from the dead and has ascended to the sun as the sun-god known as Baal.
She declared that Baal would be present forever on earth in the form of light or fire (and that is why people light candles during religious worship back then)
She then declared herself a goddess, she declared that she was descended from the moon through a giant egg and changed her name to Ishtar (Easter/Easter eggs anyone?) she went further to proclaim that her pregnancy was as a result of the sun rays from her sun-god husband Baal, therefore she was immaculately conceived and her child Tammuz is a son of Baal the son god (this is where son of God narrative came from)
Tammuz was fond of rabbits and rabbits were sacred during the times of these ancient religions, way before the time of Christ.
When Tammuz died Ishtar proclaimed that he has risen and ascended to join his father Baal and together they will be both be worshiped along with the spirit. The concept of trinity is a pagan initiative as is many more which you are about to find out.
The myth further proclaimed that although Tammuz was killed by a wild pig, his blood fell on a tree stump which grew overnight due to the blood of Tammuz, therefore the sign of T should be made in honour of this incident and a 40 day mourning period is to be observed, during which no one is allowed to eat meat. Welcome to the lenting season and the fasting exercise.
Dying and ressurecting on the third day before ascending into heaven is a consistent re-occurence in European pagan religion and it was only until Christianity became the religon of the state, through Constantine did all the pagan practices blend into the new religion to form a hybrid which the locals would readily accept as it does not completely deviate from their former practices.
Let's examine a few deities with Christlike narratives...Horus was born 25th of December, Mithras born on Christmas day, Dionysus was also born of a virgin on the 25th of December, he was killed and ressurected after 3 days.
What about our own Religions?
Here is my issue with the Easter celebration, the Jesus narratives and the history of Christianity in general especially as it affects Africans.
A lot of Africans continue to perpetuate the mythology of the west and parade it as facts, to the detriment of our own folktales, oral history, heritage and culture.
The pagan practices of Baal and Asyrian cults have evolved into modern Christianity and European heritage festivals of fertility, drunkeness, sex and food have managed to syncretise into a modern and acceptable version called Chritianity in the form of Xmas and Easter celebrations, with gift giving, eggs, rabbits, food, wine and other ancient practices intact albeit modernised.
Africans on the other hand, shun their own ancient religion, shun their heritage, shun their culture but embrace the foreign ones, including all its fettish and sinister past. They wave it aside and concentrate on the now without caring about the history of these western religions.
If you can embrace Christianity in spite of its ritualistic pagan past, why dont you spare a thought to the religion of your ancestores...and help it to evolve...the same way Baal, Tanuum and Ishtar have evolved into the Easter you celebrate today.
Africans kill themselves daily by posining their children with the same poison they were fed as kids. Many Africans will tell their impressonable children today that Jesus died for our sins and rose to heaven but will not bother to research the truth behind the story of the ressurection. Many Africans carry Infornmation in their purses and pockets, with the advent of the latest sophisticated devices, but will not use it appropriately to get information and learn to separate facts from fiction.
As you return from church...do some research and educate yourself. Easter has nothing to do with Jesus and you as an African need to find ways to improve your own ancestral religion.
A little History about Easter
Easter is a pagan festival which the early Church fathers adopted and cleverly too, in their attempt to make Christianity acceptable to the very pagan Europe of that time, hence the secular celebration of the Spring Equinox has been syncretised into this religious celebration which we now call Easter from it's original name Ishtar...a pagan godess of fertility and sex and the mother of Tammuz, another pagan god whom was supposed to have risen from the dead and ascended to his father baal in heaven (ill come to that later) all in their efforts to make it easier to transition from paganism into Christianity.
The death of the son of God and his ressurection is actually a copy work and an adaptation of a compilation of symbolic narrative from ancient Babylonian, Assyrian and Sumerian religion. The death of the Sun god (not Son of God) because these were sun worshipers, how he triumphed over evil, the story of the Crux (check the constellation of the Southern cross) and various Pre-Jesus crucifiction and ressurection story are pointers to the fact that not only is this ressurection story not unique nor genuine but is also completely pagan and has been padded and repackaged into what we now celebrate today as Easter.
Let's go back to Ishtar. According to the mythology, Cush was the son of Ham...grandson of Noah and he married a woman called Semiramis and they bore a son called Nimrod, the one who built the infamous tower of Babel. When Cush died, Nimrod married his mum Semiramis and Nimrod was like a god-man during his reign. Eventually he was killed by one of his many enemies but his wife/mother Semiramis proclaimed that Nimrod has risen from the dead and has ascended to the sun as the sun-god known as Baal.
She declared that Baal would be present forever on earth in the form of light or fire (and that is why people light candles during religious worship back then)
She then declared herself a goddess, she declared that she was descended from the moon through a giant egg and changed her name to Ishtar (Easter/Easter eggs anyone?) she went further to proclaim that her pregnancy was as a result of the sun rays from her sun-god husband Baal, therefore she was immaculately conceived and her child Tammuz is a son of Baal the son god (this is where son of God narrative came from)
Tammuz was fond of rabbits and rabbits were sacred during the times of these ancient religions, way before the time of Christ.
When Tammuz died Ishtar proclaimed that he has risen and ascended to join his father Baal and together they will be both be worshiped along with the spirit. The concept of trinity is a pagan initiative as is many more which you are about to find out.
The myth further proclaimed that although Tammuz was killed by a wild pig, his blood fell on a tree stump which grew overnight due to the blood of Tammuz, therefore the sign of T should be made in honour of this incident and a 40 day mourning period is to be observed, during which no one is allowed to eat meat. Welcome to the lenting season and the fasting exercise.
Dying and ressurecting on the third day before ascending into heaven is a consistent re-occurence in European pagan religion and it was only until Christianity became the religon of the state, through Constantine did all the pagan practices blend into the new religion to form a hybrid which the locals would readily accept as it does not completely deviate from their former practices.
Let's examine a few deities with Christlike narratives...Horus was born 25th of December, Mithras born on Christmas day, Dionysus was also born of a virgin on the 25th of December, he was killed and ressurected after 3 days.
What about our own Religions?
Here is my issue with the Easter celebration, the Jesus narratives and the history of Christianity in general especially as it affects Africans.
A lot of Africans continue to perpetuate the mythology of the west and parade it as facts, to the detriment of our own folktales, oral history, heritage and culture.
The pagan practices of Baal and Asyrian cults have evolved into modern Christianity and European heritage festivals of fertility, drunkeness, sex and food have managed to syncretise into a modern and acceptable version called Chritianity in the form of Xmas and Easter celebrations, with gift giving, eggs, rabbits, food, wine and other ancient practices intact albeit modernised.
Africans on the other hand, shun their own ancient religion, shun their heritage, shun their culture but embrace the foreign ones, including all its fettish and sinister past. They wave it aside and concentrate on the now without caring about the history of these western religions.
If you can embrace Christianity in spite of its ritualistic pagan past, why dont you spare a thought to the religion of your ancestores...and help it to evolve...the same way Baal, Tanuum and Ishtar have evolved into the Easter you celebrate today.
Africans kill themselves daily by posining their children with the same poison they were fed as kids. Many Africans will tell their impressonable children today that Jesus died for our sins and rose to heaven but will not bother to research the truth behind the story of the ressurection. Many Africans carry Infornmation in their purses and pockets, with the advent of the latest sophisticated devices, but will not use it appropriately to get information and learn to separate facts from fiction.
As you return from church...do some research and educate yourself. Easter has nothing to do with Jesus and you as an African need to find ways to improve your own ancestral religion.
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