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Easter is a convions. Pagan, Hebrew
returning seasonally from the nether regions to the light of day.
and Christian. Although the observance of Easter was at a very
Christian Origins It was at the feast of the Passover in Jerusalem that Jesus, a Jew, was crucified and rose from the dead. A name for Easter, therefore, is Pasch, in various spellings, and churches throughout the East and West celebrate Easter as a major feast ranking wi th Christmas, witness the hot cross bun or boon distributed among the faithful. There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the apostolic Fathers. The sanctity of special times was an idea absent from the minds of the first Christians, who continued to observe the Jewis h festivals, though in a new spirit, as commemorations of events which those festivals had foreshadowed. Thus the Passover, with a new conception added to it of Christ
This is in conjunction with the festival of spring, or vernal
early period in the practice of the Christian church, a serious
equinox, March 21, when nature is in resurrection after winter.
复活，世界各地的.基督徒每年都要举行庆祝。复活节还象征重生和盼
The Greek myth, Demeter and Persephone, with its Latin
望。时间是春分月圆后的第一个星期日。
counterpart, Ceres and Per sephone, conveys the idea of a goddess
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difference as to the day for its observance soon arose between
The origin of the rabbit icon, or Easter Bunny, comes from
the Christians of Jewish, and those of Gentile descent, which led
No rse Ostara or Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, to
复活节是最古老最有意义的基督教节日之一。它庆祝的是基督的
whom the month of April, and called Eostur-monath, was dedicated.
the fact that rabbits are notable for their capacity of abundant
to a long and bitter controversy.
production of young especially at this time of year. The use of
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like the name of the days of the week, is a survival from the old Teutonic mythology. According to Bede it is derived from the
Pagan Origins
Easter eggs, has its roots in the characteristic of eggs laid
The Pagan origins of the holiday according to a Venerable
in great numbers in the spring being colored like rays of the
Bede, English historian of the early 8th century, the name Easter,
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returning sun and the northern lights or aurora borealis. There is also a long tradition of decorating Easter eggs and giving them at Easter. See The History of Easter Eggs for more information about this tradition.
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as the true Paschal Lamb and the first fruits from the dead (vernal equinox winter to spring theme), continued to be observed, and became the Christian Easter.
Hebrew Origins The month (April), Bede says, was the same as the mensis paschalis, when the old festival was observed with the gladness of a new solemnity The root pasch, from which so many other names for Easter are derived, is from the Hebr ew pesach (Passover) from the verb form he passed over. In Exodus XII we read of the night in Egypt when the angel of death passed over the dwellings of the Israelites, so sparing their first-born. Hence, the Passover or Jewish Pesac h, celebrated during Nisan, the first month of the Hebrew year.