05/04/2026
Easter Blessings 🐣
It’s important to know just what we celebrate! Have a read below 👇🏻🌷🙏🏻
Easter is predominately a Christian celebration, yet its symbols come from a tradition thousands of years older, deeply rooted within the worship of Ishtar.
Ishtar was one of the most powerful goddesses in ancient Mesopotamia, worshipped over 4000 years ago by the Assyrians and Babylonians, across vast regions of the ancient world. She was the goddess of fertility, s*x, love and war, representing both the creation of life, along with the forces that sustained and destroyed it. She was associated with reproduction and desire, because survival in early societies depended entirely on fertility, growth and the ability to produce new life.
She was the daughter of Anu, placing her within one of the earliest known divine hierarchies described in ancient belief systems. In various traditions she was also linked to other deities through complex relationships, although her role remained dominant throughout Mesopotamian religion.
Legend describes her descent into the underworld and her return, reflecting cycles of death and rebirth tied directly to the changing seasons and the natural world. Her festivals marked the arrival of spring with a direct focus on fertility, reproduction and the renewal of life, celebrating the moment when the world shifted from dormancy into growth and abundance.
That origin explains the symbols people still associate with Easter today, with eggs representing creation and the beginning of life in its most recognisable and universal form. In addition to this, rabbits represent fertility and rapid reproduction, making them clear symbols of abundance and the continuation of life.
When Christianity spread into regions where these traditions already existed, it encountered practices that were deeply rooted in the land and tied to the natural cycle of the seasons. These traditions couldn’t simply be removed without huge resistance, so they were taken and reshaped to fit a different narrative. The timing and symbols remained the same, but the meaning changed.
This pattern repeated across multiple traditions, as Christianity expanded into new regions and cultures, absorbing existing festivals and presenting them under a new framework. Winter celebrations were also taken and reshaped, later becoming what is now recognised as Christmas.
Belief in Ishtar gradually declined as newer religions spread and older systems were replaced, particularly with the rise of dominant monotheistic traditions that rejected earlier gods. Her worship faded over centuries, yet the symbols and seasonal practices associated with her never fully disappeared.
Easter, as it exists today, still sits on top of those older foundations, because the imagery has never been replaced or removed. The symbols people recognise remain exactly the same, even though the story attached to them has changed…
Shared from Guy Anderson
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Hannah xx
