GUEST COLUMN: Ancient religions the root of Christianity

By AIYANNA LOONEY

Since the existence of Religion humans have celebrated holidays first based on Nature and the Divine. These holidays have since developed over the years from their ancient roots into modern holidays. The roots of Christian customs are in Ancient Religions. This isn’t merely a coincidence but was planned by early Christian Romans with their desire to crush any diversity in Religion, culture and customs outside of their own desired sets of beliefs. This practice of adopting Ancient Religious customs and reworking their meaning to suit their purpose was meant to assimilate a people into the church.

Modern holidays from Christmas and Yule and Easter and Ostara are a blend of Christian and Pagan because it became impossible for Christians to annihilate the Pagans and the Pagans to completely defend themselves from the invading army.

Eostre, Easter, and Ostara are the names of a Germanic, Norse and Teutonic Goddess of Fertility. Early Christian Anglo Saxons decided that She was somehow related to the resurrection of Jesus simply because Ancient Easter participants celebrated the resurrection and restoration of the Sun after winter. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary the term Easter comes from Eostre. The symbols of the Goddess Eostre were the hare or bunny (for Fertility), and the egg (representing Creation).

Celebrations of Eostre and Fertility rites took place during the lunar month of Eosturmonath, beginning during the last few weeks of March and ending in April. The Fertility rites and Creation Ceremonies are held at sunrise in honor of Eostre because in Ancient Germanic cultures the Sun is female and the Moon is male. No Sun God was worshiped by a Germanic, Norse and Teutonic tribes since the Sun was the aspect of the Female Divine and not Male Divine.

These Ceremonies are not unlike how we celebrate Easter today with a gathering of family and feasting. The ceremonies honor the Spirits of our Ancestors, the Spirits of the Land and the Divine. The Germanic, Norse and Teutonic tribes gathered eggs from Nature of various colors and ate. They thanked the Animal Spirits for their Gifts of meat and ate. They planted fields and spent time with their families. They paraded their infants and children because they were Gifts from the Gods and the Future of the tribe. All life was cherished and not harmed.

The Truth of Nature and the Divine found in all Ancient Religions is alive and well in holidays of modern Religions like Christianity. Christian churches do commonly commemorate the Fertility Rites and Creation Ceremonies that are part of Holy and Ancient Religions that were and still are prevalent and well practiced where Europeans live and have settled. The worship of a Goddess is still part of our lives today, the Goddess of something very important to a family based society: Fertility. Because without Fertility there would be no children, no crops, no LIFE and the end of CREATION would ensue. Fertility, life and creation are all part of the Divine and Righteous.

Finally, Saturnalia is the feast at which the Romans commemorated the dedication of the Temple of the God Saturn, which took place from December 17th to December 23rd. The Hebrew and Babylonian Gods Baal and Tammuz have nothing to do with the Germanic, Norse and Teutonic Goddess Eostre and for that matter Saturnalia. Eostre is also not mentioned in the bible since She is not part of Hebrew Customs or Ancient Religions. Hebrews did not have a Sun Goddess but a Sun God since the Sun was the aspect of the Male Divine and not Female Divine. Moreover, the theory of an egg laying rabbit was brought into the United States German immigrants only a few hundred years ago. This theory of an egg laying rabbit is modern and seems to have been invented by modern German Christians as a story to tell their children, much like Santa Clause was invented by Christian capitalists.

It is apparent that the bible does not mention Germanic, Norse and Teutonic tribes or their customs and Religion. It is also important to quote Colossians 2:8 correctly: “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ” KJV. This passage is obviously not referring to valid and Ancient Religions that worship the correct Gods belonging to those Ancient Religions, but is about philosophy AND vain deceit after the tradition of men. Ancient Religions are in the Tradition of the Divine and do not apply.

When the Catholic and Christian churches practiced a satanic ritual of destruction and genocide, moving against the Ancient People of Europe they sought to exterminate all Ancient Peoples, Religions and Customs but they seemed to have failed. In these modern times as we decorate our eggs and sit with a bunny we continue with the Goddess worship of our Ancestors whether we realize it or not. Eostre lives on in Easter Customs and this fact brings Pagans and Christians closer in peace and harmony.

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