Re: List limits, and Passover/Easter

At 6:14 pm -0400 27/4/00, bjm10@CORNELL.EDU wrote:
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>Nevertheless, the claim is made annually by ultra-radical Fundamentalist
>Reformed sorts that "Easter" is from "Ishtar" and that all "Easter"
>celebrations are actually Ishtar worship.  Mind you, they can't figure out
>how the name got from Mesopotamia to England without touching any of the
>countries in between.
Same way as the 'British Israelites' - the (I)saac's sons [Saxons], I guess  :)

After all, if you can believe that remnant of the 'ten lost tribes' could
maintain the 'racial purity' of the old Isrealites, which the Jews lost,
and that later emerge in western Europe as, still racially pure, Saxons -
then you can believe virtually anything!

>What is truly strange is that some neopagans have
>taken up exactly the same daft refrain in an attempt to claim that Easter
>was "theirs first".  I guess Jews don't exist, anymore...
Some guy did his best/worst to try and bring that about - and he & his
henchmen were certainly involved in neopagan practices.  That's the trouble
with Jews, they tend to upset certain peoples' theories.

How I abominate fundamentalists and, especially, racists!

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At 6:35 pm -0400 27/4/00, bjm10@CORNELL.EDU wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Barry Garcia wrote:
>
>> course last semester. We were going over Norse gods and goddesses, and
>> when we came to Idun, my professor made a less than subtle hint that Idun,
>> and Eden are related in some way (now, he may be right, but i have my
>> doubts).
>
>May whatever is Holy save us from comparative mythologists and their
>attempts as philology.
AMEN!

Ray.





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