Post by eyeswideopen on Apr 4, 2015 20:32:21 GMT -8
Each year people around the world celebrate many holidays mainly due to long established traditions that have, over time, become the social norm of their culture. This article will focus on one in particular; Easter.
In recent years, there has been an abundance of information coming forth regarding this Easter celebration and it's Pagan origins in connection to the Egyptian myth and can be easily researched and will not be repeated here. It is my aim to discuss not only this history, but to also show it's influence in society beyond the holiday itself which is accomplished through learned knowledge of the Mysteries.
First let's discuss the word itself; Easter, what does it mean and where did this word come from? The following link provides probably the best insight into the question. It's taken from The Two Babylon's by Alexander Hislop - Chapter 3 section 2, published in 1853. It is the opinion of this author; this is one of the best resources on, not only the subject of Easter, but on Mystery Babylon as a whole. It will give you a more relative understanding of the impacts of history and greatly assist you in discerning events unfolding today. You must have the base knowledge of what controls the world in order to understand the world, and Hislop's book provides it adequately. In fact; Mystery Babylon is what has transformed our world into what it is today, and has been at the heart of my studies for many years. It is a vast subject and must be broken down into manageable excerpts for me to convey and for you to learn.
Easter itself is named after one of the Middle Eastern Goddesses of fertility, known variously as Eoster, Astarte, Ashtoreth, Ishtar, and many more to list.
Eoster, where the name Easter derives, comes from the Latin root, estrus, the time when animals are in heat, and oestrus, a time when sexual desire is heightened, the sap rises, and fertility reigns. Under a full moon, such as the pink moon, playful passion is unleashed. Easter is always celebrated the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox; a time for frolicking. The name Easter can be traced back to the name "Astarte," the Syrian sun goddess, known as the "queen of heaven"
<a href="https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/JO-Eo.html" target="_blank">Eoster</a>
<a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/estrus" target="_blank">Estrus</a>
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2394562/" target="_blank">Oestrus</a>
<img src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7170/6659053411_d41c0baa32_z.jpg" alt="Astarte" />
Easter gets its name from Eoster, an Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn. Her name comes from an Indo-European root "aus-," meaning "to shine," from which also come Eos and Aurora, the Greek and Roman names of the dawn goddess; also in Greek, Aurios was Aurora as the Goddess of the Morrow (Her name may derive from an earlier "Ausrion," meaning morning). Her holiday is celebrated near the Spring Equinox (Gk. he Ismemeria Earine), as Easter is celebrated on the Sunday following the full moon that follows or falls on the Spring Equinox; naturally She is especially honored by Dawn Rites (as is still part of the Easter tradition). The same root "aus-" gives us "East," the direction of the dawn, and on the Spring Equinox the Sun rises due East. This Pagan custom has become the Christianized observance of the Sunrise Service.
<strong>SUNRISE SERVICE: – </strong>This too, was an aspect of old pagan customs associated with sun worship. Though the custom no longer celebrates the rising of the sun among Christians, God does condemn the type of service from which it was derived (<a href="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?passage=Ezek+8:16&language=english&version=KJV" target="_blank">Ezek. 8:16</a>). Many years after Christ’s death, the Catholic church began to associate the tradition with Christ’s supposed early morning resurrection in an apparent effort to compromise with their new converts’ previously held religious traditions. Yet, when the ladies came to Christ’s tomb early Sunday morning, <em>He wasn’t there!</em>
The Jews during the time of Jeremiah and Ezekiel had blended sun worship with the worship of God, as we can see in the Scriptural references in regard to the "queen of heaven." Ezekiel 8:15-16 talks about men standing with their backs to the Temple of God, facing the east and worshipping the sun. Albert Pike wrote that all pagan religions worshipped the sun. Whether they knew it, or not, they were actually worshiping Satan, because, as an angel, he was known as Lucifer, or the "bearer of light." The Jewish Temple faced the east, so that when they worshipped God, they would be turned away from the rising sun in the east.
The sunrise service actually stems from the pagan rite of Spring that was held during the vernal equinox to welcome the coming sun. According to pagan tradition, when the sun would rise on Easter morning, it would dance in the heavens, so, those who would congregate, would dance in honor of the sun.
<a href="http://www.praiseyahuwah.com/controlled%20by%20the%20calendar.pdf" target="_blank">Controlled By the Calendar p47</a>
The verse that is found in Mark 16:2 is often given to justify the promotion of Easter sunrise services: <em>"And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulcher at the rising sun."</em>
Eoster, Celtic goddess of spring, known as Ostara in the Germanic tradition and Frigga in Norse mythology, Persephone and Eos in Greek mythology, was celebrated at this time for all of the riches she brought: Light, growth, green, fertility, abundance, renewal, the chance to start again.
<img src="https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/images/Eos-2.gif" alt="Enos" />
Since the Spring (Gk. Ear) is the dawn of the new vegetation year (and was often the start of the calendar year in ancient times), Eoster is also a goddess of spring. She is essentially identical to Freya, for She is the goddess of the fertile spring, the resurrection of life after winter. Friday, of course, is named for Freya and sacred to Her; so it is especially appropriate to honor Her on "Good Freya's Day." I have written an article on the war of calendation that elaborates more on the premise of changing the calendar to synchronize Biblical and Pagan rites. I will add it to this blog soon and link it into this article.
<img src="http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/vampirediaries/images/8/8e/Freya_Goddess_of_Love_and_Beauty.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20141111192509" alt="Freya" />
<strong>EGG</strong> – A sacred symbol of rebirth and fertility among the Babylonians, Druids, Egyptians and other pagan cultures. Dyed eggs were used as sacred offerings during the pagan Easter season and were also used as symbols of the Goddess Oestre or Ishtar in various cultures. (Encyclopedia Britannica, Babylon Mystery Religion)
During the rule of Caesar Augustus, Hyginus, an Egyptian who was the librarian at the Palatine library in Rome, wrote: "An egg of a wondrous site is said to have fallen from heaven into the river Euphrates. The fishes rolled it to the bank, where the doves having settled upon it, and hatched it, out came Venus, who afterwards was called the Syrian goddess (Astarte)." Part of their worship to this goddess was the ritual involving the "golden egg of Astarte." This was where we got the tradition of the Easter egg.
Pope Gregory (590-604), forbid the followers of the Catholic Church to eat eggs during Lent, so they became a treat at Easter. The people in Poland said that the Virgin Mary dyed eggs in various colors for Jesus to play with when He was a child. The Ukrainians incorporated blue dots in the design of their eggs, which they say represent the tears of Mary. They believe she took a basket of colored eggs to Pontius Pilate as a gift, in hopes of convincing him to have mercy on Jesus. As she was making them, she began crying and the tears fell on the shells, making the dots. The orthodox of Romania dyed their eggs red, because they believed Mary left a basket of eggs at the cross during the crucifixion to appease the soldiers so they would treat Jesus better. They were not accepted, and his blood dripped on them. In Russia, there is a tradition that Mary Magdalene gave an egg to the Roman emperor as a symbolic token of the resurrection of Jesus.
<a href="http://www.praiseyahuwah.com/controlled%20by%20the%20calendar.pdf" target="_blank">Controlled by the Calendar p45</a>
The egg was a mystical symbol to the pagan religions of Egypt, Japan, Greece, Persia, Phoenicia, India, and Babylon. On page 496, he wrote: "The serpent entwined round the egg, was a symbol common to the Indians, the Egyptians, and the Druids. It referred to the creation of the universe. A serpent with an egg in his mouth was a symbol of the universe containing within itself the germ of all things that the sun develops. The property possessed by the serpent, of casting its skin, and apparently renewing its youth, made it an emblem of eternity and immortality." Thus, we see an indication that the egg initially represented serpent worship, and, by extension, Satan worship. - Albert Pike, an Illuminati member, in his Masonic treatise - <a href="http://www.hermetics.org/pdf/masonry/Albert_Pike_-_Morals_and_Dogma.pdf" target="_blank">Morals and Dogma</a>
<img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/eb/af/59/ebaf5958333e4765f949bf5addd64d03.jpg" alt="Serpent and the Cosmic Egg" />
Because the use of eggs was forbidden during Lent, they were brought to the table on Easter Day, colored red to symbolize the Easter joy. This custom is found not only in the Latin but also in the Oriental Churches. The symbolic meaning of a new creation of mankind by Jesus risen from the dead was probably an invention of later times. The custom may have its origin in paganism, for a great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring. Easter eggs, the children are told, come from Rome with the bells which on Thursday go to Rome and return Saturday morning. The sponsors in some countries give Easter eggs to their god-children. Colored eggs are used by children at Easter in a sort of game which consists in testing the strength of the shells (Kraus, Real-Encyklop die, s. v. Ei). Both colored and uncolored eggs are used in some parts of the United States for this game, known as "egg-picking". Another practice is the "egg-rolling" by children on Easter Monday on the lawn of the White House in Washington - <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05224d.htm" target="_blank">Catholic Encyclopedia</a>
At the spring Equinox, the balance of the day shifts from dark to light; the hen senses this and begin to lay her eggs. In the forest, wild birds lay their colorful eggs, and in ancient times our ancestors went out to hunt for them, and perhaps brought them back in their nests, or in baskets imitating them. Therefore nestlike baskets of decorated eggs and the Eoster Egg Hunt remind us of the revitalization of nature. Colored eggs were also offered to Eoster.
Raw colored eggs are used as amulets, kept raw to promote fertility, and hard-boiled colored eggs are eaten at sunrise on Eoster's Day. They are often dyed red all over to represent the Sun, and their red shells are thrown in the river so that they might float down to the "Kindly Ones" (the daughters of Hades and Persephone ). Thus they go to the Underworld as symbols of renewal.
The Egg is a means of banishing the past and starting afresh. In ancient Paganism it was used both for purification - which removes past pollution - and for propitiating and quieting the dead - which makes way for the living. Though the yolk may be used for cleansing, it is generally the intact egg, touched to the person, that is used for purification, healing and protection. Eggs, which are common Pagan symbols of rebirth, are brought in baskets to the dead and left at their tombs. (That they are not food offerings is shown by the use of empty and artificial eggs for this purpose.)
The Egg figures prominently in the Mysteries. When Plutarch asks whether the chicken or egg came first, Alexander answers that the Orphic Mysteries teach that the Egg is the origin of all things, and so it is given as an offering to Dionysos; Macrobius says it is the central object of reverence in the rites of Pater Liber.
The Egg is a concrete symbol of rebirth. The yolk and the white of a hard-boiled egg symbolize the Sun hidden in the womb of the White Goddess. We crack the shell to symbolize the cracking of the winter's ice; we peel the white to show the melting of the snow, and free the golden Sun. We share the pieces of the Egg, and so share in the God's rebirth. This ritual also symbolizes the destruction of Semele and the rescue of golden Dionysos from Her womb, and the Titans' partaking of divinity by consuming the God.
<img src="http://www.visioninconsciousness.org/AC_33/33%20-%20Cosmic%20Egg%20Theory%20-%2033-01-03.jpg" alt="Cosmic Egg" />
<strong>RABBIT or HARE</strong> –A pagan symbol of fertility and new life. (Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs) Bede, the eight century English monk and scholar related that the Tutonic goddess of spring and fertility, Eastre, had the hare as her symbol. (The American Book of Days, ed. by Jane Hatch, 1978, p. 302)
To begin with, it is actually the hare, and not the rabbit which is Easter's main character, because according to ancient tradition, the hare was a symbolic representation for the Moon, since they only came out at night to eat. Also, the Egyptian name for the hare was "Un" (which means "open"), because they are born with their eyes open, while a rabbit's are not. Legend has it, that the hare never blinks or closes it eyes. To some pagan cultures, the Moon was the "open-eyed watcher of the skies." The hare is associated with the goddess Ishtar, and was the symbol of fertility because they reproduce so quickly.
There is also a pagan tradition concerning a bird who wanted to be a rabbit, so the goddess Oestre turned the bird into a rabbit, who could still lay eggs. Every Spring, during the festival dedicated to Oestre, the rabbit laid beautiful colored eggs for the goddess. This tradition is exemplified in the Cadbury television commercial for the filled chocolate eggs. Another tradition, which has been passed down, comes from Germany. According to the legend, during a famine, a poor woman dyed some eggs and hid them in a nest, as Easter presents for her children. When the children found the nest, a big rabbit leaped away, the story that the rabbit brought the eggs. – <a href="http://www.praiseyahuwah.com/controlled%20by%20the%20calendar.pdf" target="_blank">Controlled by the Calendar p46</a>
The Easter Rabbit lays the eggs, for which reason they are hidden in a nest or in the garden. The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility -Simrock, Mythologie, 551 – <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05224d.htm" target="_blank">Catholic Encyclopedia</a>
One more thing I would like to mention. If you still are unsure as to the rabbit being used as a method of sexual symbolism, then I suggest you ask Hugh Heffner, the publisher of Playboy magazine why he uses a "bunny" as his main logo?
Lady Gaga as the symbolic Ishtar; born from the cosmic egg after incubating for 3 days - 2011 MTV Grammys
<img src="https://eyeswideopennwo.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/1cc97-sexy_girl_lady_gaga.jpg" alt="" />
www.mtv.com/news/1657833/lady-gaga-grammy-arrival-egg/
www.mtv.com/news/1657848/lady-gaga-born-this-way-grammys/
www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/lady-gaga-spent-72-hours-incubating-in-grammys-egg-2011152
Mork and Mindy
Robin Williams played Mork, an alien who had landed on the Earth and hatched from an egg. Mork had no earthy context, no background, and no roots. It was this lack of human history that made for endless hilarity in every episode, as Mork encountered culture and society. Also worthy of note; although Mork was a male exoterically, he wore the symbol of female on his spacesuit, the inverted triangle. Esoterically he was androgynous and gave birth to Mirth.
<img src="https://halfgleason.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/mork-egg-robin-williams.jpg" alt="Mork lands and emerges from the Cosmic Egg" />
Mork seen off by the three adepts of Ork - symbolic of the biblical three wise men or were they the Chaldean Astrologers of Hermetic wisdom?
<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/23/1411502146312_wps_53_image002_png.jpg" alt="Mork seen off by the Adepts of Ork" />
Like I mentioned at the beginning of this article; the study of the Mysteries is an ongoing process and cannot be conveyed in a single article. It is up to the individual to seek further enlightenment.
One of the painful, but necessary lessons of walking with Jesus Christ involves accepting who we used to be and where we have come from. Denial of our past does not obliterate our past. We are not Mork, we all have a past and a context. Our past is prelude. God's grace has helped me to accept the reality of my past. The past is not our present to be sure; but the past has happened whether we like it or not. The great news is that God not only rescues us from our past, he redeems our past. He gives us new life in Jesus Christ; a life that does not deny our past, but uses it in a new context.
If you wish to learn more about the philosophy that has shaped our world; I recommend William Cooper's <a href="https://archive.org/details/MysteryBabylonSeries-WilliamCoopertranscriptIncl" target="_blank">Mystery Babylon series</a>.
In recent years, there has been an abundance of information coming forth regarding this Easter celebration and it's Pagan origins in connection to the Egyptian myth and can be easily researched and will not be repeated here. It is my aim to discuss not only this history, but to also show it's influence in society beyond the holiday itself which is accomplished through learned knowledge of the Mysteries.
First let's discuss the word itself; Easter, what does it mean and where did this word come from? The following link provides probably the best insight into the question. It's taken from The Two Babylon's by Alexander Hislop - Chapter 3 section 2, published in 1853. It is the opinion of this author; this is one of the best resources on, not only the subject of Easter, but on Mystery Babylon as a whole. It will give you a more relative understanding of the impacts of history and greatly assist you in discerning events unfolding today. You must have the base knowledge of what controls the world in order to understand the world, and Hislop's book provides it adequately. In fact; Mystery Babylon is what has transformed our world into what it is today, and has been at the heart of my studies for many years. It is a vast subject and must be broken down into manageable excerpts for me to convey and for you to learn.
Easter itself is named after one of the Middle Eastern Goddesses of fertility, known variously as Eoster, Astarte, Ashtoreth, Ishtar, and many more to list.
Eoster, where the name Easter derives, comes from the Latin root, estrus, the time when animals are in heat, and oestrus, a time when sexual desire is heightened, the sap rises, and fertility reigns. Under a full moon, such as the pink moon, playful passion is unleashed. Easter is always celebrated the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox; a time for frolicking. The name Easter can be traced back to the name "Astarte," the Syrian sun goddess, known as the "queen of heaven"
<a href="https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/JO-Eo.html" target="_blank">Eoster</a>
<a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/estrus" target="_blank">Estrus</a>
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2394562/" target="_blank">Oestrus</a>
<img src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7170/6659053411_d41c0baa32_z.jpg" alt="Astarte" />
Easter gets its name from Eoster, an Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn. Her name comes from an Indo-European root "aus-," meaning "to shine," from which also come Eos and Aurora, the Greek and Roman names of the dawn goddess; also in Greek, Aurios was Aurora as the Goddess of the Morrow (Her name may derive from an earlier "Ausrion," meaning morning). Her holiday is celebrated near the Spring Equinox (Gk. he Ismemeria Earine), as Easter is celebrated on the Sunday following the full moon that follows or falls on the Spring Equinox; naturally She is especially honored by Dawn Rites (as is still part of the Easter tradition). The same root "aus-" gives us "East," the direction of the dawn, and on the Spring Equinox the Sun rises due East. This Pagan custom has become the Christianized observance of the Sunrise Service.
<strong>SUNRISE SERVICE: – </strong>This too, was an aspect of old pagan customs associated with sun worship. Though the custom no longer celebrates the rising of the sun among Christians, God does condemn the type of service from which it was derived (<a href="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?passage=Ezek+8:16&language=english&version=KJV" target="_blank">Ezek. 8:16</a>). Many years after Christ’s death, the Catholic church began to associate the tradition with Christ’s supposed early morning resurrection in an apparent effort to compromise with their new converts’ previously held religious traditions. Yet, when the ladies came to Christ’s tomb early Sunday morning, <em>He wasn’t there!</em>
The Jews during the time of Jeremiah and Ezekiel had blended sun worship with the worship of God, as we can see in the Scriptural references in regard to the "queen of heaven." Ezekiel 8:15-16 talks about men standing with their backs to the Temple of God, facing the east and worshipping the sun. Albert Pike wrote that all pagan religions worshipped the sun. Whether they knew it, or not, they were actually worshiping Satan, because, as an angel, he was known as Lucifer, or the "bearer of light." The Jewish Temple faced the east, so that when they worshipped God, they would be turned away from the rising sun in the east.
The sunrise service actually stems from the pagan rite of Spring that was held during the vernal equinox to welcome the coming sun. According to pagan tradition, when the sun would rise on Easter morning, it would dance in the heavens, so, those who would congregate, would dance in honor of the sun.
<a href="http://www.praiseyahuwah.com/controlled%20by%20the%20calendar.pdf" target="_blank">Controlled By the Calendar p47</a>
The verse that is found in Mark 16:2 is often given to justify the promotion of Easter sunrise services: <em>"And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulcher at the rising sun."</em>
Eoster, Celtic goddess of spring, known as Ostara in the Germanic tradition and Frigga in Norse mythology, Persephone and Eos in Greek mythology, was celebrated at this time for all of the riches she brought: Light, growth, green, fertility, abundance, renewal, the chance to start again.
<img src="https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/images/Eos-2.gif" alt="Enos" />
Since the Spring (Gk. Ear) is the dawn of the new vegetation year (and was often the start of the calendar year in ancient times), Eoster is also a goddess of spring. She is essentially identical to Freya, for She is the goddess of the fertile spring, the resurrection of life after winter. Friday, of course, is named for Freya and sacred to Her; so it is especially appropriate to honor Her on "Good Freya's Day." I have written an article on the war of calendation that elaborates more on the premise of changing the calendar to synchronize Biblical and Pagan rites. I will add it to this blog soon and link it into this article.
<img src="http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/vampirediaries/images/8/8e/Freya_Goddess_of_Love_and_Beauty.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20141111192509" alt="Freya" />
<strong>EGG</strong> – A sacred symbol of rebirth and fertility among the Babylonians, Druids, Egyptians and other pagan cultures. Dyed eggs were used as sacred offerings during the pagan Easter season and were also used as symbols of the Goddess Oestre or Ishtar in various cultures. (Encyclopedia Britannica, Babylon Mystery Religion)
During the rule of Caesar Augustus, Hyginus, an Egyptian who was the librarian at the Palatine library in Rome, wrote: "An egg of a wondrous site is said to have fallen from heaven into the river Euphrates. The fishes rolled it to the bank, where the doves having settled upon it, and hatched it, out came Venus, who afterwards was called the Syrian goddess (Astarte)." Part of their worship to this goddess was the ritual involving the "golden egg of Astarte." This was where we got the tradition of the Easter egg.
Pope Gregory (590-604), forbid the followers of the Catholic Church to eat eggs during Lent, so they became a treat at Easter. The people in Poland said that the Virgin Mary dyed eggs in various colors for Jesus to play with when He was a child. The Ukrainians incorporated blue dots in the design of their eggs, which they say represent the tears of Mary. They believe she took a basket of colored eggs to Pontius Pilate as a gift, in hopes of convincing him to have mercy on Jesus. As she was making them, she began crying and the tears fell on the shells, making the dots. The orthodox of Romania dyed their eggs red, because they believed Mary left a basket of eggs at the cross during the crucifixion to appease the soldiers so they would treat Jesus better. They were not accepted, and his blood dripped on them. In Russia, there is a tradition that Mary Magdalene gave an egg to the Roman emperor as a symbolic token of the resurrection of Jesus.
<a href="http://www.praiseyahuwah.com/controlled%20by%20the%20calendar.pdf" target="_blank">Controlled by the Calendar p45</a>
The egg was a mystical symbol to the pagan religions of Egypt, Japan, Greece, Persia, Phoenicia, India, and Babylon. On page 496, he wrote: "The serpent entwined round the egg, was a symbol common to the Indians, the Egyptians, and the Druids. It referred to the creation of the universe. A serpent with an egg in his mouth was a symbol of the universe containing within itself the germ of all things that the sun develops. The property possessed by the serpent, of casting its skin, and apparently renewing its youth, made it an emblem of eternity and immortality." Thus, we see an indication that the egg initially represented serpent worship, and, by extension, Satan worship. - Albert Pike, an Illuminati member, in his Masonic treatise - <a href="http://www.hermetics.org/pdf/masonry/Albert_Pike_-_Morals_and_Dogma.pdf" target="_blank">Morals and Dogma</a>
<img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/eb/af/59/ebaf5958333e4765f949bf5addd64d03.jpg" alt="Serpent and the Cosmic Egg" />
Because the use of eggs was forbidden during Lent, they were brought to the table on Easter Day, colored red to symbolize the Easter joy. This custom is found not only in the Latin but also in the Oriental Churches. The symbolic meaning of a new creation of mankind by Jesus risen from the dead was probably an invention of later times. The custom may have its origin in paganism, for a great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring. Easter eggs, the children are told, come from Rome with the bells which on Thursday go to Rome and return Saturday morning. The sponsors in some countries give Easter eggs to their god-children. Colored eggs are used by children at Easter in a sort of game which consists in testing the strength of the shells (Kraus, Real-Encyklop die, s. v. Ei). Both colored and uncolored eggs are used in some parts of the United States for this game, known as "egg-picking". Another practice is the "egg-rolling" by children on Easter Monday on the lawn of the White House in Washington - <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05224d.htm" target="_blank">Catholic Encyclopedia</a>
At the spring Equinox, the balance of the day shifts from dark to light; the hen senses this and begin to lay her eggs. In the forest, wild birds lay their colorful eggs, and in ancient times our ancestors went out to hunt for them, and perhaps brought them back in their nests, or in baskets imitating them. Therefore nestlike baskets of decorated eggs and the Eoster Egg Hunt remind us of the revitalization of nature. Colored eggs were also offered to Eoster.
Raw colored eggs are used as amulets, kept raw to promote fertility, and hard-boiled colored eggs are eaten at sunrise on Eoster's Day. They are often dyed red all over to represent the Sun, and their red shells are thrown in the river so that they might float down to the "Kindly Ones" (the daughters of Hades and Persephone ). Thus they go to the Underworld as symbols of renewal.
The Egg is a means of banishing the past and starting afresh. In ancient Paganism it was used both for purification - which removes past pollution - and for propitiating and quieting the dead - which makes way for the living. Though the yolk may be used for cleansing, it is generally the intact egg, touched to the person, that is used for purification, healing and protection. Eggs, which are common Pagan symbols of rebirth, are brought in baskets to the dead and left at their tombs. (That they are not food offerings is shown by the use of empty and artificial eggs for this purpose.)
The Egg figures prominently in the Mysteries. When Plutarch asks whether the chicken or egg came first, Alexander answers that the Orphic Mysteries teach that the Egg is the origin of all things, and so it is given as an offering to Dionysos; Macrobius says it is the central object of reverence in the rites of Pater Liber.
The Egg is a concrete symbol of rebirth. The yolk and the white of a hard-boiled egg symbolize the Sun hidden in the womb of the White Goddess. We crack the shell to symbolize the cracking of the winter's ice; we peel the white to show the melting of the snow, and free the golden Sun. We share the pieces of the Egg, and so share in the God's rebirth. This ritual also symbolizes the destruction of Semele and the rescue of golden Dionysos from Her womb, and the Titans' partaking of divinity by consuming the God.
<img src="http://www.visioninconsciousness.org/AC_33/33%20-%20Cosmic%20Egg%20Theory%20-%2033-01-03.jpg" alt="Cosmic Egg" />
<strong>RABBIT or HARE</strong> –A pagan symbol of fertility and new life. (Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs) Bede, the eight century English monk and scholar related that the Tutonic goddess of spring and fertility, Eastre, had the hare as her symbol. (The American Book of Days, ed. by Jane Hatch, 1978, p. 302)
To begin with, it is actually the hare, and not the rabbit which is Easter's main character, because according to ancient tradition, the hare was a symbolic representation for the Moon, since they only came out at night to eat. Also, the Egyptian name for the hare was "Un" (which means "open"), because they are born with their eyes open, while a rabbit's are not. Legend has it, that the hare never blinks or closes it eyes. To some pagan cultures, the Moon was the "open-eyed watcher of the skies." The hare is associated with the goddess Ishtar, and was the symbol of fertility because they reproduce so quickly.
There is also a pagan tradition concerning a bird who wanted to be a rabbit, so the goddess Oestre turned the bird into a rabbit, who could still lay eggs. Every Spring, during the festival dedicated to Oestre, the rabbit laid beautiful colored eggs for the goddess. This tradition is exemplified in the Cadbury television commercial for the filled chocolate eggs. Another tradition, which has been passed down, comes from Germany. According to the legend, during a famine, a poor woman dyed some eggs and hid them in a nest, as Easter presents for her children. When the children found the nest, a big rabbit leaped away, the story that the rabbit brought the eggs. – <a href="http://www.praiseyahuwah.com/controlled%20by%20the%20calendar.pdf" target="_blank">Controlled by the Calendar p46</a>
The Easter Rabbit lays the eggs, for which reason they are hidden in a nest or in the garden. The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility -Simrock, Mythologie, 551 – <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05224d.htm" target="_blank">Catholic Encyclopedia</a>
One more thing I would like to mention. If you still are unsure as to the rabbit being used as a method of sexual symbolism, then I suggest you ask Hugh Heffner, the publisher of Playboy magazine why he uses a "bunny" as his main logo?
Lady Gaga as the symbolic Ishtar; born from the cosmic egg after incubating for 3 days - 2011 MTV Grammys
<img src="https://eyeswideopennwo.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/1cc97-sexy_girl_lady_gaga.jpg" alt="" />
www.mtv.com/news/1657833/lady-gaga-grammy-arrival-egg/
www.mtv.com/news/1657848/lady-gaga-born-this-way-grammys/
www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/lady-gaga-spent-72-hours-incubating-in-grammys-egg-2011152
Mork and Mindy
Robin Williams played Mork, an alien who had landed on the Earth and hatched from an egg. Mork had no earthy context, no background, and no roots. It was this lack of human history that made for endless hilarity in every episode, as Mork encountered culture and society. Also worthy of note; although Mork was a male exoterically, he wore the symbol of female on his spacesuit, the inverted triangle. Esoterically he was androgynous and gave birth to Mirth.
<img src="https://halfgleason.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/mork-egg-robin-williams.jpg" alt="Mork lands and emerges from the Cosmic Egg" />
Mork seen off by the three adepts of Ork - symbolic of the biblical three wise men or were they the Chaldean Astrologers of Hermetic wisdom?
<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/23/1411502146312_wps_53_image002_png.jpg" alt="Mork seen off by the Adepts of Ork" />
Like I mentioned at the beginning of this article; the study of the Mysteries is an ongoing process and cannot be conveyed in a single article. It is up to the individual to seek further enlightenment.
One of the painful, but necessary lessons of walking with Jesus Christ involves accepting who we used to be and where we have come from. Denial of our past does not obliterate our past. We are not Mork, we all have a past and a context. Our past is prelude. God's grace has helped me to accept the reality of my past. The past is not our present to be sure; but the past has happened whether we like it or not. The great news is that God not only rescues us from our past, he redeems our past. He gives us new life in Jesus Christ; a life that does not deny our past, but uses it in a new context.
If you wish to learn more about the philosophy that has shaped our world; I recommend William Cooper's <a href="https://archive.org/details/MysteryBabylonSeries-WilliamCoopertranscriptIncl" target="_blank">Mystery Babylon series</a>.