Intro
This is a big subject and is likely to change over time as I read, study and learn. And while the intricate details of Mystery Babylon will continue to be revealed, there is more than enough available information to lay down a solid foundation, a framework, to see the overarching picture.
I have encountered a barrage of skepticism in my research. I understand the target I make for myself in even speaking of this subject. But my evidence is documented and thought out. All I ask, before jumping to any conclusion, is to look into it yourselves. There are literally thousands of preserved and archived books out there for you to read, for free. Lifetimes of research. To say any one person has the answer is crazy. But as I stated earlier, the more you read and study, the clearer the overarching picture gets, no matter how complex the details are.
To make things easier for you to navigate this article, as you study, I have added links below to allow you to skip to certain areas(clicking the header of each section will bring you back to the top of this page and clicking any picture will take you to the associated appendix, if one is available).
Please take note of the many links that are presented throughout the article. The appendices also contain additional links related to most of the imagery I have assembled to further aid the study.
Sections:
1) Debunking the Debunkers
2) The Queen of Heaven
3) The Whore of Babylon
4) The Moon Goddess
5) The Goddess Eostre
6) The Easter Egg
7) The Easter Bunny
8) Conclusion
9) Appendix
As I briefly stated above, I encountered a lot of negative articles about the type of study you are about to read. So many so called “authority figures” that are so quick to debunk anything to do with Mystery Babylon. However, I have read their arguments and, thus far, I find them wanting.
No one seems to address the underlying accusations, only surface level aesthetics and then call it a day.
Some of this is the fault of the men and women on “my” side of the aisle who have not adequately presented their arguments or even posted some wrong information. However, “debunking” these surface level inaccuracies does nothing to surrender the driving force behind them… that there is, and always has been, only TWO religions.
Although I don’t consider Christianity to be a religion, it’s roots are. When God dealt with Moses it was all religion. Now it’s faith. But for the colloquial use of the word, and for the sake of argument, lets, for now, call Christianity a religion.
If Christianity is one of the two religions, then Mystery Babylon is the other. Why is it called Mystery Babylon (rev.17:5)? Because it is the same religion today as the one in Babylon, but in mystery form. The god’s/goddesses are the same, only the names have changed.
This, our thesis, now established, let’s take our first steps into the minds and arguments of those that disagree.
In this article from Scientific America (the same people who believe in evolution and that everything came from nothing), they “debunk” the Easter myth from a popular meme that makes it’s rounds on facebook about this time each year.
What is the meme?
This:
The meme is mostly correct, but not only does it leave out a key detail, it also presents opportunities for “debunking.”
The first, in this case, is that the image is not actually of Ishtar. It is a Babylonian goddess that has her roots from Ishtar, but it’s hard to prove a point when the very first thing people see can be “debunked.”
The second, and most important, is that the meme leaves out the most important part of the thesis… that ALL religions are derived from ONE. You’ll see how this leaves the meme open for debunking below.
We’ll get into the main argument the debunkers use a little later in the article (see the section on Eostre), but by not establishing this point allows nearly anyone to use surface level arguments to “debunk” it. For example, lets just say the word “Easter” itself is actually derived from the goddess “Eostre” and not from “Ishtar.” An authority figure, like the writer of the Scientific America article, could just say see, debunked, without ever even tackling the deeper study that Eostre herself is derived from Ishtar. So even if the word “Easter” came from Eostre, it’s STILL the celebration of Ishtar because the two are one in the same, only separated by time and language.
This is the argument the “debunkers” won’t and can’t debunk.
So lets help them understand.
If you remember, from Genesis 11, Babylon (then known as the land of Shinar), was famous for building a tower to heaven (the sky). At that time everyone spoke the same language and so, having every clever mind able to work together, these ungodly people were able to accomplish just about anything they set their minds to. In retaliation, God confounded their language and the people scattered, gathering together in clusters of those who spoke their same languages (if you notice, historically, whenever a civilization is founded the language has always already been fully formed. That’s Genesis 11 in action).
Although the people separated into their own clusters (forming several cities within the kingdom of Babylon), they kept with them the religion of Babylon. After all, every nation split from that center point outwards. Just because their language changed didn’t mean their religion changed. The only thing that changed were the names given to their gods and idols and that is why, in such a small area of the world, it is common to see the same deity depicted but under several different names.
The bible is a history book folks. It literally tells us how all of this came about. We just have to put two and two together.
As time passed these civilization’s spread and their religions grew and evolved but the root of every god and goddess were the same. Understanding this basic premise allows us to easily debunk the debunkers.
Now then, lets look at what Scientific America put up to refute Easter having any relationship to Ishtar. Here’s what they say about her:
Ishtar was the goddess of love and war and sex, as well as protection, fate, childbirth, marriage, and storms—there's some fertility in there, but as with Aphrodite, there is also an element of power. Her cult practiced sacred prostitution, where women waited at a temple and had sex with a stranger in exchange for a divine blessing (and money to feed hungry children or pay a debt).
Ishtar's symbols were the the lion, the morning star, and eight or sixteen pointed stars—again, symbols of power.
Ok, now lets see what they say about the origin of the word “Easter.”
The word Easter does not appear to be derived from Ishtar, but from the German Eostre, the goddess of the dawn—a bringer of light.
The bringer of light? Well, that’s a direct reference to Lucifer (meaning “light bringer”). But what did they say about Ishtar? “Ishtar’s symbols were the the lion, the morning star, and eight or sixteen pointed stars.” The morning star? That is the title given to Lucifer by all the corrupt bible versions on the market today! It’s also a symbol of nearly every “dawn goddess” throughout the ages. Both Ishtar and Eostre are “dawn goddesses,” with Ishtar existing thousands of years before Eostre. Clearly. the two are the same goddess separated only by time and space.
But because the author of the meme failed to present that argument, the “debunker” easily used a surface argument to to “debunk” it. If the stronger argument was made from the start, that ALL religions derive from Babylon, then Scientific America debunks itself in it’s own article.
History always proves the Bible is correct, eventually.
As of typing this article (03/21/2022), the first result in a google search of “Queen of Heaven” returns a wikipedia article titled: Queen of Heaven, with it’s first sentence reading, “Queen of Heaven is a title given to the Virgin Mary, by Christians mainly of the Catholic Church.“
Already we see an error. The Roman Catholics are not Christians. But the point remains, the title “Queen of Heaven” is synonymous with Mary, the mother of Jesus. However, Mary isn’t a queen of anything. Not in the bible, at least.
Take a look at some of these famous depictions of Mary by the Roman Catholics, all located in the famed Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception located in Washington DC:
I want you to notice two things in the above images. First, the crown. After all, the Catholics worship her as a queen, right? Second, the moon that she is often found standing on. Let’s tackle the crown first.
Nowhere in the bible is Mary ever referred to as a queen of anything. Sure, Luke 1:28 says she is favored (with God), and is “blessed AMONG women.” That’s a great compliment to receive. No doubt. But it’s not the best compliment a women ever received from God. In Judges 5:24 Jael is said to be “blessed ABOVE women.”
Did Jael become a queen then? After all, she did kill a king…
No.
So what’s the rational with Mary? Well, although unbiblical, here it is: Since Jesus is God then Mary gave birth to God. Therefore God would not exist without Mary. Therefore Mary must be divine! The Queen of heaven!
But Mary is not the mother of God… she is the mother of Jesus, son of man. Not Jesus, son of God. Jesus existed well before Mary, since the foundations of the world.
The curse of Eve in Genesis ch.3 prophecies of the worship of Mary (and every female deity before her). The second part of the curse says, “thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.” How is that be a curse? Unless, of course, the prophecy implies that women will have a natural desire to rebel against men and to rule over them. In order to be Godly women must be subservient and fight that natural desire to rule.
God knew that the eventual worship of Mary as the “queen of heaven” would be a thing. That’s why whenever Jesus speaks to her in the bible he is careful not to show her reverence at all, he simply calls her “woman.“
But look at how the Catholics view her:
What a statement! To Jesus, through Mary!? I thought we were part of Jesus’ body the moment we got saved. I thought ONLY Jesus was the mediator between God and men. I thought there was no way to heaven except through Jesus. Clearly, whatever Mary the Catholics are worshiping is NOT the Mary of the bible! So who is she?
Even though Mary is never called the “Queen of heaven” in the scriptures (the title the Catholics openly bestow on her), there is a “queen of heaven” mentioned in the bible… lets see what the prophet Jeremiah writes about her, from God’s persepective:
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched
-Jeremiah 7:18-20
Not good. Whoever this queen of heaven is, she’s bad news. Her worship provokes God to anger, forcing him to pour out his righteous fury upon mankind and the earth forever (“and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched“).
That prophecy has not fully been fulfilled… Not yet anyway. The Jewish people did indeed kindle God’s anger through the worship of this queen of heaven, and Jerusalem was overthrown by Babylon and they were taken into captivity for 70 years, but 70 years is not forever, as the verse states. So, there must be another relation to this “queen of heaven,” and that fire that is not quenched, which has yet to take place.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration
-Revelation 17
Who is the mysterious woman of Revelation, full of sin?
Revelation 17:18 says that she’s a city which reigneth over the kings of the earth. Verse 9 says that she, this city, sits on seven mountains. Verse 4 says she dresses in scarlet and purple. Verse 6 says she is drunk with the blood of the saints (Christians which she’s killed).
Brothers and sisters, do I need say more? I’ve published videos you can watch on the matter already (I highly recommend THIS ONE by Dr. Ruckman), but it should be obvious that the Catholic Church (Vatican City), is Mystery Babylon.
Vatican city sits on seven hills (they would have been mountains in the bible as they are same height as the mountains in Jerusalem). It’s priests dress in purple and scarlet. The Catholics killed more than 10 million Christians during the inquisition. They even drink wine out of golden cups pretending it is blood. They eat wafers, cakes, just as described in Jeremiah 44:19 to the queen of heaven… “Mary.”
Catholicism is the SAME religion that was prevalent in the days of Babylon, in the prophecy we saw earlier about the queen of heaven, but they disguise it as Christianity.
That’s why the bible calls her “Mystery Babylon.” It’s the religion of Babylon in mystery form!
The Catholics will tell you that Mary, standing on the moon (often with 12 stars above her head), is because of the woman described in Revelation 12. But once again this a ruse to fool their converts into thinking they are worshiping Mary when in reality they are worshiping an ancient Babylonian goddess.
A thorough study of Revelation 12 shows that the woman being spoken of is NOT Mary. It’s the nation of Israel. Just as the church is described as a woman, as the bride of Christ, so the Nation of Israel is also described as a woman, as the bride of God the father.
The moon, however, does play an important role in identifying this goddess that the Catholics call Mary.
There’s a lot of mythology here that you’ll need to do your own research on to fully grasp (again, Hislop’s book is great. I also recommend Babylon Religion), but I’ll give you the quick run down here.
Bulls have been synonymous with goddess worship since the beginning of all recorded religion. It’s not difficult to understand why. They are powerful, produce milk (sustenance) and are fertile.
In the “Epic of Gilgamesh” (the first recorded book ever written), the goddess Ninsun, a cow, gave birth to Gilgamesh. Since Nimrod was the inspiration for Gilgamesh, and his wife Semiramis/Ishtar claimed later to give birth to a “reincarnated” Nimrod in her son Tammuz, it wasn’t long before she was being depicted with horns (see images in appendix A), like Ninsun.
(A search for the famed Babylonian “Ishtar Gate” will also reveal images of bulls associated with the goddess).
These horns also quickly became associated with the moon and with birth (an exclusively female) trait. Not only do the horns resemble a crescent moon, but menstrual cycles were counted by the number of moons in one year. As seen in figure A (appendix A), the Venus of Laussel, depicts the goddess holding a horn with thirteen notches, depicting the number of moons in one year from menstruation to ovulation.
The moon (and horns), representing power and strength, soon also took the shape of the bow. It’s obvious to see why as the bow also resembles a crescent moon. Many of these goddesses even retain the symbol of the moon on their head as well as holding a bow in their hands.
The image to the left (on desktop), depicts the typical layout of a habitat in Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic proto-city in Turkey (not far from the Babylonian/Sumerian birthplace of “religion”).
If you look carefully, a female goddess is depicted on the wall, giving birth to bulls. This same goddess was also found nearby seated on a thrown flanked by two lionesses, which are the animals often associated with Ishtar. Ishtar, as the mother of the reincarnated Nimrod/Gilgamesh (born of a cow) it’s not hard to piece the the common thread together.
But the bull is merely a representation of power. Male gods and kings of this time are also depicted wearing bull horns (some even suggest that these depictions of horns is what brought about the tradition of kings wearing a crown). But it is most often the woman/goddess that was worshiped in ancient societies because she gave birth to these powerful beings.
Without her, they would not exist.
The depictions of the Catholic Mary, holding baby Jesus, are the same depictions used since the foundation of goddess worship going back to ancient Babylon. It is this “mother” goddess that is, and has always been, celebrated at the time around Easter and the Spring equinox. Partly for the renewal of life on the earth, but also for her conception in the spring and birth of a son, often a miraculous birth, on December 25th.
In Ishtar’s case, her son is Tammuz. With Isis, it’s Horus. With Juno, it’s Hercules. All three are one in the same, separated only by time and/or space. Many of these “goddesses” were thus, accordingly (being the “mother/wife of the head god”) , crowned with the title Queen of Heaven” in the days that they were worshiped.
It is this same pagan mother goddess, and child, that the Catholics, either wittingly or unwittingly serve.
The bible says, in 2 Corinthians 11:3-4:
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
The verses make it clear that, even in the times of Paul, people were preaching another Jesus. He might have been very similar to the Jesus of the bible, but he wasn’t the same Jesus. The Catholic Mary and the Catholic Jesus are not the same Mary and Jesus of the bible.
No where in the bible is anyone told to worship Mary. No where in the bible is anyone told to confess sins to priests and say “our fathers” or “hail Mary’s” for the remission of sins. Or to light candles to the dead. Or to build statues and idols of saints (old roman god’s with their names simply changed). The bible doesn’t say we need Mary intercedes for us. The bible doesn’t say there is a purgatory that we need to pray for others to get out of. None of that is Christianity! It’s Catholicism! It’s Mystery Babylon!
The Mary of Catholicism is the same goddess that has been worshiped since Babylon. She is Semiramis/Ishtar/Ashtoreth, the Whore of Babylon. Her son isn’t Jesus, he’s Tammuz/Baal/Nimrod (celebrated on Dec. 25th).
I believe in Jesus. I believe he is the ONLY way to heaven.
The Jesus the Catholics worship is NOT the Jesus of the bible, he’s another Jesus (2 Cor. 11:4). A Jesus that needs his mommy to hold his hand to speak to his daddy. That’s why the Catholics claim we need to pray to Mary, to intercede on our behalf, to Jesus, so that he then listens to his mommy and interceded on our behalf to his daddy, for her, not for us.
The bible tells us how to pray and we pray directly to God, as his adopted sons, THROUGH the Lord Jesus Christ. Click HERE to read what the bible has to say about prayer.
“And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the father may be glorified in the Son.“
It’s time now to turn our attention, briefly, on the goddess Eostre, the darling child of the “debunkers.” Is she where Easter got it’s name?
The “debunkers” like to use “gotchya” tactics when it comes to Easter’s origins. They’ll say things like, “It’s not Ishtar it’s Eostre.” Or, “While Ishtar was a fertility goddess, eggs were never used as her symbol.” Great. I’m not denying any of that (I’m also not affirming it).
What I am saying, and what I believe I have successfully demonstrated so far, is that all these goddesses are the same person, separated only by time and space. They might have different names and different symbols attached to each of them, but they all have the same origin, and their origin is with Semiramis, also called Ishtar, Inanna, Astarte and Ashteroth. She was called these names NOT because they are different people, but because that is where God divided the languages. Just as the Catholics, through the worship of who they call Mary, are really worshiping Ishtar, the origins of Easter, even if brought about by other goddesses, also trace back to her.
But who is the Eostre everyone is on about? Surely there must be a ton of information on her history and ancient depictions that have lead so many to confidently state she is the true origins of Easter. Right?
Well, let me present you these historical pictures…
Oh, wait, there aren’t any.
The earliest depictions of her aren’t anywhere to be seen before around the 17th century AD, long after Easter was celebrated by Christians.
I’ll let my research do all the talking, but if you take the time to read some of the links I’ve left (here’s another article from Good Housekeeping), they all basically say the same thing, that the word Easter derived from the Anglo-Saxon worship of Eostre.
Did it? Maybe… but that “fact” It’s HIGHLY contested.
What is FACT is that Easter was celebrated by the Catholics in the second century AD. However the records for Eostre are scarce, and fringe at best, with only one (highly contested) source giving a date of around 725AD, long after Easter was adopted by the Catholics.
This first recorded mention of her, by name, was from Bede in around 725AD, but his recordings are of so much contention amongst scholars that many openly suggest he made her up. Whether that is true or not, it should give you an idea of how little was known about her, let alone the church adopting her in their rituals.
Here’s how Wikipedia puts her existence:
The Old English Ēostre is therefore a distant cognate of numerous other dawn goddesses attested among Indo-European-speaking peoples, including Uṣás, Ēṓs, and Aurōra. In the words of the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, "a Proto-Indo-European goddess of the dawn is supported both by the evidence of cognate names and the similarity of mythic representation of the dawn goddess among various Indo-European groups.
So, the best we can really do is say that she is an amalgamation of many other goddesses that came before her. Just as my thesis states.
A recent discovery in 1958 called the Matronae Austriahanae may lend SOME credence to her existence (not by name, however, but of “types” of her (an amalgamation)), as early as 150-250 AD but the information is so scarce that placing any reasonable amount of authority in it would be irresponsible at best and deceptive at worst. Unfortunately, that is exactly what most people online have done.
I encourage you to do your own research.
Whatever the case on Eostre’s origins, her popularity in Anglo-Saxon culture didn’t really start until the 2nd millennium AD, long after the the Catholics had adopted her celebration.
What we can say is that Easter’s origin must have been Roman, even if the Matronae Austriahanae has any truth to it. And although the name Easter may have indeed come from Eostre (with what little evidence there is), the celebration of Easter was in full effect more than 500 years before he name was ever mentioned anywhere!
Clearly, if the word Easter does derive from the the word Eostre, it was adopted into the worship that was already in place. And while the worship by the Catholics was Roman in origin, the Roman religion was simply a refreshed version of that ancient Babylon religion.
The use of eggs to represent fertility dates back to Babylon (see fig. B, appendix D), and was also oftentimes associated with the moon.
It is recorded fact (see appendix D) that Ancient Egyptians decorated and hung Ostrich eggs in their temples as far back at 2500BC. These highly decorative eggs, sometimes called “rhytas” are found all around all over the Mediterranean and Euphrates (where Babylon originated).
Hislop, in his masterwork “The Two Babylons” (p.109) writes:
In ancient times eggs were used in the religious rites of the Egyptians and the Greeks, and were hung up for mystic purposes in their temples. From Egypt these sacred eggs can be distinctly traced to the banks of the Euphrates.
-(source: Wilkinson, vol. iii. p.20, and Pausanias, lib. iii., Laconica, cap. 16)
This connection to the Euphrates is a significant connection to Babylon and their creation myth of a “cosmic egg.” It’s not strange to think the Euphrates would play a roll in the creation myths of the time, not long after the flood. The flood was rooted deep into Babylonian mythology (the Epic of Gilgamesh), making Nimrod the Hero, and God the antagonist.
During the time of Caeser Augustus (27BC-14AD), the Egyptian author Gaius Julius Hyginus was the keeper of the Palatine library at Rome. In his work “Fabulae,” Hyginus writes:
Into the Euphrates River an egg of wonderful size is said to have fallen, which the fish rolled to the bank. Doves sat on it, and when it was heated, it hatched out Venus, who was later called the Syrian goddess.
Although Hyginus’ credibility is somewhat lacking, he undoubtedly had the ear of Rome, and the Emperor. All throughout Venus worship you can find symbols of Eggs.
Of course, if you trace back the origins of Venus (Roman), also called Aphrodite (Greek), she is none other than the Babylonian goddess Astarte.
Both goddesses even had dedicated temples engaged in “sacred prostitution.”
Hislop writes (p.109-110):
The occult meaning of this mystic egg of Astarte, in one of it's aspects (for it had a twofold significance), had reference to the Ark during the time of the flood, in which the whole human race were shut up, as the chick is enclosed in the egg before it hatched. If any be inclined to ask, how could it ever enter the minds of men to employ such an extraordinary symbol for such a purpose, the answer is, first, The sacred egg of Paganism, as already indicated (p. 108), is well known as the mundane egg, that is, the egg in which the world was shut up. Now the world has two distinct meanings--it means either the material earth, or the inhabitants of the earth. The latter meaning of the term is seen in Gen. xi. 1, "The whole earth was of one language and of one speech, where the meaning is that the whole people of the world were so. If then the world is seen shut up in an egg, and floating on the waters, seen shut up in an egg, and floating of the waters it may not be difficult to believe, however the idea of the egg may have come, that the egg thus floating on the wide universal sea might be Noah's family that contained the whole world in its bosom. Then the application of the word egg to the ark comes thus: -The Hebrew name for an egg is Baitz, or in the feminine (for there are both genders), Baitza. This, in Chaldee and Phenician, becomes Baith or Baitha, which in these languages is also the usual way in which the name of a house is pronounced. The egg floating on the waters that contained the world, was the house floating on the waters of the deluge, with the elements of the new world in its bosom. The coming of the egg from heaven evidently refers to the preparation of the ark by express appointment of God; and the same thing seems clearly implied in the Egyptian story of the mundane egg which was said to have come out of the mouth of the great god. The doves resting on the egg need no explanation. This, then, was the meaning of the mystic egg in one aspect. As, however, everything that was good or beneficial to mankind was represented in the Chaldean mysteries, as in some way connected with the Babylonian goddess, so the greatest blessing to the human race, which the ark contained in its bosom, was held to be Astarte, who was the great civiliser and benefactor of the world. Though the deified queen, whom Astarte represented, had no actual existence till some centuries after the food, yet through the doctrine of metempsychosis, which as firmly established in Babylon, it was easy for her worshippers to be made to believe that, in a previous incarnation, she had lived in the Antediluvian world, and passed in safety through the waters of the flood.| Now the Romish Church adopted this mystic egg of Astarte, and consecrated it as a symbol of Christ's resurrection. A form of prayer was even appointed to be used in connection with it, Pope Paul V. teaching his superstitious votaries thus to pray at Easter:- "Bless, O Lord, we beseech thee, this thy creature of eggs, that it may become a wholesome sustenance unto thy servants, eating it in remembrance of our Lord Jesus Christ." -Sources: Hyginus, fabulae, pp.148,149; Bryant, vol. iii. p.161; Bunsen, vol. i. p.377; Scottish Guardian, April, 184
Catholicism also applies the egg as a symbol of Jesus emerging from his tomb.
Of course, this is pagan plagiarism.
The Catholics often depict the Roman god Apollo or Helios, instead of Christ, in their sculptures and mosaics. The god Phanes (similar in attributes to Apollo), was often depicted emerging from a “World Egg.”
Most Catholic art and symbols were already in existence long before Constantine made Christianity the predominate religion in the area. They simply changed the names of their gods to saints (and why we depict angels with wings (and as female) even though that’s nowhere in the bible).
The tradition of placing a toy in the Easter egg likely came about recently, around 160 years ago, from one man trying to impress his wife. See here for more info.
Finally, we arrive at the last symbol of Easter to cover in this article… The Easter Bunny. Surprisingly, though, none of the “debunking” articles mention any of the findings in my research (what are they getting paid for?). They simply state bunnies are a symbol of fertility and likely started with Eostre, but once again, they are wrong… kind of.
Yes, clearly bunnies are a sign of fertility but they actually have a history that dates back much further and wider than Eostre and the Anglo-Saxons. They also have a strong connection to moon goddess worship all over the world (a symbol of fertility dating back to Ishtar). The association is so strong, the term “Moon Rabbit” is a thing.
And it’s not hard to understand why:
Regardless of where the name Easter originated, it can be agreed by everyone that the rabbit was brought in through paganism.
The Mayans, dating from 2000BC-900AD, depict their moon goddess with a rabbit.
The Aztecs’ goddess Tlazolteotl, also a goddess of the moon and sex (like Ishtar/Astarte), can be seen with a rabbit in ancient depictions.
The far east have a yearly “Mooncake Festival” where they celebrate their moon goddess Chang’E and her companion Rabbit, known as the “Jade Rabbit.”
It is said this Mooncake, or Mid-Autumn festival dates back to 1600-1046 BC! Even more, the tradition of eating buns and cakes to the moon goddess dates back to Babylon and directly to Ishtar. It is exactly what Jeremiah warns of in the Holy Scriptures well before Christ was even born and yet, even today, hot cross buns are eaten around the world on Easter.
If it’s not clear by now, I don’t know what else to say. We must live in two separate worlds.
I encourage everyone to check my sources and to take the “fact checkers” out there with a grain of salt. They are very fast to dismiss most of these claims, and yet, the evidence they give for doing so is scarce and avoids the real argument, that whatever pagan celebration they claim to be the start of Easter, has even earlier roots derived from the worship of Ishtar, the first goddess worshiped after the flood.
I’m not saying that every facet of Easter was present in Babylon (although a lot of it was), but the subsequent traditions and rituals still take their roots from Babylon.
The appendices below relate to the pictures that have been shown throughout the article. If you are looking for a specific detail about one of those images, please take note of the letter and appendix it is in by referring back to the original image. You should be able to jump back and forth from the image to these appendices by clicking either the image (in the article) or the title of each appendix section below, for easy navigation.
A: the Venus of Laussel
B: a figurine of Ishtar
-See this article of like figurenes: HERE
C: Egyptian goddess Isis
-The image I posted is behind a paywall but you can see it free HERE
D: Mesopotamian goddess Inanna
E: Ancient Moon god/goddess Stele found in Israel
F: Amulet of Ishtar
G: Greek goddess Selene
H: Thracian goddess Hecate
A: Either Selene, Diana or
Luna
B: Statue of Artemis in the Vatican museum
C: a stone relief of Ishtar
-The article is behind a pay wall but you can find just the image HERE
D: a cylinder seal from the Epic of Gilgamesh featuring the goddess Ishtar standing on her lion, holding a bow
E: a random Indian goddess holding a bow
– While information for women warrior goddesses in Indian/Hindu mythology is rare, there is SOME substantiation for it.
F: See A
G: See A
A: an illustration of Ishtar and Tammuz
-Kitto’s illustrated Commentary, vol iv. p.31. 1840
-The revered Penn Museum has a similar stone statue which they also label as Ishtar and Tammuz
B: Juno nursing Hercules from wood engraving circa 1800’s, based on this statue in Vatican Museum
C: Krishna nursed by Devaki, plate #59 from Moores Hindu Pantheon, circa 1810
D: Ninhursag and Son, from an Akkadian cylinder seal, circa 2334BC
E: a late 6th century BC statue of a nursing mother
F: a Mesopotamian Terracotta mother goddess figure
G: Isis and Horus, circa 680 BC
H: Indra and Indrani
A: Ancient Egyptian creation myth, depicting a cosmic egg
B: the Mystic Egg of Astarte as depicted in Hislop’s book. He references the image to Landseer’s Sabean Researches, p.80. London 1823 (it’s mentioned ( though not pictured) at the bottom of the page, going into page 81)
C,D and E are all images taken from an Etching by Barlow in 1795
C: the Mundane Egg of Heliopolis
D: the Great Golden Bull, adored at Meaco, in Japan
E: The agathodaimon, symbolized by the serpent wrapped around the mundane egg.
A: a Temple to Venus in an 18th century English Garden featuring an egg shaped entrance
B: plans for and unbuilt version of the same temple still featuring the egg shape design
C: the Temple of Venus and Roma
-Note that the egg shaped dome could only be seen from the inside, like a womb, unlike the domes on the top of most rotundas.
D: Egg and Dart coffering in the vault of Temple of Venus and Roma
E: a typical iconic capital featuring an egg and dart pattern, for reference
A: the Greek god Phanes, “god of light” emerging from an egg
B: a mosaic of the Greek god Apollo, often mistaken for Jesus
C: the Greek god Helios, similar to Apollo as a light bearer. said to climb into a golden cup at sun down.
D: a mosaic of “Jesus” at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in washing DC.
-In reality, the mosaic is not of Jesus, but of any of the three gods referenced above.
A: Ceramic Mayan whistle of a moon goddess and her rabbit consort. Circa 600AD. Princeton University Art Museum.
B,C are both depictions of the Mayan moon goddess holding a rabbit, Circa 250AD
D: An embroidered depiction of the “Jade Rabbit” whose story could date as far back as 1600BC
E: Tlazolterotl, the Aztec moon and sex goddess, as depicted in, with a bunny, in the Codex Borgia
A: “Mooncakes,” designed to worship the moon goddess, around the time of Easter, in the Chinese culture
B: “Hot Cross Buns,” designed to worship Astarte, the queen of heaven, but have now been adopted into Catholicism as a reference to the cross (see Hislop’s the Two Babylons, p.108).
C: “Hamantash Cakes” eaten by modern Jews around Easter, for their non-biblical holiday of Purim, celebrating the Jewish/Persian queen “Esther,” but is really an adopted custom of the Persians of their goddess Ishtar.
D: A depiction from David W. Daniel’s “Babylon Religion,” p.170, depicting the modern day worship of the Babylonian wafer god today.