Must read : 6 Fact you must know about easter.

Many people hears about easter or the story of easter in one version or the other,This are the 6 fact you need to know about easter and the celebration of easter.

What you need to know??

1. There’s more than one theory about
where Easter got its name.
The word Easter has been linked to
Eostre, an Anglo-Saxon goddess of
spring and new life. Other scholars
trace the name of the holiday to the
Latin phrase “hebdomada alba,” which
means “white week.” According to
tradition, new Christians were baptized
into the faith on Easter while wearing
white clothes. The phrase evolved into
“eostarum” in Old High German,
becoming “Ostern” in modern German
and “Easter” in English.
But in many other languages, the word
for Easter is still deeply tied to
Passover, the festival that celebrates
the exodus of the Jews from Egypt.
Jesus was crucified soon after he
arrived in Jerusalem to celebrate the
Passover feast.

2. Easter has always been tied to the
moon.
Since the Jewish calendar is based on
lunar cycles, Passover falls on 14 Nisan,
the 14th day of the first full moon of
spring. Christians in Asia Minor used to
remember the crucifixion on the 14
Nisan, and celebrate the resurrection
on 16 Nisan. But this meant that Easter
could fall on any day of the week. On
the other hand, Christians in the West
celebrated Easter on the first Sunday
after 14 Nisan.
In 325, the Roman Emperor
Constantine I gathered bishops from
around his empire at the Council of
Nicaea to hammer out a solution to this
and other debates raging in the early
church. The council decided that Easter
would be observed on the first Sunday
following the first full moon after the
spring equinox.

3. Easter falls on a different date each
year
Technically, Easter falls on the first
Sunday after the full Moon after the
Vernal Equinox. The worship of Attis
and Cybele was very popular in Rome
as late as the 3rd century. Attis was a
soter, or savior, god who was reborn
each year. This resurrection was
celebrated beginning on the Friday after
the full moon after the Vernal equinox
(now Good Friday). It culminated on
the following Sunday three days later.
Since they were rivals, Christianity
adopted the date for their soter and,
once the Cybele cult faded, Christians
had to keep the date since that was
when everybody was used to
celebrating the holiday.

4. Easter eggs
The egg has always been a symbol of
fertility, creation and rebirth. Many
ancient cultures’ creation myths
involved the earth being hatched from
an egg. Though other societies may not
have had such a creation myth, they
still held the egg as a symbol of new
life.
The ancient Persians and Egyptians
exchanged colored eggs, usually red, in
honor of spring. The Greeks and
Romans adopted the custom, enlarging
the color palette. In Medieval Europe,
eggs were forbidden during Lent. This
made eggs very popular at Easter.

5. The celebration of Eostre gave birth
to the Easter Bunny
These early pagan customs also
established the iconic myth of the
Easter Bunny. These early people
worshipped rabbits as god-like
creatures because of their ability to
mate and reproduce in astounding
abundance. The Celtic Eostre, however,
came with a legend that their god
would turn into a giant rabbit at the
rise of each full moon. Both of these
views made this deity the fertility
symbol of their respective faiths.

6. Easter originally had nothing to do
with Christianity
Instead, it was a pagan celebration of
spring and the rebirth of life after the
cold winter months where only beards
grew.

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