Happy Easter.
Wow. How did Astarte - Ishtar - Eostre - Oastre hurt you, insecure Christian "fact-checkers" on FB? LOL
@Astartiel my source is Dr Dan McClellen, who has a PhD in Theology and religion from the University of Exeter.
@kaequinn Either way, it's all fiction, so it's splitting hairs or hares over silly shit. And a Mormon theologian isn't really someone I'd look to for an unbiased viewpoint. Research from atheist/agnostic anthropologists & archeologists without any agenda would impress me more.
@Astartiel ok but to be fair in this one instance, the insecure Christians are correct. We don’t know much of anything about the celebrations involving Ishtar. Easter is a uniquely Christian holiday whose origins are more closely related to Passover (giving of eggs because they were easy to obtain to use to break lent and the English Brown Hare was a symbol for the virgin birth because they can get pregnant with a second litter while still gestating the first).