What the Easter–Ishtar debate gets wrong — and what it misses
The question of whether Ishtar left any trace in the spring rituals that eventually became Easter has never been seriously examined — not because the evidence is absent, but because the debate around it collapsed long ago into a phonetic argument that was never worth…
The biblical Exodus is often imagined as a dramatic escape from Egypt across the Sinai desert, culminating in a miraculous sea crossing. But tradition has long held that the Exodus took place northeast of Egypt. What if that idea has always been true—just misunderstood? What if "northeast of Egypt" referred not to the Sinai Peninsula,…
This article does not argue for a simplistic etymological link between Easter and Ishtar, but instead explores a more substantive possibility: that both Pesach and Easter preserve elements of a much older, shared tradition rooted in Mesopotamian funerary rites. Spring Rites and the Cult of the Dead The origins of Pesach (Passover) and Easter have…