Easter a Christian festival?

We northerners like to celebrate Easter - that's a well-known fact. Today it is as a major festival for Christians - as the time of the crucifixion and resurrection of their disciple Jesus Christ. This goes hand in hand with familiar customs - Easter eggs, Easter nests, Easter lambs, Easter bunny...

Is Easter a Christian festival? The "Christian Easter" is not originally called Easter, but goes back to the Old Testament Passover, which is also given this name in the New Testament. Also The "date" for such a festival was/is not precisely determinable until the Vatican Council in Nicaea in 325 AD. this council, the Sunday after the first full moon of spring was was determined. A period that "coincidentally" coincided with the time of the pagan spring spring festivals of our ancestors...

For the Christian missionaries, when travelling to our pagan ancestors found deeply rooted customs with ritual festivals, which they did not want to simply abandon. What could be more obvious for the Christians, who were intent on proselytising their faith, than to combine the old, customs of the northern people with the Christian faith? "fill"? Easter thus appears to us as a prime example of the overlaying pagan annual festivals with Christian festivals and thus and thus the Christian religion.

At this point, we would like to refer you to our background text on OSTARA - Equinox

The name was also adapted for this purpose. The "Passover" to "Easter" after Ostara, the name of the ancient pagan festival. From then on, the ancient pagans and Christians celebrated Easter together Easter as the festival on which the goddess Ostara triumphed over winter and Jesus triumphed over death.

The only difference is that the Christian Easter is a movable feast is a moveable feast, as the date is based on the moon - whereas Ostara, on the other hand, is a fixed date on the equinox on 21 March (Lenzing).

However you want to celebrate the ancient spring festival - as the victory of light over darkness, of life over death, of growth and prosperity over growth and prosperity over stagnation or as the resurrection of the of the Son of God Jesus Christ - it is certainly not uninteresting where the roots of our roots of our festivals and therefore also our own roots.