Hindus can erase "Easter" with Ushas and Chinnamasta Puja

The other day I wrote a blog post on the Christian significance of Easter, this holiday is synonymous with the holiday of Passover which is celebrated by both Christians and Jews. Easter is an unusual and touchy subject among Christians because it has both Christian and Pagan origins. While Jesus did command Christians to make memory of him during the feast of Passover, he never told them to celebrate his resurrection which took place shortly thereafter. According to many historian and theologians, the holiday of Easter with all the colored eggs and bunnies was used as a ploy by the early Christian church to get Pagans to start celebrating Christ rather than their own gods.  Many believe that the word "Easter" comes from the German-Anglo-Saxon goddess "Ēostre" who is the goddess of Spring and fertility. While colored eggs and rabbits are never mentioned as part of any holiday in the Bible, these are the accompanying escorts of goddess Ēostre to represent her powers of fertility. Because the ancient Pagan festivals of Ēostre and the Christian Passover holiday nearly coincided, early Church leaders simply used the Pagan imagery to lure Europeans into the Church, but they changed the meaning of the holiday from the veneration of Ēostre to that of Jesus.

We Germans to this day call April ostermonat, and ôstarmânoth is found as early as Eginhart (temp. Car. Mag.). The great Christian festival, which usually falls in April or the end of March, bears in the oldest of OHG remains the name ôstarâ ... it is mostly found in the plural, because two days ... were kept at Easter. This Ostarâ, like the [Anglo-Saxon] Eástre, must in heathen religion have denoted a higher being, whose worship was so firmly rooted, that the Christian teachers tolerated the name, and applied it to one of their  own grandest anniversaries. - Jacob Grimm 

Easter has been hijacked by Christians and is used as a tool to lure new members into the cult. The beautifully colored Easter eggs, the baskets of candy, the cute rabbits and chicks and the Easter egg hunts, these are all Pagan traditions use to shroud a far more sinister meaning.  As I discussed in my linked blog post, the holiday of Easter is intrinsically linked to Passover, a holiday which Jesus celebrated and which he told his followers to celebrate.  Passover is an anti-Pagan holiday which commemorates a mythical mass child sacrifice conducted by the Christian god on the Pagan nation of Egypt.  Christian play the victims in this story, claiming that the cruel Pagan Egyptians had enslaved the Israelites, an assertion which likely has not historical evidence.  But what the Christians don't tell you is why the Pagan Egyptians turned on the Israelites.  

To make a long story short, Egypt had saved the Israelites from famine by letting them into their nation and giving them lands, the Egyptians had also given Israelites a great deal of power in the nation, Israelites eventually had control over the central grain and money supply. When the famine came to Egypt, the Israelites extorted all of the gold and land from the Pagan Egyptians in return for food and then collectivized them into the cities.  Eventually there was no one left with land except the Pharaoh, the elite priests and the Israelites.  Seeing that they had been duped by the Israelites, the now landless Egyptians turned on the landowning wealthy Israelites with righteous indignation. Israelite slavery was not Pagan savagery, it was karma. When the Israelite's of the story played the hapless victims, their god sent an angel to slaughter all the first born sons of Egypt, this is all part of the larger Easter celebration. I would like to quickly add that I don't think enslaving people would be the answer to this situation either. See: Easter/Passover celebrates Communism and Child Sacrifice

With the true meaning of Easter/Passover brought to light, it should be fairly obvious to many Hindus why we should not only avoid celebrating this holiday but perhaps the more forward among us should outwardly oppose this meal of Christian child sacrifice. However their is a bright light in this scenario, a chance for Hindus to use the hatred of Easter to not only fight back but bring our own gods to the forefront. Most Hindus understand the concept of "cognates", this simply means that the same god or goddess can be called many different names and sometimes has altering forms.  In India there are many people who worship the very same gods or goddesses, yet they call them by different names and depict them with different images, however their is an underlying link between them all.

 Day and night, and Ushas (dawn), too, shall deliver thee from curses! Soma the god, whom they call Kandramas (moon), shall deliver me! - Atharava Veda 11.6.7

Let's go back to the namesake of Easter, the fertility goddess Ēostre.  Ēostre is also known as Ostara. All of the ancient European Pagan religions and Hinduism are connected to each other "theologically" and linguistically, this relationship brings both Hinduism and ancient European Paganism under the umbrella term "Indo-European". Many scholars believe that Ēostre is derived linguistically and "theistically" from the ancient Proto-Indo-European goddess Hausos, the goddess of the Dawn and the Spring Time, and also Love and Desire. Hausos is also considered to be related to the Rig Vedic goddess Ushas who is the goddess of Dawn in Hinduism.  Like Hausos, Ushas is freed at the beginning of time, in Hinduism she is freed by Indra. Hausos also appears in Greek and Roman mythology as Aphrodite and Venus, however in these traditions she has lost her association with the Dawn and is more connected to love and sex. See: Songs to Ushas, goddess Dawn

Bright Ushas, when thy times return, all quadrupeds and bipeds stir, And round about flock winged birds from all the boundaries of heaven. - Soma Veda 

So now we have established our first link between Hinduism and the goddess Ēostre stolen by the Christians to create their "Easter".  Ēostre and the Vedic goddess Ushas are most likely connected through the Proto-Indo-European goddess Hausos, all are goddesses of Spring or Dawn with connotations of fertility. However there is an even deeper connection between the Hindu and European goddesses and one of their cognates who fought many battles against the Christian enemy.  One of the arch enemies of the Christian god in the Bible is the goddess Ishtar, the fertility and war goddess of Babylon. Ishtar is also known as Ashtoreth in the Bible and it is speculated that she is connected to the ancient goddess Hausos just like Ēostre and Ushas and Venus.  Why is this Babylonian goddess hated with such venom in the Bible and by Christians who demonize her perhaps above almost any other god?

 Ushas (Aurora), Sûrya, (the sun), and this charm of mine; the bull Pragâpati (the lord of creatures) shall with his lusty fire arouse him! - Atharava Veda 4.4.2

Christians hate Ishtar so much because she was a rival competitor among the children of Israel.  The god of the Bible is a suffocating and controlling god who breaks the human spirit and he is especially hateful of the philosophically creative and free minded.  The Bible tells us that once the Israelites set up their monotheistic tyranny with extremely harsh laws which took the joy and purpose out of life, the Israelite children began to rebel and started worshiping ancient Pagan gods.  Perhaps the most favorite goddess of the youth and kings who rebelled against the monotheistic tyranny was Ishtar/Ashtoreth, likely because her combination of  Love, Sex and War gave her the potency and impetus to challenge the angry and devious god of Israel. The most famous Israelite convert to the religion of Ishtar was King Solomon.  Solomon was known to be extremely wise and industrious, and so it makes sense that he would naturally rebel against the parasitic and controlling god of Israel. Solomon is marked in the Bible for building many Pagan temples in Israel. 

 4 When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was. 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth (Ishtar) the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 6 Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did. 7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon. 8 So he did for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods. - 1 Kings 11: 4-8

The Bible says that eventually Solomon's influence spread in Israel until 10 of the 12 tribes had returned to Paganism. Constant civil war broke out in Israel between the Pagans and the Israelites until eventually the 10 Pagan tribes were taken by Assyria and repopulated in Norther Iran and Iraq.  (2 Kings 15, 17) Christians try to make it seem as through the Pagans got the raw end of the deal, being whisked away by the Pagan Assyrians, however this was likely a welcome resettling as they had experienced nothing but oppression and war in Israel. Better still, their rebellion helped crush much of the Israelite empire, by the end of it all Israel has lost large swaths of the territory it had stolen from the Pagan Cannanites and more than 80% of its people.  The Ishtar worshipers had struck a huge blow to Israel, they also proved that people would rather fight and die rather than live under the tyrannical regime of the Christian god.  Ishtar is an affront to Christians today because she is a mirror to their ugliness, the wisest of their kings abandoned the Christian god to worship her, their children flock to her in droves to escape, and she was responsible for the disintegration of their first empire.

Besides the fact that Ishtar is the arch enemy of Christians, likely a cognate of Ēostre, she above all of her sisters bares the most resemblance to one of our own Hindu goddesses, whose ancient celebration time usually takes place in April, and that is the Hindu goddess Chinnamasta. Chinnamasta, like Ishtar, represents a more warrior and sexual expression than some of her softer sisters. Like Ishtar, Chinnamasta stands naked, bearing weapons.  She has her foot on the copulating couple Kama and Rati and around her neck she wears are garland of skulls.  Chinnamasta represents the controlled use of sexual energy for divine and protective purposes. She has cut off her own head and with the spouting blood she feeds her two unenlightened servants at her side. Chinnamasta's self decapitation represents her self-destructive furry, she is willing to destroy herself to fight evil and protect her people, her feeding of the unenlightened shows that she will give her entire being to those who might not know the way but are willing to serve her to gain freedom.  Like Ishtar, Chinnamasta is a savior, she knows how to channel sex energy into power, and with her contradictory and fighting nature she can outmaneuver even the cruel and hateful Christian god. Seeing that like Ēostre, Chinnamasta is also associated with fertility (sex), she is also traditionally worshiped in April, at least this is her usual festival time in Nepal and is often secretly worshiped by Hindu soldiers in night rituals. Along with the goddess Ushas, the restoration of Chinnamasta worship on Easter can help Hindus reclaim this holiday from the Christians and remind them that the goddess has already shown them her righteous indignation. 

What am I suggesting here?  We know for a fact that the Christians stole the Spring festival of "Easter" which was once attributed to the European fertility goddess Ēostre.  We know that Ēostre is related to our Hindu goddess of the Dawn, Ushas, as both Ēostre and Ushas have been linked to the Proto-Indo-European goddess Hausos.  Hausos is likely also the progenitor of the Christian's worse enemy, the goddess Ishtar, who combined love sex and war to liberate the children of Israel and weaken it's tyranny. There is an uncanny resemblance between the arch enemy of the Christian god, Ishtar, and our Hindu warrior and sex goddess Chinnamasta.  Ushas is the Hindu goddess of the Dawn, she is most closely related to Ēostre, and so we could resurrect her worship on Easter day and co-opt the stolen Easter customs, but perhaps we should use colored stones and not eggs as we don't want to be exploitative assholes. However, at night we can resurrect the traditional Spring festival of Chinnamasta who is the Hindu version of Ishtar, the goddess whom the Christians fear most. It is likely no accident that Chinnamasta's festival nearly coincides with Easter, the gods are delivering us a well deserved counter strike.  We must show the Christians we don't accept their lust for Pagan child blood, and we must use the power of our gods to call their miserable and enslaved youth into the embracing arms of Hinduism.  Let us use Ushas to cast light on this bacteria, let us use Chinnamasta to call her most noble and beautiful children to our side, let us celebrate a new Spring, a Hindu Spring, where the terrors of this earth have been wiped away and can never raise their heads again.