[terycarl]

You can learn a lot about the pagan world prior to Jesus resurrection by looking deeply at the Catholic Religion, because it has incorporated so many of the pagan rites and holidays into that religion. Easter is a prime example, with the Ishtar holiday (Ishtar is Easter) being put into the rituals as a Sunday cewremony to replace what the earliest Christians celebrated on Nisan 14, The Passover, as Jesus established it.

It was brilliant planning, what better way to get a large crowd at your celebration than to schedule it on, or very near, a date when they were having a celebration of their own....they soon changed the intent of the celebration without having to reschedule it.

[MHGinTN]

Oh I agree, brilliant planning by the father of lies. And as you point out, it soon changed the intent of the Passover to more closely fit the pagan practices of sacrificing food to idols then eating it to get the idol’s divinity in them. probably made a large increase in the catholiciism coffers, bringing those pagans into the ‘other religion’ so like their last religion.