Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter
That maketh the leaf and the flower come out. – Bertran de Born
As I’ve pointed out before, all of the Christian holidays are merely pagan ones dressed up in a new garb, and though they may have some explanation derived from Christian catechism most of them are still pagan to the core. This is true of three of them more than any of the others: Halloween is still the Day of the Dead as it has always been; Christmas is still the festival of the reborn sun, celebrated with revelry and song and greenery and gift-giving as it has been for millennia; and Easter is still the observance of rebirth, with Christ standing in for all the vegetation-gods who came before him, Tammuz and Attis and Adonis and Osiris, slain and buried to rise again from the dead. Just as the dye which colors the shell of an Easter egg has little (if any) effect on the substance of the egg beneath, so it is with the holiday itself; the theological rationalizations and the complex religious pageantry have not changed the day’s deeper meaning one iota, and devout Christians still employ the ancient symbols of flower, hare and egg. This is why it matters little to me that we observe the holiday on the Christian date rather than the traditional astronomical one; it’s only fitting that I bend the Christian day to my needs just as Christianity bent the ancient pagan holiday to its.
Happy Easter to everyone!
Easter is about kids for my family. We never really were the religious types but we still celebrated Easter and Christmas. Christmas always seemed to be about MY kids – back when I had a house full of them. Easter was always a time to pack as many kids from the “extended family” into one house. I like it because I still have brothers (and a niece) who are having kids and there is nothing like a bunch of tricycle motors running about Helter Skelter to put me in the Easter mood.
In the north of England, there’s a tradition in the villages, called “Well Dressing”.It’s a little festival where one decorates a well with garlands of spring flowers. Why? Tradition.
The real why? The ancient Celtic people though bodies of waters, lakes, springs, well, sacred, gates to the other world.
There’s a layer of pagan every where. History does not go away.
Once again you’ve found the perfect illustration to go with the text.
BTW, I used to be “I’m no angel”. For some reason I couldn’t post and when I eventually got accepted back into the fold they used my password for the ID – and I didn’t have the energy to attempt to change it.
For some reason, everything screwed up when WordPress bought Gravatar. It seems to be all right now, though.
Heretic!
With all my love of course……
My partner and I are fond of referring to this as Zombie Jesus Day.
Things I like about Easter: massive amounts of chocolate.
Things I don’t like about Easter: That post-excess-chocolate vomity feeling. 🙁
(( My apologies, totally OT, nothing to do with Easter, but Galaxy Quest was on the beeb today; the ultimate si-fi movie of all time — and not just because Sigourney — “best tits in the universe” — Weaver is in it. Never give up, never surrender! ))
Her boobs in that movie … always a “mystery” to me …
If you look at them in “ALIEN” – I’d estimate “A-Cup” … maybe an outside chance of a small “B-Cup”.
Then along comes Galaxy Quest and … my, my … “C-D Cup”?
Must’ve been the bra – if that’s the case, then every woman in the world should own that bra.
I don’t think she was enhanced. She’s generally a “Debbie Downer” on plastic surgery and frankly, I’ve seen her in other venues and her boobs don’t look very big – but on GQ they did.
I mean, she’s put on body fat since “ALIEN” so they are a bit bigger now then they were back then – but they look believably to be the same boobs now that they were then.
Y’all do know that was a heavily padded bra, right?
But she has a six paragraph write up about squeezing into her uniform. You’ll be telling me that the “Historical Documents” are lies and deceits next 🙁
By the way Mr. K … you may be interested in this …
http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2012/03/11/weaver-says-r-rated-galaxy-quest-is-out-there/
A director’s cut of GQ with swearing and sex scenes? Hmmmmmm
If you can lip read a bit, you’ll see that there’s some dubbing in the non-R release.
Laura’s brother claims that one of the characters in GQ looks like me. I don’t see it.