Nimrod was the son of Ham and the grandson of Noah himself.
Yes, old Nims was the original ‘carriers of
wood and hewers of water’ guy, because he had
turned against his grandfather’s religion. Remember?
The sons of Ham?
Nimrod became a tyrannical leader and created, amongst
others, the notorious city of Babel.
He
was married to Semiramis, also known as Lilith,
Astarte, Ashtur and Ishtar in other cultures, and
a tyrantrix of note in her own right. |
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When Nimrod died,
Semiramis deified him as Baal, the sun god. |
Soon after Nimrod’s death, Semiramis
was pregnant, and when her illegitimate son was born,
she named him Tammuz and convinced people that he was
actually Nimrod reborn and thus Baal himself.
She declared that he had been conceived supernaturally
and that she was in fact the goddess of fertility.
The plot thickens considerably when Tammuz
later marries his mother.
The origin of Easter goes back to the
springtime ritual instituted by Semiramis following the
death of Tammuz, who, according to tradition, was killed
by a wild boar when he was forty years old.
Semiramis, or Ishtar, then announced that,
in honour of Tammuz-cum-Nimrod-cum-Baal, her followers
should abstain from one thing that they really enjoyed,
for a period of forty days leading up to the day that
he had died - one day for each year of his life –
and that they should eat the meat of a wild boar to commemorate
the day he died.
This became Lent and the tradition of eating a Ham.
Because of their prolific nature, rabbits
or bunnies were associated with the goddess of fertility,
and legend has it that Ishtar herself had been hatched
from a huge egg that fell from heaven into the Euphrates
River.
There you have it.
Ishtar, lent, the eating of a ham, Ishtar eggs and the
Ishtar bunny.
But that was not the most ridiculously
interesting thing that I learnt in researching the pagan
origin of Easter.
That honour goes to the reason why we
have so many different languages in the world today, but
I will have to tell you about that tomorrow.
This post is getting too long.
