Religious Belief = Mental Illness: A More Venomous Response

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382. Today few people have experience in dozens of exotic languages to fully graph their interrelation

Much future research remains to be done here. To assert dogmatically that Easter comes from the Jews, and that's it, sounds very, very much more like church dogmatics than real scholarship.

In particular, note that even when large-scale dependency relations did not exist between many of the languages noted here - formal "family" relations - it was extremely common for individual "loanwords" and borrowings to travel back and forth, even between formally unrelated cultures. This would have been particularly true when the Greek empire - from 300 BC - and then the Roman, made communication much easier within a 1,000 miles swath that extended from the British Aisles, to Babylonia, Persia, and the Ishtar gates.

In the time of the Jews and then Christianity therefore, there had long existed a very large area of cultural interchange; that could easily carry many peoples and languages throughout the entire Mediterranean basin, and several hundred miles beyond. In that situation, many individual loanwords and cultural concepts - myths - would have spread considerably. I'm not talking about mergers of whole languages here; I'm talking about the cultural diffusion of isolated concepts. Though "loan words."

At present, reconstructed roots to relevant words are speculative. But structural anthropology (assisting Structural Linguistics), can note many conceptual similarities between relevant myths. Since very ancient times - certainly 2,000 BCE at least - ancients have noted the importance of the vernal equinox; whose name is often associated with the "east," and various related phenomena. Eostre? Cf. Eos, or "dawn"; the sun rises in the east.