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With Easter coming up soon, and therefore the most attended Roman Mass will take place, has anyone wondered where Easter actually comes from? It is distinct from the feasts of the Passover, the Unleavened Bread, and the First Fruits, which have already found their fulfillment, and there are no bunnies or anything of the sort in the Bible. And what is up with the "Holy Saturday" before the Easter Sunday Mass? If these things do not come from the Bible, then where do they actually come from?

This is going to be a two-parter (with the second part written in the comments), but to begin forming an answer, let us go to the official exoteric source of Roman teaching, the Catechism of the (Roman) Catholic Church (CCC):

(CCC) 81-82: Sacred Scripture is the speech of God as it is put down in writing under the breath of the Holy Spirit. And [Holy] Tradition transmits in its entirety the Word of God which has been entrusted to the apostles by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit. It transmits it to the successors of the apostles so that, enlightened by the Spirit of truth, they may faithfully preserve, expound and spread it abroad by their preaching. As a result the Church, to whom the transmission and interpretation of Revelation is entrusted, 'does not derive her certainty about all revealed truths from the holy Scriptures alone. Both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honored with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence.'

So according to Rome, if their doctrine is not found in the Bible and ordained by God, then it must be of the tradition, which is put at an equal and even higher level than that of the Word, that is ordained by the church.

But God says:

But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Matthew 15:9

While the Saducees and the Pharisees had implemented a system of rites and traditions contrary to the teachings of the Bible, the system of Roman Catholicism have too implemented no fewer traditions and ceremonies in the place of the Word.

So we ask again, where do these traditions actually come from?

A Brief Exploration of the Easter Tradition

In 325 AD, Constantine convened the first ecumenical council of Rome. Named as the Council of Nicaea, here is where the date and observance of Easter was determined. 200 years prior, Pope Telesphorus, named after the Telesphorus of Greek mythology who was known as the "bringer of completion", established the celebration of Easter on Sunday. As an aside, Telesphorus (in mythology) was the son of Asclepius, the serpent god of healing that is still worshiped in the medical world of today. The mythology of Asclepius was created as a counterfeit to the representation of Jesus as the healing Serpent of brass (Numbers 21:9). Asclepius was worshiped in Pergamos, "where Satan dwelleth" (Revelation 2:12-13), and was revered as the son of Apollo. Interestingly enough, when Constantine had baptized paganism into Christianity, the statues and icons of Apollo were changed into the images of Jesus. Esoterically, business continued as usual.

Now the Easter festival that Telesphorus introduced was the continuation of the Festival of Ishtar from Babylonian times. Along with introducing symbols such as the Roman fasces, the earliest Romans derived their religious jurisprudence from the ancient Etruscans. The Etruscans, as earnest students of the Chaldeans (the diviners, magicians, astrologers, and "wise men" of ancient Babylon), were practitioners of the ancient Babylonian faith system.

The Festival of Ishtar was introduced as a yearly staple in the traditions of Rome before becoming adapted into the weekly Sunday which is today commonly called "The Lord's Day". When the Council of Nicaea formalized the tradition of Easter, they made the following rule:

In order to prevent the [Ishtar] festival from coinciding either with the Jewish Passover or with the celebrations of the Quartodecimans, special provision was made, should the full moon actually occur on a Sunday, to defer the celebration of Easter until the next Sunday.

Interestingly enough, this happened in 2001 when Pope John Paul II delayed the Feast of Easter from the Sunday of April 8 to the Sunday of April 15. This rule, along with their esoteric belief system, is very much alive today.

Just a short aside on the Roman fasces: it symbolizes the ordering of priestly functions into a single infallible sovereign, even as an autocrat who could require the life and limb of his subjects. If the fasces is entwined with laurel, like the pair on the wall of the United States House of Representatives, it signifies Caesarean military power. But as this is not a dive into the Roman take-over of the United States, let us continue with Easter and the Mass.

Now “Easter”, more aptly named as the Festival of Ishtar, is the largest celebration of the Roman Catholic Mass, even surpassing that of “Christ-Mass”. According to Richard Leonard, a Jesuit priest and worker of Catholic Action as director of the Australian Catholic Film Office, “Easter Sunday is the cornerstone of Christian theology”. Catholic Action, which was strengthened by the Papal encyclical Miranda Prorsus in 1957 and the Papal decree Inter Mirifica in 1963, called for the complete control

of the press, the cinema, radio, television, and others of a like nature [...] [of] journalists, writers, actors, designers, producers, exhibitors, distributors, operators, sellers, critics - all those, in a word, who are involved in the making and transmission of communications in any way whatever.

The control over all forms of communication was declared as the birthright of Rome "in order to steer economic, political, and artistic values in a way that will not conflict with the common good". The doctrines of the "common good" are the same Hellenistic, Gnostic teachings that formed the education of Telesphorus before making their way into the current social structure of Rome. All of present-day Holly-wood, for example, which is named after the Holly wood that is used to make the staves of witches, is the result of Catholic Acton.

Now before the Babylonian lifting up of the host on “(Ishtar) Sunday”, there is a “Holy Saturday” (HS).

Traditionally, the HS is called a day of silence where worshipers are encouraged to wait silently for the resurrection, “as did Mary”. It is taught that on this day, Jesus was “in the realm of the dead freeing Adam, Eve, and all the imprisoned souls of the saints” before taking them to heaven. None of this is found in the Bible. Rather than having the focus be on Jesus, the focus of HS is turned towards the Roman Mary, and the day becomes about “spending time with her, waiting in silence with the expectation of hope of a victorious return”. For this reason, in the traditions of Rome, Mary has been attributed titles such as “Our Lady of Sorrows”. As an interesting aside, while the icons of Apollo were hidden under images of Jesus, the sign over the Pantheon indicating "To [the fertility goddess] Cybele and All the Gods" was re-written "To Mary and All the Saints." The "fertility bunnies" of Easter represent the type of worship that was associated with Cybele and performed in Pagan Rome, but like everything else affiliated with Rome, are only the continuation of the ancient Babylonian worship system. 

Distinct from the Biblical Mary, the Roman Mary is the missionary adaptation, or in other words the modern representation, of the Sumerian Inanna (also known in the Babylonian Akkadian as Ishtar). The ancient Sumerian myth titled “Angalta”, meaning “From the Great Sky” and also written in the Akkadian as the “Descent of Ishtar into the Underworld”, is the true representation of the “Holy Saturday”.

In the legend involving profound themes of grief and sorrow, Ishtar descends into the “land of the dead” in order to overthrow its ruler. Having failed, but allowed to return to the “land of the living”, Ishtar is required to deliver another living human in exchange for her freedom. She exchanges Tammuz, and her life is returned. The people then "weep for Tammuz".

Now Tammuz, also involved in fertility worship, originated from the Sumerian “Dumuzid sipad”, or “Dumuzid the Shepherd”. He, as a wicked and evil shepherd whose name means "faithful son", stands as a stark contrast and counterfeit of the one Good Shepherd, being Jesus Christ.

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. John 10:11

So the “Holy Saturday”, as part of what Rome calls "the cornerstone of Christian theology”, is an esoteric representation and declaration of trading the life of God Himself, Jesus Christ, for the life of Tammuz and his theology as embodied in the system of Roman Catholicism. In the Angalta, as preserved in the Mithraic rites, this is represented as the "Handshake of Alliance" where the initiate shakes hands with his god in a gesture of unity and exchange of love. This exchange of Tammuz for Ishtar is celebrated before the Festival of Ishtar, but the exchange of Jesus for Tammuz is performed as part of the Mass when the host is lifted up.

In the ancient Assyrian religion, with a direct example found in the Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon, this “trade” was called the “Ritual of the Substitute King”. In it, the “shar puni”, the “good man”, would act as the “puhi ameli”, the “substitute and sacrifice”, who received the curse placed on the king and perish in his stead, thus allowing the king to continue living as he did before.

And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Genesis 3:14-15 (KJV)

But both the exchange of Dumuzi and the sacrifice of the Shar Puni are rites and traditions claiming to have lifted this curse on the serpent, being Satan, and instead place it upon Jesus Christ. This is part of the reason why Papal Rome seems to only represent Jesus Christ as some emaciated form on the cross, just as mythology depicts of what happened to Ishtar in the underworld, or as some hapless babe on the knees of the Roman Mary, which is how the Egyptian Horus is commonly represented in relationship to his mother Isis. As the topic of this study is not to introduce the Egyptian aspects of Rome, let us continue with the first official English translation endorsed by Papal Rome and brought to the world through the efforts of the Jesuit Order:

I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel. Genesis 3:15 (Douay–Rheims Bible - DRA)

While the KJV references Jesus as the Seed of Salvation, the DRA references “she” and “her”, being the Roman Mary, as the victor in the battle being waged over the minds of man.

Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; Ephesians 2:15 (KJV)

Making void the law of commandments contained in decrees; that he might make the two in himself into one new man, making peace; Ephesians 2:15 (DRA)

In order to justify the system of Roman Catholicism, the DRA replaces that which was abolished as “ordinances”, in this context being rites and tradition, for “decrees”, in this context being the moral law as contained in the Ten Commandments.

And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: Ephesians 2:16 (KJV)

And might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, killing the enmities in himself. Ephesians 2:16 (DRA)

And to affirm the ritual of the Mass as being that of the Substitute King, the enmities go from “[being] slain”, a statement of the character of God being vindicated over that of the accusations of Satan, to “killing the enmities in himself”, which means that the cause for enmity becomes the Ten Commandments and the character of God. This makes Jesus Christ and His mindset, in the DRA, the “puhi ameli” for Satan and his mindset.

Let us even affirm this esoteric teaching of the Mass representing the substitution of the law of God, and therefore the substitution of Jesus as its Author, in official Roman doctrine:

Catechism of the (Roman) Catholic Church 2174-2177, 2188, 2189, 2190, 2192: “We all gather on the day of the sun [...] Sunday is expressly distinguished from the sabbath [...] The celebration of Sunday observes the moral commandment inscribed by nature in the human heart [...] The Sunday celebration of the Lord's Day andhis Eucharist is at the heart of the Church's life. [...] In respecting religious liberty and the common good of all, Christians should seek recognition of Sundays and the Church's holy days as legal holidays. [...] ‘Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy’ (Deut 5:12). ‘The seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord’ (Ex 31:15). The sabbath, which represented the completion of the first creation, has been replaced by Sunday [...] Sunday [...] is to be observed as the foremost holy day of obligation in the universal Church (CIC, can. 1246 § 1). On Sundays and other holy days of obligation the faithful are bound to participate in the Mass (CIC, can. 1247).”

And in the apostolic letter "Dies Domini" written by Pope JPII (1998):

...the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist are so closely joined together that they form a single act of worship. The Eucharist is the full realization of the worship. [...] [the Moral Law written directly in stone by the finger of God] need[s] to be reinterpreted in the light of the theology and spirituality of Sunday: The Code of Canon Law of 1917 for the first time gathered this tradition into a universal law. The present Code reiterates this, saying that ‘on Sundays and other holy days of obligation the faithful are bound to attend Mass’. This legislation has normally been understood as entailing a grave obligation: this is the teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, [...]Those who deliberately fail in this obligation commit a grave sin.

This is nothing but the blending in of paganism and Christianity, just as was performed in ancient Babylonian times, and just as was accomplished by Constantine. The highest realization of this syncretism is then performed at the Easter Mass.