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Post by happy on Mar 31, 2013 13:59:20 GMT -5
Aleks, I loved your post too and I do believe that it is important to love (or at least like) all the Glamily and to realize we are all here to support Adam (each in his or her own way)!
Oh, and Happy Easter! (I guess that will be later for you, Aleks).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2013 14:10:34 GMT -5
Aleks, I loved your post too and I do believe that it is important to love (or at least like) all the Glamily and to realize we are all here to support Adam (each in his or her own way)! Oh, and Happy Easter! (I guess that will be later for you, Aleks). Yep:))) Our midterm holidays start on April 29th and last until May 7th. Easter is on May 5th this year for Orthodox Christians. I celebrate it although I'm an atheist. |
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Post by theosgma on Mar 31, 2013 14:12:49 GMT -5
xXXShadowXXx @s_sayeh @adamlambert Fan Art by @hgm811 #weareglamily Japan pic.twitter.com/Dn7hrWSK8G  These are awesome |
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Post by shimoli710 on Mar 31, 2013 14:33:23 GMT -5
[/p] [/p][/ul] Not sure if this is what Adam was talking about though. [/ul][/quote]Yes, pretty sure it is what he is referring to. He is certainly not referred to the movie. But it appears that Adam has fallen for something that is not correct but is moving thru Facebook. But it is not true. Easter is an English word. The Greeks and Romans called it Pascha, which is why Easter is Pasqua in Italian, Pascua in Spanish, and Paques in French. Here is an explanation from the Daily Beast: www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/29/happy-easter-which-is-not-named-after-ishtar-okay.htmlMany scholars think the English name Easter came from Ēostre/Oester -- from wiki: Ēostre derives from Proto-Germanic *Austrō, ultimately from a PIE root *h₂ewes- (→ *awes-), "to shine", and therefore closely related to a reconstructed name of *h₂ewsṓs, the dawn goddess, which would account for Greek " Eos", Roman " Aurora", and Indian " Ushas". [1] The modern English term " Easter" is the direct continuation of Old English Ēastre, whose role as a goddess is attested solely by Bede in the 8th century. [2] Ēostre is the Northumbrian form, while Ēastre is more common West Saxon. Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%92ostre [/quote]Well, maybe not Adam, but some of his fans thought it was the reason for his tweet (I saw some tweets with that picture they tweeted to him). He didn't want (or didn't feel like) to discuss about it and explain so he tweeted that other tweet, IMO.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2013 15:18:25 GMT -5
Aleks, I loved your post too and I do believe that it is important to love (or at least like) all the Glamily and to realize we are all here to support Adam (each in his or her own way)! Oh, and Happy Easter! (I guess that will be later for you, Aleks). Yep:))) Our midterm holidays start on April 29th and last until May 7th. Easter is on May 5th this year for Orthodox Christians. I celebrate it although I'm an atheist. Oh my - we will be in Transylvania for the Orthodox Easter - interesting. Happy Easter to all who celebrate, and wishing for a soon-to-appear Spring for everyone.  |
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Post by HoppersSkippersMiners on Mar 31, 2013 15:22:35 GMT -5
Ah - the block Easter Egg hunt has sucessfully been completed, with every kid (including the itty bitties) getting a decent share of eggs. I swear, tho', the start of the hunt was scarily like the start of the Boston Marathon! HUGE mass of kids running out my neighbor's front door in a herd while all us parents laughed from behind with our cameras. My kid was surprisingly chipper considering she was told she couldn't eat any candy she found until after Passover ends on Tuesday (Easter candy, oddly enough  isn't typically kosher for Passover). No crying, no whining. Proud of ze kidlet. (Of course, the promise of kosher-for-Passover chocolate lollipops in the meantime probably had something to do with that too!). Hope I can still find a bunny for myself on Tuesday. I didn't mind buying communal candy during Passover for the sake of the block party, but it feels too weird to buy non-Passover sweets for myself while the holiday is still going on. [grins] Adam looks very cute as a Jewish Easter Bunny. Maybe I'll just take him. :D  |
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Post by nannygoat on Mar 31, 2013 15:50:43 GMT -5
Had to go on Billboard 100 to see how Adam's music compares with the #1 and #2 songs. You have to be kidding, this sounds like NOISE to me.If this is what the BB100 is, I hope he doesn't ever make it.
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Post by JazzRocks on Mar 31, 2013 16:04:21 GMT -5
Adam Lambert @adamlambert Happy Easter too!
He tweeted this 2 hrs after the Ishtar tweet. I'm guessing but I think it's because he was bombarded with tweets telling him to wish people Happy Easter because I saw lots of that on his feed. I don't know why people can't accept him for who he is. Why must they project their own feelings/beliefs on him? He tweeted about this in (I believe) 2010 telling fans he was Jewish, not Christian. 
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Post by Q3 on Mar 31, 2013 16:13:39 GMT -5
Yes, pretty sure it is what he is referring to. He is certainly not referred to the movie. But it appears that Adam has fallen for something that is not correct but is moving thru Facebook. I don't think Adam has fallen for anything. There are many theories and discussions about the origins of Easter, and many of them are pro Ishtar. Be that true or not, I think he just seems to always question everything, searching for the truth and more information/meaning usually hidden under many dogmatic veils... which would be the bottom line/point of his tweet. My social media space is cluttered up with that same Ishtar meme -- forwarded by people who just accept it as true. And for it to be true -- you have to believe that the word "Ishtar" moved from Babylon to Pagan Germany but changed from the Goddess of War, Love and Fertility into the Germanic Pagan Goddess of the Dawn Ôstaro. Then got to England into the 8th century and then morphed into Easter, pronounced just like Ishtar. >> Scroll warning but the way this spread and, in large part because of the phonetic similarity of Ishtar and Easter, is just being accepted as sensible puzzles me. And posting about it makes me feel like I have done a small bit to question this. Easter has only tenuous connection to Ishtar -- but Easter/Passover is directed connected to Babylon. And that is why this phonetic connection have been taken to mean something more than makes real sense. ** The Babylonian calendar started with the Spring Equinox, the month of Nisannu and the celebration of Akituit -- the key gods for this holiday are the supreme god Marduk who defeated the monster of chaos, Tiamat. The Israelites were exiled in Babylonian and adopted the Babylonian lunar calendar even keeping the same name of the first month of the year, Nisan. They combined the Babylonian calendar, the month began with the new moon after the Vernal Equinox, with the date of the annual spring sacrifice of a lamb called Pesach, in English as Passover. This sacrifice, on the fifteenth day of the month, could not take place before the equinox, as the scripture dictated: "Guard the month of spring, and make then the Pesach offering." ( Deuteronomy 16:1) Thus the priests were sometimes required to add a leap month before Nisan in order to ensure that Pesach would always take place in the spring. The Greek and Latin Pascha, derived from the Hebrew term Pesach (פֶּסַח). The Greek derivation is documented in the New Testament by Paul. ** The Northern European name of Easter and Oestara and so on, derived from the Pryto-German Ēostre and connect to a Spring Equinox celebration of the Goddess of Dawn. This is well documented and well researched: eáster, eástor; gen. eástres; pl. nom. acc. eástro; gen. eástrena; dat. eástron, eástran [ = eastrum]; n: eástre, an; n. I. Easier, the feast of Easter; pascha = GREEK:-- On dæge symbeles eástres in die solemni paschœ, Lk. Lind. War. 2, 41. Wæs ðære ylcan nihte ðara hálgan Eástrena, ðæt seó cwén cende dóhtor ðæm cyninge it was on that same holy night of Easter, that the queen bore to the king a daughter, Bd. 2, 9; S. 511, 28. Æfter twám dagum beóþ eástro post b&i-short;duum pascha fiet. Mt. Bos. 26, 2. Freóls-dæg, se is gecweden Eástre a feast day which is called Easter, Lk. Bos. 22, l. II. the passover, paschal lamb; pascha:-- To eástron for the Easter lamb, Mt. Bos. 26, 17. Ðá hí eástron offrodon . . . ðæt ðú eástron ete quando pascha imm&o-short;l&a-long;bant. . . ut mand&u-short;ces pascha. Mk. Bos. 14, 12. [ Ger. M. H. Ger. ostern, f; Ker. óstarun, óstrun: Ottf. óstará, óstoron dea, pascha: A. Sax. Eástre, the goddess of the rising sun, whose festivities were in April. Hence used by Teutonic christians for the rising of the sun of righteousness, the feast of the resurrection, Bd. de Temp. Rat. Works, vol. ii. p. 81: Grimm's Deut. Mythol. 8vo. 1855, pp. 180-183.] Link: lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/html/oe_bosworthtoller/b0235.html ** Ishtar is Babylonian version of the Sumerian fertility goddess Inanna. Ishtar is the second consort of the god Anu, who is also her father. Ishtar is sometimes described as the sister of Ereshkigal. Ishtar descends into the Underworld where she is kept until Namtar brings her out, sprinkled with the water of life. In her place Dumuzi (Tammuz) goes to the Underworld. Ishtar loved Gilgamesh, but he wouldn't have her, so Ishtar asked Anu to send the Bull of Heaven to kill Gilgamesh. Neither Ishtar or her predecessor Inanna are not connected to the Spring Equinox. The Ishar story does include the very common theme of rebirth that appears in almost every culture and in the Easter story. ** Yes, some Easter traditions came from Babylon but most of the secular traditions of Easter and other modern Western European-American "Christian" holidays (Christmas, Halloween, St. Valentines) came from European Pagan traditions -- mostly Norse, Germanic, Celtic and Roman traditions. And for some reason we seem to downplay the Norse influences. |
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Post by silverblue1 on Mar 31, 2013 16:19:32 GMT -5
Aleks, love your post on page 2! I thinks it's great how this fandom brings people with such different tastes together. I absolutely loved Thriftshop from a first listen and had to go buy it. And thought the Harlem Shakes videos all over You Tube a while back were pretty funny too I'm not sure if I missed the discussion, but Adam started following KROQ last week and did anyone read anything into that? KROQ is a local LA rock station... not a station I ever envisioned him listening to on a regular basis. |
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isn't typically kosher for Passover). No crying, no whining. Proud of ze kidlet. (Of course, the promise of kosher-for-Passover chocolate lollipops in the meantime probably had something to do with that too!). Hope I can still find a bunny for myself on Tuesday. I didn't mind buying communal candy during Passover for the sake of the block party, but it feels too weird to buy non-Passover sweets for myself while the holiday is still going on. 
