I think I'm with you 100% on the land theft.
I'm working on an idea where every citizen would randomly be assigned a half acre of land at birth and those land rights would be non-transferable and expire at their time of death. They could of course rent that land if they wished, but would not be able to sell it.
Also, Ishtar is not directly related to Easter, you're probably better off making a case for Eostre (Ostara).
An interesting proposition, although I would worry those with the authority to assign the land would use or be persuaded to assign based on personal incentives. Can think of many other questions that would need ironing out (and raise the question of whether it is truly personal property or not) but would all be speculative and raise more questions as those were examined.
Thank you so much for this. I'm home sick today and spent a couple hours going down this hole. I spent about ten years searching for God in religions, mostly Christianity (and its precursor, Judaism). I never found what I was looking for, other than no one seems to agree or answer most logical questions credibly. I found some articles (by an athiest) that were interesting reads on the subject.
https://historyforatheists.com/2017/04/easter-ishtar-eostre-and-eggs/
https://historyforatheists.com/2016/12/the-great-myths-2-christmas-mithras-and-paganism/
Back in the early 2000's I was new to the internet (was late to the party) and loved the many discussions (amidst the arguing for ego sake) on ancient writings and their intent. Has been awhile, and probably have forgotten much of what those learned people shared. Without turning your post into a religious discussion (for which I ultimately still hold no answers today other than one should be the best they can and hope it's enough for whatever force may be underlying everything, and if not, then is It worthy of deviating from the proper path?), I can say that intuitively I have a conviction that pagan beliefs must be mixed into religions, although I read/saw something today (didn't save the link I don't think) that explained why eggs were associated with easter (end of fasting).
Brought back memories of the borderline despair I would feel back then, realizing that many writings from antiquity were written well after the fact, and the author could have had a bias that skewed their position. In the NT, Paul admits several times he is not beyond stretching truths to achieve results.
Forgive the rambling, has been many years since I went down this hole. I appreciate your shedding new light on an idea that was handed to me that seemed credible based on the intuition I mentioned above. Took the liberty of using the same man to see what he had to say on Mithras, as that too was one that seemed credible to me despite many historians saying not much had been found on it from antiquity.
While I suspect that there is much from antiquity being used today in ways not taught to folks like myself, suspecting and demonstrable truth are not often aligned. I know now not to mention Ishtar (nor Mithras) again. Thank you for this gift.
Thank you, watched it a little bit ago (and saved your channel for later perusing).
One of the things that bothered me years ago in my search was the fact that no one who knew Jesus personally wrote anything. The NT is comprised of books written mostly generations after he was gone. I was also bothered by Paul (who was a self confessed liar in his writings) somehow becoming the authority over those who were reputed to be with him (his brother James and Peter). Much is off about all of this to me, and feel it is difficult to piece together what was what based on who the winners were and what they put forth.
During my research years, I remember coming across the beliefs posited by Arius (Arianism) that seemed more logical than the views put forth by the churches I attended many years ago. I could go on and on with this, but it would solve nothing as I was left with the agreement (with myself) that all I had to offer was the best I can give and the chips will fall wherever they fall.
Appreciate your further humoring me on the subject. Was a time I was very passionate about trying to understand "truth" from antiquity, and finally walked away from my studies as the only certainty I found was people tend to set up empires run by selfish assholes.
Regarding your concerns about Paul, this made a lot of sense to me...
Ēostre
Ēostre or Ostara (Old English: Ēastre [æːɑstrə] or [eːɑstrə], Northumbrian dialect Ēastro, Mercian dialect and West Saxon dialect (Old English) Ēostre [eːostrə]; Old High German: *Ôstara ) is a Germanic goddess who, by way of the Germanic month bearing her name (Northumbrian: Ēosturmōnaþ; West Saxon: Ēastermōnaþ; Old High German: Ôstarmânoth), is the namesake of the festival of Easter in some languages. Ēostre is attested solely by Bede in his 8th-century work The Reckoning of Time, where Bede states that during Ēosturmōnaþ (the equivalent of April), pagan Anglo-Saxons had held feasts in Ēostre's honour, but that this tradition had died out by his time, replaced by the Christian Paschal month, a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus.
By way of linguistic reconstruction, the matter of a goddess called *Austrō in the Proto-Germanic language has been examined in detail since the foundation of Germanic philology in the 19th century by scholar Jacob Grimm and others. As the Germanic languages descend from Proto-Indo-European (PIE), historical linguists have traced the name to a Proto-Indo-European goddess of the dawn *H₂ewsṓs (→ *Ausṓs), from which descends the Common Germanic divinity from whom Ēostre and Ostara are held to descend.