http://www.missdomestic.com/why-the-easter-date-in-egypt-is-different-than-the-easter-in-europe/ Helpful Homemaking Tips Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:43:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.missdomestic.com/why-the-easter-date-in-egypt-is-different-than-the-easter-in-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-1162 J Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:12:02 +0000 http://www.missdomestic.com/why-the-easter-date-in-egypt-is-different-than-the-easter-in-europe/#comment-1162 I'm sure it has to do with the religion of Ancient Kemet I’m sure it has to do with the religion of Ancient Kemet

]]> http://www.missdomestic.com/why-the-easter-date-in-egypt-is-different-than-the-easter-in-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-1161 Moonrise Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:24:46 +0000 http://www.missdomestic.com/why-the-easter-date-in-egypt-is-different-than-the-easter-in-europe/#comment-1161 bec in Egypt , we follow the Coptic calendar which follows the Pharoanic calendar . in the west they have their own calendar . the same happens in Christmas . there is Western Christmas and Eastern Christmas according to different calendars . bec in Egypt , we follow the Coptic calendar which follows the Pharoanic calendar .
in the west they have their own calendar .
the same happens in Christmas .
there is Western Christmas and Eastern Christmas according to different calendars .

]]> http://www.missdomestic.com/why-the-easter-date-in-egypt-is-different-than-the-easter-in-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-1160 pepe Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:30:48 +0000 http://www.missdomestic.com/why-the-easter-date-in-egypt-is-different-than-the-easter-in-europe/#comment-1160 because Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar. Easter falls at some point between late March and late April each year (early April to early May in Eastern Christianity), following the cycle of the Moon. After several centuries of disagreement, all churches accepted the computation of the Coptic Church (that is in Egypt) that Easter is the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon, which is the first moon whose 14th day (the ecclesiastic "full moon") is on or after March 21 (the ecclesiastic "vernal equinox"). Anglo-Saxon etymology "Eástre" by Jacques Reich (1909).Main article: ?ostre The modern English term Easter developed from the Old English word ?astre or ?ostre, which itself developed prior to 899. The name refers to Eostur-monath, a month of the Germanic calendar attested by Bede as named after the goddess ?ostre of Anglo-Saxon paganism.Bede describes the worship of ?ostre among the Anglo-Saxons as having died out before the time he was writing. In 1835, Jacob Grimm proposed an equivalent Old High German name, *Ostara, in his work Deutsche Mythologie. An amount of scholarly theory and speculation surrounds the figure. Modern German has Ostern, but otherwise, Germanic languages have generally borrowed the form pascha (The Greek word ????? and hence the Latin form Pascha is derived from the Hebrew Pesach (??????) meaning the festival of Passover) because Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar. Easter falls at some point between late March and late April each year (early April to early May in Eastern Christianity), following the cycle of the Moon. After several centuries of disagreement, all churches accepted the computation of the Coptic Church (that is in Egypt) that Easter is the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon, which is the first moon whose 14th day (the ecclesiastic “full moon”) is on or after March 21 (the ecclesiastic “vernal equinox”).
Anglo-Saxon etymology
“Eástre” by Jacques Reich (1909).Main article: ?ostre
The modern English term Easter developed from the Old English word ?astre or ?ostre, which itself developed prior to 899. The name refers to Eostur-monath, a month of the Germanic calendar attested by Bede as named after the goddess ?ostre of Anglo-Saxon paganism.Bede describes the worship of ?ostre among the Anglo-Saxons as having died out before the time he was writing. In 1835, Jacob Grimm proposed an equivalent Old High German name, *Ostara, in his work Deutsche Mythologie. An amount of scholarly theory and speculation surrounds the figure. Modern German has Ostern, but otherwise, Germanic languages have generally borrowed the form pascha (The Greek word ????? and hence the Latin form Pascha is derived from the Hebrew Pesach (??????) meaning the festival of Passover)

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