Some British Pagan thingy related to Esther or some pagan God/Goddess along those lines....... parents told me ages ago and I've forgotten...... Christianity Hijacked it :) Maybe it's the other way around s0n. i hate runescape holiday events. During the month of April, feasts were held by the anglo-saxon pagan godess Ēastre. Many similar events were present, but this is probably the origin of the english word Easter. This feast was later reinvented through Christianity, celebrating the supposed rebirth of Jesus, the zombie. It's fun to speculate wether the rescurrection makes the sacrifical of Jesus somewhat void, as he would know that he would walk again. Even further, one might even ponder upon the fact that Jesus, being the son of himself, aka God should be able to, like witches (who are enemies of god), remove the pain of anything. Either way, Paradise is better than being nailed to a cross, so maybe he just wanted to die in the first place. Most of christianity is actually just a mashup of different pagan stories and superstitions. Christmas is based on Yule, the sacrifice, the trinity etc. I don't really care though, so if you want to know, use google.