{"id":3490,"date":"2013-03-31T04:24:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T04:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?page_id=3490"},"modified":"2013-04-07T21:49:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T21:49:25","slug":"easter-holiday","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/easter-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"

In addition to the poem below, Sena Havasy has contributed a fascinating History of the Easter Holiday<\/a> as well as information on special dates in the Spring Calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Reclaim<\/b> the Spring Festival<\/b>!<\/h2>\n

Honor the rebirth of the slumbering Earth,<\/p>\n

Bursting with new life, It sends forth<\/p>\n

the promise of future abundance<\/p>\n

From deep in the dark, yeasty earth.<\/p>\n

Do not tell us that on this day we must<\/p>\n

Bow down, entering into a place and a mind set<\/p>\n

That tells us about birth without sex, dying without death,<\/p>\n

Trinities of power with no feminine, and eternal damnation!<\/p>\n

Let every egg and rabbit and flowering tree remind us of<\/p>\n

The green magic of the burgeoning earth, whose festival this is.<\/p>\n

Walk through the greening fields and the flowering orchards,<\/p>\n

Eagerly responding to life\u2019s imperative, \u2018Be fruitful!”<\/p>\n

Free all the ancient fertility symbols<\/p>\n

Reclaim the rabbits copulating in the hedgerows!<\/p>\n

Rearing their large broods without thought or knowledge<\/p>\n

That they will give with their bodies, life to wild multitudes.<\/p>\n

Reclaim that perfect symbol of nurture and rebirth<\/p>\n

That iconic shape, the perfect egg,<\/p>\n

Growing in strength and power until the time comes<\/p>\n

When it will release another living creature into the earth\u2019s tapestry.<\/p>\n

And honor the multitudes who came before<\/p>\n

Who lived and died, ignorant of many things<\/p>\n

But who knew that the earth was their ground of being<\/p>\n

And that they owed it respect and nurturance.<\/p>\n

This is our good legacy, the fruitful earth,<\/p>\n

the living animals and plants<\/p>\n

And the drive in all things<\/p>\n

to be fruitful and multiply.<\/p>\n

Celebrate it! Honor it!<\/p>\n

Do not abandon all the richness that should be ours<\/p>\n

To those who trivialize life, promulgating bizarre beliefs<\/p>\n

Of birth without sex, death without dying<\/p>\n

And a trinity with no feminine,<\/p>\n

Reclaim the Spring Festival!<\/p>\n

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In addition to the poem below, Sena Havasy has contributed a fascinating History of the Easter Holiday as well as information on special dates in the Spring Calendar.   Reclaim the Spring Festival! Honor the rebirth of the slumbering Earth, Bursting with new life, It sends forth the promise of future abundance From deep in … Continue reading “Easter Holiday”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3490\/revisions\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}