Vaisakha, Baisakh, Paysakh — Chaitra Pournami, Passover..Easter

The Bhavishya Puranam, tells us that Adama (Adam) and Havyavati (Eve), were banished from an Indian Ashrama of Vishnu Kardama.
There is a book that tells us that the Jews remembered that they came from the east, but that word was changed to west in the King James Bible.
There are similarities between some Jewish and Indian customs and calendars.. (I have been collecting such data and sharing it in my blogs. All these ideas when put together support an “out-of-India” theory.)
Here is a Jewish custom connected to Chaitra Pournami and Vaisakha.
Vaisakha Masa is the month that follows Chaitra Masa. As per the Hindi calendar the (adhika) Vaisakha Masa has started today. V becomes B often in many languages. So we have Baisakh as an alternative name for Vaisakha.
The Jewish month of Nisan, matches the South Indian month of Chaitra. The full moon of Nisan is our Chaitra Pournami. For the Jews also this is the first month of the year just as Chaitra Masa is the first month for us. (Of course they too have their own adhika or intercalary months.)
On this day (some or all) Jews celebrate the beginning of Passover. The Hebrew Pesah, Pesakh, Yiddish: Peysekh, Paysakh, Paysokh are variations of the word Vaisakha or Baisakh.
The Christian festival of Easter was originally celebrated on the Sunday after this full moon. The modern English term Easter is speculated to have developed from Old English word Ēastre or Ēostre or Eoaster.. which I take further to iStah  (liking). This year it falls on April 4th 2010.

Authorship and Copyright Notice : All Rights Reserved : Satya Sarada Kandula : These views and connections are mine, you are more than welcome not to agree..! I never argue with faith.

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Source for information below: Chez Chiara: These customs have more to do with Vernal Equinox and not necessarily with the full moon. Please click on the links for many photographs and customs around the world.

“Sham El-Nessim, or Sham ennessim/شم النسيم,‎ was originally an Ancient Egyptian holiday celebrated on the Vernal Equinox, or day of creation, much like an anticipatory harvest festival. Offerings to the gods included salted fish, lettuce, and onions. Though celebrated since 2700BC, after the Christianization of Egypt, it became integrated with Easter celebrations and is now celebrated on Easter Monday (as calculated by the Eastern Orthodox or Coptic Christian Calendar). Since Islamization, the date has remained on the Easter-linked calendar, but the modern celebration is more of a national holiday in Egypt. It is celebrated with family picnics, and traditional foods include salted fish, lettuce, scallions (green onions), lupini beans, and coloured hard-boiled eggs.”

“Both the Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes were for the ancient Mayan civilization the most auspicious days to plant their staple crop, maize or corn. Their solar calendar of 365 days was represented in the architecture of their 4 sided pyramids with 91 steps on each side, and the final top 365th step. Their pyramids were decorated with the plumes serpents of their cosmology, and on each if the equinoxes, the way the pyramids were constructed the sun would snake down the centre of the main side, and play with shadow and light on the decorative cornices.”

“In East Asian cultures, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Korean the equinoxes are taken to be the mid-season points of Spring and Fall, as calculated by the 24 solar divisions of the calendar year. “Equal” in this context, represented by the Chinese character 分, is equidistant between the beginning and end of either the Spring or Fall season. In Japan the March or Vernal Equinox is a national holiday, a day for family and visiting ancestors at their graves.”

“In the Persian calendar, the Vernal Equinox is the first day of the New Year, or Nowraz. As an originally Zoroastrian holiday, Nowraz is common to the Iranian peoples of Greater Iran or the Iranian cultural continental sphere, and parts of the Indian subcontinent. It is a public holiday in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kashmir, and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being celebrated by Iranians, Kurds, and Parsis, in their homelands and their diasporas.”

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