Easter Customs….
n“When we reflect how
often the Church has skillfully
contrived to plant the seeds of the new faith on the old stock of paganism, we may surmise that the Easter celebration of the dead and risen Christ was grafted upon a similar celebration of the dead and risen Adonis [the Greek name for Tammuz], which ... was celebrated in Syria at the same season”
- Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough, 1993, p. 345.