The name Easter may have origins in the Middle Eastern goddess known by various names such as Ishtar, Ashura, Astarte, Isis, Aphrodite, and Venus. Ishtar and her counterparts were revered as goddesses of fertility, embodying aspects of love, sex, and power, and were even considered goddesses of war due to the conflicts often arising from love and sex. Additionally, a legend associated with Ishtar proclaimed that a pig should be eaten on the anniversary of Tammuz' death, as he was slain by a boar, which may relate to the tradition of eating ham during Easter celebrations.

In the origins of Christmas, a significant figure is Semiramis, also known as Ishtar and Isis, who was both the mother and wife of Nimrod. After Nimrod's death, Semiramis promoted the belief that he was a god, claiming she saw a full-grown evergreen tree spring from a dead stump, symbolizing new life for Nimrod. She stated that on the anniversary of his birth, coinciding with the winter solstice at the end of December, Nimrod would visit the evergreen tree and leave gifts under it. Semiramis later bore a son, Horus or Gilgamesh, declaring that Nimrod's spirit had visited her, resulting in the pregnancy. She maintained that Horus was Nimrod reincarnated, forming a deceptive trinity with a deified father, mother, and son. Semiramis and Horus were worshipped as the Madonna and child, and over generations, they were revered under various names across different cultures and languages.

In the historical context of ancient rebellion against God, Nimrod's incestuous mother-wife, Semiramis, became deified and known by many names across cultures, including Ishtar in Babylon. As a pagan Queen of Heaven, she was also recognized as an architectural deity, the goddess of fortifications, often depicted wearing a crown of towers. This representation ties her to the original Tower of Babel, symbolizing mankind's defiance and desire to elevate itself above God. The legacy of Ishtar, as Semiramis, reflects the enduring spirit of opposition to God's purpose, a theme echoed in modern symbolic structures reminiscent of Babel's tower.

In the material the Babylonian goddess Ishtar appears as one of the ancient identities of the figure represented by the Statue of Liberty. Jean Houston identifies the statue as a manifestation of Athena that also embodies the Sabine goddess Feronia and the Babylonian goddess Ishtar or Semiramis. The same passage states that the statue represents Semiramis, the legendary Assyrian queen reputed to have founded Babylon in the early ninth century BC, and that the seven rays emanating from the statue's crown belong to this representation. Ishtar is further listed among the many names of the original Queen of Heaven and Queen-Mother of Babylon, alongside Isis, Cybele, Feronia, Astarte, Ashtoreth, and Easter. This goddess is presented as the embodiment of the Mother of harlots and abominations of the earth whose system originated with Nimrod and Semiramis. The material connects her directly to New York City as the modern counterpart of Babylon the great, the financial hub whose harbor she guards. Her torch and invitation are interpreted as a call to breathe free of God's sovereignty, promising a liberty that is in reality slavery to the world's system of financial enslavement and moral license. Thus Ishtar functions in the account as the pagan source of the statue's symbolism and as the enduring spiritual power behind the city that the material identifies as the capital of that system.

The apostate church that emerged in the second century found it easier to assimilate new converts from various pagan backgrounds by syncretizing its Easter celebration with their spring festivals. These festivals were often named after the widely worshipped fertility goddess, Ishtar (or some close variation: Astarte, Eoster, Ostara, Isis, Aphrodite, etc.). From these heathen influences sprang the Easter Bunny, dyeing eggs, giving candy, and other non-biblical Easter traditions. This development stands in direct contrast to the New Testament church's observance of the Passover on Nisan 14, which commemorates the sacrifice of Jesus Christ to pay for sins, redeem from spiritual bondage, and open the way to fellowship with the Father. Each year baptized Christians wash one another's feet in imitation of His example and partake of the bread and wine to proclaim His death until He comes, following only what Scripture commands rather than the Roman Church's tradition of Easter, which celebrates His resurrection instead.

Ishtar is presented as the ancient Babylonian goddess who lies at the root of a web of pagan deities worshipped across cultures, all ultimately identified as manifestations of the same figure—Nimrod's mother and lover Semiramis. This single goddess appears under many names: the Egyptian Isis, the Greek Athena, the Ephesian Diana, the Roman Minerva, and, significantly, the American Lady Liberty. President Grover Cleveland's dedication speech at the Statue of Liberty in 1886 explicitly framed her as "America's own peaceful deity," greater than all gods of ancient song, effectively inaugurating her as a national goddess whose influence persists today. This connection is confirmed by Wiccan and Pagan communities themselves, who openly regard Lady Liberty as a powerful and ancient goddess to be invoked, prayed to, and honored with offerings at her image, particularly for "liberation" from oppression—understood as freedom from God's law and way of life. The explosive growth of Wicca and witchcraft in America, with estimates ranging into the millions of adherents, demonstrates how deeply this Ishtar-worship has taken root, tracing back historically to ancient Babylon. According to R.A. Coombes, Ishtar's influence is not confined to overt paganism but has infiltrated mainstream Protestant churches—Methodists, Episcopalians, and Presbyterians—through increasing use of "goddess" language, as well as through movements like the New Apostolic Reformation. Within certain Charismatic and Third Wave church circles, Ishtar doctrines emerge under the guise of "cross-pollination," a concept carrying sexual overtones that has led to reports of sexual misconduct disguised as spiritual anointing. This reflects the hidden core of Ishtar/Isis salvation doctrine: sexual union with a temple priestess possessed by the goddess, through which a worshipper supposedly becomes one with her divine nature, resulting in cleansing from sin and spiritual enlightenment. Groups such as "Liberated for Christ" further embody this by promoting non-monogamous practices within a professedly Christian framework, echoing ancient mystery religion under a new name. The pervasive presence of Ishtar/Isis symbolism on American public property—such as the Roman Minerva at the Library of Congress Annex, Ceres and Isis on state seals, and the Statue of Liberty itself—stands in stark contrast to the Supreme Court's removal of the Ten Commandments from public spaces, revealing a national tolerance for pagan influence alongside hostility toward biblical authority. This goddess worship is prophesied to persist even into the Tribulation, as Revelation 9:20-21 indicates that mankind will refuse to repent of idolatry, sorcery, sexual immorality, and murder despite catastrophic plagues proving the goddess's worthlessness. Lady Liberty, though appearing peaceful, is ultimately depicted as a destroyer of families, nations, and Christian faith through immorality, symbolizing liberty from the one true God and functioning as an emblem of anti-Christ belief. Revelation 22:14-15 draws the line between those who keep God's commandments and those given to sorcery, immorality, and idolatry, reinforcing that true joy comes only through rejecting such paganism and awaiting the return of Jesus Christ.

Ishtar' emerges as the key to unmasking the true origin of Easter, a festival long assumed to be Christian but which actually derives its very name from this ancient Assyrian and Babylonian goddess. The English word "Easter" is simply an altered spelling of "Ishtar," transmitted through old Teutonic mythology as "Ostern." This same deity appeared among the Phoenicians as Astarte, the consort of Baal the sun god, whose worship the Almighty condemns throughout Scripture as the most abominable form of pagan idolatry. Historical sources confirm this connection directly: Alexander Hislop's The Two Babylons states plainly that Easter "bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead," being nothing else than Astarte, a title of Beltis, the queen of heaven. Assyrian monuments excavated at Nineveh by Austen Layard record this same goddess as Ishtar, with both names pronounced identically to "Easter." This pagan identity stands in sharp contrast to the biblical Passover, which God commanded Israel to observe forever, and which Jesus, the apostles, and the early Church faithfully kept on the 14th day of the first sacred month rather than on a fixed Sunday. The festival known in early Church history as "Pascha" was the Passover, not Easter, and was originally free from Lenten observance. Only later, after this true observance had already existed for generations, did the Ishtar-linked festival infiltrate the visible Church, replacing the memorial of Christ's death with a celebration honoring a counterfeit savior, Baal, and his mythical consort—identified as the ancient Semiramis posing as the idolatrous queen of heaven. The tracing of Easter back to Ishtar also explains related customs condemned as pagan: the forty-day Lenten fast, borrowed from Babylonian, Egyptian, and other pagan worshippers of deities such as Osiris, Adonis, and Tammuz; the use of dyed eggs, sacred to Ishtar's mythology as the emblem from which she was said to hatch; and sunrise services, which replicate the ancient sun worship of Baal condemned by God through Ezekiel as among the greatest abominations committed even within His own temple courts. This Ishtar-based counterfeit is presented as part of a larger prophetic pattern: a false, politically powerful church system, identified with Revelation 17's "Mystery, Babylon the Great," absorbed pagan festivals like Easter to gain popularity among Gentile converts, while the true, scattered, persecuted Church continued observing Passover according to Christ's example. Historical records, including Eusebius' account of Polycrates and Polycarp, and the Quartodeciman controversy culminating in the Council of Nicaea's decree favoring Sunday observance, demonstrate how the Ishtar-derived festival was formally imposed while the biblical Passover practice was suppressed, excommunicated, and eventually punishable by death. Thus, Ishtar functions as the historical and etymological root exposing Easter as a pagan substitution for God's ordained memorial of Christ's death.