Sunday, April 12, 2009

Eastre


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The Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE.) a Christian scholar, first asserted in his book De Ratione Temporum that Easter was named after Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre).
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What is the true source of the name of the Easter celebration, Pagan or Hebrew? Was it Eastre, Eostre, Eostur, Ostara, or Asher, osher and esher?
Additional Information on Eastre from Wikipedia Information is unedited and unchecked Eostre is generally said to be an Anglo-Saxon goddess associated with various aspects related to
This Ostarâ, like the AS Eástre, must in the heathen religion have denoted a higher being, whose worship was so firmly rooted, that the Christian teachers tolerated the name, and
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The Saxons believed in a maiden goddess of fertility named Eastre or Eostre (Oestre in Latin) and honored her with a spring festival. Hares and rabbits were considered sacred to
Easter (Greek: Πάσχα, Pascha) is the most important religious feast in the Eástre" by Jacques Reich (1909).
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The ancient Saxons celebrated the return of spring with an uproarious festival commemorating their goddess of offspring and of springtime, Eastre.

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