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Title: Easter
Post by: wolfnowl on April 06, 2010, 10:53:28 pm

Michael:  Appropos of nothing in particular... but regarding Easter (http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/ostarathespringequinox/p/Ostara_History.htm):

"According to the Venerable Bede, Eostre was the Saxon version of the Germanic goddess Ostara. Her feast day was held on the full moon following the vernal equinox -- almost the identical calculation as for the Christian Easter in the west. One delightful legend associated with Eostre was that she found an injured bird on the ground one winter. To save its life, she transformed it into a hare. But "the transformation was not a complete one. The bird took the appearance of a hare but retained the ability to lay eggs...the hare would decorate these eggs and leave them as gifts to Eostre.""

Useless trivia for the day...

Mike.

Edit (for DP): From the 'What's New' page: The Apple iPad arrived this weekend along with the Easter Bunny and chocolate eggs. Rabbits and eggs are pagan fertility symbols that have somehow become intertwined with the Christian holiday, but there was something of an appropriate irony in Apple choosing this particular weekend to launch the iPad, since it is in many ways a harbinger of things to come.

Title: Easter
Post by: DarkPenguin on April 06, 2010, 11:09:00 pm

Oh, man, I didn't hear.  Did Jesus see his shadow?  Do we have 6 more weeks of winter?

Title: Easter
Post by: Rob C on April 07, 2010, 04:05:43 am

Sounds like a lot of excess oestrogen to me.

Rob C

Title: Easter
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on April 07, 2010, 10:08:08 am

Quote from: Rob C

Sounds like a lot of excess oestrogen to me.

Rob C

Don't you mean "Eostre-gen?" 

Title: Easter
Post by: Rob C on April 07, 2010, 11:46:59 am

Quote from: Eric Myrvaagnes

Don't you mean "Eostre-gen?" 

Is that a branch of homeopathy?

Rob C