Eostre

Eostre englanniksi

1. A hypothesised Germanic goddess, supposedly of the spring season, but of uncertain provenance.

2. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Longmans, Green and Co.|title=The Old English Herbals|page=3|passage=There were also Nature deities, Hrede, the personification of the brightness of Summer, and Eostra, the radiant creature of the Dawn. It will be remembered that it was the worship, not of Balder, but of Eostra, which the Christian missionaries found so deeply imbedded that they adopted her name and transferred it to Easter.

3. A neopagan festival celebrated either in March or April to welcome the Spring, also called Ostara or Easter.

4. The godess (topics) Easter

5. (quote-book)|location=Northumbria|title=De temporum ratione|passage=Eostur-monath, qui nunc Paschalis mensis interpretatur, quondam a Dea illorum quæ Eostre vocabatur, et cui in illo festa celebrabant nomen habuit: a cujus nomine nunc Paschale tempus cognominant, consueto antiquæ observationis vocabulo gaudia novæ solemnitatis vocantes.|t=Eosturmonath has a name which is now translated "Paschal month", and which was once called after a goddess of theirs named Eostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month. Now they designate that Paschal season by her name, calling the joys of the new rite by the time-honoured name of the old observance.

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