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Spring fertility rites.

#Stork #StorkNest #Shagging #Bird #BirdsOfMastodon #FediBird #Fertility #Eostre

I remember being taught in high school that Easter symbols were appropriated from a pagan goddess, "Estras" and I didn't question it because the fertility symbols made sense. Turns out it seems like that was wrong after all and the rabbits and eggs have fully Christian origins.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CnkpdpjGgTY

#Easter #christianity #pagan #eostre

REDBUD TREE! Pennsylvania. #redbud #redbudtree #redbudtrees #flower #flowers #flowering #bloom #blooms #blooming #posy #posies #purple #violet #easter #equinox #vernalequinox #vernal #spring #springequinox #persephone #persephonesreturn #returnofspring #Eostre #Ostara #Ishtar

Hyacinth--the scent of Easter. Pennsylvania. #hyacinth #hyacinths #flower #flowers #flowering #bloom #blooms #blooming #posy #posies #purple #violet #easter #equinox #vernalequinox #vernal #spring #springequinox #persephone #persephonesreturn #returnofspring #Eostre #Ostara #Ishtar

It has become a bit of a tradition to start Easter Sunday off with this. Just an excuse really to play a terrific soundtrack. Happy Ēostre! #Ēostre #vinyl #soundtracks

@angeldruckt

Ja, würde zustimmen. Auch wenn es eine angelsächsische #Eostre gegeben haben mag, halte ich eine germanische #Ostera eher für konstruiert. Die Orientierung zur aufgehenden Sonne und die Ausrichtung der Kirchen gen Jerusalem dürfte m.E. die Bezeichnung von #Ostern ausreichend erklären. Schade, dass dabei aber die Rückbindung an #Pessach schwächer wurde, die in den romanischen Sprachen stärker erhalten blieb. 🤔✝️🕎🇪🇺🇮🇱📚

Happy #SpringEquinox #Ostara (#AutumnEquinox in the Southern Hemipshere) everyone!

Now marks the time when the sun passes over the celestial equator in the Northern Hemisphere.

Many modern pagan traditions celebrate the season’s change from dark winter to brightening #spring. The roots of this equinox celebration are found in ancient pagan holidays: #Eostre and #Liberalia.

link:
https://www.darkhabits.net/post/spring-equinox-ostara

#pagan #witch #witchcraft #witches #queerwitch #queerwitches #queerwitchcraft

It's less than two weeks until the Spring Equinox (Ostara), the date when night and day are of equal length. It's wonderful to see everything gearing up for the year: we're watching birds chase one another in courtship (and territorial disagreements!), green shoots beginning to appear on shrubs and trees, and early Spring flowers blooming!

So here are just a few of our favourite cards of the season :) Art by Samantha Symonds, Rachel Blackwell, Sam Cannon and Amanda Clark.

#SpringEquinox #Spring #Ostara #Eostre #Hare #PaganArt #GreetingCards #MastoArt #FediArt

For a concise summary: https://florencehrs.substack.com/p/eostre-pagan-fertility-goddess-or?utm_source=substack&publication_id=300968&post_id=141865993&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=ocd0w&triedRedirect=true

#easter #eostre #ostara #bede

Happy Eostre everyone. Thank goodness for the Pagans so that we can have lovely eggs delivered by a rabbit and a nice slice of simnel cake. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/apr/03/easter-pagan-symbolism #eostre #Pagan #paganism

Algunos aluden a una diosa de una Pascua pagana para celebrar el retorno de la vida, pero las cosas no están tan claras como parecen. #easter #pascua #eostre #folklore

https://resolviendolaincognita.blogspot.com/2023/03/existio-eostre-la-diosa-de-la-pascua.html

It's that time of year again...

Eostre, the making of a myth

https://ondermynende.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/eostre-the-making-of-a-myth/

#Eostre #Easter

#Journal, Day 1116
Sunday, 09 April 2023
#Easter

#holiday #family #memories
#dadlogic #Eostre #happyeaster🐰

Nature is returning 🥚🌱 #eostre

Achievement unlocked: Pagan minister leads Easter Sunday service for local church.

The sermon included mention of chocolate bunnies, rainbow-colored eggs, jelly beans, daffodils, crocuses, hyacinths, #Eostre as goddess of Spring, the story of a bird reborn as a rabbit, and plenty of joy and hope.

I gave JC a break and left his name out of it, as I suspected he was tired of hearing it from too many other places today. 😀

#easter #pagan #ostara #EasterBunny

Happy Ishtar

Tree screen from McMichael Gallery grounds, Kleinburg

The word Easter appears to be derived not from Ishtar, but from the German Eostre, the goddess of the dawn—a bringer of light.

Ishtar and Easter appear to be homophones: they may be pronounced similarly, but have different meanings.

Don't believe every meme.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/beyond-ishtar-the-tradition-of-eggs-at-easter/

#Art #Photography #Easter #Ishtar #Pagan #Eostre

I'm an atheist and as such I don't think much about Easter.

I do, however, enjoy watching millions of people around the world sharing eggs, worshipping rabbits and other such pagan rituals.

#easter #eostre #pagan #atheism

I had to zoom in really hard to catch it, but our benevolent bunny has returned. So far, far more interested in nibbling grass than any of our plants. Kind of looks like a nice watercolour. #gardenVisitors #garden #wildlife #eostre #oldGods

Was greeted by a beautiful brown rabbit as we stood on the stoop tonight. It finally feels like spring.

#spring #eostre

So I recall people liked when I posted about Imbolc last February, so here's a post about today's (well, technically Monday's) northern hemisphere #neopagan festival, #Ostara!

(all info taken from pretty easily found sources).

#druidry #Eostre

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https://www.tumblr.com/kinfriday/705154909729947648

Happy New Year! May light and hope be features of your 2023!

#newyear #otherkin #therian #hope #heathen #heathenism #troth #asatru #Eostre #hope #dawn #YearInReview #thewayofthewanderinghare #heathenasceticism