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Scott Williams 🐧 · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqxjt08eag26lsvmju7um0z073degwu0vktq2qva7tdpqcz7dhvfhq0jgj0l For what it's worth, I very recently saw that this might not actually be true. I thou...
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... the name "Easter" may derive from that of an Anglo-Saxon goddess, but we have almost no evidence for that - literally two lines in a history written by a medieval monk who had no first-hand knowledge of paganism. The festival (which in every non-Germanic European language is called some variant of "Pesach") is certainly not derived from Eostre's rites, if they even existed. See the series of posts starting at https://cavalorn.livejournal.com/502368.html

(I enjoyed the comic, though!)
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Scott Williams 🐧 · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqczzt7ud6myrquck7p83p72j2c3kax6vthnhe9ud9s90rjv6m59qs3seljp nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqxjt08eag26lsvmju7um0z073degwu0vktq2qva7tdpqcz7dhvfhq0jgj0l And "pascal" which comes from pesach, which is the Hebrew word for Passo...