Figuring out when Eostre's feast days really took place

[cavalorn]

Neopaganism really is its own worst enemy sometimes. If you wanted to celebrate the feast of the Goddess Eostre as attested by Bede but all you had to go on was the modern-day pagan Internet, you’d probably end up thinking that there was a festival called ‘Ostara’ that took place on the day of the Spring Equinox. You might even convince yourself

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[whiskeychick]

For this pagan soul, it's always been the start of the planting season, so yes, the bringer of the light. Because the witches in my family mostly descended from Germanic/Romanian origins (with some Italian thrown in just to confuse everything), the name Ostern turned into Ostara was what I was taught. But yes, the goddess of light, Eostre was a big part of that. As this year has brought lots of family lineage research, there's some references that perhaps the northern Germans had emigrated in the first century into the Norse countries and merged their beliefs with some of the Norse beliefs as well. It's all a pool of light and dark, I suppose. Regardless, it's a great marking of longer days, the big first plantings for summer, and time to slaughter the old chickens, new lambs, and big sows to feed your village. All this back and forth from it's right, it's wrong reinforces in my heart that people's stories are important and we need more than just one Bede to record it all.

[animalunaris]

Hot sun and cider. That is all. X