Happy Eostre
Leave it to us to celebrate the resurrection of our own culture's legendary superhero by embracing a ritual invented by a conquered people. In 1835, Jacob Grimm (1785 - 1863) published Deutsche Mythologie, a collection of German myths and oral histories, including a commentary on a goddess Ostara. [3]Grimm recalles Bede's account of Eostre. From the Germanic month name (see above), he then concludes the name Ostara. "This Ostarâ, like the AS. Eástre, must in the heathen religion have denoted a higher being, whose worship was so firmly rooted, that the Christian teachers tolerated the name, and applied it to one of their own grandest anniversaries." We're funny.Also, from the same Wikipedia, we learn that estrogen has it's roots in a word
signifying "rut", or "frenzy". Guess we're not the first misogynist culture.
Fear the women! They're rutting and in a frenzy! Look out!
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Leave it to us to celebrate the resurrection of our own culture's legendary superhero by embracing a ritual invented by a conquered people. In 1835, Jacob Grimm (1785 - 1863) published Deutsche Mythologie, a collection of German myths and oral histories, including a commentary on a goddess Ostara. [3]Grimm recalles Bede's account of Eostre. From the Germanic month name (see above), he then concludes the name Ostara. "This Ostarâ, like the AS. Eástre, must in the heathen religion have denoted a higher being, whose worship was so firmly rooted, that the Christian teachers tolerated the name, and applied it to one of their own grandest anniversaries." We're funny.Also, from the same Wikipedia, we learn that estrogen has it's roots in a word
signifying "rut", or "frenzy". Guess we're not the first misogynist culture.
Fear the women! They're rutting and in a frenzy! Look out!
