RE: The annual 'Origin of Easter' thread
March 12, 2016 at 12:35 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2016 at 12:36 pm by abaris.)
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Bedar Venerabilis is remarkable also in a secular manner. His book was the first written attempt at universalising the measuring of time. In a religious sense, he was the one establishing the date of Easter. To historians he's of particular interest in dating events and documents, since he was also the one to introduce AD and BC.
And it's not really surprising that the Jesus story is based on a death and rebirth theme. The festival of Eostre or Ostara, how she's called in our lands celebrated the rebirth of nature, after it lay seemingly dead in the grasps of winter.
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In the 8th century, Christian scholar Bede claimed in his book, De temporum ratione, (The Reckoning of Time) that Easter derived from the Saxon Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). The ancient Saxons in Northern Europe worshiped the Goddess Oestre at the time of the Spring Equinox. The Goddess Easter represents the sunrise, spring-time and fertility, the renewal of life.
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Bedar Venerabilis is remarkable also in a secular manner. His book was the first written attempt at universalising the measuring of time. In a religious sense, he was the one establishing the date of Easter. To historians he's of particular interest in dating events and documents, since he was also the one to introduce AD and BC.
And it's not really surprising that the Jesus story is based on a death and rebirth theme. The festival of Eostre or Ostara, how she's called in our lands celebrated the rebirth of nature, after it lay seemingly dead in the grasps of winter.
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