The annual 'Origin of Easter' thread

[Minimalist]

"Easter" only applies in the northern regions of Europe.

In France, it is called Paques and the eymology goes:

From Old French pasches, from Ecclesiastical Latin pascha, from Ancient Greek πάσχα ‎(páskha), from Aramaic [script needed] ‎(pasḥa), from Hebrew פסחא ‎(pasḥa).

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Whereas in the Anglo-Saxon world:

The modern English term Easter, cognate with modern German Ostern, developed from an Old English word that usually appears in the form Ēastrun, -on, or -an; but also as Ēastru, -o; and Ēastre or Ēostre.[nb 3] The most widely accepted theory of the origin of the term is that it is derived from the name of a goddess mentioned by the 7th to 8th-century English monk Bede, who wrote that Ēosturmōnaþ (Old English 'Month of Ēostre', translated in Bede's time as "Paschal month") was an English month, corresponding to April, which he says "was once called after a goddess of theirs named Ēostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month".[22]

But, WTF is that when 'jesus'



is made to look like a Swedish goalie