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Dermott Ryder's Blog – April 2014 Archive (1)

105: PAGANS SMILE FROM THE SHADOWS

Easter is a period packed with custom and ritual. How could it not be so? It is, after all, another one of those marvellous pagan revels, snitched from the 'Old Religions' and put to jolly good use by the cunning, dastardly, and commercially aware Christians. 'Life is a cavalcade, old chum' someone said.

Even the name of this festival shows its heathen origin. Easter comes from Eastre, or Eostre. She was, still is perhaps, the Anglo-Saxon Goddess of spring and dawn.…

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Added by Dermott Ryder on April 19, 2014 at 21:30 — 2 Comments