Easter

Roman Oestre - fertility goddess

Also connected to Oestrogen (if I spelt that right).

Hi Nona,

Thanks for your input.

'Oestre' and 'Easter' probabably sound similar. And later on, 'Easter' was adopted in the use of English.

The Easter symbolizes of the Jesus Christ's return to life after he was killed. And 'Roman Oestre' is the goddess of reproduction, which has quite similar meaning as 'Easter'.

And that's also why you have the eggs and the rabbits related to Easter: they both symbolize renewal, fertility, reproduction.

It's a very old festival - pre-Christian - so it is an odd mix of Christian and pagan customs.

Hi all,

So, Easter exists even before Jesus. I guess it was a lot earlier if Nona's info is reliable.

Very interesting! I thought Easter existed because of Jesus, which could be totally wrong.


Thanks again for the info.

I think when christianism appeared, and many people wanted to make it The religion, they "converted" some pagan celebrations, or at least kept the same dates or the same basis, because quite a lot of people were attached to them. Thus the spreading of the new religion went more smoothly.