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minus-squareQueen HawlSera@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoWasn’t the Easter = Ishtar connection debunked? The rest of that is pretty legit though
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-24 months agoI’m talking the link between Easter and the Celtic goddess named Eastre Edit to add the link more about the name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Easter Summary: Latin languages, their local words for Passover; Germanic language, their local name for their fertility deity — Eastre in old English, Easter now
Wasn’t the Easter = Ishtar connection debunked? The rest of that is pretty legit though
I’m talking the link between Easter and the Celtic goddess named Eastre
Edit to add the link more about the name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Easter
Summary: Latin languages, their local words for Passover; Germanic language, their local name for their fertility deity — Eastre in old English, Easter now
Ah that