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With Hero Forge I depicted the Easter Bunny and the goddess Ostara.
Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Christ since the Christianization of the West. Before Christianity, the Germanic people celebrated the festival for the fertility goddess Ostara in spring, hence the name Easter. At least that's what researchers claimed in the 19th century. But there is actually very little to support the existence of this Easter goddess.
There is only one source that speaks of an Easter goddess: the English Benedictine Bede Venerabilis wrote a treatise on the determination of the Easter days in the 7th century. He traces the Anglo-Saxon name of the Easter month back to a goddess named “Eostre”. Furthermore, there are no sources, neither texts nor images, with any trace of the goddess.
Jacob Grimm also refers to this medieval source in his collection “Deutsche Mythologie”, published in 1835. Analogous to the English “Eostre”, he attributes the Easter month to a Germanic goddess “Ostara”. Grimm speculates that it could be the goddess of morning and resurrection. Today's researchers strongly doubt the existence of the goddess.
But I'll grant this so-called pseudo-goddess a proper appearance with a special bunny. They both wish us all a Happy Easter.
Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Christ since the Christianization of the West. Before Christianity, the Germanic people celebrated the festival for the fertility goddess Ostara in spring, hence the name Easter. At least that's what researchers claimed in the 19th century. But there is actually very little to support the existence of this Easter goddess.
There is only one source that speaks of an Easter goddess: the English Benedictine Bede Venerabilis wrote a treatise on the determination of the Easter days in the 7th century. He traces the Anglo-Saxon name of the Easter month back to a goddess named “Eostre”. Furthermore, there are no sources, neither texts nor images, with any trace of the goddess.
Jacob Grimm also refers to this medieval source in his collection “Deutsche Mythologie”, published in 1835. Analogous to the English “Eostre”, he attributes the Easter month to a Germanic goddess “Ostara”. Grimm speculates that it could be the goddess of morning and resurrection. Today's researchers strongly doubt the existence of the goddess.
But I'll grant this so-called pseudo-goddess a proper appearance with a special bunny. They both wish us all a Happy Easter.
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