April 10, 2004
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Easter Eggs
The Teutonic fertility goddess Eastre, for whom the Christian springtime reserection holiday is named, had the special power of being able to transform birds into rabbits. That's why those Easter bunnies were associated with eggs.
Actually, it was a hare, the springtime Moon-hare sacred to Eostre / Ostara / Astarte / Aphrodite, the goddess said to have given birth to the Golden Egg of the sun.
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*smile* Every now and again I wonder how irate the general Christian population of America would be if they had even the slightest clue as to what they were worshipping. We are a pathetically amusing species in many ways. Such an enigma to have so much unrealized possibility locked up in us.