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Šun-Šočõnava, Mari goddess of fertility and birth; Mu-Kyldyśin, Udmurt god of fertility and earth; Zarni-Ań, Komi goddess of fertility, represented by a golden woman; Babba or Aranyanya, Hungarian goddess fertility, represented by a golden woman; Kalteš-Ekwa, Ob-Ugric goddess of fertility, represented by a golden woman
In the second volume of Deutsche Mythologie, Grimm picked up the subject of Ostara again, speculating on possible connections between the goddess and various German Easter customs, including Easter eggs: But if we admit, goddesses, then, in addition to Nerthus, Ostara has the strongest claim to consideration. To what we said on [page] 290 I can ...
The Easter Bunny may not be featured in the Good Book, but he does share a connection with Christ: eggs. Like rabbits, eggs represented new life and fertility in pagan times, which is probably how ...
Pagan Easter traditions ... a mascot like the Easter Bunny may not seem like the most logical choice. But it begins to make sense when you remember that Eostre is the goddess of fertility, and ...
The Easter Bunny has a more mysterious history than you might imagine, and religion has nothing to do with it. ... wrote that the word comes from an Anglo-Saxon goddess, Eostre, whose feast-day in ...
As such, the Easter Bunny again shows similarities to Santa (or the Christkind) and Christmas by bringing gifts to children on the night before a holiday. The custom was first mentioned in Georg Franck von Franckenau's De ovis paschalibus ("About Easter Eggs") in 1682, referring to a German tradition of an Easter Hare bringing eggs for the ...
Fertility symbols were generally considered to have been used since Prehistoric times for encouraging fertility in women, although it is also used to show creation in some cultures. Wedding cakes are a form of fertility symbols. In Ancient Rome, the custom was for the groom to break a cakes over the bride's head to symbolize the end of the ...
Perchta is often identified as stemming from the same Germanic goddess as Holda and other female figures of Germanic folklore (see Frija-Frigg). According to Jacob Grimm and Lotte Motz , Perchta is Holda's southern cousin or equivalent, as they both share the role of "guardian of the beasts" and appear during the Twelve Days of Christmas , when ...