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- Ēostre (Proto-Germanic: *Austrō(n)) is a West Germanic spring goddess. The name is reflected in Old English: *Ēastre ([ˈæːɑstre]; Northumbrian dialect:...
- the sacred beast of Eastre (or Ēostre), a Saxon goddess of Spring and of the dawn."[page needed] The belief that Ēostre had a hare companion who became...
- and Hebrew מִזְרָח mizraḥ 'east' from זָרַח zaraḥ 'to rise, to shine'. Ēostre, a Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a personification of both dawn...
- Easter developed from the Old English word Ēastre or Ēostre (Old English pronunciation: [ˈæːɑstre, ˈeːostre]), which itself developed prior to 899, originally...
- March equinox. The English term is derived from the Saxon spring festival Ēostre; Easter is linked to the Jewish P****over by its name (Hebrew: פֶּסַח pesach...
- Look up Eostre or oester in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ostara may refer to: the Old High German for "Easter", cognate to Anglo-Saxon Ēostre Spring...
- meets many of Wednesday's allies, including Mr. Nancy (Anansi), Easter (Ēostre), Whiskey Jack (Wisakedjak) and John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed). The New...
- named after the goddess Ēostre. 19th-century scholar Jacob Grimm notes, while no other source mentions the goddesses Rheda and Ēostre, saddling Bede, a "father...
- hare to Ēostre is doubtful. John Andrew Boyle cites an etymology dictionary by A. Ernout and A. Meillet, who wrote that the lights of Ēostre were carried...
- Dagr, personification of day Earendel, god of rising light and/or a star Eostre, considered to continue the Proto-Indo-European dawn goddess Freyr, god...