Ēostre
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thumb|right|Ostara (1884) by Johannes Gehrts. The goddess flies through the heavens surrounded by Roman-inspired putti, beams of light, and animals. Germanic people look up at the goddess from the realm below.
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- Name
- Etymology
- Related names
- Description by Bede
- Academic debate
- Jacob Grimm and *''Ostara''
- Possible connection to Easter Hares
- In modern culture
- Modern paganism
- Fiction
- Erroneous association with Ishtar
- Science and technology
- Politics
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
thumb|right|Ostara (1884) by Johannes Gehrts. The goddess flies through the heavens surrounded by Roman-inspired putti, beams of light, and animals. Germanic people look up at the goddess from the realm below.
Ēostre () is an Anglo-Saxon goddess mentioned by Bede in his 8th century work The Reckoning of Time. He wrote that pagan Anglo-Saxons had held feasts in her honour during the month named after her: (April), and that this became the English name for the Paschal season: Easter.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ēostre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.