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Whether the goddess was an invention of Bede has been a debate among some scholars, particularly prior to the discovery of the matronae Austriahenae and further developments in Indo-European studies. Due to these latter developments, she is generally accepted as a genuine pagan goddess among modern scholars.
By way of historical linguistics, these cognates lead to the reconstruction of a Proto-Indo-European dawn goddess; the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture (1997) details that "a Proto-Indo-European goddess of the dawn is supported both by the evidence of cognate names and the similarity of mythic representation of the dawn goddess among ...
A popular (and often reported) tale goes that the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, Eostre (or the Germanic goddess Ostara, depending on the version), transformed a bird into a hare, after which, the ...
Jesus and the Easter Bunny symbolize Easter. One's origin is pretty straightforward, but why exactly are bunnies so heavily associated with Easter?
In 1961 Christina Hole wrote, "The hare was the sacred beast of Eastre (or Ēostre), a Saxon goddess of Spring and of the dawn." [27] [page needed] The belief that Ēostre had a hare companion who became the Easter Bunny was popularized when it was presented as fact in the BBC documentary Shadow of the Hare (1993). [28]
So instead of centering on the pagan Eostre, the holiday’s religious history is all about Jesus Christ. ... But it begins to make sense when you remember that Eostre is the goddess of fertility ...
Perperuna and Dodola – pagan folk festival celebrated in the Balkans that was used to bring rain. Some scholars suggest that the name of the festival originally may have been the name of a goddess, the wife of Perun. [71] Pizamar – deity mentioned in the Knýtlinga saga. The exact reading of the name is unclear, which has led some scholars ...
A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905). In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses.