the-illuminated-witch:I, for one, am very tired of seeing antisemitic pseudo-history passed along as
the-illuminated-witch:I, for one, am very tired of seeing antisemitic pseudo-history passed along as fact, so let’s take this Easter Sunday to remember that Jesus was Jewish, Christianity and Western occultism both wouldn’t exist without Judaism, and the goddess Eostre appears in very few ancient sources and is largely a vessel for white supremacist propaganda. The comments on this post are proof of the need for more like it. Eostre is mentioned in one source (Bede) from Northumbria, and Jakob Grimm took that and ran with it under the argument of “these people worshiped her, so all Germanic peoples must have” (aka the heavily debunked Pan-Germanic theory), even though in most places even throughout the Germanic speaking world the name for “Easter” is derived from Paschal, which is the Hebrew name for Passover. Hares and eggs aren’t even mentioned in any capacity as being connected to her, but painted eggs are featured in Persian Nowruz celebrations and may have similar origins.Even is she were worshiped in Northumbria during the pre-Christian period, that has nothing inherently to do with Norse or even other Germanic practices because things evolve and change over time. The only event mentioned as occurring around the same time in Scandinavia is Dísablót, specifically in Sweden, which was later moved into February in order to not conflict with Easter (and Lent, I imagine). This is especially due to the fact that there was a large assembly and market connected to it there (Dísaþing or Disting). The fact that they moved an entire holiday to make room for Easter pretty well suggests that it wasn’t a pre-Christian feature there. -- source link
#heathen#ostara#asatru#eostre