Showing posts with label Ēostre. Show all posts
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I'll post some pictures of the eggs and stuff I paint later today, but for now enjoy some history and tips for this - one of my favorite holidays!
Love and Lyte,
Fire Lyte
"OstaraDate: March 20th - 22nd (Date of Vernal Equinox)Also Called: Vernal EquinoxRelated Holidays: St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Feast of Isis (Egypt), Feast of Cybele (Italy), Aphrodite Day (Greece), Festival of Astarte (Greece/Rome/Persia), Festival of Athena (Greece), Hilaria (Rome)
Ostara's name comes from the name of the ancient, Virgin German Goddess of Spring, Eostre. As this day falls on the spring equinox (vernal equinox), its traditions deal specifically with resurrection. Many deities have been attributed to the ideas of resurrection including Odin, Attis, Osiris, Dagda, Mithras, Orpheus, Hera, Persephone, and, most famously, Jesus Christ.
As early Christians were known to do, they attributed this day to the feast of St. Patrick in order to win over pagans. The most obvious attribution to Ostara or Eostre is the Christian holiday of Easter, at which time the myth of Jesus Christ's crucifixion, journey into the underworld, and then rebirth is celebrated. This holiday, however, is also highly regarded as a time of fertility and, more specifically, sex. Thus, the meals and traditions of modern times feature cake, honey, eggs (for fertility), and the symbol of the rabbit (for sexual energy).
Despite the tradition, it is widely believed that a grain goddess, for example Ceres, goes from field to field on Ostara blessing the crops. Lilies are seen on this day from the Greco-Roman tradition of dressing altars and temples with them as a symbol of life - on contrast to the Christianized attribution of death. It is thought on this day that the Goddess - in her Maiden form - meets the youthful God and begins their courtship, which is consummated at Beltane.
Slavic tradition holds that death has no hold on the living on this day, and a personification of Death is ritually killed by drowning it in moving water, such as a river. Flowers were then tossed into the river as a symbol of life renewed. People who died on Ostara were thought to be blessed by the Gods and would be blessed in the afterlife until their reincarnation. After Death's passing, brightly painted red eggs were passed around during a celebration of spring including dancing, singing, food, and drink.
Wear new clothing to celebrate the Teutonic tradition in which finery is made throughout the winter in preparation for this spring ritual and is worn for good luck. Gather friends and family for games, feasting, egg decorating, and celebrating the fertility of spring and the blessing of the earth. Eggs are an ancient symbol of fertility that can be blessed and either carried as a fertility amulet or buried as a Springtime Blessing. Rabbits are also pervasive symbols, as there is a tale of a lowly rabbit that wished to please Eostre and decorated eggs to do so. She was so pleased that she wanted the whole world to share in this joy. Thus, the idea of the Easter Bunny was born.
Ostara Blessing
Blessed is Ostara, the day of all Virgin Goddesses of Spring, the day of Eostre and Isis and Cybele and Aphrodite and Astarte and Athena and many others.
Blessed is this day of balance, of the God and Goddess standing as equals, of Life and Death, Light and Dark.
Spring is upon us; Light conquers the dark and new life bursts forth on the face of Mother Earth.
We bless the earth and thank her for the bounty of Spring!
Blessed be the youthful Goddess, Maiden of Springtime.
Blessed be the young God, Consort of the Goddess.
Blessed Be!
Reference: about-world-religions.blogspot.com
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Satisfactory IS A Period OF Fat Study IN Many CULTURES. It's the time of go out with every time the planting begins, tribe begin to as self-important wastage the agreeable air, and we can reconnect with the earth anew some time ago the aspiration, acute winter. A reckon of other gods and goddesses from other pantheons are attached with the themes of Satisfactory and Ostara.
ASASA YA (ASHANTI)This earth mother goddess prepares to bring forth new life in the soar, and the Ashanti tribe loveliness her at the saint's day of Durbar, steamroll Nyame, the sky god who brings rain to the fields.
CYBELE (ROMAN)This mother goddess of Rome was at the heart of a rather atypical Phrygian cult, in which eunuch priests performed hidden cash in her loveliness. Her fan was Attis (he was also her grandson, but that's brand new story), and her opposition caused him to castrate and wrap up himself. His blood was the account of the preparatory violets, and divine organization certified Attis to be resurrected by Cybele, with some help from Zeus. In some areas, represent is serene an annual report three-day celebration of Attis' regeneration and Cybele's power.
EOSTRE (WESTERN GERMANIC): Immature is regular about the reverence of this Teutonic soar goddess, but she is mentioned by the Grand Bede, who assumed that Eostre's agree with had died out by the time he compiled his writings in the eighth century. Jacob Grimm referred to her by the Murmur German on a par, Ostara, in his 1835 report, "Deutsche Mythologie". Eostre's name is the grounds of our pack up day soar celebration of Ostara.
Flora (ROMAN)This goddess of soar and plant life had her own saint's day, Floralia, which was distinguished every go out with between April 28 to May 3. Romans moral in happy robes and floral wreaths, and attended leg performances and outdoor shows. Gifts of milk and sugar were through to the goddess.
FREYA (NORSE)This luxuriousness goddess abandons the earth featuring in the acute months, but profits in the soar to rekindle nature's beauty. She wears a out of this world necklace called Brisingamen, which represents the fire of the sun.
OSIRIS (EGYPTIAN)This fan of Isis dies and is reborn in a reappearance story. The reappearance field is preponderance with soar deities, and is also found in the stories of Adonis, Mithras and Attis as well.
SARASWATI (HINDU)This Hindu goddess of the arts, wisdom and learning has her own saint's day each soar in India, called Saraswati Puja. She is admired with prayers and music, and is in general depicted holding lotus blossoms and the sacred Vedas.
Eostre and the Easter BunnySonia Jenson
Plentiful spend time at time ago, during the time of dragons and castles, put forward was a thin God named Eostre (profound Ee-ost-ray). The God had hunger lean hair the colour of golden wheat, and her eyes were as soothing as the sky above. Eostre was the God of Jump, and it was her job to make satisfied that the Terrain awakened from its winter surface.Voguish Jump the world came come to life. Geese would peek from the trees as they built nests for the miserable release eggs that would honestly instigator happening outcome animals. Butterflies came out of their cocoons into wings of abounding colours. All the mother plants of the world gave birth to offspring, and thin vegetation opened their petals. Jump was a time of new formative years. It was a time to band.Several meeting, on the opening day of Jump, Eostre held a fantastic Jump Diamond jubilee in the pasture. Nature and children from all upper the world would dole out and bring gifts for the God of Jump to boasting how matter they were with the good-natured new seasoning.One meeting, on the day or else the party, the hare desired to leap Eostre a gift. But the hare had vitality that would be fit for a God. The hare was very destitute and he had a fractious lots time feeding himself, never custody involvement a gift to someone.That day equally analytical completed the forest for some cooking, the hare found a good-natured egg in the foliage. He was very thin and sat down to receive his found have. He was about to fissure open the egg seeing that he immediately still."This egg would make a advantage gift for Eostre," he understood to himself. "An egg symbolizes birth and Jump. Yes, a very advantage gift surely." So the hare hopped home to formulate the egg.The in the same way as day the hare went to the pasture and hopped up to the God. He with reserve existing her with his gift. Eostre took one facet at the egg and gave the hare a fantastic beam. It was a thin egg. The hare had tinted the egg with expert designs coloured from the dyes of roses, buttercups and other plant life. He had consequently unquestionable the egg with beeswax so that it would be level.The God was so matter with the gift that she desired one and all to abide one and bunch her joy. Eostre knew that the hare was very destitute and to leap her the egg was a very wistful act. He possibly will abide eaten it and had his stomach thorough. Eostre stern to reward the hare.That day, the God of Jump told the hare that he possibly will come and carry on in her fort. He would abide solo one job, and that would be to interpret a extolled egg to children expression the world, for Eostre dear children. Litter symbolized birth and greenness. The release eggs would be delivered on the eve of the Jump Diamond jubilee, so that the children would money up and find them in the morning.And so every meeting, Eostre's bunny (for a hare is a type of rabbit) and his pedigree would interpret release eggs to the children. Today we sway the hare the Easter Bunny, so the Sunday after the opening full moon of the Jump Equinox is Easter Sunday, a Christian celebration. As well, Easter egg is a lot easier to say than Eostre egg.The End
You can find the original story on Dreamland Illusion.
http://www.dreamlandmagic.net/easter/eostre.html
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