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Bonfires & Egg Hunt: Fun Easter Traditions in Germany

April 9, 2017 GW Administrator 0

From the name to the bunny, it’s all German. The name Easter was first appropriated by the Christian calendar. First it was the pagan festival Ostara, celebrated on the vernal equinox, around March 21 in […]

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Easter and the Germanic Pagan Goddess Ostara

March 30, 2013 GW Administrator 0

An easter a picture of the Babylonic Goddess of love, war and sex Ishtar to be the namegiving goddess of easter went viral, but most scholars believe that the word Easter derives from the Germanic […]

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