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Easter Monday, or my last chance Easter meme this year.

Easter Monday, or my last chance Easter meme this year. | Easter, or Ostara, is a Pagan Goddess of spring and fertility, celebrated around the time of the Spring Equinox. Because rebirth is a recurrent motif in many Pagan religions, the death and resurrection of Christ could be forced into an already existing theme. Easter is the root of the word estrogen, the female hormone, and the egg 🥚, as a powerful symbol of potential new life, is celebrated at Easter in the eggs given to children. In Russia, the egg takes the form of Pysanka, delicately painted hard boiled 🐔 eggs. Easter contains the word east, the Germanic Ostara has the same meaning. Her name is also spelled Eostre, which connects Her to Eos or Aurora, the dawn 🌄 Goddess. Rather than the daybreak, She represents spring - the dawn of the year. Lilith ⚸ is a form of Her Middle Eastern counterpart, thus lillies are displayed during Easter. Easter is traditionally celebrated on the Spring Equinox (March 21st). Christians wanted to obscure the origin, so they randomized its date. Now it's the 1st Sunday following the full moon 🌕 after the Equinox. Thus it can occur anytime between March 22nd to April 25th. Yet honoring both the day of the 🌞 & the cycle of the 🌙 still seems pretty Pagan. | image tagged in estradiol tablet 1mg,sun loved moon,pagan,heathen,tradition | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
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by AlaskaNativeManitou
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Fun fact.

Fun fact. | Hot cross buns popularly consumed at Easter are claimed as a Christian symbol, but they're actually Pagan. The Greeks, Romans & Egyptians all had a tradition of eating wheat cakes to celebrate the coming of spring. These cakes are circular (representing the moon or sun) with a ➕ that divides the cake into the 4 lunar quarters or the 4 seasons. | image tagged in hot cross buns,heathen,tradition,food,cereal | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
by AlaskaNativeManitou
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Also spelled Qingming.

Also spelled Qingming. | Ching Ming festival: April 4th. One of the most prominent festivals of the dead (it has an on autumnal counterpart in the Hungry Ghost festival), this is a time for the living to remember their deceased ancestors. As in other days in which the dead are honored, tombs are swept & cleaned, offerings of food are placed out for hungry spirits, & paper cash is burned to provide ancestral ghosts with floating-around money. | image tagged in hell money,holidays,china,pagan,heathen | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
by AlaskaNativeManitou
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Goddess of fertility, love & beauty.

Goddess of fertility, love & beauty. | Veneralia on April 1 was the holiday honoring the Goddess Venus. It has no apparent connection to April Fools Day. The energy once poured into this holiday probably now informs Valentine's Day. | image tagged in venus de milo figurine,pagan,heathen,romans | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
by AlaskaNativeManitou
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She's called Ashtoreth or "The Queen of Heaven" in the Bible.

She's called Ashtoreth or "The Queen of Heaven" in the Bible. | Easter is the name of a Goddess. The Easter Bunny is her pet. | image tagged in goddess easter,heathen,religious,tradition,pagan | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
by AlaskaNativeManitou
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It was originally on the Equinox.

by AlaskaNativeManitou
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Signs of a religion in decline.

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by AlaskaNativeManitou
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Happy Holi Day.

by AlaskaNativeManitou
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The original source of leprechaun lore.

by AlaskaNativeManitou
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She takes many forms.

by AlaskaNativeManitou
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The numerology of Grandmother Moon.

by AlaskaNativeManitou
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The similar looking Krampus appears in other areas on December 6th.

by AlaskaNativeManitou
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New Year in Wales

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by AlaskaNativeManitou
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It's always darkest before the dawn.

by AlaskaNativeManitou
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