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EOSTRE

Ēostre

Ēostre ([ˈeːostre]) is an Anglo-Saxon goddess mentioned by Bede in his 8th century work The Reckoning of Time. He wrote that pagan Anglo-Saxons had held

Ēostre

Easter Bunny

Spring-Goddess whom we have already met under her Anglo-Saxon name of Ēostre." The belief that Ēostre had a hare companion who became the Easter Bunny was popularized

Easter Bunny

Easter

Passover. The English term may derive from the Anglo-Saxon goddess name Ēostre. Easter traditions vary across the Christian world, and include sunrise

Easter

European hare

to Ēostre is doubtful. John Andrew Boyle cites an etymology dictionary by Alfred Ernout and Antoine Meillet, who wrote that the lights of Ēostre were

European hare

East

and Hebrew מִזְרָח mariza 'east' from זָרַח zaraḥ 'to rise, to shine'. Ēostre, a Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a personification of both dawn

East

Wheel of the Year

produced by linguist Jacob Grimm of an Old High German form of the Old English Ēostre, an Anglo-Saxon goddess for whom, according to Bede, feasts were held in

Wheel of the Year

Austro

cyclecar manufactured 1913–1914 Austro Engine, an aircraft engine manufacturer Ēostre or *Austrō, a Proto-Germanic goddess widely associated with spring and dawn

Austro

Names of Easter

Easter developed from the Old English word Ēastre or Ēostre (Old English pronunciation: [ˈæːɑstre, ˈeːostre]), which itself developed prior to 899, originally

Names of Easter

Rheda (mythology)

named after the goddess Ēostre. 19th-century scholar Jacob Grimm notes, while no other source mentions the goddesses Rheda and Ēostre, saddling Bede, a "father

Rheda (mythology)

Ushas

goddess Aurora, the Lithuanian goddess Aušrinė, and the English goddess Ēostre (OE: ēastre), whose name is probably the root of the modern English word

Ushas