Things & Stuff: Spring Equinox

[EquinoxShane]

My birthday is 20th march, they say spring equinox is 20/21 march......

Also my sister had a book about all birth dates, what your personality and star sign would be, it turns out 20th march was at the very end of the book, and says people born on this day are more likely to have supernatural powers and be the most highly developed of us in mind and spirit.....

Also that maybe if you were to live on in another life that march 20th is the end of the road and you would not be born again, some thi

[createrainbowz]

EXCELLENT VIDEO....See sign of Spring ONE LOVE :)

[TKAadvice]

my comments stopped showing up on 90% of videos anyone know why?

[perronegrofeo]

She's cute, I love her :)

[MacMorrighan]

The author of "Fifty Years of Wicca" is not Norman Lamond, but Fred. :o) Hutton is not a very reliable source; he is a Polemicist, which means that he reaches a conclusions first (which he never questions), and only looks for evidence to substantiate THAT personal opinion by ignoring data 4 earlier possibilities (and even counter academic consent, like the Celtic Sovereignty-Goddess theme...his "Pagan Religions" is the WORSE in that regard). He also misrepresents scholars within "Triumph"!!!

[yewberrypie]

The title of Hutton's book is "Stations of the Sun", not "Seasons..."

[GeezIdontknowOmg]

Aren't persian folks the only people who "madly"

celebrate this (equinox, march 21/20)??

[luxcretia2]

there`S no evidence the godess ever existed.there`s no evidence any god ever existed.

[b6gm6n]

Stone Henge...you'll notice the 'circular' shape... thats the SUN! its all taken from ancient Egypt, I have a very nice movie on the subject at my page... also look out for Zeitgeist II - All Roads Lead To Rome

[seaghdh]

What do you mean no evidence for Eostra existence? and just what god is there evidence for? ..j/k, but thank you for this and what a plesant visage to t odeliver it as well.. or trim-ankled as homer would say

[nadobrafilm]

As in no evidence for her existence in history as a deity ever worshipped by anyone.

[onelittlemushroom]

oh yeh and btw the Hare is also Melangell in Welsh paganism...there are stories that she was a fairy who stopped a human hunt killing a hare, or something like that...

[onelittlemushroom]

yeh superapplefrog i agree..very cute...

[Superapplefrog]

You're pretty. completely irrelevant I know, but you're pretty.

[Orion8472]

I think that this time of the year is my ultimate favorite. Winter is gone, and new growth begins, rains come, flowers and trees sprout.  This information is quite interesting, and it was delightfully delivered! :-)

[Tacos25n28]

Its what a " Egyptian expert " friend we had. We looked up this info and your right it does not show up anywhere. Sorry about that we should have been a better sceptic. But thanks for the info and sorry again..

[Tacos25n28]

Well.. Estor comes from an Egyptian goddess of life and birth. Her symbol was the christen fish sideways. To make a the symbol of the female pussy.

[nadobrafilm]

Where on earth did you get that from? Egypt is one of my interests, that name appears in none of my text books and I can't find any web reference to it in an Egyptian context. Hat-mehit was the fish-goddess of Mendes in the Delta.

[nadobrafilm]

And even if it was the case, two names from completely different regions and completely different time periods that sound a bit similar (which means nothing as we don't even know how egyptian was originally pronounced) do not necessarily (and in fact most likely don't) have anything to do with each other.

[atrea]

Very great like always!

[sylvanhart]

Very informative and well presented - loved the inclusion too of the sun shining inside the chamber at Loughcrew, that magical .

[danobrienmuzyka]

Marysia, this is both highly informative and professional/polished. I didn't know that Bede was responsible for the notion of the goddess Eostre and that she is actually apocryphal. Also, I loved the quotations from the Homeric Hymns.

Well done!

[nadobrafilm]

It's only fairly recently that people have looked more critically at Bede and noticed that there's no other evidence behind his claims.

[Urgelt]

This video is dense with historical and pre-historical symbology and meaning. I enjoyed it.

I take from your examples a reminder that religious belief systems are, on a historical scale, in constant flux. Gods are conceived, altered, transformed, forgotten. Modern efforts to remember this symbological landscape are worthwhile - how else can we know who we are, and from whence we came?

[marysiak]

Indeed, since we started archiving everything we say and do, we've forgotten that nothing really stands still.

[BulletproofGeorge]

loved it! not only educational but as always marysia was easy on the eyes.

[marysiak]

thanks

[BulletproofGeorge]

no problem, just speaking the truth =p

[wchendri23]

well done! hurrah for spring :)

[marysiak]

let's celebrate by eating chocolate!