Things & Stuff: Spring Equinox

Sources include:
Stations of the Sun by Ronald Hutton
Pagan Religions of the British Isles by Ronald Hutton
Fifty Years of Wicca by Norman Lamond
A Witches Bible by The Farrars
Wikipedia
The Mabinogion
The Homeric Hymns
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2

Gypsy Soul - http://www.gypsysoul.com/

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[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.

[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.

[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.

[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