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| description = The word evidently comes from Ostara, the | | description = The word evidently comes from Ostara, the Scandinavian goddess of spring. She was the symbol of the resurrection of all nature and was worshipped in early spring. It was a custom with the pagan Norsemen at that time to exchange coloured eggs called the eggs of Ostara. These have now become Easter‐Eggs. As expressed in Asgard and the Gods: “Christianity put another meaning on the old custom, by connecting it with the feast of the Resurrection of the Saviour, who, like the hidden life in the egg, slept in the grave for three days before he awakened to new life”. This was the more natural since Christ was identified with that same Spring Sun which awakens in all his glory, after the dreary and long death of winter. (See “[[Eggs]]”.) | ||
Scandinavian goddess of spring. She was the symbol of | |||
the resurrection of all nature and was worshipped in | |||
early spring. It was a custom with the pagan Norsemen at | |||
that time to exchange coloured eggs called the eggs of | |||
Ostara. These have now become Easter‐Eggs. As | |||
expressed in Asgard and the Gods: “Christianity put | |||
another meaning on the old custom, by connecting it with | |||
the feast of the Resurrection of the Saviour, who, like the | |||
hidden life in the egg, slept in the grave for three days | |||
before he awakened to new life”. This was the more | |||
natural since Christ was identified with that same Spring | |||
Sun which awakens in all his glory, after the dreary and | |||
long death of winter. (See “[[Eggs]]”.) | |||
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Easter
The word evidently comes from Ostara, the Scandinavian goddess of spring. She was the symbol of the resurrection of all nature and was worshipped in early spring. It was a custom with the pagan Norsemen at that time to exchange coloured eggs called the eggs of Ostara. These have now become Easter‐Eggs. As expressed in Asgard and the Gods: “Christianity put another meaning on the old custom, by connecting it with the feast of the Resurrection of the Saviour, who, like the hidden life in the egg, slept in the grave for three days before he awakened to new life”. This was the more natural since Christ was identified with that same Spring Sun which awakens in all his glory, after the dreary and long death of winter. (See “Eggs”.)
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