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| 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]]”.)
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