Happy Easter! (Sretan Uskrs!)

[ENG]

Spring Goddess of Fertility and connection with Christian Easter as we know it today...
She has her own "festival" on 21 March, the Spring Equinox, in which bouncing springy behavior is encouraged.

A Germanic goddess Ostara (Eostre) was very popular with the Anglo-Saxon pagan brigade who worshipped her under that name — and kicked off the whole Easter business without a Jesus in sight. Did you ever wondered what eggs and bunnies have to do with crucifixion and resurrection? The answer is: absolutely nothing.

Ostara's sacred animal is a cute "wittle wabbit" — an obvious symbol of fertility. And the egg is her symbol of fertile purity. So Easter Egg hunts are actually packed with symbolic meanings of rebirth and renewal, and Elmer Fudd is obviously just a high priest of the Great Easter Bunny. This well-known monk mentioned her in connection with the pagan festival "Eosturmonath" in a book written in 750 A.D., but extensive research has failed to find a trace of her prior to that...

Rabbits and hares are ubiquitous in mythology. Every culture seems to have a rabbit god — and they're nearly always trickster spirits. This explains a lot. There's also a terrific theory explaining why stage magicians love doing tricks with eggs and rabbits.

Was Ostara pulled out of a hat?



[CRO]

Proljetna božica plodnosti i njezina povezanost s kršćanskim Uskrsom kakvoga danas poznajemo...
Ona ima svoj "festival" 21. ožujka, na proljetni ekvinocij, za čije vrijeme počinje proljetna vrckavost i raskoš.

Germanska božica Ostara (Eostre) bila je vrlo popularna kod anglosaksonske poganske brigade koji su ju obožavali pod tim imenom i započeli cijele Uskršnje poslove bez Isusa na vidiku. Jeste li se ikad upitali što jaja i zeko imaju veze s raspećem i uskrsnućem? Odgovor je: apsolutno ništa.

Ostarina sveta životinja je slatki mali zeko - očito simbol plodnosti. Jaje također je njezin simbol plodne čistoće. Dakle, "lov" na uskršnja jaja zapravo je prepun simboličkih značenja ponovnog rađanja i obnove, a Elmer Fudd je očito samo veliki svećenik Velikog Uskrsnog Zeca. Ovaj poznati svećenik ju spominje u vezi s poganskim festivalom "Eosturmonath" u knjizi napisanoj 750.-e godine poslije Krista, ali opsežna istraživanja nisu joj uspjela pronaći traga prije toga...

Kunići i zečevi su sveprisutni u mitologiji. Čini se da svaka kultura već ima boga zeca - i oni su gotovo uvijek duhovi prevaranti. To je, smatra se, objašnjenje puno toga. Također, postoji sjajna teorija koja objašnjava zašto madžioničari vole raditi trikove s jajima i zečevima...

Je li Ostara izvučena iz šešira?