Sunday, March 23, 2008

Eostre moon


dragged myself out this morning for a few day-after-full moonset pictures (like the above). and here's an etymology quote from wikipedia for the day:
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"The modern English term Easter developed from the Old English word Eastre, which itself developed prior to 899. The name refers to the goddess Eostre, who was celebrated at the Spring equinox, and has cognates in Old High German ōstarūn, plural, "Easter" (modern German language Ostern). The Old English term Eastre ultimately derives from ēast - meaning the direction of east. This suggests it originally referred to a goddess associated with dawn. Corresponding traditions occur with the Roman goddess Aurora and the Greek goddess Eos."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eostre/

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