The Old English Ēostre
(also Ēastre) and Old High German Ôstarâ are the names of the Germanic goddess
whose Anglo-Saxon month, Ēostur-monath, has given its name to the festival of
Easter. Ēostur-monath is the equivalent to the month of April corresponding to
Spring and fertility rites.
Linguists have
identified Eostre as a Germanic form of the reconstructed Indo-European goddess
of the dawn, Hausos or Ausōs. The name Eostre then derives from the
proto-Germanic word Austro and common Germanic goddess Austrōn and its root
"aues," meaning "to shine." This, of course, is then the
etymological root for the country Austria. As symbols of reproduction, putti
(flying babies), hares, storks and eggs were often depicted with Eostre and
Austron.
In the larger
historical picture, the Saxon Goddess Eostre is part of a long line of dawn goddesses including
the Greek Eos, Roman Aurora and Indian Ushas who were derived from the
cosmological symbolism of the Sun and Venus* rising together from the eastern
sea. The planet Venus was thus the East Star, or "Easter," of the
sunrise.
*Moon in Libra, Sun in Aries (The Vernal Equinox Full Moon). The Venus/Mars, Libra/Aries Axis.
Through this connection,
Eostre descends from a long line of feminine fertility deities associated with
the planet Venus, including Ishtar, Isis, Astarte, Inanna, Semiramis, Lilith,
Asherah, Demeter, Hathor, Kali, Ostara, Eastre, Aphrodite and the Roman Venus.
There is good evidence to believe that all of these goddesses had a common
origin in the ancient Vedic fertility goddess named Vena (root
"wenos" or Sanskrit "vanas") and her insemination by the
Sun god Indra (Greek Dionysus and Cronus). The Romans, whose early Etruscan
religion had roots in Vedic beliefs, apparently understood this connection very
well when they renamed the Greek goddess Aphrodite to Venus.
Within this larger
historical context, the Christian celebration of Easter can be seen as an
adaptation of a much more ancient fertility rite celebrating the paired
movement and conjunction of Venus with the Sun. The transit of Venus across the
Sun is described in the Hindu Vedas as the Sun (Indra) swallowing Venus
(Shukra), spitting her out as a "bright" seed or semen. (NA) The feminine
deity Vena would then compel Shukra, who resided in her "variegated
womb," to give birth where the Sun's "membrane of light" touched
the waters of the Earth. In this way, Vena was the Easter(n) goddess of the
dawn -- resurrected every morning, reborn each Spring and inseminated twice a
century in rare Venus Transits -- who once again brought new life to Earth.
(NA) The abduction and
imprisonment of the dawn goddess, and her liberation by a heroic god slaying
the dragon who imprisons her, is a central myth of Indo-European religion and
descends from Vedic cosmology and hallucinogenic Soma rituals apparently
connected to the Venus Transit.
Vena's variegated womb - the Venus Rose orbital pattern
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