Because I grew up in a Christian family, I never really knew how much was taken from pagan rituals and traditions because my parents literally never talked about anything else. It's really fascinating because I've been questioning the authenticity of Christianity for a couple of years now, and I'm finding that paganism is a lot more obvious than I previously knew? I'm totally intrigued. Thank you, Ginny! :)
ruclips.net/video/s5733A8HSzc/видео.html The Catholic system brought in paganism into Christianity. Follow Jesus and not traditions. Jesus loves you. Satan is a liar
Take it from an ex witch, there’s nothing in paganism that the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob can’t do. But instead of us dying for the magik He has died for us and we have life everlasting in HIM. I pray God reveal HIs truth to you. Amen
Been seeing a big bunny near my porch and my husband laughed when I nicknamed it Easter, also happy spring to everyone and blessings to you and your family!
Intriguing. I was told that we get the rabbit at Ostara. The Goddess rev ived a dying bird & transformed it into a rabbit, who inturn gifted the Goddess & children colorful eggs on Ostara.
I know this going to sound weird but I feel happier with never celebrating holidays anymore, since I left Christianity I don't celebrate anything except Halloween 🎃💚
I celebrate both pagan and Christian versions 😅 I was a Jehovahs Witness for many years and myself and my kids missed out celebrating everything so now we just enjoy both.
You are just delightful and made me feel so inspired! Thank you so much for the very interesting video! Now I need to look up how to make hot cross buns! Happy celebration of Ostar! I recently saw a video which claimed that Easter is named after Ishtar but glad I know the real origin now! Happy celebrations!
Blessed Spring and Ostara. .. German witchy here. Now... Isnt it interesting that Easter always falls on the 1st Sunday following the 1st full.moon after the Equinox? Hmmmmm. Yet another tidbit. BB🐰
I want to make hot Cross buns, but I don’t have currants. Is it OK to use dried tart cherries? Or would that be gross with cinnamon 😛 The story about the Widow’s Son is so interesting!
Does it have to be a weeping willow? I don't have any close to me.... but I do have cotton wood trees, which is a part of the willow family. Would that work?
@@kavikv.d.hexenholtz3474 I thought the point of Ginny's video was to inform people that Easter is not christian but pagan. I love OSTARA as well, many blessings 🌛🌝🌜
@@silversoulfox Christian Easter is not pagan. Ēostra lent only her name to the holiday in much the same way that other Germanic deities have lent their names to our weekday names. Bright Blessings
Is Easter a celebration of a spring goddess? Here's the interesting thing, it's not as simple as it seems. Venerable Bede (673-735 CE) makes a comment about the names of the months in his work, The Reckoning of Time - De ratione temporum. This passage appears in the part in which Bede is giving his opinion on the etymologies, the study of the origin of words, on the names of the months. He says, In olden time the English people -- for it did not seem fitting to me that I should speak of other people's observance of the year and yet be silent about my own nation's -- calculated their months according to the course of the moon. Hence, after the manner of the Greeks and the Romans (the months) take their name from the Moon, for the Moon is called mona and the month monath. The first month, which the Latins call January, is Giuli; February is called Solmonath; March Hrethmonath; April, Eosturmonath; May, Thrimilchi; June, Litha; July, also Litha; August, Weodmonath; September, Halegmonath; October, Winterfilleth; November, Blodmonath; December, Giuli, the same name by which January is called. ... Nor is it irrelevant if we take the time to translate the names of the other months. ... Hrethmonath is named for their goddess Hretha, to whom they sacrificed at this time. Eosturmonath has a name which is now translated "Paschal month", and which was once called after a goddess of theirs named Eostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month. Now they designate that Paschal season by her name, calling the joys of the new rite by the time-honoured name of the old observance. Thrimilchi was so called because in that month the cattle were milked three times a day... It seems that Bede believes there's a goddess names Eostre and she's celebrated in April. Bede also calls the celebration an ''old observance,'' but until Bede, no record of the name ''Eostre'' existed. That's it. No other Christian, non-Christian literature, mythologies, stories, songs or poems, as well as archeological inscriptions, carvings, alter, temples, shrines, idols or descriptions of her worship practices have been found. Ostara is a name given to Eostre by Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) in which he tries to support the claim made by Bede by comparing different Saxon and "Old High German" myths and names. He completes his theory and declares that there ''must'' have been a spring goddess but stops short of saying there is a spring goddess. Until 1835, the word Ostara, or any stories about her existed. Easter = in Greek, Pascha, in Latin, Pascha, in Aramaic, Pesach and in Hebrew, Pesach which means ''Passover.''
thank you for the information. There is generally as a rule of thumb no records written about folk magick, because it is simply learnt generationally. One of the most interesting of the races are the Romany Folk who have a very intense relationship with their world yet this is not really written about before 1900s
First few seconds of saying "no evidence" when i just watched three videos giving lots of evidence and even how it's changed over time. The only thing you seem to forget is that Christians AND Wiccans can celebrate their own way. It's not only one or the other or there wouldn't be hundreds of Gods and Religions
lol get rekt. Easter is not and never has been pagan. Of course it’s Christian. Most of the world that doesn’t speak Germanic languages still calls it “Pascha,” or some derivation thereof.
This video is literally Alexander Hislop nonsense in video form. Easter is Christian. Beth Allison Barr, Ph.D., associate professor of history: "Easter was clearly being celebrated by Mediterranean Christians during the second century, and probably in the first century as well," . "As such, there is no way that it is derived from a Nordic or Germanic pagan festival that, if it historically existed, postdates the Christian celebration..." No. Even though larpagans desperately wish it, the name Easter does not derive from a godess. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Ester and oster, the early English and German words, both have their root in aus, which means “east”, “shine”, and “dawn” in various forms. Thus it is more likely that “Eostre” is simply a word that describes the season (Eostremonath = East Month) due to the position of the sun.
Easter and every holiday was pagan there's millions of books and the church knows it as well they changed every holidays name to suit themselves these are facts.
@@EsmeraldaWolfsbane7777 sources from Historians to support your claim? You see larpagans only have memes and take it as history. True history destroys your wishful thinking. I have numerous supporting my claim that Easter was Christian. Let's start with the eggs: "It seems good therefore that the whole Church of God which is in all the world should follow one rule and keep the fast perfectly, and as they abstain from everything which is killed, so also should they from eggs and cheese, which are the fruit and produce of those animals from which we abstain." -AD 692. Council in Trullo, Canon 56
@@EsmeraldaWolfsbane7777 Please provide sources that there are somehow millions of books and the Church changed names... You made the claim these are facts. So provide sources.
@@EsmeraldaWolfsbane7777 Yeah too bad the only source even mentioning the name of your godess was from Bede. So please provide atleast one from these so called "thousands of sources".
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We need more people like you in the world. I had a friend that was a witch and my new neighbour is a witch, they make me feel so happy. 👍🏴
Because I grew up in a Christian family, I never really knew how much was taken from pagan rituals and traditions because my parents literally never talked about anything else. It's really fascinating because I've been questioning the authenticity of Christianity for a couple of years now, and I'm finding that paganism is a lot more obvious than I previously knew? I'm totally intrigued. Thank you, Ginny! :)
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The Catholic system brought in paganism into Christianity. Follow Jesus and not traditions. Jesus loves you. Satan is a liar
Take it from an ex witch, there’s nothing in paganism that the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob can’t do. But instead of us dying for the magik He has died for us and we have life everlasting in HIM. I pray God reveal HIs truth to you. Amen
Been seeing a big bunny near my porch and my husband laughed when I nicknamed it Easter, also happy spring to everyone and blessings to you and your family!
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happy Easter and spring/Ostara. Thanks for another great video. You always make me smile.
Intriguing. I was told that we get the rabbit at Ostara. The Goddess rev ived a dying bird & transformed it into a rabbit, who inturn gifted the Goddess & children colorful eggs on Ostara.
Wow, excellent! I’m a Hindu witch as I say, and I just loved this video and shall incorporate this into an Easter practice! ✨❤
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I live at the ocean so I go to the beach and watch the sunrise
Oh, I bet that is so amazing. Good for you.
I have always enjoyed the morning sunrise on Easter morning. There is something so peaceful about it. Have a very blessed Ostara Ginny!
Thank you for teaching us, oh great Crone! 🩷 so greatful. Have a blessed Ostara/Easter/Spring and Full Moon. 💐🌛💀🧚♂️🌬🥀🪻
Great video. 💜😇I grew up coloring Easter eggs too. Then we had to find them Easter morning awesome and fun memories.
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Happy Eostre!
Beautifully and succinctly explained - love this
Great video, so informative, thankyou
I know this going to sound weird but I feel happier with never celebrating holidays anymore, since I left Christianity I don't celebrate anything except Halloween 🎃💚
HEY SIS!!! I M AN X Tian too. I WAS scared Into that for 40 yrs. THANK The Goddess for Me finding The Truth
Same
Other people will get used to it ;)
You are all sweeties!!!!!🧁🤍 blessed be beautiful ones🤍
Rabbits don’t lay eggs.
Love your videos with all the good history and beautiful images and ways to understand the holiday better.
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🥚🐣🐛🌻🌼🌸 happy spring and Easter to all..thank u ginny for another wonderful video 💚🐇
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I celebrate both pagan and Christian versions 😅 I was a Jehovahs Witness for many years and myself and my kids missed out celebrating everything so now we just enjoy both.
Great Idea! My Wand now is my first and only. I was given it by a beautiful Willow 2 years ago. I would like another .. or I can just add to mine.
Anybody else see what looks like smoke at 9:23? When she says, "...hope...". Anyway, thanks for making your videos!
Witchy warmest regards Ginny 😊
You are just delightful and made me feel so inspired! Thank you so much for the very interesting video! Now I need to look up how to make hot cross buns! Happy celebration of Ostar! I recently saw a video which claimed that Easter is named after Ishtar but glad I know the real origin now! Happy celebrations!
Thank you, really enjoyed this.
Thank you for this, very informative 🌼🌸 💛💚🤍
Thank you,well done goddess,I'm very new at this! 😊🛐🌕
Blessings jenny..🌛🌕🌜💜
I love learning the Pagan history❤
It is tomorrow! :-) I did not know, thank you :-)
This video delighted me to no end. Thank you, Ginny! Im so happy i found your channel! ❤
Willow wands. Thank you for the idea. Blessings!
Really enjoyed the video.
Blessed Spring and Ostara. .. German witchy here. Now... Isnt it interesting that Easter always falls on the 1st Sunday following the 1st full.moon after the Equinox? Hmmmmm. Yet another tidbit. BB🐰
Yay!! Hi Ginny, great to see another video!! I'm No. 1 again!
I love your content and am saving up to afford your Patreon for more!
Very interesting because in Portuguese the holiday is called Páscoa
Oooh lol Ginny you mentioned that after my comment i spoke to soon
happy maytide
I want to make hot Cross buns, but I don’t have currants. Is it OK to use dried tart cherries? Or would that be gross with cinnamon 😛
The story about the Widow’s Son is so interesting!
Does it have to be a weeping willow? I don't have any close to me.... but I do have cotton wood trees, which is a part of the willow family. Would that work?
Just a reminder, if you do use eggs, make sure they are at least free range as there isn't anything magical about factory farms!
This was such a beautiful video!
My calendar Easter is on Sunday the 9th, which is not on the full moon. Is the sun dance still visible on My Easter? Just wanted to ask.
It must of been cold in there because when you said " hope" abit of what looked like smoke came from your mouth
bloody freezing normally!
@@GinnyMetheral How come you weren't wearing a coat?
Who knew Johnny Depp was the green man😂🤔
Ostara has already come and gone.
Easter is yet to come in April though.....
@@silversoulfox
Yes, but the Pagan celebration of Ostara is already past. Christian Easter is this Sunday.
@@kavikv.d.hexenholtz3474 I thought the point of Ginny's video was to inform people that Easter is not christian but pagan. I love OSTARA as well, many blessings 🌛🌝🌜
@@silversoulfox
Christian Easter is not pagan. Ēostra lent only her name to the holiday in much the same way that other Germanic deities have lent their names to our weekday names.
Bright Blessings
Is Easter a celebration of a spring goddess?
Here's the interesting thing, it's not as simple as it seems.
Venerable Bede (673-735 CE) makes a comment about the names of the months in his work, The Reckoning of Time - De ratione temporum.
This passage appears in the part in which Bede is giving his opinion on the etymologies, the study of the origin of words, on the names of the months. He says,
In olden time the English people -- for it did not seem fitting to me that I should speak of other people's observance of the year and yet be silent about my own nation's -- calculated their months according to the course of the moon. Hence, after the manner of the Greeks and the Romans (the months) take their name from the Moon, for the Moon is called mona and the month monath.
The first month, which the Latins call January, is Giuli; February is called Solmonath; March Hrethmonath; April, Eosturmonath; May, Thrimilchi; June, Litha; July, also Litha; August, Weodmonath; September, Halegmonath; October, Winterfilleth; November, Blodmonath; December, Giuli, the same name by which January is called. ...
Nor is it irrelevant if we take the time to translate the names of the other months. ... Hrethmonath is named for their goddess Hretha, to whom they sacrificed at this time. Eosturmonath has a name which is now translated "Paschal month", and which was once called after a goddess of theirs named Eostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month. Now they designate that Paschal season by her name, calling the joys of the new rite by the time-honoured name of the old observance. Thrimilchi was so called because in that month the cattle were milked three times a day...
It seems that Bede believes there's a goddess names Eostre and she's celebrated in April. Bede also calls the celebration an ''old observance,'' but until Bede, no record of the name ''Eostre'' existed. That's it. No other Christian, non-Christian literature, mythologies, stories, songs or poems, as well as archeological inscriptions, carvings, alter, temples, shrines, idols or descriptions of her worship practices have been found.
Ostara is a name given to Eostre by Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) in which he tries to support the claim made by Bede by comparing different Saxon and "Old High German" myths and names. He completes his theory and declares that there ''must'' have been a spring goddess but stops short of saying there is a spring goddess. Until 1835, the word Ostara, or any stories about her existed.
Easter = in Greek, Pascha, in Latin, Pascha, in Aramaic, Pesach and in Hebrew, Pesach which means ''Passover.''
thank you for the information. There is generally as a rule of thumb no records written about folk magick, because it is simply learnt generationally. One of the most interesting of the races are the Romany Folk who have a very intense relationship with their world yet this is not really written about before 1900s
First few seconds of saying "no evidence" when i just watched three videos giving lots of evidence and even how it's changed over time. The only thing you seem to forget is that Christians AND Wiccans can celebrate their own way. It's not only one or the other or there wouldn't be hundreds of Gods and Religions
lol get rekt. Easter is not and never has been pagan. Of course it’s Christian. Most of the world that doesn’t speak Germanic languages still calls it “Pascha,” or some derivation thereof.
This video is literally Alexander Hislop nonsense in video form.
Easter is Christian.
Beth Allison Barr, Ph.D., associate professor of history: "Easter was clearly being celebrated by Mediterranean Christians during the second century, and probably in the first century as well," . "As such, there is no way that it is derived from a Nordic or Germanic pagan festival that, if it historically existed, postdates the Christian celebration..."
No. Even though larpagans desperately wish it, the name Easter does not derive from a godess.
An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Ester and oster, the early English and German words, both have their root in aus, which means “east”, “shine”, and “dawn” in various forms. Thus it is more likely that “Eostre” is simply a word that describes the season (Eostremonath = East Month) due to the position of the sun.
Easter and every holiday was pagan there's millions of books and the church knows it as well they changed every holidays name to suit themselves these are facts.
@@EsmeraldaWolfsbane7777 sources from Historians to support your claim? You see larpagans only have memes and take it as history. True history destroys your wishful thinking. I have numerous supporting my claim that Easter was Christian. Let's start with the eggs:
"It seems good therefore that the whole Church of God which is in all the world should follow one rule and keep the fast perfectly, and as they abstain from everything which is killed, so also should they from eggs and cheese, which are the fruit and produce of those animals from which we abstain." -AD 692. Council in Trullo, Canon 56
@@EsmeraldaWolfsbane7777 Please provide sources that there are somehow millions of books and the Church changed names... You made the claim these are facts. So provide sources.
@@Tzimiskes3506 you have internet I'm sure you can find thousands of sources
@@EsmeraldaWolfsbane7777 Yeah too bad the only source even mentioning the name of your godess was from Bede. So please provide atleast one from these so called "thousands of sources".
Thank you so much for this amazing info, I’ve learned something new to add to my journey to magic of nature and fae 🌝🌸🍄🪺