Is Easter Pagan?
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The Origins of Easter
There's no evidence through this primary source that we have in Bead that talks about exactly how this, this, this was celebrated. So there's nothing in about Ostara that connects her to bunny rabbits or eggs. All of that came out centuries later from Easter practices, European custom, so eggs, for example. The first reference we have to them painting eggs is about 1290 when King Edward the first of England said he wanted 450 eggs painted gold for the royal house. They came from Lent. Totally Christian in origin has nothing to do with paganism. We've no evidence that eggs go back to being a symbol of Ostara or anything like that. This is something that the Christians
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