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Easter now is a Christian celebration of the rise from death of Jesus Christ and his ascention into Heaven.

The word itself is from the Anglo-Saxon (Old English) word Eostre, an Anglo-Saxon pagan goddess which is descendant from the Proto-Indo-European word Ostara meaning "goddess of the dawn". Only English preserves this ancient connection. The vast majority of the languages of the world where the celebration is practiced uses a name related to the Latin word Pascha which itself is from the ancient Hebrew word for the Passover.

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