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What has the author Ethel Hamill written?
Ethel L. Urlin has written: 'Dancing, ancient and modern' -- subject- s -: Dance, Ballet, History 'Dancing, ancient and modern' -- subject- s -: Dance, History 'Dancing, ancient and modern' -- subject- s -: Accessible book, Ballet, Dance, History
Is Easter an excuse to eat chocolate?
The answer could be a Yes or a No depending on an individual's religious beliefs. The Easter egg represents fertility and the history goes back before Christ's time. Chocolate eggs are a modern commercial invention to most likely please children, and maybe to remind them of the importance of Easter within many of the Christian religions. The answer could be a Yes or a No, depending on an individual's religious belief.Here are a few quotes which may help:"Since Bede the Venerable (De ratione temporum 1:5) the origin of the term for the feast of Christ's Resurrection has been popularly considered to be from the Anglo-Saxon Eastre, a goddess of spring…the Old High German plural for dawn, eostarun; whence has come the German Ostern, and our English Easter" (The New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1967, Vol. 5, p. 6)."The fact that vernal festivals were general among pagan peoples no doubt had much to do with the form assumed by the Eastern festival in the Christian churches. The English term Easter is of pagan origin" (Albert Henry Newman, D.D., LL.D., A Manual of Church History, p. 299)."On this greatest of Christian festivals, several survivals occur of ancient heathen ceremonies. To begin with, the name itself is not Christian but pagan. Ostara was the Anglo-Saxon Goddess of Spring" (Ethel L. Urlin, Festival, Holy Days, and Saints Days, p. 73)."Easter-the name Easter comes to us from Ostera or Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, for whom a spring festival was held annually, as it is from this pagan festival that some of our Easter customs have come" (Hazeltine, p. 53)."In Babylonia…the goddess of spring was called Ishtar. She was identified with the planet Venus, which, because…[it] rises before the Sun…or sets after it…appears to love the light [this means Venus loves the sun-god]…In Phoenecia, she became Astarte; in Greece, Eostre [related to the Greek word Eos: "dawn"], and in Germany, Ostara [this comes from the German word Ost: "east," which is the direction of dawn]" (Englehart, p. 4).for more insite, visit www.thercg.org/books/ttooe.htm
