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Why do we get Easter holiday?

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Anonymous

10y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

Although Christians use Easter as a ceremony of "spiritual" rebirth the festival was originally a vernal equinox celebration of Northern European peoples to celebrate the return of life to the world after winter. The fertility symbols of eggs and rabbits were used as symbols of fecundity in these rites. They used the name or avvarient of Ä’ostre or Ostara. The Christians borrowed the time of year, name and symbols of the old festival.

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