"This Is Where The Word Easter Comes From"

Artist's Conception Of Eostre

"This Is Where The Word Easter Comes From"

https://time.com/4738876/easter-word-origin-history/

Eostre

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Eostre


Plaza De Las Tres Culturas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_de_las_Tres_Culturas

Alan: As was "always" true in the early missionary church, ecclesiastical authorities made major Christian "feast days" coincide with significant events on the previous "pagan" calendar.

These same authorities also built churches on the same sites where previous "pagan" temples had been, in large part because they understood that indigenous people had a clear sense of what places were most sacred. (This re-cycling of sacred spaces was particularly common in the colonization of Latin America. )

This deliberate co-incidence of Catholic Christianity with "paganism" persuades me that "fertility goddess" Eostre was the likely origin of the word Easter. (Although mainstream etymologists argue otherwise, I hold that the word "estrous" - as in the phrase "estrous cycle" - also derives from this same goddess.)

Based on my assumption that Eostre is the source of our English word Easter, I have long been fascinated that the most important celebration in Christianity bears the name of a pagan fertility goddess.