A Common Myth About Easter
Easter is considered the most important festival in the Christian calendar, commemorating the resurrection of Christ, however the the word “Easter” itself didn’t begin with Christianity. There are a few potential origin stories.. It’s often said that Easter was named after a pagan fertility goddess — but the truth behind
that is not nearly as settled as some believe. The pagan fertility goddess theory comes from the work of the eighth-century Anglo-Saxon monk and scholar known as the Venerable Bede. In his Medieval Latin treatise De temporum ratione (“The Reckoning of Time”), Bede wrote that the English word “Easter” was...
