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20.04.202513:03
The Egg
The egg (and all seeds) contains ‘all potential’, full of promise and new life. It symbolises the rebirth of nature, the fertility of the Earth and all creation. In many traditions the egg is a symbol for the whole universe. The ‘cosmic’ egg contains a balance of male and female, light and dark, in the egg yolk and egg white. The golden orb of the yolk represents the Sun God enfolded by the White Goddess, perfect balance, so it is particularly appropriate to Ostara and the Spring Equinox when all is in balance for just a moment, although the underlying energy is one of growth and expansion.
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The egg (and all seeds) contains ‘all potential’, full of promise and new life. It symbolises the rebirth of nature, the fertility of the Earth and all creation. In many traditions the egg is a symbol for the whole universe. The ‘cosmic’ egg contains a balance of male and female, light and dark, in the egg yolk and egg white. The golden orb of the yolk represents the Sun God enfolded by the White Goddess, perfect balance, so it is particularly appropriate to Ostara and the Spring Equinox when all is in balance for just a moment, although the underlying energy is one of growth and expansion.
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20.04.202513:02
The Hare
In Celtic tradition, the hare is sacred to the Goddess and is the animal of lunar goddesses such as Hecate, Freya and Holda. The Goddess most closely associated with the Hare is Ostara. The date of the Christian Easter is determined by the phase of the moon. The nocturnal hare, so closely associated with the moon also represents the rebirth of nature in Spring. Both the moon and the hare were believed to die daily in order to be reborn –the Hare is a symbol of immortality. It is also a major symbol for fertility and abundance as the hare can conceive while pregnant. Over the centuries the symbol of the Hare has become the Easter Bunny who brings eggs to children on Easter morning, the Christian day of rebirth and resurrection. Hare hunting was taboo but because the date of Easter is determined by the Moon together with the Hare’s strong lunar associations, hare-hunting was a common Easter activity in England (and also at Beltane).
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In Celtic tradition, the hare is sacred to the Goddess and is the animal of lunar goddesses such as Hecate, Freya and Holda. The Goddess most closely associated with the Hare is Ostara. The date of the Christian Easter is determined by the phase of the moon. The nocturnal hare, so closely associated with the moon also represents the rebirth of nature in Spring. Both the moon and the hare were believed to die daily in order to be reborn –the Hare is a symbol of immortality. It is also a major symbol for fertility and abundance as the hare can conceive while pregnant. Over the centuries the symbol of the Hare has become the Easter Bunny who brings eggs to children on Easter morning, the Christian day of rebirth and resurrection. Hare hunting was taboo but because the date of Easter is determined by the Moon together with the Hare’s strong lunar associations, hare-hunting was a common Easter activity in England (and also at Beltane).
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20.04.202512:59
Her true mystery, however, is evident every year. She is the first warm spring winds, the birds that return, the trees that bud and curl forth leaves and flowers. She is the awakening earth, rabbits and hares, the eggs that appear after a winter of no light. City folk may not know that chickens who are kept in natural lighting quit laying in the winter, when the days are short, and begin again as the days lengthen. March/April is their peak time of year, and those eggs were a valued and welcome protein source for our winter-starved ancestors. Ostara's legacy is all those colored eggs which many of us still hang on trees every year.
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20.04.202512:57
Whether Eostre was really worshipped as a goddess or not, by the 19th century she had become an important part of German culture and she was added into German literature, paintings, and folklore.
Jacob Grimm wrote;
“Esotre seems therefore to have been the divinity of the radiant dawn, of upspringing light, a spectacle that brings joy and blessing, whose meaning could be easily adapted by the resurrection-day of the Christian's God." It makes sense that the chosen date to represent the rebirth of Jesus was based around a time that was already being celebrated for light and life.
In describing German traditions, Jacob mentions “Bonfires were lit at Easter and water drawn on the Easter morning is, like that at Christmas, holy; healing - here also heathen notions seems to have grafted themselves on great Christian festivals. Maidens clothed in white, who at Easter, at the season of returning spring, show themselves in clefts of the rock and on mountains, are suggestive of the ancient goddess.”
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Jacob Grimm wrote;
“Esotre seems therefore to have been the divinity of the radiant dawn, of upspringing light, a spectacle that brings joy and blessing, whose meaning could be easily adapted by the resurrection-day of the Christian's God." It makes sense that the chosen date to represent the rebirth of Jesus was based around a time that was already being celebrated for light and life.
In describing German traditions, Jacob mentions “Bonfires were lit at Easter and water drawn on the Easter morning is, like that at Christmas, holy; healing - here also heathen notions seems to have grafted themselves on great Christian festivals. Maidens clothed in white, who at Easter, at the season of returning spring, show themselves in clefts of the rock and on mountains, are suggestive of the ancient goddess.”
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20.04.202512:55
Her material is so scant that some scholars have speculated that she was not a goddess at all, but simply an invention of Bede, but it is unlikely that someone as heathen-phobic as Bede would have gone about inventing goddesses; he seems to have preferred to keep all things pagan at arm's length. Some scholars have also decided, rather randomly and on scant information, that Ostara is a form of Freya. Others believe that she is actually Iduna, or Walburga. Some modern Heathens and Norse Pagans have experienced personal gnosis of Ostara/Eostre being a Vanic goddess, or at least very close to the Vanir, which is why we list her in this section ... but again, there is no evidence and Ostara's origins continue to remain a mystery.
The evidence for her as an actual goddess people worshipped is a bit uncertain. She’s mentioned in the writings of an 8th century monk known as Venerable Bede, who reported that pagan Anglo-Saxons in medieval Northumbria held festivals in her honour during April
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The evidence for her as an actual goddess people worshipped is a bit uncertain. She’s mentioned in the writings of an 8th century monk known as Venerable Bede, who reported that pagan Anglo-Saxons in medieval Northumbria held festivals in her honour during April
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20.04.202512:53
Ostara, or Eostre or Eastre, is the Germanic Goddess of spring and dawn. She is only mentioned once in scholarly writings of the period - Bede the monk states that during Eostremonath (the old Anglo-Saxon names for April), the pagan Anglo-Saxons help festivals in her honor. (Two hundred years later in Germany, in his Life of Charlemagne, a monk named Einhard gives the old name for April as Ostaramonath.) She is also mentioned in a number of inscriptions in Germany, and the modern holiday of Easter - originally the name for the spring Equinox, but later subsumed to the Paschal calendar for the Christian resurrection holiday - is named for her. The name "Eostre" (Old Germanic "Ostara"), is related to that of Eos, the Greek goddess of dawn, and both can be traced back to a Proto-Indo-European goddess of dawn.
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20.04.202512:51
🌼 Ostara
The Goddess of Dawn
A point of perfect balance on the journey through the Wheel of the Year. Night and day are of equal length and in perfect equilibrium – dark and light, masculine and feminine, inner and outer, in balance.But the year is now waxing and at this moment light defeats the dark. The natural world is coming alive, the Sun is gaining in strength and the days are becoming longer and warmer. The gentle whispered promise of Imbolc is fulfilled in the evident and abundant fertility of the Earth at Ostara. It is time for the hopes of Imbolc to become action. The energy is expansive and exuberant. It is the first day of Spring! Ostara takes its name after the Germanic goddess, Eostre/Ostara, who was traditionally honoured in the month of April with festivals to celebrate fertility, renewal and re-birth. It was from Eostre that the Christian celebration of Easter evolved.
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The Goddess of Dawn
A point of perfect balance on the journey through the Wheel of the Year. Night and day are of equal length and in perfect equilibrium – dark and light, masculine and feminine, inner and outer, in balance.But the year is now waxing and at this moment light defeats the dark. The natural world is coming alive, the Sun is gaining in strength and the days are becoming longer and warmer. The gentle whispered promise of Imbolc is fulfilled in the evident and abundant fertility of the Earth at Ostara. It is time for the hopes of Imbolc to become action. The energy is expansive and exuberant. It is the first day of Spring! Ostara takes its name after the Germanic goddess, Eostre/Ostara, who was traditionally honoured in the month of April with festivals to celebrate fertility, renewal and re-birth. It was from Eostre that the Christian celebration of Easter evolved.
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20.04.202512:41
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20.04.202512:40
Have a lovely Easter
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20.04.202511:39
There is no honour in this, nothing to be gained. There is nothing virtuous about forgiving the man who butchered your son in front of his brother. This perverse attitude of meekness and forgiveness will only serve to embolden these people further. They're on the verge of slaying Europeans (Americans) with impunity. - Wulf
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20.04.202511:18
I mean, no.
Slay your enemies and let them know they fucked up
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Slay your enemies and let them know they fucked up
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20.04.202510:42
Our forgotten SS hero 💔
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20.04.202510:36
Warnscale Bothy
and the view down to Buttemere 🏴
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and the view down to Buttemere 🏴
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19.04.202523:07
The 'Red Baron' Baron von Richthofen
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19.04.202523:06
Mercy Dogs: The Hope-bearers of World War I (Library of Congress)
A British dog calling for help. 1916.
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A British dog calling for help. 1916.
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13.04.202511:46
A NSDAP staff car pennant in silk, dirty and faded from the original red, we are advised the vendor's father brought this back after the war.
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22.03.202517:48
Catherine Deneuve - (Donkey Skin, 1970)
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20.03.202502:06
Neuschwanstein castle 🇩🇪
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23.03.202516:18
The Gallic people had never thought of themselves as a single nation, but when faced with Roman conquest, they rallied for independence under the leadership of their influential leader Vercingetorix.
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10.04.202512:34
Bulgaria 🇧🇬
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06.04.202523:15
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20.03.202500:54
I think my man would roll you down a hill and laugh to be honest when you couldn't get back up.
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20.03.202523:57
Spring has finally arrived🌸
From now the days will become longer than the nights, as the earth wakes up from its winter slumber. Take a moment to celebrate the cycle of the seasons with the fairies 🧚
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From now the days will become longer than the nights, as the earth wakes up from its winter slumber. Take a moment to celebrate the cycle of the seasons with the fairies 🧚
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08.04.202504:06
An Irish girl and an African girl.
We are not the same, no matter what they tell you.
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We are not the same, no matter what they tell you.
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20.03.202501:17
Goddess Eir, she is associated with healing and medicine. Her name means "mercy" or "help" in Old Norse.
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24.03.202515:23
I. Am. So. Tired.
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29.03.202518:37
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Ko'proq funksiyalarni ochish uchun tizimga kiring.
