Re: List limits, and Passover/Easter

James Campbell wrote:
> Um... always wondered this, but never had anyone to ask till now: is the
> name Astarte related?
I doubt it.  Astarte was a Canaanite (?) deity, part of the Afro-Asiatic
family, while Eastre was an Anglo-Saxon deity, a name derived from the
Indo-European family.  Astarte/Eastre isn't even all that similar.  Mere
coincidence, I'm sure.

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