Re: CHAT Easter & East (was: Country Related: Christmas)
| From: | Bryan Maloney <bjm10@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 24, 1998, 16:45 |
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On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Andrew Smith wrote:
> According to one source I refer to for Brithenig customs Easter is related
> to IE cognates which means 'dawn'; Eos, Aurora, Ushas so it could mean the
> Festival of the Dawn Goddess OR the Month of the Dawn, refering to the
> season, which is comparable with April being derived from Aperire, to
Or, it could refer to the fact that it was believed that the Resurrection
on the Last Day would begin "in the East" and move from there. It has
always been traditional for Christian temples (a church is a group of
people, a temple is a building) to have their altars in the east.