These symbols do have some ties to Christian art and traditions ... A popular (and often reported) tale goes that the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, Eostre (or the Germanic goddess Ostara, depending ...

Every year, on a Sunday in spring, one can observe the same scene all over Germany: children from toddlers to teens busily running around in houses, gardens, public parks or even in zoos. They all ...

Perhaps the most popular origin myth for the Easter Bunny concerns the Germanic Pagan goddess of spring, Ostara, to whom hares were supposedly sacred. One story states that Ostara rescued an ...

Depictions proliferated of an ethereal and often vaguely Greco-Roman fairy goddess surrounded by Easter iconography. In 1903, one Baptist reverend wrote that Ostara’s festival “was originally ...

A Dutch town hall has admitted it "most likely" threw away dozens of pieces of art, including a print by Andy Warhol. Maashorst municipality said it believes the missing works of art were ...

The mayor said there was no established procedure for how to care for the art, nor was it clear who was responsible for their care during the renovation Patrick van Katwijk/Getty A Dutch town ...

Maashorst municipality acknowledges that results of the investigation into the missing Andy Warhol artworks kills any hope of ever finding them again. An official investigation revealed that the ...

The Easter story is central to Christianity, commemorating the rebirth of Jesus Christ, believed to have occurred around ...

You’ll see one explanation thrown around a lot to this day: That Easter derived its name from a pagan spring festival celebrating the goddess of fertility, Ostara, associated with rabbits and ...

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The Conversation explores the origins of the long and interesting journey the Easter Bunny has taken from European prehistory to today.