From: phobus@hotmail.com   
      
   Les Semites wrote:   
   > I am searching for Easter origins :   
   > Does it come from Ishtar and fight between Baal and Mot ?   
   > Mot killed Baal. Then came 7 years of drought. Anat venged him and   
   > killed Mot. She revived Baal and Mot too. Then came 7 years of rain.   
   > And people celebrate it each year ar Easter.   
   > Is it the origins of Easter ?   
      
   I believed that it has a Teutonic or Saxon origin. Eoster is a Saxon   
   goddess of spring and fertility. She is equivalent to the Germanic   
   Ostara. The rabbit and egg are sacred to her.   
      
   See Timeless Myths:   
      
   Teutonic Deities (http://www.timelessmyths.com/norse/teutonic.html#Ostara).   
      
   Norse Festival (http://www.timelessmyths.com/norse/way.html#Festivals).   
      
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