Eostre

alternative Ēostre

1. A hypothesised West Germanic goddess, supposedly of the spring season, but of uncertain provenance.

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   There were also Nature deities, Hrede, the personification of the brightness of Summer, and Eostra, the radiant creature of the Dawn. It will be remembered that it was the worship, not of Balder, but of Eostra, which the Christian missionaries found so deeply imbedded that they adopted her name and transferred it to Easter.

   1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 3

2. lifestyleA neopagan festival celebrated either in March or April to welcome the Spring, also called Ostara or Easter.