There are still a few other tricks up its designer sleeve that deserve a mention, though, including a couple more associated with its ambition to be as much a work of art as a TV. The Canvas TV’s Art ...

The Venerable Bede, a highly-respected Medieval historian, claimed in an eighth century work that the word “Easter” came from “Eostre,” the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring and fertility. Presbyterian ...

In pre-Christian times, Easter was a time of celebration to mark the passage of the vernal equinox, the arrival of spring, and the feast the pagan goddess Eostre who is said to have transformed a ...

Level Infinite held a special livestream this morning for Goddess Of Victory: Nikke, revealing the 2.5 Anniversary on the way, as well as some special events coming to the game. The devs revealed ...

Most historians will connect the origin to the influences from the worship of the Germanic goddess Eostre (or Ostrara), the goddess of dawn, spring and fertility. The celebration was held at the ...

Or actually lays them? Osterhase, or Easter hare, is tied to legends about the springtime fertility goddess Eostre, who may or may not have transformed from a bird to egg-laying bunny. All that ...

This first panel, decorated with children collecting flowers, painted eggs and a cheery Easter bunny, gave the following account of the origin of Easter: ‘Long ago, people welcomed warmer days and new ...

Well, early origins are murky, but one theory holds that the rabbit, and the name 'Easter', both stem from the pagan festival of Eostre – a goddess of ... and in Christian art, rabbits have ...

The naming of the celebration as “Easter” seems to go back to the name of a pre-Christian goddess in England, Eostre, who was celebrated at beginning of spring. The only reference to this goddess ...