{"id":3927,"date":"2024-03-19T13:11:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T12:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/ostara-pasqua-pagana-parallelismi-e-tradizioni-nel-mediterraneo\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T09:44:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T07:44:49","slug":"ostara-pagan-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/en\/ostara-pagan-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ostara, pagan Easter: parallels and traditions in the Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_76 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/en\/ostara-pagan-easter\/#ostara_eostre_hestia_vesta_a_spring_with_many_names\" >Ostara, Eostre, Hestia, Vesta: a spring with many names<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/en\/ostara-pagan-easter\/#from_ostara_to_christian_easter\" >From Ostara to Christian Easter<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>March 2024 is a month full of celebrations. Last Sunday, March 10, the Islamic holy month of <a href=\"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/en\/ramadan-digiuno-e-avvicinamento-a-dio-nel-mese-sacro-dellislam\/\">Ramadan<\/a> began; we are rapidly approaching Catholic Easter, scheduled for Sunday 31st. There is still time for Orthodox Easter: this year it is scheduled for May 5th. However, one further celebration can be added to the list: <strong>Ostara, pagan Easter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Part of the eight &#8220;segments&#8221; of the Wheel of the Year, Ostara exalts rebirth, the return of life: not surprisingly, it coincides with the <strong>Spring Equinox<\/strong>. Although it has its roots in Germanic culture, this celebration shares many elements with Mediterranean civilizations, especially with the ancient cults of the Greeks and Romans.<\/p>\n<p>It is therefore necessary to <strong>take a leap back in time<\/strong>, to discover a festivity which, even today, contains and shares numerous parallels with the celebrations of other religions, some of which are quite famous.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"ostara_eostre_hestia_vesta_a_spring_with_many_names\"><\/span>Ostara, Eostre, Hestia, Vesta: a spring with many names<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The spring celebration of Ostara derives from the name of the Germanic deity <strong>Eostre<\/strong>, linked to rebirth, life, fertility, whose name was initially used to describe the celebration of the spring equinox. We are not certain of the etymology of the goddess&#8217; name: however, the presence of <em>&#8220;aus&#8221;<\/em> or <em>&#8220;aes&#8221;<\/em> in the term leads back to &#8220;East&#8221;, the direction from which the dawn can be seen, symbol of a new beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Parallels between this divinity and those worshiped in the ancient Mediterranean cults can already be found in Greek tradition: according to some studies, <strong>Eostre corresponds to Hestia, firstborn of Cronus and Rhea<\/strong>, worshiped as protector of the home and hearth.<\/p>\n<p>From Greece to ancient Rome: the figure of Hestia corresponds to that of Vesta; in all three cases, the celebrations of Hestia, Vesta and Ostara are united by <strong>the lighting of a fire once the celebrations have begu<\/strong>n. Even today, in different parts of the world huge bonfires are lit to celebrate the return of light, a custom that was born pagan and over time adopted by various religions, from Christianity to Orthodoxy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3920\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3920\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3920 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Easter_Fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Easter_Fire.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Easter_Fire-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Easter bonfire. Credits: ElHeineken, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Also in ancient Greece, the return of spring and life was celebrated with the <strong>Adonies<\/strong>, created to remember the return from Hades of the one whom Aphrodite, goddess of love, loved deeply. According to legend, the young man was killed by a boar which, depending on the versions, may have been sent out of jealousy by Ares, Apollo or Artemis: Aphrodite&#8217;s pain shocked Zeus, who allowed Adonis to spend 4 months on the land of the living , 4 where he desired, and 4 in Hades, a time associated with winter.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"from_ostara_to_christian_easter\"><\/span>From Ostara to Christian Easter<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">All these holidays linked to life and rebirth, with the expansion of Christianity, have been incorporated and transformed into a holiday arriving in the next few days: Easter. Studies in this regard were conducted by the German philosopher and linguist<strong> Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm<\/strong>, older brother of the well-known literary duo, co-author of <em>Children&#8217;s and Household Tales<\/em>: he tells us how<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: center;\">We Germans still call April <strong>ostermonat<\/strong> [&#8230;]. The great Christian festival, which usually falls in April or at the end of March, anciently bears the name \u00f4star\u00e2. It is to have denoted, in pagan religion, a superior being, whose cult was so firmly established that the Christian teachers tolerated the name and applied it to one of their greatest festivals.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From Ostara to Easter, the English name for Catholic Easter, celebrated throughout the world. However, although this ancient and ever-changing celebration has been incorporated into Christianity, there still remain today, even in religious tradition, <strong>&#8220;pagan&#8221; elements that can be grasped by looking around<\/strong> now more than ever in this period, during which the holiday is approaching.<\/p>\n<p>According to ancient legends, the animal representing the divinity was none other than the <strong>hare<\/strong>: a tradition which, although adopted to a lesser extent even in Mediterranean multiculturalism, is widespread in America and England.<\/p>\n<p>The hares, according to the stories, <strong>brought eggs<\/strong>: elements that have always represented life and regeneration: elements closely linked to these holidays. Unlike the hare, the Easter egg has also become more popular in Mediterranean countries: supermarkets, in this period, are full of them, to the delight of adults and children.<\/p>\n<p>Ostara, therefore, demonstrates once again how the Mediterranean, cradle of multiple civilizations, has also welcomed traditions apparently distant from it,<strong> incorporating them, transforming them, and updating them<\/strong>, so that, even today, they are more alive than ever in the elements that distinguish them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay up to date by following us on <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/ilNuovoMediterraneo\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ilnuovomediterraneo\/\">Instagram<\/a>! <\/em><\/p>\n<div data-object_id=\"3927\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarkwrap cbxwpbkmarkwrap_guest cbxwpbkmarkwrap_user_cat cbxwpbkmarkwrap-post \"><a  data-redirect-url=\"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/\"  data-display-label=\"1\" data-show-count=\"0\" 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