Is Easter a pagan goddess? 

It is known.

Love that!

Right! Haha!. My little girl isn't ready for school yet, but we will be homeschooling as well. My wife isn't a heathen/pagan like myself, but she isn't really Christian either. More or less personal spiritual if that makes sense. She does enjoy the history, and loves when I show her how Christianity messed with history for such a long time. 🍻

@@JacksonDunnoKnows It's not "Christian fundamentalists" who question if Bede invented the goddess Eostre, but most secular scholars. Tom is smearing an opposing viewpoint by poisoning the well. I'm extremely disappointed. I expected more from him. Also, @savannahedwards-mcadam5490 Ostern, Eastrun, Eastron, Eastran, Eastru, Eastro, Eastre and Eostre are all just various Germanic forms of the direction "East", and not necessarily indicative of the name of a goddess. Tom's got some good insights here, but be careful of treating it all as historical fact. There's a lot of gray on the subject. Do your own research before using this video, so that when you do show it to your kids you can provide additional context.

⁠@@LittleLordFancyLad I’m sorry but I highly doubt secular historians are the ones with the opposing viewpoint. I won hundred percent agree it’s Christian fundamentalist mostly because I have a lot of them on my family that think that way so I don’t know where you’re getting that from sure there might be some people that are secular that might be opposed to it, but I highly doubt that’s the majority. If anything, I’ll crazy that’s the silent minority. Also, if you guys are using this guy has a history teacher while I will agree that when it comes to history, this dude is a very excellent and knows what he’s talking about I would be Hella careful, I know you guys said that you guys are pagans or whatever, but I would be very careful, considering the fact that he is completing his information as a historian with his pig and this abuse, and the fact that he tends to put a little bit of racism and segregationalism in there is not a good thing…..

@@LittleLordFancyLadI didn’t see Tom smearing an opposing viewpoint here, merely compiling evidence for his stance. It’s not his job to meekly put forth the opinions of others. He has his own, and made a damn fine case for it. If you have good evidence for a different perspective then consider making a video on the matter and I’m sure many would love to see the contrast, me included.

Rajiv Malhotra has rightly termed cultural digestion.

And if you keep complaining about it, we'll take over shark week and toyotathon too.

Small hats aren't original they just take the hosts traditions and morph it into something that better serves their interests. jewsus sheep lord guiding the gentiles to the small hat shepherd farm.

More correct to say the Christians simply appropriated them and sometimes changed the name to some "saint"

​@@sethapex9670 You boys are having a hard time keeping control of your churches to try it 😂

I agree absolutely. Also her name gefn is likely the same as gefeon which in old English refers to the sea. She is daughter of Njord the sea god became the dawn rises from the sea

The Iranian Nowruz starts right at the time of spring equinox 🙂

I would not rule out that the goddess was called Ostara. Easter is called Oschtere in some Alemannic dialects (see the RU-vid video "Happy Easter in Swiss German").

Calling Ostara Oschtere is no problem, but it still has to be stressed on the first syllable when pronounced. I just saw the video. She clearly stresses the first syllable when pronouncing "Oschtere". This just shows that Swiss German can be more archaic than modern German, as prouncing Ōstara in modern German is mostly done wrong. It means that the name already sounded archaic to German people who tried revived it. Swiss German, on the other hand, has no problem with these Old High German words, which is no wonder because Old High German originated from the southern dialects.

Much appreciated

He relies on one contrarian linguist who knows bugger all about paganism

Actually he thinks that Eostre was a local goddess and probably existed though

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Because bede didn't know what he was talking about and there actually is no evidence for such a goddess ever even existing. This entire video was conjecture and wishful thinking tbh

@Simpicus Maximus You claiming bede didn’t know what he was talking about is literally conjecture😒

​@@coltondunham695yeah they're clearly espousing their own bias of their own worldviews and just dismissing evidence straight off the bat

@@simpicusmaximus Look while I personally don’t like Tom when he talks outside of history with this whole paganism, weird bullshit that he spews every once in a while this is where I’m gonna have to agree with his vans, and say that there is a truth to that because he explained it in many ways, the fact that you didn’t pay attention to that speaks volumes about what you’re talking about…

Germans have it too I think

Glad it was helpful!

Glad you enjoyed it!

I think Beltane and Imbolc represent a cleavage in two of what was once one festival of the Dawn. This is why some cognate Pagan festivals occur at the beginning of Spring, and some at Midsummer

Tennessee has the highest concentration of redheads in the USA. I know it’s Bible Belt country but there’s an explosion of interest in Asatru/pagan traditions among the youth in the West - who knows, maybe the ancient magic of the Appalachians can help foster a rebirth of Celtic traditions.

@@Vunderbread well said sir, and that would be nice to see. Interesting fact about the highest percentage of redheads. I didn't know that. Ty for for knowledge there. I have an unfortunate love/hate relationship with my Home Place. The Appalachian trail is my back yard, and one of my favorite places to wander though. There's a lot of hikers who pass through my little town.

Yes. In geeman east is ost abd the godess is ostara

And she's a dawn godess

I celebrate the goddess Easter

@@Survivethejive I'm sorry to hear that. Jesus is the only one who can save us. That's the only one who can deliver us from sin and give us life forever. Please consider have a good day.🙏❤

​@@williammatson9238 this is a thinly veiled insult, anti intellectual, anti rational, mindless as usual from you Christ cucks. You're an embarrassment to the west and European people's more generally, passively accepting a foreign Jewish cult which was deliberately designed for gullible goy like yourself. Have a nice day yourself with your delusions. Btw this is it, your only life and noone, not even your fake Jewish Messiah is coming to save you

@@williammatson9238 I don’t know if you realize this, but he’s a paganist, an Odinist. Has in his Lord and Savior is Odin, and not God. I’m kind of surprised you haven’t figured that out already considering the amount of paganist propaganda, he puts in his videos……

I agree but not necessarily esoteric

Lot of Christians, especially in the east just use their language equivalent of Passover/Pesach instead of any equivalent of "Easter".

@@padmad3832 good point

@@Jimmylad. jewish

@@padmad3832 in Latin America which is a highly Catholic continent we call it Pascua which comes from Pascha

@@Tzimiskes3506 And their academic references? I can also tell stuff on the internet, whether it's true, whether I have a clue, it doesn't matter.

Thanks so much

Glad you enjoyed

He relies on one contrarian linguist who knows bugger all about paganism. Eastry being a cult centre is not supported by any evidence. There are other names in Yorkshire as I show in this video

@@Survivethejive But do you concede or not that Easter as a celebration is indeed Christian in origin and is not, as many of your pagan friends here stubbornly continue to affirm, a pagan celebration later hijacked by Christians? The answer to this question will determine your intellectual honesty.

@@AitorAxat christians undoubtedly have always honoured the death of jesus. this was not always made to coincide with pesach, even in Bede's time there were different dates it was celebrated. However the English have always celebrated Easter in April.

@@AitorAxat i thought easter was after first full moon after spring equinox so that makes it pagan.

@@janeslater8004 1. The moon is not pagan in and of itself. Nature as a whole is not pagan and pagans do not have any ownership of nature. So a celebration that follows the moon in any capacity does not smkr it pagan. 2. Easter does not follow the moon at all anyway. It follows the Jewish celebration of Passover, since the Last Supper was a Passover meal and Jesus' resurrection happens 3 days later starring from Passover. And it is Passover itself that moves throughout the years so Easter follows it as well, that's why it's not always on the same date like Christmas.

Peach is not a indo european word,it's an Hebrew word.

@@Aditya-tc7sd It's an Indo-European word

I've been having to keep my dog on the lead all the time, yestermorning he ran off towards a main road after a bitch.

@@nullgravity2583 Spring has sprung.💖

Yes but that depends on how much spiritual fulfilment you want out if it

Why would you want to? Formal religions are motivated by people thinking they need to control groups of people.

I was about to watch that one when I saw that Survive the Jive had one as well, so I saw this one instead, since I think that Survive the Jive has better expertise about Germanic and Indo-European religion in general.

@@VisionStorm1 Yeah Religion For Breakfast was kind of dissapointing with how little in depth he actually went with it.

why then would christians use a pagan name for a new, christian festival? it doesn't add up

@@kimashitawa8113 yeah just saying that her name probably just means east and didn't look at the related faiths.

​@@devreed5931 I thought it was common knowledge that it was derivative of Ishtar..that's what I have always heard at least

I'd like a mix of both

what a shame, you must relight it!

Forbidden to light a fire to celebrate something? What, do you live in a police state?

@@simonestreeter1518😂😂😂

Yes they are cognate

@@Survivethejive Ah, I thought so. Thanks.

Saints come later

Yes

Christianity stole all the pagan festivals and renamed them for themselves.Easter, Christmas, Harvest festival. It was all part of imposing the new on the old. All roman and Anglo-Saxons Christian churches were built upon the shrines and worship sites of the ancients.

@@babylonsburning1 it's not a direct stealing. the pope issued a letter to those trying to convert the saxons saying that instead of pulling down pagan shrines and banning pagan festivals, they should instead convert pagan sites into chirstian sites. Turn the pagan stapol's into high crosses, turn the pagan wells into saintly springs and of course match up christian festivals with established festivals from around the same time. this is a good thing, since it means that more knowledge of pre-christian customs has survived to the current day. The alternative of completely erasing paganism in every aspect is far worst.

@@lmonk9517 I call that stealing. It shows that there is no substance to Christianity. The Church is about wealth and power.

@@babylonsburning1 It's really a form of Religious syncretism, this wasn't just done by Christianity but it was even more prominent in paganism. all religions borrow and take from neighboring faiths and have done so throughout all of history. even scripture based faiths like Catholicism.

Germanic people had a lunar-solar calendar with celebrations on lunar phases so Austron was unlikely to refer to the equinox. No celebration of the equinox is attested in any Germanic culture. More likely it was on the full moon of Eastermonth

​@@Survivethejive the year for Germanic pagans was divided into both solstices and equinoxes, and to cite Sanders (2015) The Christianization of the Germanic Tribes, they "held festivals and rituals based on the equinoxes as well; the Yule celebration in particular was important to them."

No of course not

Yes, you came up with worshipping divine mothers and blood all on your own.

hebrew nonsense

@@Survivethejive it’s so cool you replied to me. I’m a huge fan of your work. 👍🏻❤️❤️

he has a great video on how to pray to the gods!

He has some on that

"How to pray like a pagan" is one of his I think

While the educational videos are highly informative and entertaining, I have been dormant in my practice as I don't really know how to practice. The 'How to Pray like a Pagan' video is helpful, but not much. I have to be a solo practitioner as I'm surrounded by Christians and atheists; so a detailed guide would be nice. I guess I just miss the structure and order of the Catholic Church. Edit: it also doesn't help that a lot of self-proclaimed pagans out there are leftist New Age types who are completely unreliable.

Freyja is Frigga-Freyja. Goddess of love, eggs, female fertility. Eostre is an aspect on her. A word for reproduction takes itself from the first part of her name. Óðr is another name for Odin, god of wisdom, knowledge, tribe/clan, and ancestors. Elves are ancestral spirits. Freyja being married to Odin should point you to the right direction.

@@wegfarir1963 None of that is true first of all. Frigg and Freyja are separate goddesses. I don't believe in the theory that they were one goddess because there's no evidence of that. Rudolf Simek proposed that idea and currently I saw no evidence of that. Eostre is just Eostre. Only one attestation from Bede. There are scholars like Rydberg that propose that Eostre is the goddess Nátt while others say that she is Freyja. My personal theory is that we will never know exactly of whom she is due to one attestation and no solid comparative mythologies due to what little evidence we have. Óðr is the husband of Freyja. He is also called Óttar in Hyndluljóð where he reddens Freya's altar. Óttar is known as Svipdagr from the Svipdagsmal where he woos for Menglöð, who is Freyja. Snorri mentions Óðr as being wife of Freyja in Gylfaginning. The Álfar are described as making the likeness of men in Völuspá. The Álfar are known as Ljósálfar and Dökkalfar because they work with the cosmos. The Ljosalfar are responsible for the course of the sun, such as Dellingr. This information should kindly point you in the right direction.

@@egillivaldason7238 It is true. Frigg and Freyja are the same: Freyja is married to Óðr (another name for Odin, meaning ecstasy, inspiration, furor, Odin meaning coming from Óðr). Óðr spends a long time away from home, just like Odin, so we can identify them to be the same. Óðr being gone for most of the time causes Freyka to be unfaithful. Absent husband + Unfaithful wife. Concerning Frigg, her husband Odin was exiled from Asgard for a long time, leaving Vili and Ve in Charge. They both slept with Frigg. Sometimes, it is a slave in Saxo's account. The relationships between Óðr and Freyja and Odin and Frigg is virtually the same. Frigg is a Volva, practicing seiðr. In Lokasenna after Loki blames Frigg for her infidelity, Freyja warns him the Frigg knows the fate of all, implying she has the power to change them as well. Frigg's spinning an weaving practices are an allusion to magical work. Frigg weaves and creates clouds, the concept of seiðr is centered around spinning and weaving. Freyja is Frigg, but Christianity censored every magical work linked to Freyja, but weaving and spinning was not, as it was a household chore. Freyja's magical practices survived through Frigg. Shapeshifting was a magical practice, and Freyja has a shapeshifting falcon cloak, and Frigg has falcon feathers for the same purpose, and in myths she has a falcon dress for the same purpose. Frigg means beloved, linking her to love, desire, and sexuality. It is through love and sexuality that Freyja manifests herself. Those are her main traits aside from magic, which itself includes love magic and love poetry. Freyja means Lady, a title. In the Viking age and sometimes in Medieval Iceland aristocratic women were called Freyjur, plural of Freyja, connecting her to aristocracy and nobility. Frigg is queen of Asgard, primarily linked to nobility. One's name is identical to the other's attributes, simply because they are the same. Two aspects of the same Goddess. To my knowledge, no other Germanic people spoke of her as being different goddesses, only the Norse. Elves are ancestral spirits. Ingvi-Freyr was referred to as lord of the elves, and rules over Alfheim. Freyr is also said to break free elves from their chains, that being he allows them to reincarnate as he is the personification of male reproduction and seed. There was also someone called olaf geirstaðaalfr after he died and was placed in his mound. They typically reside in or around places like mounds or stones, connecting them to the belief of dying into mountains. The Gods are those forces that control nature and it's cycles. They don't physically exist. Same goes for the spirits. They are representations in the style of the culture they come from.

@@wegfarir1963 It is not true. Frigg and Freyja are not the same. Freyja is married to Óðr, yes that is true. However, there are no attestations of Óðr and Oðinn as the same god. In chapter 35 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, the enthroned figure of Hár (who is Óðinn) says that the goddess Freyja "was married to someone named" Óðr. Hár details that the two produced a daughter, Hnoss, and that this daughter was so fair that the term hnossir (meaning "treasures") derives from her name and is applied to whatever is "beautiful and precious." High adds that Óðr would go off traveling for extended periods, all the while Freyja would stay behind weeping tears of red gold. However, Freyja would travel "among strange peoples" while looking for Óðr, and so had many names. In chapter 36 of Gylfaginning, the stanza of Völuspá mentioning Óðr is quoted. Scholar Viktor Rydberg proposed that Freyja's husband Oðr is identical with the hero Svipdag from the eddic poems Grougaldr and Fjölsvinsmál. Jacob Grimm and others have long identified Menglad ("the neck-lace lover"), Svipdag's love interest in that poem, with Freyja the owner of Brísingamen. The fact that Frigg and Freyja are argue against Loki separately in Lokasenna should be proof that they're separate goddesses. Freyja's father is not Fjorgyn but Njord. Seiðr is magic associated with the Jötnar as quoted from Hyndluljóð 35 where the origin of Seiðr is from Ymir. Freyja practices Seiðr when she kidnapped by the Jötunn brothers Grep (see Saxo Grammaticus) and then Gullveig taught her Seiðr which caused mind-games (hugleikinn). The Alfar were originally the third divine clan of the gods. Christian influence diminish them into being mere spirits. The story about King Geirstad is christian influenced.

@@egillivaldason7238 Dude, it so damn obvious that Frigg is Freyja and Odr is Odin. Use your common sense, not all truth comes from scholars.

Dutch is just swamp German

No

I just read today that the Albanian Dawn Goddess, Prende, daughter of the Sky Father, Zojz, is theorized to be connected with Persephone 🤯

Hadn't considered that

Soon

None

Dont forget Ishtar is also the morning star

I'm trying to find the connection between north Africa and mesopotamia and Europe because I have seen multiple words and stories in northern European stories that parallel those from even all the way to Sumeria

​@@stephenodubhlaoich Moses is a fictional character stolen from Sargon of Akkad / Sumeria. His mother also sent him down a river (the Euphrates) in a reed basket, to save him from murder. Yima, from Zoroastrianism, was told by his gods to build (multiple) arcs for a flood. Stolen, not borrowed. There's your reason. Semites and Abrahamists don't want these origins discussed.

​​@@stampatron the morning star god in English is Earendel not Easter

@@stephenodubhlaoich If the Phoenicians did indeed visit Britain during the Bronze Age, then there is every chance that they visited other parts of northern Europe.

no it is sun and moon dance

watch the video

The only testament to this goddess comes from Bede which only states that the word Easter is derived from her. Any further information on the nature of this goddess comes from speculation alone. This speculation varies from educated guesses to made up fantasies.

I did , that’s why I wrote a critic.

@@lucapandini909 Rewatch the video

@@stowlicters8362 don't you think it's very weak your argument just using cognate names of the down goddess? It's disputable and there is no ancient artefact connected to such a presumable wide spread and long lasting cult, isn't it? the roman epighraph hardly demonstrates anything about Ostara , it could be connected to the geographical region name. I've nothing against a possible Ostara goddess , or to the pagan origins of Eastern (many gods like Attis for example died and after 3 days resuscitated ). But I find not so much convincing the argument for Ostara, as I'd like having a mosaic, an artefact, or a text in latin, or in the Edda, something more than conjectures .

I think they are equivalent

Where is the reach?. He's comparing her with cognate goddesses in related religions

@@danieldelaney1377 he doesn't understand

Lot of cope