Repost from a little earlier because I spent too much time on my answer and I’m salty that OP deleted the thread.

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    You can say what you want about “Páshka” or “Passover”, but there’s no way in Hell “Easter” isn’t related to “Ēostre” (and “estrus,” and “east” – think ‘rising sun’ – and spring/rebirth/fertility concepts in general). Just because a holiday may not have been appropriated from an earlier one for the Greeks or Romans, doesn’t mean it wasn’t appropriated from an earlier one for the Germanic peoples.