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Article: Time to savour the feast of spring
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 5, 1996
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This week is the great intersection of the world's monotheisms
and its pagan, perpetually renewed hope for the future. Like all
such festivals, Easter - from Eostre, the goddess whose festival
was celebrated at the spring equinox - is marked with food,
sacrificed and eaten, and fellowship. It marks renewal, the first
fresh shoots of plants, the birth of lambs; it marks the end of the
40-day fast, surviving another winter, the renewed dominance of the
sun over the night, of warmth over cold. Compared to that teutonic
feast of Yule, when the snow lies round about, deep and crisp and
even, Easter is bright and brilliant: it is about resurrection,
nature's, God's, and for believers, our own.
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