Did Easter come from an ancient Greek festival? Scholars have long linked the customs involved in this celebration with pagan ...

The Spanish word for Easter is Pascua. In Italian, it’s Pasqua. French speakers have Pâques. All of these words derive from ...

From the Greek world through the Renaissance ... named after the goddess Eostre. He wrote that a pagan festival of spring in ...

[feast_advanced_jump ... Red Dye Shrouded in mystery, the Greek Easter egg game likely stems from both ancient fertility rites (eggs symbolizing new life) and pagan celebrations (tapping eggs ...

Paganism is our designation ... The very term liturgy comes from a Greek word that designates the duties, the obligations of the civic magistrates in observing the festival days of the city.