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103: I'm risen. Happy Ēostre!

C J Thorpe-Tracey
Apr 20, 2025
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Hello and welcome to Border Crossing issue one hundred and three, landing on Easter Sunday, ooh yeah, this delicious, well ancient fertility and renewal festival named for the Anglo-Saxon goddess Ēostre (or Ostara) until it was hijacked by the Christians.

An odd sidebar of the Easter story is that for many years, the only real document of Ēostre being c…

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