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To: Cronos
there’s zero evidence this even was a Saxon goddess

I wouldn't say 'zero' evidence - Bede does mention her and, as the article says, he's hardly likely to have made her up. Bede was a genius and polymath and not prone to flights of fancy. You are right that she's not mentioned elsewhere.

15 posted on 03/31/2021 2:21:54 AM PDT by Da_Shrimp (Dum vivimus, vivamus!)
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To: Da_Shrimp

Bede mentions that he thinks the pagans who lived 300 years before him had a goddess called Eostre.

There are no runes, no monuments, no writings about that goddess, but there are tons about Woden, Tiw, etc. all over the Anglo-Saxon lands.


17 posted on 03/31/2021 3:09:42 AM PDT by Cronos
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