Pagan Poetry

It's usually midweek by the time I've managed a decent rifle through the Sunday papers, and so the acquisition of trivia is founded on a 'better late than never' philosophy. Hence, I am belatedly informed of the origins of present day Easter celebrations, reportedly based on the ancient festival of Eostre. (Does it vex the Christian Church that its most crucial celebrations derive from paganism?)

Folklore suggests that Eostre was a fertility goddess, (oestrogen being a derivative of her name), with eggs and hares comprising symbols of her annual feast day. The latter would go on to be usurped by the cute n' cuddly bunny rabbit, owing to 'unsurpassable demonstrations of seasonal randiness'.

Here's my own collection of Easter symbology - minus said demonstrations - as garnered during last Sunday's parkside trek: