Happy Ostara

[pastwatcher]

Unlike many Christians, my family and, I imagine, a lot of Irish have no problem saying that Christian traditions come from pagan ones. We tend to be happy that rich Celtic traditions have survived. But check this out, it's pretty great.

Edit: I enjoyed reading that but it's not really careful at all about distinct cultures, and it has the false etymology of "estrogen". Too bad.

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[pastwatcher]

Hmm--well, more what I mean is my family has generally seemed to regard pagan traditions and Christianity as enriching each other. I do think that's because of a pride in how Ireland mixed its cultural influences.