The Equinox of spring: The festival of Ostara

The Equinox of spring is the festival of the fertility which celebrates the arrival of spring, the return of the goddess and the alarm clock of nature. In England, the Saxon ones dedicated this Sabbath to Éostre, goddess saxonne of the fertility or in

Ostara, Germanic goddess of the fertility

Other pagan traditions honour the green goddess and the Lord with wood. It is interesting to find all the ritual pagan ones in the celebrations which mark the resurrection of Christ. That one thinks of the bells which "Return from Rome" and which one sounded before to cause the alarm clock of nature, or, with these eggs decorated thrown to fire or hidden in the ground in offering with the goddess with the fertility. All the festivities connected to the Equinox of spring turned around the fields and of the sowing, the invocations of this day required moderate rains in order to hasten germination and sun to heat the ground and to allow the growth.