Just when you think you've reached the bottom of the 'made-up Eostre bollocks' barrel, your foot plunges through the rotten wood & you discover a whole new level of daftness. Today I'm exploring a made-up quote from Beowulf.
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'Saxon poets apparently knew Eostre was the same Goddess as India's Great Mother Kali. Beowulf spoke of "Ganges' waters, whose flood waves ride down into an unknown sea near Eostre's far home."' (The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, Barbara G Walker) Total bollocks.
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The only explanation I can think of is that someone read the lines 'Ic hine ne mihte, þa Metod nolde, ganges getwæman' in Beowulf and concluded that 'ganges' meant the river Ganges in India. I may cry.
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Needless to say, there is no mention of either Eostre or the river Ganges in Beowulf.
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I've wondered for years where (supposedly serious) author Nigel Pennick got the absurd idea of equating Eostre with Kali. Seems it all goes back to the Women's Enclyclopedia of Myths and Secrets.
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I feel like I've aged 10 years reading this thread. That's like some first-year-undergrad-didn't-read-the-texts-before-class-bullshitting there. Or worse, idek.
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