In article <P6YGj.6124$Pc2.2332@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Bren says...
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>On Mar 24, 7:08=A0pm, Steve Hayes <hayesm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> At last I think I have discovered the source of one of the persistent
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>> legends about Easter -- the notion that it originated with a goddess
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>> Eostre or Ostara who was associated with hares and eggs.=3D20
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>B - don't forget Steve that there is also non written oral histories
>to contend with about Esotre and Ostara. I know they are harder to
>prove and for some reason we take the written word more as solid
>"evidence" than oral history.
And it is for some very _good_ reason. The well-trained bards who were
well-trained at remembering long texts are no longer with us. So any
transmission by "oral tradition" is now even more inaccurate and
unreliable than
it was in the past. So you understand the case: it is _very much_ harder
to
prove now.
In fact, it was -because- they were disappearing that people started
_writing
down_ what had previously been transmitted only orally.
>...but they are there. Many religions and
>ways relied upon non-written teachings pre-Christianity.
That they did, but if they still rely on it, then they are opening the
door to
widespread corruption of their own teachings.
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