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→Origins of Easter
Interestingly, for other European cultures, the term for Easter derives from Passover. In essence, it was the Northern European Germanic traditions that may have retained their older holiday names, while southern European or Latin and Greek influenced cultures utilized a new name after their conversions. It is also likely that the southern European cultures, which converted earlier than in Northern Europe, had more time to assimilate their older traditions with Christianity.
[[File:Ostara by Johannes Gehrts.jpg|thumbnail|Figure 1. The goddess Eostre, whose name may have led to the term Easter developing in Germanic languages. ]]
==Christian Developments==