I love Susie, it's the Easter weekend, which means that our podcast isn't going to go out

on its normal Tuesday, because we're all going to be chasing Easter eggs.

It's going to go out on Wednesday, the 15th of April.

And so 24 hours later than usual, but it will be there.

The Easter weekend, I've not had my usual Easter egg hunt, but I've been wondering

the word Easter.

Where does it come from?

Now you ask, well, a couple of theories about this, one more plausible than the other.

So the first is that it comes from a goddess named Eust, who represented spring and fertility,

which makes sense.

And it kind of ties in with the tradition of eggs, doesn't it, which is also the sign of

obviously fertility.

And that would have been a pagan festival.

There's lots of presents for that.

So Christmas famously had a pagan root, yule and yule tied, which was an ancient festival.

But there is another theory, which probably, I think it's the front runner.

And that's that it comes from an older German word for East.

And that from an even older Latin word for dawn, because in spring, dawn marks the beginning

of days and what outlasts the nights and those dawns begin in the East.

And so the basic logic seems to have been that it was spring and then sun and then dawn

and then the East.

So that's possibly we think where it does come from.

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