Geography/Culture: Anglo Saxon. {even this is uncertain}.
Linguistic Note: see Eostre Linguistic Note.
Description: Goddess.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Variant: Eostre, {She-of-the-East}, below.

Geography/Culture: Celtic{?}. English Anglo Saxon. There is a reference by Bede, 673-735 CE.
Linguistic Note: Eostre is from the same root as English East. Cognate with Dutch oost; Icelandic austr; Danish öst; Swedish östan; German ost, 'east'. Cognate with Latin aurora, 'east, dawn'; Greek eta-omega-sigma, (eos), 'dawn'; Sanskrit usas, 'dawn'. Related English words: east (and its derivitives), Easter, Essex (East Saxon).
Description: Goddess of dawn, spring and the earth's burgeoning fertility; She Who is associated with the increasing light and warmth of the spring season; She from Whose name and rites the festival of Easter is derived; Nature in Her young and vernal dress.
To Whom Sacred: the direction east; the northward equinox; the fourth month of the Saxon year which was called Easter-monath, after Her (approximately April -- it must have begun at the Equinox since their year began December 25).
Festival: The festival of Easter, which is named after Ostara, {Morning-Star}, was originally a spring festival in honor of Her, held in April. It was adapted to, and adopted by Christianity.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Compare with Roman Aurora, Golden-Dawn.
• Variant: Eastre.
• Compare with Greek Eos, She-of-the-East..
• Perhaps equivalent to Gaulic On-Niona, ----, below.
• A variant of Ostara, {Morning-Star}.
• Compare with Hindustani Usas, Shining-One.

Geography/Culture: Celtic: Gauls.
Linguistic Note: Her name is compounded of the Beth-Luis-Nion letters Onn, 'furze', plus Nion, 'ash'.
Description: Goddess.
To Whom Sacred: ash-groves (in which She was worshipped); furze, also called gorse, (which with its golden flowers and prickles typifies the young Sun at the northward equinox).
Festival: Northward Equinox. Graves surmises this from Her name Onn signifying the Equinox, at the end of the Nion month (February 18 to March 17).

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Perhaps She can be identified with Eostre, {She-of-the-East}, above.
• See also the triple Nornir, {Well-Water-Raisers}, Who dispensed justice under an ash-tree.