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example of the glorification of the joys of awakening nature.”
Spring has traditionally been the season for beginnings. “Even the season’s major religious holidays epitomize the arrival of spring, at least indirectly. The Jewish Passover refers to renaissance, or, more exactly, release from physical and spiritual bondage and from the labors of winter.”
Easter, the Christian holiday, “which may have borrowed its name from Eostre, Teutonic goddess of spring and fertility-is a joyful celebration of resurrection and eternal life, with the hymn words, ‘Christ the Lord is risen today, alleluia!’ ringing out across the land.”
Other religious observances by the American Indians take on special significance in spring “--as prayers for fruitfulness of fields and animals and people, or for fructifying rain.”
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