@Calamity Dal,
Quote: I thought most of you christian types had no problem mixing it up with Ishtar and enjoying a little druidic action here and there.
Of course not. Ishtar and Easter take note. Ishtar was Goddess of rumpy-pumpy. I was conceived on Easter Monday after two days of revels starting with Mass with all the trimmings. Or so my father told me once. I never asked my mother to confirm it mind you.
The festivities surrounding both these entities are not mixed up at all. They are both determined by the sap rising at that time of year in the northern hemisphere. When spring is springing. Pure biology. The further north, or south, one goes the more surprising the effect and the more reason to celebrate. At the equator I suppose there is no effect. Or not enough to be striking. Which is bound to have an effect on the religious beliefs in those regions.
I have a few snowdrops out. They always remind me of chaste novice nuns with lowered gazes.
