Sun and Son Rise

Easter morning will be a good time to look east for the rising Sun –

Surely a better time than “Good” Friday, which commemorates the ancient evil of the death penalty, in a form more unforgivable even than the executions about to be perpetrated in several states of the USA.

(Map from Death Penalty Action.)

And the word Easter: we might think it has no more than a coincidental connection with east, the direction toward which the Earth rotates and therefore over which the Sun rises. But both may go back to a root meaning “dawn” in the proto-language ancestral to English and Greek, as explained in our astronomical glossary Albedo to Zodiac.

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