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| | Pagan Astronomy Network - The Sun |
 | | Our modern word "solstice" stems from the Latin "sol stetit", or literally the "sun stands still", and the official modern name of our sun, Sol, also finds it's origins in Latin, where sol is a feminine noun meaning "sun". |
 | | It is this very goddess from whence the Christians incorporated the holiday known as Easter, and her season, lencten in Anglo-Saxon, or literally "spring", became the Christian "Lent" leading up to the Easter holiday. |
 | | Much overlooked as a sun goddess, the Irish spring goddess Bride, ("bright") who has much in common with the Norse Ostara, was honored at a special temple complex in Kildare, originally known as Cill Dara "the place of the oak". |
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