Easter has mythical origins – it takes its name from the teutonic goddess Eostre who was the goddess of fertility . Eostre existed only as a symbol but there was a truth behind the symbol – ie renewal ,fertility crops springing from the ground etc.That's the point I was making Tunesmith.

Anthropologists have studied the zeus myth and found that he didn't come from the castrated Cronus or simply from the heads of some poor old deluded Greeks .That's why anhropologists study myths - they do tell a truth about the societies that created them .