.... This Eostre was also known to be the spring goddess and the goddess of fertility. Thus, another form of Sun- worship, another variant in the form of a dawn-deity, Eostre, also called Eastre, Eostra or Orstara, became fused with Christianity. This same dawn-goddess was also well known in the Greek Classics (Homer, Hesiod) as Eos (the Roman Aurora) and the Assyrian Ishtar, goddess of the ...