I think the original English name was something like "Eostre". The word and the goddess are cognate to the Roman Aurora and the Greek Eos. Also, the compass direction "east".
Interesting factoid: only English and German use this word for the Christian holiday. Most European languages use some variation of the Greek…

Minor quibble: Irish is a Celtic language just as French is a Romance language.

The moment they introduced Rachel as a photographer I figured she was looking for something sensational to make a name for herself, though I didn't guess she already had a reporter job. Ravi telling her the whole story was a big risk, though she already knew enough that there was no way to put her off the scent.

Yes, that whole sequence I kept thinking "This is NOT a good idea!"

I don't think Liv knew they were raiding the cabin that very minute. I think the text was a general (but very timely) heads-up.

They did not let Jesus' followers or family have his body. They let a respected member of the Sanhedrin— the people who had condemned Jesus in the first place— have his body. That would have seemed safe enough to them- -and even so they put a guard on the tomb (I am following the Gospel story as written, not asserting…

At a guess you are just a sock puppet for the original poster, but if you look back at the exchange he led with insults right in his first post. This is unacceptable behavior and prima facie evidence of trollery. And nota bene: every bullet shot from a gun on the Earth's surface is a falling bullet since they are all…

This could point to a story as follows: FG uses the daughter who has been zombified (how?) to turn Weckler into their agent. He's sent to the dominatrix to get dirt on her prominent customers, including the zombie mayoral candidate. He's caught stealing the disc, murders the dominatrix (not part of the plan) and FG…

Um, Louis de Bourbon, AKA Conde? OK, maybe there was a lot of chemistry there— all of it nauseatingly bad.

The reason Henry is a cross dresser is because it's historically true— at least if one believes 16th century gossip. I was doubting the show would go there at all. The historical Henry also hung out with a gang of very gayish young men he called his "minions" and the rest of France referred to as "the princes of…

Your insults basically are Exhibit A for the proposition that you are a disrupter troll and I am tempted to report you to Disqus. This isn't even a political blog where it's understandable that passions may run high and people sometimes get a little hot under the collar., It's just a TV show blog, and there's no…

I just cited conservation of energy. There's also the related principle of conservation of momentum. Those can be violated in limited ways at the quantum level. At the macro level not at all, ever.
The energy and momentum of those bullets has to be accounted for at the end of their trajectory— it does not disappear…

There were likely different crucifixion practices in different situations. Mass crucifixions when putting down slave revolts and the like must have been done hastily with whatever materials were at hand. Regular judicial crucifixions in settled areas most likely followed a procedure— the Romans tended to be fairly…

Well, I'm not Neil Gaiman or the show runners so I can hardly be authoritative on that. How narrowly drawn are these avatars of Jesus? However even if you want a specifically Mexican Jesus (excluding the other Hispanic Catholic cultures), those people have lived in the US for a very long time and their Jesus should…

Hillary Clinton is a bit of a chameleon. I think she was taken up by people (I'm one of them by the way) who already had certain political ideals to serve as our totem and hopefully our leader for those ideals. In fact that somewhat describes Trump. He's tapped into something dangerous that already existed and which…

No modern factory in America in 2017 would be belching smoke like that. In fact I suspect Mr. World would have persuaded Vulcan to outsource the factory to China.

I'm not sure it's accurate to say that mythology has mostly been created by men— maybe written down by male authors (e.g., Homer), but created originally? That would be true of the theologies in more recent religions like Christianity and Islam (though even Christianity has had some input from female mystics like…

Phallic imagery has been used as a symbol of fertility for time out of mind, and in numerous cultures. There's nothing inherently sexist about that, any more than the image of the Great Mother goddess, also very ancient and universal, is sexist. These things go deep into our animal unconscious, far, far deeper than…

In mythology Odin was one-eyed. Maybe that's their nod to it? I assume they didn't make him one-eyed here because it would be awkward for Ian McShane to act with one eye constantly patched over?

Yes, in mythology he was the god of smith-craft. He forged weapons to be sure, but also other inventions. Another route open to him would have been to become a god of inventions, maybe back in the Industrial Revolution (though he would have been superseded by Tech Boy later). His connection with volcanoes was…