This holiday may take its name from the name of the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring
In 
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bearing her name ... After describing the worship of the goddess Rheda during 
the Anglo-Saxon month of ... Christian teachers tolerated the name, and applied it 
to one of their own grandest anniversaries.