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No. In the UK wevdon't think of Easter being directly connectedvwithbthe timing of Spring.

Ancient writers said thatvdruids believed in reincarnation and in this view they were said to concur with Pythagoras

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Levirate marriage concerns a brother marrying his dead brother's wife.

Is there an ancient term for a sister marrying her dead sister's husband?

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The first spring-blooming woody plants are white-blossomed: black cherry, Callery pear and serviceberry.

The first spring-blooming flowering plants are yellow-blossomed: jonquils and rockets.

The first spring-singing birds thus far are bluebirds, ovenbirds and robins.

The first spring-sounding amphibians are spring peepers.

Unitedstatesian tradition considers spring as early when Easter is early.

Is that the same in British-Isles traditions?

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Buddhist reincarnation allows for recasting as animal or human sentients. For example, Gautama Buddha appeared in previous lives in animal- and human-sentient forms.

Non-Tibetan Buddhism approves animal-sentient reincarnations even as Tibetan Buddhism belittles reincarnations configured as sharp-clawed, sharp-toothed animals.

So there's no such extant druid traditions regarding certain animal or human reincarnations as desirable or non-desirable, correct?

(But perhaps the film Róise & Frank might be saying, if based on some Emerald-Isle tradition, that canine reincarnations would be fine ;-D!)

No. Llyn is Welsh for lake and is found in place names in Wales and in parts of Western England, e.g. Lindow, about 12 miles from my home, which was originally Llyn Dhu, the Dark Lake. Lleyn derives its name from Legin, pronounced Lein, which is the Irish for Leinster. The Irish kingdom of Leinster [Norse for Lein's land] once incorporated the Lleyn peninsula for a period until the Welsh recaptured it.

Place names of Welsh origin are found in the West of England along with names of Anglo-Saxon origin are found in the Western area, as they hark back to a time Wales extended eastwards and when Welsh was spoken there into the the timwhen es of Saxon rule.

Mince pies have been very strongly associated with Christmas, and while they are eaten in Winter, the link between them and Christmas is very strong.

The first paragraph in the second subheading, Places of Interest, alerts us to the pronunciation of lleyn as "clean."

English Wiktionary offers only the Welsh word llyn ("lake") from the Middle Welsh word llynn ("upland lake").

Would that be its meaning on the Lleyn Peninsula?

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Mince pies can be associated with Unitedstatesian Thanksgiving or Christmas fare here.

Might that be their popular times among eastern-side pondites?

The hoodie, third-last image is simple-comfortably, simple-elegantly attractive.

Might it be a lightweight, pullover or zippered hoodie?

It would be quite striking with leggings or miniskirt in that color or in the gray pattern of the last-most image.

It's my understanding that great-house staff such as the cook, the governess and the housekeeper might have been higher socio-economically than such staff as house maids and kitchen helpers.

Might Mary McNab perhaps have been able, allowed, as cultured and educated member of a family of socioeconomic reversals, to encourage the young JMK?

Was Mary McNab released from King family service merely because JMK wanted her presence or perhaps because of the King parents' deaths?

The beginning sentences to your introduction advises us that "Jessie M. King was born in 1875 and received a strict religious education. Her artistic aspirations were strongly discouraged by her parents. Especially her mother Mary Ann destroyed all of Jessie's drawings when she found them a total waste of time. So Jessie Marion created in secret and hid everything she could."

Did her parents live long enough to note JMK artistic successes?

The bottom-most image is an attractive top.

Might the sleeves be three-quarter- or wrist-length but rollable to above-elbow because of a button tab?

How would it fit into the hoodie, sweatshirt, t-shirt, top clothes categorization?

The long-skirted, three-quarter-sleeved dress under the fifth subheading Artistic Influence and Facing Aging Squarely A Head on Look at Capturing Life's Process is attractive, comfortable-looking, with possible formal and informal applications.

What is the material?

Might the design be AI-, AI and you-, or you-invented?

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That's interesting about the state Victoria.

Might that state be where the wealthiest Australians live?