Monday, January 14, 2013

Germanic Religion

14. Worship and Practice ; http://tinyurl.com/b23e5sk

God appeasement

Types of Worship 

  • Sacrifice
    • Human Sacrifice 
      • Prisoners of War (Romans)
    • Animals

Types of Practices
  • Conducted in open Groves or Forests.
    • human sacrifice (tribal)
  • Temples
    • Open Roofed Temples
      • In Germany
        • Very few
  • Waterfalls
    • Scandinavia 
  • Sacrificial Feasts
    •  Adam of Bremen
      • Every nine years a great festival was held at Uppsala,
      •  Sacrifice was conducted in a sacred grove that stood beside the temple. 
      • The victims, human and animal, were hung on trees. 
        • One of the trees in this grove was holier than all the others and beneath it lay a well into which a living man would be plunged.

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