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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