| While we were passing a junction, the driver | | | | Finnish paganism, Sami religion, Slavic |
| told, he wanted to visit a deity, because he | | | | paganism, Baltic paganism, Roman paganism, |
| had made a vow some time back and turned the | | | | Greek paganism and Vedic religion. The |
| vehicle towards a more isolated | | | | principal gods are known as Odin, Thor and |
| passage.Though he was Catholic by religion | | | | Tyr.The surviving accounts indicate |
| his faith in deity worship is not strange in | | | | spectacular human sacrifices. A unique |
| Sri Lanka. | | | | eye-witness account of Germanic human |
| | | | sacrifice survives in Ibn Fadlan's account of |
| Ancient nature worship and Hindu traditions | | | | a Rus ship burial, where a slave-girl had |
| are deeply rooted in the daily life of many | | | | volunteered to accompany her master with his |
| people.Steffani, a German Praktikum | | | | burial.The Heimskringla tells of Swedish King |
| (Internship) student and Romy were watching | | | | Aun who sacrificed nine of his sons in an |
| intently what was happening in that small | | | | effort to prolong his life until his subjects |
| temple of deity worship. But the deity and | | | | stopped him from killing his last son Egil. |
| nature worship is not strange to Europe. | | | | According to Adam of Bremen, the Swedish |
| Before Christianity was introduced into | | | | kings sacrificed male slaves every ninth year |
| Europe, there were deities and also | | | | during the Yule sacrifices at the Temple at |
| everywhere a variety of Pagan religious | | | | Uppsala.The Swedes had the right not only to |
| practices.Pagan practices were only abolished | | | | elect kings but also to depose them, and both |
| when the Pagan temples were demolished by the | | | | King Domalde and King Olof Tratalja are said |
| later emperors of the Roman Empire and others | | | | to have been sacrificed after years of |
| in the Europe. Germanic Pagan religion played | | | | famine. |
| its own part in ancient Germany.Germanic | | | | |
| paganism refers to the religious practices of | | | | Odin was associated with death by hanging, |
| the Germanic nations preceding | | | | and a possible practice of Odinic sacrifice |
| Christianization. The well documented form of | | | | by strangling has some archeological support |
| Germanic paganism is 10th and 11th century | | | | in the existence of bodies perfectly |
| Norse paganism. There are various references | | | | preserved by the acid of the Jutland peat |
| found in the ancient writings of Germanic | | | | bogs in Denmark, into which they were cast |
| peoples and in Roman descriptions. The | | | | after having been strangled. |
| information can be supplemented with | | | | |
| archaeological findings and from the remnants | | | | An example is Tollund Man. However, there |
| of pre-Christian beliefs in later | | | | were no written accounts that explicitly |
| folklore.Germanic paganism was a polytheistic | | | | interpret the cause of these strangling, |
| religion with similarities to other European | | | | which could obviously have other |
| and West-Asian pagan traditions, such as | | | | explanations. |