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German Memory in Asia: Memories of the Old Europe

While we were passing a junction, the driverFinnish paganism, Sami religion, Slavic
told, he wanted to visit a deity, because hepaganism, Baltic paganism, Roman paganism,
had made a vow some time back and turned theGreek paganism and Vedic religion. The
vehicle towards a more isolatedprincipal gods are known as Odin, Thor and
passage.Though he was Catholic by religionTyr.The surviving accounts indicate
his faith in deity worship is not strange inspectacular 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 traditionsa Rus ship burial, where a slave-girl had
are deeply rooted in the daily life of manyvolunteered to accompany her master with his
people.Steffani, a German Praktikumburial.The Heimskringla tells of Swedish King
(Internship) student and Romy were watchingAun who sacrificed nine of his sons in an
intently what was happening in that smalleffort to prolong his life until his subjects
temple of deity worship. But the deity andstopped 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 intokings sacrificed male slaves every ninth year
Europe, there were deities and alsoduring the Yule sacrifices at the Temple at
everywhere a variety of Pagan religiousUppsala.The Swedes had the right not only to
practices.Pagan practices were only abolishedelect kings but also to depose them, and both
when the Pagan temples were demolished by theKing Domalde and King Olof Tratalja are said
later emperors of the Roman Empire and othersto have been sacrificed after years of
in the Europe. Germanic Pagan religion playedfamine.
its own part in ancient Germany.Germanic
paganism refers to the religious practices ofOdin was associated with death by hanging,
the Germanic nations precedingand a possible practice of Odinic sacrifice
Christianization. The well documented form ofby strangling has some archeological support
Germanic paganism is 10th and 11th centuryin the existence of bodies perfectly
Norse paganism. There are various referencespreserved by the acid of the Jutland peat
found in the ancient writings of Germanicbogs in Denmark, into which they were cast
peoples and in Roman descriptions. Theafter  having  been  strangled.
information can be supplemented with
archaeological findings and from the remnantsAn example is Tollund Man. However, there
of pre-Christian beliefs in laterwere no written accounts that explicitly
folklore.Germanic paganism was a polytheisticinterpret the cause of these strangling,
religion with similarities to other Europeanwhich could obviously have other
and West-Asian pagan traditions, such asexplanations.



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