The German tribes hang traitors from trees. Cowards, poor fighters and
evil men are drowned in swamps under a cover of sticks.
Tacitus, a Roman writer A.D.
97-98
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Items
found in peat bogs: left, is a neck ring [torc] which was buried
as an offering to the Earth Goddess; right, a noose found round
the neck of Borremose Man.
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A statue of the Earth Goddess found in a bog. |
The German tribes worship Mother Earth,
the Goddess of Spring and growing crops. Every spring a chariot carries
a statue of the Goddess in a procession. Afterwards, the chariot and
statue are washed by slaves who are then drowned.
Tacitus
again.
