Exactly what gods of prayer are a mystery
Archaeologists have exposed a treasure of gold and silver pieces presented as Diobolgeldæ, or “Diablo money”, in a medieval cult in the Netherlands, launching more Gentiles on the rituals of the pre -Christian teams in this component of Europe.
The Netherlands, northern Germany and Britain have produced fewer cult sites for the Nordic world, whose pre -Christian rituals are understood much more.
The effects of pre -Christian pagan cult sites in the Nordic region do not apply to the rest of the German Nordic world. But the Treasury of portions discovered in Hezingen in the east of the Netherlands provides valuable data on worship rituals in the region, according to researchers.
The Hezingen site was revealed for the first time about five years after steel detectors discovered many pieces of gold and silver. Archaeologists discovered that it consisted of 3 sites, adding a giant circular characteristic in wooden posts that surround a building.
One of the sites contained a single gold piece, while it had almost two dozen fragmented and whole gold coins, as well as a golden pendant and a silver arete.
The third contained fragments of gold coin and a small pendant, according to a new exam published in the medieval magazine Archeology.
There were also symptoms of an old mansion, probably built in the sevent For seasonal rituals similar to planting or crops.
After evaluating the troops and artifacts after the publication, archaeologists concluded that Hezingen was a vital site an era of cultural transition in the region.
“The Reds would possibly have connected with fertility rites because the posts were aligned in spring equinoxes and lifting and anja autumn,” the study said.
“Gold coins and jewels deposited there in normal periods during an era of approximately one hundred years. Based on phosphate analysis, animals are also sacrificed there. »
Exactly what gods, the population has prayed, it is still a mystery.
To be Christianizing, the other people in the region were forced to give up their gods and prevent their ritual from offering “devil money” in pagan cult sites.
Archaeologists suspect that Hezingen’s village perhaps a site of outdoor cult of the seventh century, perhaps connected to immigrants. The use of the site is to have stopped around 700 after JC, at least 50 years before the formal Christianization of the region.
The local elite, with which the site would have been associated, probably had a Christian before or had moved away from paganism. “Perhaps the position has been deserted or even profane through the missionaries, with almost everything that is eliminated,” says the study.
However, researchers say that “alternative interpretations” of effects are also taken into account.
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