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Ushas: Encyclopedia - Ushas
Shruti
Vedas
Rig Veda
Sama Veda
Yajur Veda
Atharva Veda
Brahmanas
Aranyakas
Upanishads
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Aurvandil: Encyclopedia - Aurvandil
Old Norse Aurvandil, Old English Éarendel, Lombardic Auriwandalo, German Orentil (or Erentil) are cognate Germanic personal names. Auriw...
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Germanic Paganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Paganism - Pre-migration Period
Germanic paganism - Tacitus.
The first description of Germanic religion is Tacitus' Germania, dating to the 1st century.
Tacitus descri...
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Aurvandil: Encyclopedia Ii - Aurvandil - Edda
Aurvandil is mentioned once in Norse Mythology, in the Skáldskaparmál section of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda:
Thor went home to Thr...
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Germanic Paganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Paganism - Viking Age
Early medieval Scandinavian (Viking Age) paganism is much better documented than its predecessors, notably via the records of Norse mytho...
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Germanic Paganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Paganism - Middle Ages
In 1000 AD, Iceland became nominally Christian, although continuation of pagan worship in private was tolerated. Most of Scandinavia was ...
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Germanic Paganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Paganism - Proto-germanic Religion
Germanic paganism seems to have begun developing sometime during the 2nd millennium BC, during the Nordic Bronze Age, with influences fro...
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Aurvandil: Encyclopedia Ii - Aurvandil - Crist
Old English Earendel appears in glosses as translating iubar "radiance, morning star".
In the Old English poem Crist I are the lines (104...
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Germanic Paganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Paganism - Migration Age
During the Migration period, Germanic religion was subject to syncretic influence from Christianity and Mediterranean culture (see also R...
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