In Germanic paganism, Nerthus is a goddess associated with a ceremonial wagon procession. Nerthus is attested by first century A.D. Roman historian Tacitus...
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belong to the genus Nerthus: Nerthus dudgeoni Distant, 1909 Nerthus kempi Paiva, 1919 Nerthus taivanicus (Bergroth, 1914) "Nerthus". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-10-07...
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Germanic paganism (section Nerthus)
venerated a goddess, Nerthus, and describes the rites of the goddess in some detail. At their center is a ceremonial wagon procession. Nerthus's cart is found...
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Nerthus taivanicus is a species of pentatomomorphan bug in the family Heterogastridae, found in eastern and southeastern Asia. "Nerthus taivanicus". GBIF...
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Germania, Tacitus describes rituals surrounding a deity by the name of Nerthus, a theonym that is etymologically ancestral to Old Norse Njörðr. However...
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situation but states that, together with the six other tribes, they worshipped Nerthus, or Mother Earth, whose sanctuary was located on "an island in the Ocean"...
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601 Nerthus is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. See mythology of Nerthus. "601 Nerthus (1906 UN)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
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"Ansuzgardaraiwô" ("Warriors of Ansuzgarda") 4:28 4. "Die Liebe Nerþus'" ("The Love of Nerthus") 2:14 5. "Frijôs einsames Trauern" ("Frijo's Lonely Mourning")...
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join the Æsir. Similarities have been pointed out between Njörðr and Nerthus, a Germanic fertility god mentioned by Tacitus in Germania in the 1st-century...
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Suebian tribe, listing them between the Semnones on the Elbe, and the Nerthus-worshipping tribes whose land of rivers and forest stretched to the sea...
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Njǫrðr. His position as the father of Njǫrðr should not be seen as certain. Nerthus is often suggested to be the same woman as Njǫrðr's unidentified sister...
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and notes that the Germania relates how an image of the Germanic goddess Nerthus was borne through the countryside in a wagon drawn by cattle. Simek compares...
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Additionally, Tacitus's description of a group of tribes as united by the cult of Nerthus (Germania 40) as well as the cult of the Alcis controlled by the Nahanarvali...
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refers to a castum nemus ('chaste grove') in which the image of the goddess Nerthus was hallowed, and other reports from the Roman period also refer to rites...
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cart containing an image of Odin, drawing comparison with the images of Nerthus attested by Tacitus in 1 CE. Excavations in Ribe in Denmark have recovered...
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cart containing an image of Odin, drawing comparison to the images of Nerthus attested by Tacitus in 1 CE. Excavations in Ribe, Denmark have recovered...
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was believed to control storms and lightning. Similarly, the goddess Nerthus was linked to fertility and the earth, with rituals involving plowing sacred...
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Herthasee (Rügen) (section Nerthus and Hertha)
inhabited between the 8th and 12th century. The misreading of the goddess name Nerthus in Tacitus's 1 CE ethnographic work Germania on the ancient Germanic peoples...
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the transcendent God of Christianity. Tacitus also mentioned a goddess Nerthus being worshipped by the Germanic people, in whom Perry thinks the Franks...
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earth Mindort-batoni, god of the mountains Jörð, goddess of the earth Nerthus, earth goddess Skaði, goddess of the mountains and winter Sif, goddess...
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discovered around what is now the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands Nerthus (Latinized Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *Nerthuz) Latinized form of what...
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day trip on this ship with his father. The name Hertha is a variation on Nerthus, referring to a fertility goddess from Germanic mythology. Hertha performed...
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nothing remarkable about any of these tribes unless the common worship of Nerthus, that is Earth Mother, is considered. They believed she was interested...
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Njǫrðr. His position as the father of Njǫrðr should not be seen as certain. Nerthus is often suggested to be the same woman as Njǫrðr's unidentified sister...
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Germanic Vanir pair of Freyr and Freyja as well as the Germanic goddess Nerthus. She notes that Nehalennia features some of the same attributes as the...
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Aviones or Auiones (*Awioniz meaning "island people") were one of the Nerthus-worshipping Germanic tribes of the 1st century mentioned by Tacitus in...
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the god Bragi Jörð, personification of the earth and the mother of Thor Nerthus, goddess of the earth, called by the Romans Terra Mater Njörð, god of the...
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Teutonic and Scandinavian goddess of fertility, Hertha, also known as Nerthus. It orbits among the Nysa asteroid family, but its classification as a...
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could connect Ingui to earlier conceptions of the wagon processions of Nerthus and the later Scandinavian conceptions of Freyr's wagon journeys. Ingui...
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