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Nerthus, a Divinity in Germanic paganism, is connected to ritual wagon parade. In his ethnographic research Germania from the first century AD, the Roman historian Tacitus mentions Nerthus. Tacitus mentions a special group of Germanic people in Germania who stood out for their devotion to the Goddess. Tacitus gives a thorough account of the wagon procession: The location of Nerthus-Cart in the Ocean on an Island is unknown, but it is stored in a sacred grove and covered with white fabric. It can only be handled by a priest. The cart is being pulled by heifers when the priest notices Nerthus by it. Everywhere it passes, Cart of Nerthus is greeted with joy and peace; no one engages in hostilities, and all iron things are hidden away. The priest eventually returns the cart to the Temple of the Goddess, where the men in service perform a ritual washing of the Goddess, Her Cart, and the Cloth in a Isolated Lake, when the Goddess has had enough of human association. The popular culture has been somewhat influenced by the described Nerthus by Tacitus, particularly the now generally discredited manuscript reading of Hertha in Germany. The Old Norse god Njörðr, a male deity who is similarly associated with waggons and water in Norse mythology, shares etymological roots with the goddess Nerthus. The three make up the godly family known as the Vanir, along with their offspring Freyja and Freyr. Scholars have matched three accounts from the Old Norse record that describe religious wagon processions to Tacitus-account of Nerthus wagon procession. The Germanic Iron Age Dejbjerg waggon in Denmark and the Viking Age Oseberg ship burial wgon in Norway are two examples of ceremonial wagons that scholars have related account of Tacitus to.

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