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An Irminsul was a revered, pillar-like structure recognized for its significant role in the Germanic paganism practiced by the Saxons. The Germanic people held sacred trees and groves in high esteem. Medieval accounts recount how Charlemagne destroyed an Irminsul during the Saxon Wars. In 783, a church was built on its site and consecrated by Pope Leo III. The Germanic deity Irmin, inferred from the term Irminsûl and the tribal designation Irminones, is considered in some earlier scholarly works to have been the national god or demi-god of the Saxons. Irmin may also represent an aspect or epithet of another deity, most likely Wodan or Odin. The Old Saxon compound word Irminsûl translates to -- Great Pillar. Irminsuls are referenced in various historical texts that discuss the Christianization of the continental Germanic people. According to the Royal Frankish Annals from 772 AD, during the Saxon Wars, Charlemagne is frequently noted as commanding the destruction of the principal seat of their religion, an Irminsul. The Irminsul is said to have been located not far from Heresburg, which is present-day Obermarsberg, Germany. Under Louis the Pious in the 9th century, a stone column was unearthed at Obermarsberg in Westphalia, Germany, and subsequently moved to the Hildesheim cathedral in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany. In the thirteenth century, the destruction of the Irminsul by Charlemagne was recorded as still being commemorated in Hildesheim on the Saturday following Laetare Sunday. This commemoration reportedly involved planting two six-foot poles, each topped with a wooden object one foot tall shaped like a pyramid or cone in the cathedral square. Youths would then use sticks and stones in an effort to topple the object. This tradition is noted to have existed in other parts of Germany, particularly in Halberstadt, where it was performed on Laetare Sunday by the Canons themselves. Among the North Germanic peoples, the Old Norse version of Irmin is Jörmunr, which, similar to Yggr, is one of the names attributed to Odin. Yggdrasil is a celestial tree from which Odin offered himself in sacrifice, serving as a connection among the Nine worlds.

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