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Related: 25 cultures that practiced human sacrificeĬeremonies would have been held in the god house for important festivals on the religious calendar, such as the midsummer and midwinter solstices - the shortest and longest nights of the year, respectively. The purpose of the site is also revealed by a concentration of cooking pits where food for religious feasts was prepared, and numerous bones - the remains of animal sacrifices.Ī large white "phallus" stone, roughly representing the male genital organ, was also found nearby several years ago and was probably part of the Old Norse fertility rituals, Diinhoff said. (Image credit: University Museum of Bergen) Ancient worship Post-holes that show its distinctive shape, including its central tower, have been unearthed at the site. The Old Norse "god house" was built from wood about 1200 years ago to worship gods like Odin, Thor and Freyr. Norse religious worship became more ideological and organized, and god houses at Ose were patterned on Christian basilicas that travelers had seen in southern lands, he said.Īs a result, Old Norse temples featured a distinctive high tower above the pitched roof, which was a copy of the towers of early Christian churches, he said.Īlthough the wooden building is now long-gone, the post-holes that remain show its shape, including the round central posts of its tower - a very distinctive construction that was only ever used in god houses, Diinhoff said. Related: Photos: Viking outposts possibly found in Canada "When the new socially differentiated society set in, in the Roman Iron Age, the leading families took control of the cult," he said. The remains of the god house at Ose, however, are from a later time when the area began to be dominated by an elite group of wealthy families - a distinction that arose as Scandinavian societies began to interact with the more stratified societies of the Roman Empire and the Germanic tribes of northern Europe. Their excavations revealed traces of early agricultural settlements dating to between 2,000 and 2,500 years ago, including the remains of two longhouses that would have each been the center of a small farm for a family and their animals, Diinhoff said. (Image credit: University Museum of Bergen) God houseĪrchaeologists unearthed the foundations of the ancient building last month at Ose, a seaside village near the town of Ørsta in western Norway, ahead of preparations for a new housing development. Boathouses would have been built along the shore in ancient times. The site is beside the coast among mountains and inlets, about 150 miles south-west of the modern city of Trondheim.









Ck2 worship the ancestors