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The seventh letter, here substituted as ᛟ <i>(<a href="/wiki/Othalan" class="mw-redirect" title="Othalan">o</a></i>), was destroyed when the ring was cut in half by thieves in 1875. The reading of the damaged part is disputed, but it is clear that the inscription begins with the name of the Goths (<i>Gutani</i>) and ends with the word for "holy, sacred" (<i>hailag</i>).</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Gothic paganism</b> or <b>Gothic polytheism</b> was the original religion of the <a href="/wiki/Goths" title="Goths">Goths</a> before their conversion to <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gothic_paganism&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Goths" title="Goths">Goths</a> first appear in historical records in the early 3rd century and were <a href="/wiki/Gothic_Christianity" title="Gothic Christianity">Christianised</a> in the 4th and the 5th centuries. Information on the form of <a href="/wiki/Germanic_paganism" title="Germanic paganism">Germanic paganism</a> practiced by the Goths before Christianisation is thus limited to a comparatively narrow and sparsely-documented time window in the 3rd and the 4th centuries.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The centre of the Gothic cult was the village or clan (<i>Kuni</i>) and the ritual sacrificial meal held by the villagers under the leadership of the <i><a href="/wiki/Reiks" title="Reiks">reiks</a></i>. The reiks saw themselves as the guardians of ethnic tradition. That was expressed starkly in the <a href="/wiki/Gothic_persecution_of_Christians" title="Gothic persecution of Christians">Gothic persecution of Christians</a> in the 370s in which the reiks <a href="/wiki/Athanaric" title="Athanaric">Athanaric</a> saw his privilege threatened by the new religion. He responded by the persecution of converted Goths but not of Christian foreigners. According to the Passio of <a href="/wiki/Sabas_the_Goth" class="mw-redirect" title="Sabas the Goth">Sabas the Goth</a>, Sabas was executed for professing Christianity or rather for refusing to sacrifice to the tribal gods, and his companion, the priest Sansalas, was let go because he was a foreigner.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>After the Goths had settled <a href="/wiki/Oium" title="Oium">in Scythia</a> in the 2nd century, it is probable that a process of <a href="/wiki/Ethnogenesis" title="Ethnogenesis">ethnogenesis</a> was set in motion, and that most of the "Goths" of the 3rd and the 4th centuries were not in fact descended from Scandinavia but, much as was the case with the "<a href="/wiki/Huns" title="Huns">Huns</a>" in the following century, consisted of a heterogeneous population, which was united under the name of "Goths" by virtue of having submitted to the elite that was formed by the ruling dynasties of the <i>reiks</i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Gothic religion was purely tribal in which <a href="/wiki/Polytheism" title="Polytheism">polytheism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nature_worship" title="Nature worship">nature worship</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ancestor_worship" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancestor worship">ancestor worship</a> were one and the same. It is known that the <a href="/wiki/Amali_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Amali dynasty">Amali dynasty</a> deified their ancestors, the <i>Ansis</i> (cognate with Old English <i>ēse</i>, Old Norse <i><a href="/wiki/Aesir" class="mw-redirect" title="Aesir">æsir</a></i>), and that the Tervingi opened battle with songs of praise for their ancestors.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The gradual Christianisation of parts of the Gothic population came to a turning point in the 370s. A civil strife between the Christian <i>reiks</i> <a href="/wiki/Fritigern" title="Fritigern">Fritigern</a> and the pagan <i>reiks</i> <a href="/wiki/Athanaric" title="Athanaric">Athanaric</a> prompted Roman military intervention on the side of the Christians, which led to the <a href="/wiki/Gothic_War_(376%E2%80%93382)" title="Gothic War (376–382)">Gothic War (376–382)</a>. In 376, the Romans allowed a number of ostensibly-Christian Goths, including bishops and priests, to cross the <a href="/wiki/Danube" title="Danube">Danube</a> and to be granted asylum.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religious_practices">Religious practices</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gothic_paganism&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Religious practices"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The English word <i><a href="/wiki/God_(word)" title="God (word)">god</a></i> itself is cognate with the Gothic word <i>guþ</i> for a pagan idol, presumably a wooden statue of the kind paraded by <a href="/wiki/Wingurich" class="mw-redirect" title="Wingurich">Winguric</a> on a chariot when he challenged the Gothic Christians to worship the tribal gods. It became the word for the Christian God in the <a href="/wiki/Gothic_Bible" title="Gothic Bible">Gothic Bible</a> with its <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_gender" title="Grammatical gender">grammatical gender</a> changed from neuter to masculine only in the new sense.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The name of the <i>Goths</i> themselves is presumably related and means "those who libate", and <i>guþ</i> "idol" is the object of the act of libation.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The words for "to sacrifice" and for "sacrificer" were <i>blotan</i> and <i>blostreis</i>, which were used in Biblical Gothic in the sense of "Christian worship" and "Christian priest".<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>One peculiarity that separates Gothic religion from all other forms of early Germanic religion is the absence of weapons as <a href="/wiki/Grave_goods" title="Grave goods">grave goods</a>. Pagan warrior graves in Scandinavia, England and Germany almost invariably contained weapons until the practice was discontinued by Christianisation, the pagan Goths do not seem to have felt the need to bury their dead with weapons. That may have arisen from the fact that weapon burials began to become prominent among pagan peoples in the 5th and the 6th centuries, possibly as a method of permanently establishing prestige upon certain families by burial ritual in a period of a heightened economy and increased intergroup competition, thus well after the Goths' Christianisation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWolfram1990116–112_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWolfram1990116–112-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A Gothic belief in witches is attested with the story of the <i>haliurun(n)ae</i> (compare Anglo-Saxon <i><a href="/wiki/Hellr%C3%BAne" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellrúne">hellrúne</a></i>), who were expelled from the tribe by King Filimer and later mated with evil spirits and gave birth to the <a href="/wiki/Huns" title="Huns">Huns</a>, who eventually destroyed the Gothic Empire. Wolfram compares the rejection of <a href="/wiki/Necromancy" title="Necromancy">necromancy</a> or witchcraft by the Goths to the pagan Scandinavian rejection of the <i><a href="/wiki/Sei%C3%B0r" title="Seiðr">seiðr</a></i> of Finnic sorcerers or shamans.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWolfram1990116–112_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWolfram1990116–112-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gothic_deities">Gothic deities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gothic_paganism&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Gothic deities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Very little can be said with certainty regarding the individual <a href="/wiki/Germanic_pantheon" class="mw-redirect" title="Germanic pantheon">gods</a> worshipped among the Goths. </p><p>In the light of comparative evidence from later forms of Germanic paganism, it seems likely that the "Germanic trinity" of <i><a href="/wiki/Odin" title="Odin">Wodanaz</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/T%C3%BDr" title="Týr">Tīwaz</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Thor" title="Thor">Þunraz</a></i> may have had a parallel among the Goths, with the names Gaut, Teiws, and Fairguneis.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWolfram1990116–112_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWolfram1990116–112-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="War_god_*Teiws"><span id="War_god_.2ATeiws"></span>War god *Teiws</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gothic_paganism&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: War god *Teiws"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Goths had a cult of a <a href="/wiki/God_of_war" class="mw-redirect" title="God of war">god of war</a>, identified by the Romans with <a href="/wiki/Mars_(mythology)" title="Mars (mythology)">Mars</a>, presumably cognate to the <a href="/wiki/Proto-Germanic" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Germanic">Proto-Germanic</a> <i><a href="/wiki/T%C4%ABwaz" class="mw-redirect" title="Tīwaz">Tīwaz</a></i>, perhaps called <i>*Teiws</i> in Gothic, on the basis on the corresponding <a href="/wiki/Gothic_alphabet" title="Gothic alphabet">letter names</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Among the Tervingi, perhaps also known as the <i>Terwing</i>, the tribe's mythical, <a href="/wiki/Eponymous_ancestor" class="mw-redirect" title="Eponymous ancestor">eponymous ancestor</a>, possibly related also to the <i><a href="/wiki/Tyrfing" title="Tyrfing">Týrfingr</a></i> lost sword legend, 'the finger' of the god Týr, which on touch caused sudden death to its enemies.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ancestor_Gapt_vs._Norse_Odin">Ancestor Gapt vs. Norse Odin</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gothic_paganism&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Ancestor Gapt vs. Norse Odin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There was also <a href="/wiki/Gaut" title="Gaut">Gaut or Gapt</a>, the ancestor of the <a href="/wiki/Amali_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Amali dynasty">Amali dynasty</a> and presumably eponymous of the entire people of the "Goths". It is unclear whether this deity should be considered independent of those that were just mentioned or if it is only another name by which either of them was also known.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a> <i>Gautr</i> in later centuries served as another name for Odin in Scandinavia. It may also be significant that in the <a href="/wiki/Prose_Edda" title="Prose Edda">Prose Edda</a>, Odin himself is said to have come to the north from the Black Sea region, referred to as Turkland, the lands that some believe were formerly and later inhabited by some ancestors of the Goths. If <i>Gapt</i> was the original "<a href="/wiki/Aesir" class="mw-redirect" title="Aesir">ansic</a>" ancestor, which was later identified with Odin, the Gothic letter name <i>*ansuz</i> (<i>aza</i>) may testify to his importance, but that does not imply that Gaut can be assumed to have had the same attributes typical of Odin in the Viking Age.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> These may be echoes that hark back to an older influence from many centuries earlier in which it is visible in the archaeological records the introduction of steppes elements from the Yamna Culture among the earliest Germanic cultural horizon, which giving birth to the Corded Ware Culture from the Copper Age.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="*Fairguneis,_Ingwaz,_and_*Donaws"><span id=".2AFairguneis.2C_Ingwaz.2C_and_.2ADonaws"></span>*Fairguneis, Ingwaz, and *Donaws</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gothic_paganism&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: *Fairguneis, Ingwaz, and *Donaws"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Another important god may have been called <i><a href="/wiki/Perkwunos" class="mw-redirect" title="Perkwunos">*Fairguneis</a></i> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">pronounced</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">[fɛːrguːniːs]</a></span>), identified by the Romans as <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupiter (mythology)">Jupiter</a> and presumed by modern scholars to be <a href="/wiki/Thor" title="Thor">Thor</a>, but that relies on the accuracy of the Romans' interpretation of Gothic religion.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The Gothic letter <i>enguz</i> may indicate the existence among the Goths of the god <i>Ingwaz</i>, an older <a href="/wiki/List_of_names_of_Freyr" title="List of names of Freyr">name for the god Freyr</a>, but there is no other evidence for that.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Finally, the <a href="/wiki/Danube_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Danube River">Danube River</a> may have also been deified as <i>*Donaws</i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gothic_paganism&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gaut" title="Gaut">Gaut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germanic_paganism" title="Germanic paganism">Germanic paganism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gothic_Christianity" title="Gothic Christianity">Gothic Christianity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gothic_runic_inscriptions" title="Gothic runic inscriptions">Gothic runic inscriptions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ring_of_Pietroassa" title="Ring of Pietroassa">Ring of Pietroassa</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Herwig_Wolfram" title="Herwig Wolfram">Wolfram, Herwig</a> (1990). "Cult and Religion among the Goths". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=xsQxcJvaLjAC"><i>History of the Goths</i></a>. Translated by Dunlap, Thomas J. <a href="/wiki/University_of_California_Press" title="University of California Press">University of California Press</a>. pp. 106–112. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0520069838" title="Special:BookSources/0520069838"><bdi>0520069838</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Cult+and+Religion+among+the+Goths&rft.btitle=History+of+the+Goths&rft.pages=106-112&rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=0520069838&rft.aulast=Wolfram&rft.aufirst=Herwig&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DxsQxcJvaLjAC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGothic+paganism" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gothic_paganism&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNordgren2011" class="citation book cs1">Nordgren, Ingemar (2011). "Goths and Religion". In <a href="/wiki/Anders_Kaliff" title="Anders Kaliff">Kaliff, Anders</a>; Munkhammar, Lars (eds.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:668706/FULLTEXT01.pdf"><i>Wulfila 311-2011</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acta_Universitatis_Upsaliensis" class="extiw" title="sv:Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis">Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis</a>. pp. 209–224. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789155486648" title="Special:BookSources/9789155486648"><bdi>9789155486648</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Goths+and+Religion&rft.btitle=Wulfila+311-2011&rft.pages=209-224&rft.pub=Acta+Universitatis+Upsaliensis&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=9789155486648&rft.aulast=Nordgren&rft.aufirst=Ingemar&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.diva-portal.org%2Fsmash%2Fget%2Fdiva2%3A668706%2FFULLTEXT01.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGothic+paganism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchwarcz2003" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-interwiki-linked-name"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Schwarcz" class="extiw" title="de:Andreas Schwarcz">Schwarcz, Andreas</a> <span class="cs1-format">[in German]</span> (2003). "Cult And Religion Among The Tervingi And The Visigoths And Their Conversion To Christianity". In <a href="/wiki/Peter_Heather" title="Peter Heather">Heather, Peter</a> (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4MADmH2eaGIC"><i>The Visigoths from the Migration Period to the Seventh Century</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Boydell_%26_Brewer_Ltd" class="mw-redirect" title="Boydell & Brewer Ltd">Boydell & Brewer Ltd</a>. pp. 447–472. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781843830337" title="Special:BookSources/9781843830337"><bdi>9781843830337</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Cult+And+Religion+Among+The+Tervingi+And+The+Visigoths+And+Their+Conversion+To+Christianity&rft.btitle=The+Visigoths+from+the+Migration+Period+to+the+Seventh+Century&rft.pages=447-472&rft.pub=Boydell+%26+Brewer+Ltd&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=9781843830337&rft.aulast=Schwarcz&rft.aufirst=Andreas&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D4MADmH2eaGIC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGothic+paganism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThompson1961" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/E._A._Thompson" title="E. 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colspan="2" style="background:#d5dcb0;"><div><a href="/wiki/Ethnolinguistic_group" title="Ethnolinguistic group">Ethnolinguistic group</a> of <a href="/wiki/Northern_Europe" title="Northern Europe">Northern European</a> origin primarily identified as speakers of <a href="/wiki/Germanic_languages" title="Germanic languages">Germanic languages</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d5dcb0;;width:1%">History</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nordic_Bronze_Age" title="Nordic Bronze Age">Nordic Bronze Age</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germania" title="Germania">Germania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pre-Roman_Iron_Age" class="mw-redirect" title="Pre-Roman Iron Age">Pre-Roman Iron Age</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Iron_Age" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Iron Age">Roman Iron Age</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romano-Germanic_culture" title="Romano-Germanic culture">Romano-Germanic culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germanic_Iron_Age" class="mw-redirect" title="Germanic Iron Age">Germanic Iron Age</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viking_Age" title="Viking Age">Viking Age</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d5dcb0;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Early_Germanic_culture" title="Early Germanic culture">Early culture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Early_Germanic_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Early Germanic architecture">Architecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Migration_Period_art" title="Migration Period art">Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Early_Germanic_calendars" title="Early Germanic calendars">Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Early_Germanic_clothing" class="mw-redirect" title="Early Germanic clothing">Clothing</a></li> <li><a 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mounds">Anglo-Saxon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norse_funeral" title="Norse funeral">Norse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germanic_law" title="Germanic law">Law</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_law" title="Anglo-Saxon law">Anglo-Saxon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medieval_Scandinavian_law" title="Medieval Scandinavian law">Norse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Early_Germanic_literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Early Germanic literature">Literature</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Old_English_literature" title="Old English literature">Anglo-Saxon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Norse_literature" title="Old Norse literature">Norse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germanic_name" title="Germanic name">Names</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gothic_name" title="Gothic name">Gothic</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Numbers_in_Germanic_paganism" title="Numbers in Germanic paganism">Numbers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germanic_paganism" title="Germanic paganism">Paganism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_paganism" title="Anglo-Saxon paganism">Anglo-Saxon</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Gothic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Norse_religion" title="Old Norse religion">Norse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rings_in_Germanic_paganism" class="mw-redirect" title="Rings in Germanic paganism">Rings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Early_Germanic_culture#Scripts" title="Early Germanic culture">Scripts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gothic_alphabet" title="Gothic alphabet">Gothic alphabet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Runes" class="mw-redirect" title="Runes">Runes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Early_Germanic_symbols" class="mw-redirect" title="Early Germanic symbols">Symbology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Early_Germanic_warfare" title="Early Germanic warfare">Warfare</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_warfare" title="Anglo-Saxon warfare">Anglo-Saxon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gothic_and_Vandal_warfare" title="Gothic and Vandal warfare">Gothic and Vandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viking_raid_warfare_and_tactics" title="Viking raid warfare and tactics">Viking</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d5dcb0;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Germanic_languages" title="Germanic languages">Languages</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Germanic_parent_language" title="Germanic parent language">Germanic parent language</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language" title="Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic language</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Germanic_languages" title="East Germanic languages">East Germanic languages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Germanic_languages" title="North Germanic languages">North Germanic languages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Germanic_languages" title="West Germanic languages">West Germanic languages</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d5dcb0;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_early_Germanic_peoples" title="List of early Germanic peoples">Groups</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alemanni" title="Alemanni">Alemanni</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brisigavi" title="Brisigavi">Brisgavi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bucinobantes" title="Bucinobantes">Bucinobantes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lentienses" title="Lentienses">Lentienses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raetovari" title="Raetovari">Raetovari</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adrabaecampi" class="mw-redirect" title="Adrabaecampi">Adrabaecampi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angles_(tribe)" title="Angles (tribe)">Angles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxons" title="Anglo-Saxons">Anglo-Saxons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ambrones" title="Ambrones">Ambrones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ampsivarii" title="Ampsivarii">Ampsivarii</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angrivarii" title="Angrivarii">Angrivarii</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armalausi" title="Armalausi">Armalausi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auiones" title="Auiones">Auiones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avarpi" title="Avarpi">Avarpi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baemi" title="Baemi">Baemi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baiuvarii" title="Baiuvarii">Baiuvarii</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banochaemae" title="Banochaemae">Banochaemae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bastarnae" title="Bastarnae">Bastarnae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Batavi_(Germanic_tribe)" title="Batavi (Germanic tribe)">Batavi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belgae" title="Belgae">Belgae</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Germani_cisrhenani" title="Germani cisrhenani">Germani cisrhenani</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Atuatuci" title="Atuatuci">Atuatuci</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caerosi" title="Caerosi">Caeroesi</a></li> <li><a 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religion">Vainakh</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celtic_polytheism" class="mw-redirect" title="Celtic polytheism">Celtic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Irish_mythology" title="Irish mythology">Irish</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Etruscan_religion" title="Etruscan religion">Etruscan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germanic_paganism" title="Germanic paganism">Germanic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_paganism" title="Anglo-Saxon paganism">Anglo-Saxon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frankish_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Frankish mythology">Frankish</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Gothic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Norse_religion" title="Old Norse religion">Norse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_religion" title="Ancient Greek religion">Greek</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_religion" title="Hellenistic religion">Hellenistic religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_hero_cult" title="Greek hero cult">Hero cult</a></li> <li><a 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mythology">Lusitanian</a></li></ul></li> <li>Italic <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Camunni_religion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Camunni religion (page does not exist)">Camunnian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ligures_religion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ligures religion (page does not exist)">Ligurian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Umbri_religion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Umbri religion (page does not exist)">Umbrian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minoan_religion" title="Minoan religion">Minoan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nuragic_religion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nuragic religion (page does not exist)">Nuragic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paleo-Balkan_mythology" title="Paleo-Balkan mythology">Paleo-Balkan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dacian_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Dacian religion">Dacian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illyrian_religion" title="Illyrian 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title="Hungarian mythology">Hungarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mari_Native_Religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Mari Native Religion">Mari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sami_shamanism" class="mw-redirect" title="Sami shamanism">Sami</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Middle-Eastern_and_North_African" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Middle-Eastern and North African</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" 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0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Akan_religion" title="Akan religion">Akan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bantu_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Bantu mythology">Bantu</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bushongo_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Bushongo mythology">Bushongo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kongo_religion" title="Kongo religion">Kongo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lozi_mythology" title="Lozi mythology">Lozi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zulu_traditional_religion" title="Zulu traditional religion">Zulu</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dahomean_religion" title="Dahomean religion">Dahomean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinka_religion" title="Dinka religion">Dinka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Efik_mythology" title="Efik mythology">Efik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hausa_animism" title="Hausa 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