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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9387492" data-attributes="member: 58172">As I mentioned, the tribal chiefs in Roman Germania were enthusiastic about this Roman syncretism. There are archeological remains in Germany of Roman-style temples to "Mercurius" and "Hercules", who are presumably part of local venerations of Wotan and Donar.The presence of a formal "priesthood", whose job is to administer and maintain a dedicated "temple", is part of the definition of a "god".It evidences the process of the polytheism of German tribal traditions.Probably there are already earlier examples of polytheization, in certain areas where Celtic (and other) tribes adopt a Germanic language, hence perceiving some animistic nature beings in relationship to Celtic (and other) deities.According to the dominant religion, or ethnocentrism generally.</blockquote>