from Germanic gods and nymphs to Christian heroes and fountains of Mary Written by Rainer: rainer.lehrer@yahoo.com Learn languages (via Skype): Rainer: + 36 20 549 52 97 or + 36 20 334 79 74

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from Germanic gods and nymphs to Christian heroes and fountains of Mary For the missionaries coming from Rome, it was almost an impossible undertaking to make it clear to these “primitive” pagans in the north that there should only be one God for all these natural phenomena. So they took their imagination to their aid and, for example, turned a Wotan into a Saint George who kills dragons, and out of the many water nymphs simply Mary's wells, and later in the 16th century from the fir tree, the symbol of fertility, a Christmas tree. According to the motto: We wisely incorporate what we cannot eradicate. Back to list!

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