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HERTHA, or NERTHUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 400 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERTHA, or NERTHUS , in See also:Teutonic See also:mythology, the goddess of fertility, "See also:Mother See also:Earth." See also:Tacitus states that many Teutonic tribes worshipped her with orgies and mysterious See also:rites celebrated at See also:night. The See also:chief seat of her cult was an See also:island which has not been identified. A single See also:priest performed the service. Her veiled statue was moved from See also:place to place by sacred cows on which none but the priest might See also:lay hands. At the conclusion of the rites the See also:image, its See also:vestments and its vehicle were bathed in a See also:lake.

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