History is all

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History is all around us!
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Close your eyes!
Imagine that you have a spade in your hands!
Your family needs to keep warm!
You are digging peat to burn on the fire!
When suddenly you find...
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The Body!
This body was found in a peat bog on Tollund Fen
in Denmark in May 1950. Two men were digging peat
for burning. As they worked they suddenly saw in
the peat layer a face so fresh they thought they
had come across a recent murder. They called
the police. The men carefully removed the peat
from the body till more of him could be seen. The
man lay on his right side as if he was asleep.
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What had happened to him?
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Let's examine the evidence!
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These items were found around the Tollund Mans
neck. The items are a rope noose and an iron neck
ring. Iron Age people buried neck rings with
their dead as an offering to the Spring Goddess.
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SCIENTIFIC REPORT AGE The heart and organs were
healthy. The wisdom teeth had grown. These appear
in people around 20 years of age. STOMACH The
man had eaten at least 12 hours before he died.
The soup was made up of seeds that were only
connected with Spring. DOD When they dug up the
grave some plants were trapped under the body.
They were about 2000 years old.
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The German tribes hang traitors from trees and
drown cowards in fens under piles of sticks.
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This is a statue of an Earth Goddess found in a
peat bog in Denmark.
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The German tribes worshiped the Goddess of
Spring. Every Spring a cart carries a statue of
the Goddess in a procession. Afterwards the cart
and statues were washed by slaves, and then the
slaves were sacrificed.
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German Tribes hung traitors in trees, cowards,
people afraid to go to war and people with bad
morals were lowered into bogs and covered with
branches. One historian, Tacitus, described how
German tribes sacrificed human beings to Gods and
Goddesses.
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At the time of the Tollund Man there were
different burial customs in Denmark, but the one
thing they all had in common was that they
included cremation - except for a small group of
people who were sacrificed. They were placed in
bogs without being cremated.
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The Tollund Man might have been naked when he was
placed in the bog because he was a murdered
slave. It might explain why he had an iron ring
around his neck!
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X-Rays The forensic report stated that the
Tollund Man's neck was not broken. However, the
forensic examiner was certain that he had been
hanged. New examinations reveal among other
things that his tongue was swollen which often
happens when a person is hanged.
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Murder
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Suicide
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Sacrifice