Temple at Uppsala






 The Temple at Uppsala - was a temple of Norse Pagan Spirituality in Sweden, where Pagans often made pilgrimages to pay homage to the Gods (Kind of Like how Mecca is to the Muslims) people there worship statues of three specific gods that sit on a triple throne. Thor, who is referred to as "the mightiest," sits in the central throne, while Wodan (Odin) and Fricco (Freyr) are seated on the thrones to the sides of him.  Characteristics of the three gods, including that Freyr is depicted with an immense erect penis, Woden (Odin) in armor and that Thor has a mace, in addition, "they also worship gods who were once men, whom they reckon to be immortal because of their heroic acts.  It is said that the three gods have a priest or priestess appointed to them each who offer up sacrifices to the deities from the people.


The Temple at Uppsala was a religious center in the ancient Norse religion once located at what is now Gamla Uppsala (Swedish "Old Uppsala"), Theories have been proposed about the implications of the descriptions of the temple and the findings of the archaeological excavations in the area, along with recent findings of extensive wooden structures and log lines that may have played a supporting role to activities at the site, including ritual sacrifice. The temple was destroyed by King Inge the Elder in the 1080s.


Old Uppsala is situated a few kilometers north of the modern city of Uppsala in Sweden,  not far from another Old Norse site, Old Sígtuna. It is famous for having been an important pagan cultic center, and for its three great burial mounds that are astronomically aligned and oriented towards important ritual dates. No one knows exactly what purpose these mounds served, but their orientation fits exactly into a tradition of astronomical alignment in Swedish passage graves and burial mounds that reaches back to at least 3300 BC.

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