CHAPTER VI.
Of the Religion, which prevailed in the North, and particularly in Scandinavia, after the death of Odin.
THE most striking alteration in the doctrines of the primitive religion, was in the number of the Gods who were to be worshipped. A capital point among the Scythians, was that preheminence, I have been describing, of one only all-powerful and perfect being over all the other intelligences with which universal nature was peopled. The firm belief of a doctrine so reasonable had such influence on their minds, that they openly testified on several occasions their hatred and contempt for the polytheism of those nations, who treated them as Barbarians; and made it their first care to destroy all the objects of idolatrous worship in whatever place they established their authority[1]. But the descendants of
- ↑ They demolished the temples and statues of their Gods: this was done by the Persians
