I think all religions had their heroic parts. What I meant is some of these religions could been used by the rullers as a propaganda mean for war. I think this religion was intense used both by Burebista and Decebalus.
Any religion in history could and were manipulated for preaching warfare. There is nothing exceptionally aggressive about Thracian or Germanic theology in comparison to Judaism.
I didn't know about germans. Have you a source?
It was common practice in the Roman Empire to syncretize provincial deities with Greco-Roman Gods. Germanic auxilliaries in the Roman Army are thought have made votive offerings to Hercules, which they may have conflated with Thunor (Thor).
Yes, but specific informations about dacians and germans suggest their religion were used as a warlike propaganda by their rullers. I think romans knew this, and made distinction between different warlike customs. Zalmoxe and Odin were the main gods.
Roman sources, but none from the Dacians themselves. Plus, "Woden", "Thunor" and "Tiwaz" were the main gods of the Germanic tribes, and with no certain way of knowing if there was any sort of accepted hierarchy among them.
I don't denny it, but Zalmoxis simply dissapeared after 106.
Yes, because Trajan destroyed Dacian civil society, along with its clerical authority.
Yes, my bad! Then Burebista was a pionier![]()
Alexander the Great and the Pharoahs would have beaten Burebista to it. And thats assuming IF Dacians believed in god-kings as well.