Roman temples found with a sacrificial pit researchers say

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Witchcraft & Pagan News - Researchers find Roman temples in modem-day Germany with a sacrificial space that raise questions about the nature of offerings to the gods and spirits. | Culture, Europe, News, Paganism

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What came to mind was similar to an Old Fashion New England Clam bake.

A clambake starts out by bottling sea water, digging a hole, starting a fire and gathering large rocks and rockweed (a type of seaweed that looks like a tangle of beaded necklaces and only grows in the North Atlantic ocean). While the wood burned down to a bed of hot coals and the sun started to sink in the horizon, we took in the sights of the bay: razor clams spitting water from their hide-y holes in the wet sand, the tide slowly creeping back in, little sea beans growing along the shore. Once the coals were ready, we laid rocks down in the pit to heat. On top of the hot rocks we layered a bed of rockweed and nestled the shellfish (clams, mussels, whole lobsters, baby potatoes, halved corn cobs) on top before covering it with a final layer of seaweed. We covered the pit with ocean-soaked burlap and held it down with more large rocks and waited…

The Roman secret to success was their ability to transform the lands they visited to their own needs. They did not need a long supply line, but rather the soldiers were also skilled craftsmen who would transform any land, for shelter and supplies.

A clam bake strategy would be a good way to slow cook; steam and smoke, a feast, starting in the morning, that would be ready after a long day of battle kicking barbarian butt. A clam bake, I suppose, could be seen as sacrifice to the gods of the ocean, with the feast part of the ritual and reward for winning the day and accepting the night; gather at sundown, This technique could also be used for smoking jerky for mobile food.