And herein they are only superstitious but in what follows, they are impious and heathenish. As first they go to Church not out of any devotion, but compulsion. Next they stick at several Principles of the Christian Religion, especially the resurrection of the dead, the union of the body and soul, and the immortality of the soul. For they fancy to themselves that men and beasts go the same way; and will not be perswaded that there is any life after this. Whereupon one _Georgius_, a Laplandish Priest, desired upon his death bed that he might be buried amongst the _Laplanders_, that at the last day when he should rise together with them, they might find his doctrine of the resurrection true. Notwithstanding they believe that something of a man remains after he is dead, but they know not what it is; which was the very opinion of the Heathens, who therefore feign’d their Manes to be somewhat that did remain after their death. A third impiety they are guilty of, is joining their own feign’d gods with God and Christ, and paying them equall reverence and worship, as if God and the Devil had made an agreement together to share their devotions between them. Those of _Lapponia Pithensis_ and _Luhlensis_ have their greater and lesser Gods; the greater to whom they pay especial worship are, _Thor_, _Storjunkaren_, and the _Sun_. _Damianus à Goes_ writes that they worship the Fire and Statues of stone: but those Statues are only the Images of _Storjunkaren_, and the Fire is only an embleme of the Sun; for that they worshipped Fire it self for a God, is very false, as appears from _Tornæus_, who made particular enquiry into that thing. The same may be said of _Peucer_, who taking his mistake from the wooden Image of _Thor_, reports that they worship wood. So that there are only three, and that among the _Pithenses_ and _Luhlenses_; for the _Tornenses_ and _Kiemenses_ knew nothing of them, but in their stead under one common name worshipped a Deity, whom they called _Seita_, whereof every family and almost every person had one. Nevertheless there was one chief Idoll to which all the neighbourhood paid devotion. But tho this word _Seita_ denotes any God among the _Laplanders_, yet may we suppose that under that name, especially as it signifies the publick Idoll, they worshipped the same, which the _Luhlenses_ call _Tiermes_, or _Aijeke_ (i. e.) thunderer, or father, by others named _Thor_. And by the private Idols they mean’t him, who by the _Luhlenses_ is called _Storjunkare_, making the difference to consist not in the Gods but their names. The _Tornenses_ rather using a generall appellation, and calling them all _Seitas_, whereas the _Luhlenses_ call the greater _Termes_ or _Aijeke_, and the lesser _Storjunkar_. And if one attend to their manner of worshipping these Gods, they will appear to be the same. Besides these greater, the _Pithenses_, _Luhlenses_, and their neighbours have some inferior Gods, as the _Tornenses_ likewise have,