Pleistoros was, according to Herodotus (The Histories, IX, 119),[1] a Thracian god adored by the Gauls and the tribe "Absinthe" (Apsintieni) as the god of war.
According to Josephus Flavius (in his Antiquities of the Jews, XVIII, 22).
[2][a] Pleistoros was the god of war Dacians pleistoi, to which these Thracians offered sacrifices of men.
[5][6] The priests were recruited between nobles, some of whom are warriors.
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