Time Travelers And The Gods

In Bronze Age Britain, Malcolm Lockridge persuades the farmers that manslaughter does not please the gods. They speak of erecting a great temple on Salisbury Plain... In Scandinavia, Lockridge intends to build a sanctuary:

"...to the worship of Her Who one day will be called Mary."
-Poul Anderson, The Corridors Of Time (Frogmore, St Albans, Herts, 1975), CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE, pp. 203-204.

At the halidom for Jorith:

"...the Wanderer forbade bloodshed. Only first fruits of the earth might be offered. The story arose that apples cast in the fire before the stone became the Apples of Life."
-"The Sorrow of Odin the Goth," 302-330, p. 382.

Another Time Patrol agent, Janne Floris, plays the role of a goddess whose imagery will be  incorporated into that of "...Her Who will one day be called Mary."

When Dagobert, son of the Wanderer and Jorith, leads his people south, his grandparents, Jorith's parents, stay behind and:

"When the wagons had creaked away, the Wanderer sought those two out, one last time; and was kind to them, for the sake of what had been and of her who slept by the River Vistula." (p. 384)

That phrase, "...what had been...," expresses all human life. In this case, thanks to the Wanderer's supernatural interventions:

"What mattered was that for a half-score years, the Goths along the upper Vistula knew peace."
-300-302, p. 369.

That is what had been.