through his use of parallels in his works. Heaney uses parallels to correspond two topics (parallel). Heaney uses parallels between human sacrifices, demanded by prehistory¡s feminine territorial religion, and Ulster¡s Contemporary violence. In his poems, he relates the bodies of sacrificial victims, recently discovered in a bog in Denmark, to recent Republican disasters (Bloom 29). Heaney decided to use the bog and its victims as parallels after he read The Bog People, by a Danish archaeologist named P. V. Glob. In Northwestern Europe, strangled and sacrificed people from the Iron Age were found in peat bogs. Heaney, in his work, attempts to use these dead bodies found in the bogs to refract the murderous characteristics of!
             the Northern Irish (Bloom 44). Heaney admits thinking that, ¡§¡Kthere are satisfactory imaginative parallels between this religion and time and our own time, and it is observed with amazement and a kind of civilized tut tut by Tacitus in the first century AD and by leader-writers in the Daily Telegraph in the Twentieth century.¡ (Quo in Bloom 29).
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