or HERTHUS, in mythology, a deity worshipped by the ancient Germans. This is mentioned by Tacitus, in his book De Moribus Germanorum, cap. 40. Vossius conjectures, that this goddess was Cybele; but she was more probably Terra or the Earth; because the Germans still use the word hert for the earth, whence also the English earth. Some have supposed that Stonehenge was a temple consecrated to the goddess Herta.