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Tactitus said the same thing about the early Germanic tribes, saying that they did not see it fit to imprison their gods in statues and that they were above human forms. He said some tribes even only recognized the Moon, the Sun and the Stars as gods, but the Romans said this sort of thing alot so it could be propaganda to make either look primitive.
I think its more likely that the early Germanics were much like the Celts and worshiped in Groves, as Tactitus said, and later the Saxons and Vikings imported the more Roman practice of making statues for their gods. At least they were rudimentary poles and tree trunks carved with human faces, which were still used later on as described by Ibn Fadlan, but by the late Viking age it appears the Germanics had large, elaborate statues inside grand temples. Whether this is indeed an imported Roman practice or a Native Germanic one that was only found in Scandinavia is unknown.
I dont know much about the Celts and their practices, although I know after the Roman conquest of Gaul, the Gaulish Celts began worshiping their gods in the form of statues roughly based on the Roman types. Before this the Celts dont appear to have used statues for worship.
However there is pic related, which predates the Roman period, but it does not appear to depict a God but rather an ancestor or king.