The History of Human Sacrifice in Germanic Pagan Religions

In Indo-European religions what we see again and again is a kind of clever sort of twisting of the theology surrounding human sacrifice to get around it. In Rome they come up with this numa comes up with a story about how numa prevent, usually there's only one god in every pantheon who actually wants human sacrifice and the others don't. It's like the he says oh you know I'll give you fish instead of blood and like oh I need some man and they give him a bit of hair or something. But eventually I think they just thought like okay well the god Odin demands blood, none of the other gods don't mind a human sacrifice but Odin does so let's