22 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



ceived la, that is the blood, and laeti, 

 that is the power of intentional move- 

 ment inherent in the blood, which at- 

 tributes have been considered by all 

 peoples as the characteristics that dis- 

 tinguish animal from vegetable life. 

 Lodur gave them further the god-image, 

 liter goda, by the power of which man's 

 earthly substance receives the form in 

 which it appears to the senses. The 

 Germanic race, like the Hellenes and 

 the Eomans, believed that the gods had 

 human form, so that this form origi- 

 nally belonged to the gods. To the 

 Germanic hierologists and bards man 

 was formed in effigicm deorum and pos- 

 sessed in his nature a liter goda, a god 

 image in the literal sense of the word. 



This image may for a short time be 

 separated from the other human ele- 

 ments, so that a person may assume 

 the appearance of another without 

 changing his spiritual identity. 



The soul, odr, is the gift of Honer, 

 while the spirit, and, is the contribu- 

 tion of Odin. 



