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which cremation was the most com- 

 mon. The place cremation occupied in 

 ancient thought and the connection 

 fancied by our forefathers between the 

 elements which make up man's spirit- 

 ual body, may be gathered from Victor 

 Rydberg's researches in Germanic 

 mythology. 



"The popular ecclesiastical dualism 

 of soul and body," says Eydberg, "was 

 as foreign to the Veda-Aryans as to 

 the heathen Germanic race. Accord- 

 ing to the latter, man consisted of six 

 different elements: First, the earthly 

 element of which the visible body is 

 made; second, a vegetative; third, an 

 animal; fourth, the so-called Uteri (litr), 

 an inner body shaped after the gods, 

 and invisible to earthly eyes; fifth, the 

 soul; sixth, the spirit." 



The earthly and the vegetative ele- 

 ments were already joined in the trees, 

 Ask and Embla, w^hen the gods came 

 and changed them into the first human 

 pair. Each of the three gods gave them 

 separate gifts. From Lodur they re- 



