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I. Phenomenal Objects. 
1. Aerial. 
Hoenr. 
Odhinn. 
2. Semi-solar. 
Bragi. 
Heimdallr. 
Thorr. 
Tyr. 
3. Purely solar. 
Baldr. 
Freyr. 
Hermodhr. 
Yali. 
4. The Earth. 
Freyia. 
Frigga. 
Iduna. 
5. The Sea. 
Oegir. 
6. Darkness. 
Hodhr. 
II. Abstractions of Deity. 
Ye 
Yidhr. 
Yili. 
Note. — Odhinn is also a 
semi- solar and kosmogonical 
divinity, and a representation 
of the Supreme. 
General character of the per- 
sonages — supporters of exist- 
ing kosmic order. 
The personifications representing Earth, Sea, and Darkness, 
explain themselves; and, like the Yedic Prithivi,* may be 
dismissed from the number of original divinities. As before 
observed, f there must have been a time when the one sun had 
not yet been divided in idea, and therefore the purely solar 
divinities necessarily resolve themselves into a sun-god. The 
diurnal sun (Baldr) becomes the sun of the ; Under- world 
(Hermodhr) ; and, subsequently, the sun of the next day or 
next year (Yali). There is also the mighty power of the bright 
heaven, but after all, the Bright - brilliant - extended - en- 
lightener- of-the- worlds (Tyr-Bragi-Thorr- Heimdallr) is but 
the sun-power on high who rules with thunder and lightning. 
The solar photosphere, as noticed, was distinct from all these 
personages, and spoken of as female ; so we have, in effect, a 
male Sun-and-heaven-god, in connection with whom is an 
All-Father, Odhinn, who with two mysterious companions, Ye 
and Yili, formed heaven and earth in kosmic order. But Ye 
and Yili are only abstractions, the combination of their names 
signifying that the Will-of-the-Sacred-one, i.e., of Odhinn, 
was so exercised upon the kosmos. And, similarly, the first 
man and woman were animated by OdhimF and two other 
* Vide Zoroaster , sec. 20. 
f Ibid., sec. 23. 
