mysterious companions,, Hoenr and Lodr. The meaning of 
the name Hoenr is obscure* * * § but Lodr undoubtedly signifies 
“ warmth/' and the myth appears to express that the corporeal 
frame of man was in the first instance animated by HCther 
(spirit)* Air (soul)* and Fire (physical life-heat). Lastly* the 
renovating might of deity (Yidhr) will be exercised on the 
renewed earth (Iduna) ; and Yidhr is only a son (phase) and 
even a name of Odhinn.* Baldr* Bragi* Heimdallr* Hermodhr* 
Thorr* Tyr* and Yali are also all sons (manifestations) of 
Odhinn. Again* none of these names except the general 
appellation As (plural Aesir)* Tyr* and perhaps Iduna and 
Oegir*t are primitive (Proto- Aryan). In the period of con- 
siderably more than two thousand years which elapsed between' 
the departure of the Teutons from the primitive Aryan home 
and the discovery of the Norse divinities in Iceland* some old 
names have doubtless faded away* these and other numerous 
new ones have arisen* but through all these ages the great- 
name of God, Asura-Zeus* As* or Asa-Tyr* has remained un- 
conquerable by time. It is true that Tyr in the Norse Pan- 
theon as formerly constituted does not occupy as high a place 
as the Yedic Dyaus-Yaruna* Zeus* Ju-piter* or the German 
Tiu ; but he was originally identified with Odhinn* J although 
afterwards he became distinct in idea* and was relegated to a 
lower, yet very honourable position* in the same way that 
Dyaus, and subsequently Yaruna* were superseded in India by 
other divinities. Thus, on analysis, these personages resolve 
themselves into a spiritual All- Father in heaven* whose great- 
ness and goodness are chiefly manifested in solar light ; that is 
to say* we meet again with Yaruna and Mitra under other 
names. § Kingsley, in a beautiful passage* thus sets forth the 
faith of our ancestors : — They looked round upon the earth* 
those simple-hearted forefathers of ours* and said* f Where is 
the All-Father ? Not in this earth ; for it will perish. Nor 
in the sun* moon* or stars ; for they will perish too. Where 
is He who abideth for ever V Then they lifted up their eyes 
and saw* beyond all which changes and will change* the clear 
blue sky* the boundless firmament of heaven. The All-Father 
must be there* unchangeable in the unchangingheaven; bright* 
and pure* and boundless* like the heavens ; and like the 
heavens* too* silent and far off. So they named him after the 
* Hrafnagaldr Odins (“ Odhinn’s Raven’s Song”), 17. 
t Perhaps connected with the Sk. root oj (vide p. 314, note). 
X “ Originally Odin, like Zeus, was the iEether. As such he bore the 
name of Tzin, in the northern dialect Tyr , both of which are forms of Zeus, 
Dev, Divus, Deus ” (Bunsen, God in History, ii. 488). 
§ Vide Zoroaster, secs. 24-26. 
