. Out from the Darkness: An Autobiography Unfolding the Life Story and Singular Vicissitudes of a Scandinavian Bartimǽus. is assigned to Zeus in the Greek as creat-or of the world, father of the gods, holding the su-preme power and being possessed of all Valkyries were specially under his control, andin battles his decision gave victory irrespective ofstrong battalions. The decision in councils of the gods, and thestrategy to accomplish every end, emanated fromOdin, to whose fame the German scientist, BaronVon Reichenbach did homage in calling a peculiariridescence, which only so
. Out from the Darkness: An Autobiography Unfolding the Life Story and Singular Vicissitudes of a Scandinavian Bartimǽus. is assigned to Zeus in the Greek as creat-or of the world, father of the gods, holding the su-preme power and being possessed of all Valkyries were specially under his control, andin battles his decision gave victory irrespective ofstrong battalions. The decision in councils of the gods, and thestrategy to accomplish every end, emanated fromOdin, to whose fame the German scientist, BaronVon Reichenbach did homage in calling a peculiariridescence, which only some few people can see,about the arms of a magnet and in strongly mag-netic persons, Odic force. The field was not fer-tile, in the faith of our ancestors, unless Odin gavehis blessing, nor could the winds and waves be pro-pitiated unless the ruler willed success to his wor-shipers. The vagueness that belongs to every myth-ology, separating with a broad line of demarcationthe imaginings of men from revelation, can be foundof course in the mythology of Scandinavia and Ger-many. Odin the supremely wise was indebted to. OUT FROM THE DARKNESS. 37 I Mimers fountain for his inspiration, having drunkat the stream by special favor, and left one of hiseyes in pledge for the accommodation; so thatOdin is always represented with one eye. In Egyptian mythology the several qualities andfunctions of intellect were represented by differentanimals, or by parts of animals, as, for instance,the head of a bull, the wing of a bird, the serpentswallowing its tail, to typify eternal duration, andso on. Such a process was absolutely necessarywhere arbitrary descriptive characters were un-known, as all minds, however barbarous, couldgather some ideas from images and pictures of liv-ing things; and so among the Scandinavian races,the functions of the eternal mind were typified byanimal life. Two ravens sat perched on the shoul-ders of Odin: Huginn as the perceptive faculty,and Muninn as memory. They we
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