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  Heimdallr and Apam Napat [This article builds on our most recent article demonstrating the parallel between Manannan, Odinn, and the Vedic fire god Agni:  Link ] In his Investigations, Viktor Rydberg contends that Agni is in fact a parallel of Heimdallr. However, it is not difficult to contest this claim. Rydberg in fact assumes that the deity Apam Napat, The Descendant of Waters, who has become combined with Agni in the Vedas, but not elsewhere, is simply an aspect of Agni. Thus he uses for his comparison the composite Agni-Apam Napat found in the Vedas under the name “Agni,” * then brings in the Apam Napat of the  Avesta  for further support of the Agni comparison. This of course does not work if Agni and Apam Napat are distinct deities only combined in the  Rig Veda , as it appears. An original distinction between Agni and Apam Napat is supported by the fact that Apam Napat and the Fire god are separate in the Iranic  Avesta;  by the clear disti...

  Manannan and Agni   There is nothing in particular in our previous investigations (see:  The Great Lunar Cycle ) to suggest that Njörðr, Pwyll, or Manawydan are themselves Horse Twins, as has sometimes been suggested, and these theories, which lack the fuller context, must be put aside. Instead, we can draw an interesting connection between the advisor of Samvarana, Vasistha and the friend and helper of Pryderi, Manawydan. In the portion of the myth where Samvarana in the Vedic version and Pryderi in the Welsh parallel occupies the sacred mountain improperly, leading to a wasteland, it is Vasistha in the one tale, and Manawydan in the other, who must then bring Samvarana or Pryderi back to their kingdoms to break the enchantment and revive the land. Interestingly, at this time Manawydan has become husband to the previously wooed wife of the now dead Pwyll -- that is, Rhiannon.            If we consider again the hymn to "Suryā's Brid...