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ha = masculine word. The Hindoo Narâça[)m]sa means wish of men (Spiegel: " Erân. Altertumskunde," II, 49). Fire has the significance of Logos (compare Ch. 7, "Siegfried"). Of Agni (fire), Max Müller, in his introduction to "The Science of Comparative Religions," says: "It was a conception familiar to India to consider the fire upon the altar as being at the same time subject and object. The fire burned the sacrifice and was thereby similar to the priest, the fire carried the sacrifice to the gods, and was thereby an intercessor between men and the gods: fire itself, however, repre-*]*