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The cloud-maidens are known in the Vedas as _Apas_ (waters), and are styled brides of the gods (Dêvapatnis) and _Návyah_, _i.e._, navigators of the celestial sea. Nearly related to them, but less divine, are the _Apsarases_; damsels whose habitat is between the earth and the sun. They are the houris of the Vedic paradise, destined to delight the souls of heroes. Their name means either 'the formless' or 'the water going,' and they appear to have been personifications of the manifold but ill-defined forms of the mists; but other natural phenomena may also have been represented under their image.
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by means of which they
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He adds that
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Indeed, they are
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and are closely related to the Elves, Mahrs, and Valkyries, of the Teutonic mythology. The same writer further states that
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Odin's Valkyries (riders in the wild hunt) had their swan-shirts, and the Norse goddess Freyja (from whence our Friday),
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Mr. Kelly says, in the Teutonic form of the myth, the manes of their horses