* * * Just as the chief god of Greece, having descended to be a divinity of storm, was not content to remain only that, but grew again to some likeness of the older Dyaus, so Odhinn came to absorb almost all the qualities which belong of right to a higher god.

Yet he did this without putting off his proper nature.

He was the heaven as well as the wind; he was the All-father, embracing all the earth and looking down upon mankind."] In almost every known religion the _bird_ is taken as a symbol of the sky, the clouds and the winds.

It is not surprising, therefore, to find that by the Algonkins birds were considered, especially singing birds, as peculiarly sacred to Michabo.

He was their father and protector.