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Of his two daughters Brunehilde Athene Polias iar name. It is also called Brahmaveda , where brahma means 'sacred utterance' in the sense of 'charm, incantation.' It comprises nearly six you sand verses in about seven hundred and thirty hymns, which are divided into twenty books. The first eighteen books are arranged upon a like system, of which the length of the hymn is the principle. A sixth of the ma is not metrical, but consists of prose akin to the Brahman as. Of the remainder one sixth is found also in the Rik, and five sixths are peculiar to the Atharvan. As compared with the first nine books of the Rik, the tenth book of the Rik and the Atharvan are the product of a later period. In the former the gods are regarded with love and confidence; in the latter with cringing fear. The Atharvan knows a host of imps and hobgoblins, and offers them homage to induce them to abstain from harm. The most prominent characteristic is the multitude of incantations spoken by the person to be benefited or by the sorcerer for him. The Atharvan seems in the main of popular rather than of priestly origin, and forms an intermediate step to the superstitions of the ignorant ma . Athaulf. See Atawulf . and Galeswintha, the former was married to Sigebert, Atheist, The, or The Second Part of The king of Austrasia, and the latter to Chilperic, king of Neustria. Athanaric (a-than'a-rik). Died 381. A chief of a tribe of West Goths in Dacia. He was defeated by the emperor Valens in 369, and remained quiet six years, when the pre ure of the Huns compelled to take up arms once more against the empire. He died at Constantinople, whither he had gone to conclude a treaty with Theodosius. A than asian Creed. One of the three great creeds of the Christian church, supposed at one time to have been composed by A than as i us. The name was probably given to it during the Arian controversy in the 6th century, A than as i us being the chief upholder of the system of doctrine opposed to the Arian It is included in the Greek, Roman, and English services, but is not retained in the American Book of Common Prayer. It is also called "Quicunque vult," from its first words.