Odin's Brothers

Laeviss talks about Villi and Ve:
 Laeviss says that these two brothers of Odin are both hawks, and that Odin is an eagle. Odin never goes anywhere without his two brothers, if they are not present physically he carries them metaphysically as a bi-colored hawk perched between his eyes. One of the brother-hawks is black, and the other is white, and Laeviss says that sometimes the one you might think is the black hawk is actually the white one, and vice versa. They can actually resemble, Laeviss says, the yin-yang symbol in that each of the hawks is capable of being either black or white or both, as needed. In the Poetic Edda, it is said that when Odin, Villi and Ve together created the first humans out of trees, "Soul they had not, sense they had not, heat nor motion, nor goodly hue; soul gave Odin, sense gave Hoenir, heat gave Lothur and goodly hue." Laeviss says that Odin provided the breath, soul, and voice of humankind, Hoenir provided the intelligence, direction and force of will, and Lothur provided the blood/heat of desire (or passion, if you will), form and color. Laeviss can tell you that the name Lothur has multiple meanings, one of them is hluod-her "soldier of fame" but also hlaut-her "soldier of sacrificial blood." Odin and Loki were very fond of using words and names the sounds or symbols of which had double or even multiple meanings. Though Odin was the more famous  by far, Lothur was an army unto himself, says Laeviss, and his client the beneficiary of very powerful magic.