But instead of an Hebraic Adam and Eve there are in India a Yama and Yam[=i], brother and sister (wife), who, in the one hymn in which the latter is introduced _( loc.

cit.),_ indulge in a moral conversation on the propriety of wedlock between brother and sister.

This hymn is evidently a protest against a union that was unobjectionable to an older generation.

In the Yajur Veda Yami is wife and sister both.

But sometimes, in the varying fancies of the Vedic poets, the artificer Tvashtar is differentiated from Vivasvant, the sun; as he is in another passage, where Tvashtar gives to Vivasvant his daughter, and she is the mother of Yama[6].
That men are the children of Yama is seen in X.13.4, where it is said, 'Yama averted death for the gods; he did not avert death for (his) posterity.' In the Brahmanic tradition men derive from the sun (T[=a]itt.