I must say that the supposed meaning of the word irmin combined with the supposed function of Irminsul makes it very unlikely that irmin was the name of a god If irmin means whole and Irminsul was seen as uniting heaven and earth pillar of the whole I would suggest then it is by far more plausible that a pantheistic idea was expressed such as can be found amongst the Stoics the Indians and even among some Roman commentators on religion