Hod

• this man of Hod → this man of Hod cement & → this man of hod, cement and edifices in Toper's Thorp
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• hod: a V-shaped stemmed trough carried over the shoulder to haul bricks, mortar, etc

• Finnegan's Wake: (song) "And to rise in the world he carried a hod." → "he" is Tim Finnegan

• hard: erect → sexual puns throughout the next few sentences

• hod, cement, and edifices: HCE, in his guise as a builder of cities

• man of hod: Deuteronomy 33:3: "Moses, the man of God"

• Michael: Man of HOD, Hod is the eigth sphere of the tree of life and is inhabited by Archangel Michael