However, the respective divinities do not have a common primary attribute: While the RigVedic Aryaman is apparently the "by hospitality," Avestan Airyaman is unambiguously a divinity of healing. Attempts to explain this anomaly range from an alternative interpretation of the masculine form of the Vedic noun, for example, as "protector of "aryan" men,"   .</ref> to a reinterpretation of "healing", for example, "he also exists in the Avesta, under the name Airyaman, and there also is he the helper, the benefactor of man, inasmuch as he is a healing god."