Over the vast ocean which girdles the vault of heaven, the sun moves in a boat or car drawn by the planets and fixed stars.

On this ocean too the great constellations circle in their ships, and there is the kingdom of the blissful gods, who sit enthroned above this heavenly ocean under a canopy of stars.

The mouth of this great stream is in the East, where the sun-god rises from the mists and is born again as a child every morning.

The surface of the earth is inhabited by human beings having a share in the three great cosmic kingdoms.

They receive their soul from the heights of heaven, the seat and source of light; their material body is of the earth; and the appearance or outward form by which one human being is distinguished from another at sight--his phantom or shadow--belongs to the depths.