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As Savitar and all sun-gods are at once luminous and dark, so P[=u]shan has a clear and again a revered (terrible) appearance; he is like day and night, like Dyaus (the sky); at one time bright, at another, plunged in darkness, VI.58.1.Quite like Savitar he is the shining god who "looks upon all beings and sees them all together"; he is the "lord of the path," the god of travellers; he is invoked to drive away evil spirits, thieves, footpads, and all workers of evil; he makes paths for the winning of wealth; he herds the stars and directs all with _soma_.

He carries a golden axe or sword, and is borne through air and water on golden ships; and it is he that lets down the sun's golden wheel.

These simpler attributes appear for the most part in the early hymns.

In what seem to be later hymns, he is the mighty one who "carries the thoughts of all"; he is like _soma_ (the drink), and attends to the filter; he is "lord of the pure"; the "one born of old," and is especially called upon to help the poets' hymns.[38] It is here, in the last part of the Rig Veda, that he appears as [Greek: psuchopompos], who "goes and returns," escorting the souls of the dead to heaven.

He is the sun's messenger, and is differentiated from Savitar in X.139.