2, 5.) One more attribute remains to be noticed, which connects Dyaus morally as well as physically with Savitar and Varuna.

The verse in which this attribute is spoken of is also not without interest from a sociological point of view: "Whatsoever sin we have committed against the gods, or against a friend, or against the chief of the clan (family)[57] may this hymn to Heaven and Earth avert it." It was shown above that Savitar removes sin.

Here, as in later times, it is the hymn that does this.

The mystery of these gods' origin puzzles the seer: "Which was first and which came later, how were they begotten, who knows, O ye wise seers?
Whatever exists, that they carry."[58] But all that they do they do under the command of Mitra.[59] The most significant fact in connection with the hymns to Heaven and Earth is that most of them are expressly for sacrificial intent.

"With sacrifices I praise Heaven and Earth" (I.159.