It will be seen operative at once in the case of the sun-god, and, indeed, there were few of the older divinities that were untouched by it.

It worked silently and at first esoterically.

One reads of the gods' 'secret names,' of secrets in theology, which 'are not to be revealed,' till at last the disguise is withdrawn, and it is discovered that all the mystery of former generations has been leading up to the declaration now made public: 'all these gods are but names of the One.' THE SUN-GOD.
The hymn which was translated in the first chapter gives an epitome of the simpler conceptions voiced in the few whole hymns to the sun.

But there is a lower and a higher view of this god.

He is the shining god _par excellence_, the _deva, s[=u]rya_,[2] the red ball in the sky.
But he is also an active force, the power that wakens, rouses, enlivens, and as such it is he that gives all good things to mortals and to gods.