Apollo (_sapary_), Aphrodite (Apsaras), Artamis (non-existent _[r.]tam[=a]l_), P[=a]n (_pavana_), have been cleverly compared, but the identity of forms has scarcely been proved.

Nor is it important for the comparative mythologist that Okeanus is 'lying around' (_[=a]cay[=a]na_).

More than that is necessary to connect Ocean mythologically with the demon that surrounds (swallows) the waters of the sky.

The Vedic parallel is rather Ras[=a], the far-off great 'stream.' It is rarely that one finds Aryan equivalents in the land of fairies and fays.

Yet are the Hindu clever artizan Ribhus[24] our 'elves,' who, even to this day, are distinct from fairies in their dexterity and cleverness, as every wise child knows.
But animism, as simple spiritism, fetishism, perhaps ancestor-worship, and polytheism, with the polydaemonism that may be called chrematheism, exists from the beginning of the religious history, undisturbed by the proximity of theism, pantheism, or atheism; exactly as to-day in the Occident, beside theism and atheism, exist spiritism and fetishism (with their inherent magic), and even ancestor-worship, as implied by the reputed after-effect of parental curses.
When the circle is narrowed to that of the Indo-Iranian connection the similarity in religion between the Veda and Avesta becomes much more striking than in any other group, as has been shown.