These are what constitute his immense body: his eyes are the sun and moon: he is space and eternity: in fine," adds Porphyry.

"Jupiter is the world, the universe, that which constitutes the essence and life of all beings.

Now," continues the same author, "as philosophers differed in opinion respecting the nature and constituent parts of this god, and as they could invent no figure that should represent all his attributes, they painted him in the form of a man.

He is in a sitting posture, in allusion to his immutable essence; the upper part of his body is uncovered, because it is in the upper regions of the universe (the stars) that he most conspicuously displays himself.

He is covered from the waist downwards, because respecting terrestrial things he is more secret and concealed.