But the rest was not equal.

Some notions they had, like the greatest part of mankind, of a Being eternal and infinite; but they also, like the greatest part of mankind, paid their worship to inferior objects, from the nature of ignorance and superstition always tending downwards.
The first and chief objects of their worship were the elements,--and of the elements, fire, as the most pure, active, penetrating, and what gives life and energy to all the rest.

Among fires, the preference was given to the sun, as the most glorious visible being, and the fountain of all life.

Next they venerated the moon and the planets.

After fire, water was held in reverence.