...a garment.1 He stretcheth out the heavens like a curtain ; he bears up the pillars of the earth.2 ' Wise and mighty are the works of him who stemmed asunder...stretched out apart the starry sky and the earth.' 3 He hath opened a path for the sun ; he knoweth the track of the birds through the air and of the...

...from var, to cover, and is identical with the Greek Ouranos, heaven. " Varuna," says the Rig- Veda, " stemmed asunder the wide firmaments; he lifted on...stretched out apart the starry sky and the earth." In the Atharva-Veda, illimitable knowledge is ascribed to him : " Varuna, the great lord of these worlds,...

...Do not deliver us unto death, nor to the Mow of the furious, nor to the wrath of the 'tefuir Again: "Wise and mighty are the works of him who stemmed asunder the wide firmaments (heaven and earth). He lifted on high the bright and glorious heaven; he stretched out apart the starry...