soothsayer's art, in token of which there
was hung from his neck a lamb split down the middle, which showed a good
part of the entrails. There was seen, likewise, in the form of an
immense giant, the African Antaeus, his brother, who, clothed in barbaric
vestments, with a dart in the right hand, appeared to wish to give on
that day manifest signs of his vaunted prowess. And following after him
was seen Day, also the son of Erebus and Night, represented in like
manner as a resplendent and joyous youth, all adorned with white
draperies and crowned with ornithogal, in whose company was seen
Fatigue, his sister, who, clothed in the skin of an ass, had made
herself a cap from the head of the same animal, with the ears standing
erect, not without laughter among the spectators; to which were added
two wings of the crane, and in her hands were placed also the legs of
the same crane, because of the common opinion that this renders men
indefatigable against all fatigue. And Jurament, born of the same
parents, in the form of an old priest all terrified by an avenging Jove
that he held in the hand, and bringing to conclusion the band attributed
to the great father Demogorgon, was the last in their company.

And here, judging that with these deities the origins of all the other
Gods had been made sufficiently manifest, the followers of the first car
were brought to an end.

SECOND CAR, OF HEAVEN.

In a second car of more pleasing appearance, which was dedicated to the
God Heaven, held by some to be the son of the above-named AEther and Day,
was seen that jocund and youthful God clothed in bright-shining stars,
with a crown of sapphires on the brow, and with a vase in the hand that
contained a burning flame, and seated upon a ball of turquoise-blue all
painted and adorned with the forty-eight celestial signs; and in that
car, which was drawn by the Great and the Little Bear, the one known by
the seven and the other by the twenty-one stars with which they were all
dotted, there were seen painted, in order to render it ornate and rich
in pomp, with a most beautiful manner and a graceful distribution, seven
of the fables of that same Heaven. In the first was figured his
birth--in order to demonstrate, not without reason, the other opinion
that is held of it--which is said to have been from Earth; even as in
the second was seen his union with the same Mother Earth, from which
were born, besides many others, Cottus, Briareus, and Gyge