He tells us that--
"The beginning of all things was a condensed, windy air, or a breeze of thick air, and a chaos turbid and black as Erebus.
"Out of this chaos was generated Môt, which some call Ilus," (mud,) "but others the putrefaction of a watery mixture. And from this sprang all the seed of the creation, and the generation of the universe. . . . And, when the air began to send forth light, winds were produced and clouds, and very great defluxions and torrents of the heavenly waters."
Was this "thick air" the air thick with comet-dust, which afterward became the mud? Is this the meaning of the "turbid chaos"?
We turn to the Babylonian legends. Berosus wrote from records preserved in the temple of Belus at Babylon. He says:
"There was a time in which there existed nothing but darkness and an abyss of waters, wherein resided most hideous beings, which were produced of a twofold principle."
Were these "hideous beings" the comets?
From the "Laws of Menu," of the Hindoos, we learn that the universe existed at first in darkness.
We copy the following text from the Vedas:
"The Supreme Being alone existed; afterward there was universal darkness; next the watery ocean was produced by the diffusion of virtue."