[42] The cloud often compared to a tree branching out in the sky.
[43] The fire (Ignis) which is born in the waters of heaven in the form of lightning.
[44] A sacred plant whose sap is offered to the gods. It is pressed between two stones to extract the sacred liquor.
[45] The sea of the earth and the sea of the clouds.
[46] See J. Darmesteter, “Ormazd et Ahriman,” §§ 18-59.
[47] Ormazd is the modern name, contracted from the ancient Ahura Mazda.
[48] Which is the same word as the Sanskrit Asura.
[49] The sun is also the bird of Zeus (Æschylus, the Suppliants).
[50] That is to say “to their Supreme God.”
[51] G. Klek, “Einleitung in die Slavische Literatur-Geschichte.”