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 Gyges, who, it is
believed, had each a hundred hands and fifty heads; and there were born
also the Cyclopes, so called from the single eye that they had on the
brow. In the third was seen how he imprisoned their common children in
the caverns of that same Earth, that they might never be able to see the
light; even as in the fourth their Mother Earth, seeking to deliver them
from such oppression, was seen exhorting them to take a rightful
vengeance on their cruel father; wherefore in the fifth his genital
members were cut off by Saturn, when from their blood on one side it
appeared that the Furies and the Giants were born, and on the other,
from the foam that was shown fallen into the sea, was seen a different
birth, from which sprang the beautiful Venus. In the sixth was seen
expressed the anger that he showed against the Titans, because, as has
been told, they had allowed his genitals to be cut off; and in the
seventh and last, likewise, was seen the same God adored by the
Atlantides, with temples and altars devoutly raised to him. Now at the
foot of the car (as with the other already described) was seen riding
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