The Divine Power, engaged in creating, is the Deity Brahmá; and when viewed in the light of the Destroyer, or rather the Changer of forms, he is termed Siva, Seeva, Mahádéva, or Mahadeo. […] Yet is he still Himself the same, one form, one face, one will; And these his twofold aspects are but one; And change is none In him; for change in Yamen could not be, The immutable is he. […] The Egyptians had several methods of representing, by symbols, the progress of the sun, and the changes of the seasons. […] The cat was honoured by the Egyptians with a peculiar reference to the moon, with the changes of whose aspect that animal was supposed to have a certain mysterious sympathy. […] When the sun approaches the sign Leo, he changes the state of the atmosphere, disperses those dangerous tempests, and brings the northern winds that chase away the malignant vapours, and preserve to Egypt coolness and salubrity, under a burning sky.