The Athenians had a statue of him, like that of Mars. […] Another, who wore a mask resembling three heads, like those ascribed to Cerberus, ferried it over the Nile, to Heliopolis, he city of the Sun. […] By that motion, was produced a golden egg, blazing like a thousand suns, in which was born Brahma, the parent of all rational beings. […] His eyes gleam like torches. […] She was esteemed as the cause of abundance, and regarded, like Osīris, to be one of the sources of the inundation of the Nile.