He is esteemed to be a child of the sun, and thence named Vaivaswata. […] Do the Hindûs pay adoration to the sun and moon? […] The renewed god was fed, during four months, with milk, in a house which fronted the rising sun. […] This personage is spoken of as a star, or a sun, and as existing upon earth, under three forms. […] Some have thought, that by their superior deity, the Babylonians meant the sun.