We mean by these gods, deities presiding over and directing them, but totally distinct from them ; regents of them, in the sense in which the archangel Uriel is by Milton called the regent of the sun. […] Some worked up the mythes into poems ; others arranged them in prose narratives ; several occupied themselves in the explication of them. […] The first king who ruled over them was named Uranos. […] Their power was held to extend very far ; men regarded them as the authors of both good and evil ; all human ability and success was ascribed to them. […] The obedient zephyr conveys them thither.