Diomède lui fit élever un temple, et lui rendit les honneurs divins. […] On voulut que l’édifice pût donner une idée de la majesté divine. […] Nulle religion n’a plus accordé que celle des Celtes à la Providence divine. […] Tous les corps et tous les êtres agissaient d’après l’influence des intelligences subalternes, qui n’étaient elles-mêmes que les organes et les instrumens de la volonté divine. […] Le choix ne tombait pas toujours sur un sang vil ; plus la victime était chère, plus on croyait racheter la bienveillance divine.

Athene is physically the light of daybreak, morally the breathing of the divine spirit of wisdom. […] Eos, pitying his unhappy condition, exerted her divine power, and changed him into a grasshopper. […] His union with Themis typifies the bond which exists between divine majesty and justice, law and order. […] Grateful for this mark of divine favor, Cadmus decided to sacrifice the cow to Athene. […] Heracles, however, gave the first proof of his divine origin by strangling them with his hands.