Saturn, when he took the kingdom of the world, agreed always to devour his male children; as the Hours and Days, portions of time, cease to be as soon as they exist. […] The Hindus regard the moon as a male deity, to whom they give the name of Chandra, and whom their poets describe as sitting in a splendid chariot, drawn by two antelopes, and holding in the right hand a rabbit.

These objects accordingly became in the process of generations not only persons, but male and female. […] It does not attempt to show how an object like the ocean came to be male, and not female, or how it came to be a person at all. […] For in the heart of creation Love begins to stir, making of material things creatures male and female, and bringing them together by instinctive affinity.