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62 § Light and Rain

In the last chapter we alluded to a certain relationship that exists between light and rain, inasmuch as both of them symbolise celestial or spiritual

Footnotes

0.15. See 'The Eye of the Needle' [57 above]. ↩
0.16. See 'Traversing the Waters' [58 above]. ↩
16.16. See 'Some Aspects of the Symbolism of the Fish' [24 above]. Instead of the 'devourer' aspect of the crocodile, the Makara is then invested with that of the dolphin 'saviour'. ↩
17.17. In certain traditions the symbols of Love and of Death correspond to the duality Miträvarunau, as we have had occasion to note in connection with the Fodelt d'Amore. This same duality is also, in a certain sense, that of the 'two hemispheres' to which the symbolism of the Dioscuri, for example, refers. See 'The Double Spiral', ch. 5, The Great Triad. [It may be mentioned here that the Makara, vehicle of Varuna, is also associated with Käma-deva, the god of love. Tr.] ↩
19.19. Jaiminiya Upanishad Brähmana 1, 6, I. ↩