"The space between the two planets lights up and is set aflame by both planets and produces a train of fire."
-Seneca, Roman naturalist

"Heavenly fire is spit forth by the planet as crackling charcoal flies from the burning log."
-Pliny, Roman naturalist

Ares (Mars) "darted swift and bright as the thunderbolt terribly flashing from the mighty hand of Zeus."
-Quintus Smyrnaeus

"...A 'derivation' of the sword from a 'root' or archetype in lightning is universal and world wide."
-Ananda Coomaraswamy

"O Great Mountain (Enlil)
whose head rivals the heavens,
Whose foundation is laid
in the pure abyss.
Whose horns gleam."

-Sumerian hymn

"I am the bull, the Old One...
I support the sky with my horns."
-Egyptian coffin texts

"...the pillar of the stars,
the Bull of Heaven..."

"whose horns shine,
the anointed pillar,
the Bull of Heaven."

-Egyptian pyramid texts