corresponding to the reproductive months of Spring and Summer, to him
as Lord of Good, and symbolizing him by the constellation of the Zodiac
in which the Vernal Equinox successively occurred, as explained
hereafter, they dedicated the six divisions of that cycle,
corresponding to the destructive months of Autumn and Winter, to him as
Lord of Evil, and as such, symbolizing him by the serpent, marked the
beginning of his reign by the constellation "Serpens," placed in
conjunction with the Autumnal Equinox. Personifying in him the opposing
principles of Good and Evil, he was to the ancients both God and Devil,
or the varied God, who, in relation to the seasons, was described as
beautiful in Spring, powerful in Summer, beneficent in Autumn and
terrible in Winter. Thus under various names, intended to represent God
Sol in relation to the diversified seasons, we find recorded in the
Scriptures, or solar fables, numerous portrayals of imaginary
conflicts, in which the Evil principle, triumphing during Autumn and
Winter, is conquered at the Vernal Equinox by the Good principle, who,
bringing back equal days and nights, restores the harmony of nature.

The eternal enmity between the principles of Good and Evil, as
manifested in the diversity of the seasons, we find portrayed in the
Constellations Hercules and Draco, placed in the northern heavens, in
which the heel of the former, representing one of the most ancient of
the imaginary incarnations of God Sol, to which we will refer
hereafter, is resting upon the head of the latter, as referred to in
Genesis iii., 15, which makes God Sol, or the Lord God, say to the
serpent, "I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy
seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his
heel." The woman alluded to in this text is the Virgo of the Zodiac, as
will be made apparent hereafter.