4).

It has been suggested on account of v.12.

5: 'Those that were yours have spoken lies and left thee,' that there is a decrease in Agni worship.
As this never really happened, and as the words are merely those of a penitent who has lied and seeks forgiveness at the hands of the god of truth, the suggestion is not very acceptable.

Agni comprehends not only all naturalistic gods, but such later femininities as Reverence, Mercy, and other abstractions, including Boundlessness.
Of how great importance was the triune god Agni may be seen by comparing his three lights with the later sectarian trinity, where Vishnu, originally the sun, and (Rudra) Civa, the lightning, are the preserver and destroyer.
We fear the reader may have thought that we were developing rather a system of mythology than a history of religion.

With the close of the Vedic period we shall have less to say from a mythological point of view, but we think that it will have become patent now for what purpose was intended the mythological basis of our study.