This one, fit to be prepared, the active ones prepare in the pails, as he creates great food.
8.

Him, this one, who has good weapons, who is most intoxicating, ten fingers and seven (or many) prayers prepare.
Here, as in IX.

70, Hillebrandt assumes that the poet turns suddenly from the moon to the plant.

Against this might be urged the use of the same pronoun throughout the hymn.

It must be confessed that at first sight it is almost as difficult to have the plant, undoubtedly meant in verses 7 and 8, represented by the moon in the preceding verses, as it is not to see the moon in the expression 'shaking his horns.' This phrase occurs in another hymn, where Hillebrandt, with the same certainty as he does here, claims it for the moon, though the first part of this hymn as plainly refers to the plant, IX.70.1, 4.