Therewith is indissolubly connected the idea that sin and darkness are of the same nature.

So one reads that when the sun rises it frees itself 'from darkness, from sin,' as a snake from its slough (_ib._ II.3.

I.6).

And in another passage it is said that darkness and illusion were given to the Asuras as their portion by the Father-god _( ib._ II.4.2.

5).