O mighty Indra, we call upon thee as we go fighting for cows and horses." "In this hymn," says Mueller, "Indra is clearly conceived as the Supreme God, and we can hardly understand how a people who had formed so exalted a notion of the Deity and embodied it in the person of Indra, could, at the same sacrifice, invoke other gods with equal praise.

When Agni, the lord of fire, is addressed by the poet, he is spoken of as the first god, not inferior even to Indra.

While Agni is invoked Indra is forgotten; there is no competition between the two, nor any rivalry between them and other gods.

This is a most important feature in the religion of the Veda, and has never been taken into consideration by those who have written on the history of ancient polytheism."[43] "It is curious," says Mueller, "to watch the almost imperceptible transition by which the phenomena of nature, if reflected in the mind of the poet, assume the character of divine beings.

The dawn is frequently described in the Veda as it might be described by a modern poet.