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anyone else. Therefore, everyone who wanted
fire necessarily had to go ask her for it, from whom the first ones had
gotten it. And so he had his revenge on the one who had
displeased him. And he built a bridge over a
river, the largest that had ever been built in the
world - I don't know out of what material, whether stone
or wood - but no worker was more subtle, not mason
nor carpenter, nor indeed did engineers or any others
know how to search or investigate in the earth
nor in the water, in order to be able to find out and know
the way in which this bridge was placed and set,
nor how it was held up without any support either
at the ends nor in the middle, yet one was easily able to
cross over it to the other side. He also made a garden
entirely enclosed with air, without any other enclosure,
just like a cloud, and this garden was very high over
the earth. Then he made two burning candles and a
lamp lit with fire that would constantly burn without
going out and never became any smaller.
These three things he enclosed within the earth in such a way that