The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

fortnight in which the moon wanes, from the decreasing
half of the moon the deities of the six months during
which the sun travels southward, from these months the
deity of the world of the Manes and from the world of
the Manes, the moon. Reaching the moon they become
food. There the gods enjoy them, just as here the priests
drink the shining soma juice-saying as it were:
"Flourish, dwindle." And when their past work is
exhausted they reach this very akasa, from the akasa
they reach the air, from the air rain, from rain the earth.
Reaching the earth they become food. Then they are
again offered in the fire of man and thence in the fire of
woman. Out of the fire of woman they are born and
perform rites with a view to going to other worlds. Thus
do they rotate. "Those, however, who do not know these
two ways become insects and moths and those creatures
which often bite (i.e. mosquitoes and gnats)."
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