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The serpent as impounder of water: in both, the serpent takes the waters into its own keeping (encompassed under Vritra's bulk / swallowed into the Bakhu serpent's body), the world's motion stalls (the rivers penned like cattle / the solar barque standing still), and an armed god compels restitution · the waters are given back in full and flow resumes. Neither serpent consumes what it holds; the Egyptian text even makes the seizure begin with a lowered gaze at Ra · an inspection that becomes an impoundment.
The serpent on the Hill of Bakhu, at close of day, 'turneth down his eyes to Ra; for there cometh a standing still in the Bark, and a deep slumber within the ship. And now he swalloweth three cubits of the Great Water' · until Sutu, with steel, forces him 'to vomit all that he hath swallowed,' and 'the Bark sails on.'
set against Rigveda 1.32
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