440. CONCERNING MEN WHO ARE WORSHIPPED AS SAINTS AND AS GODS AND GODDESSES During the whole night, both when awake and asleep, representations were shown me of those who are worshipped as saints and gods. The gods and goddesses of the ancients are still represented, as Venus, Diana, Phoebus, Jupiter, and indeed each in his or her own peculiar attire - Venus in most comely vesture, Phoebus with a yellow-skinned body, and so on; but whether these are only phantasies, and they remain in these phantasies, or whether some spirits present themselves in their stead, cannot be sufficiently confirmed. Some suppose themselves to be [those deities], and so present themselves. Jupiter was represented with a continuous power, as it were, of lightning, which cannot be described because it cannot be conceived, by which all are driven away.