Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 5.4.1.8

5.4.1.8

tadyadenaṃ diśaḥ samārohayati | ṛtūnāmevaitadrūpamṛtūnevainametatsaṃvatsaraṃ samārohayati sa ṛtūntsaṃvatsaraṃ samāruhya sarvamevedamuparyupari bhavatyarvāgaivāsmādidaṃ sarvam bhavati

And as to why he makes him ascend the quarters,--that is a form of the seasons: it is the seasons, the year, that he thereby makes him ascend; and having ascended the seasons, the year, he is high, high above everything here, and everything here is below him.