The Arctic Home in the Vedas c14.6

c14.6

3, 4, (5-9):— "I, Ahura Mazda, created as the first best region, Airyana Vaêjo, of the good creation, (or, according to Darmesteter, by the good river Dâitya). Then Angra Mainyu, the destroyer, formed in opposition to it, a great serpent and winter [or snow], the creation of the Daêvas. There are there ten months of winter, and two of summer."