Behind the beautiful governess and her serene mermaids Mani now saw other female beings following, gleaming like red-hot ore - veiled into a red-golden, dark-blue bordered blaze. They rode along swiftly on silvery-white shimmering wolves and on red-golden shining boars.
The glowing bristles of the boars rose high above the forest, and their snow-white tuskers were twelve yards long.
With these mighty tuskers they ploughed the earth, so that deep within lodes of gold appeared, gleaming forth from the fresh furrows.

The fire-riders had their animals bridled with snakes, and they followed Walpurga in utmost haste.
From each of these flaming virgins permanently new fire-shapes flew forth and rushed away to all sides as blue blazing winds.

On red-golden whirlwinds, that emanated from the glowing fur of their wolves and boars, the fire-figures sped along with the fleeing train of the nightly riders, and danced around them; often they flew playfully over and across the march in briskly swirling leaps and bounds.

“These wonder-working, beautiful flame-virgins belong to the court of Walpurga,” Sol told his sister.
“The alf-girls are closely related to the free play of the celestial powers; as dancing cup-bearers they administer the potion of immortal bliss.

“On this campaign, which is only the vanguard of the wild chase, they also are responsible for the drainage of the salty fire-streams, that emanate from all beings and things, into the open world-ocean.
Therefore they are also often called the fiery harbingers of perfection.

“These fire-sovereigns too have the cosmic life-breath for a natural throne; therefore they ride on wolves and boars which are said to rule the cosmic winds.

“From the fact, that the riding animals of these brilliant girls are bridled with scintillating snakes, we can tell that, with the cosmic life-breath, they rule over the perfection of all that is created.
As high as the glowing bristles of their golden-shining boars rise above the woods, as high their rule over the wind towers all that is created; and the snow-white tuskers, twelve yards in length, of their mighty boars which plough the earth so powerfully and bring to light all the hidden gold, only show how, with the cosmic wind as the united divine forces, they bring to light the golden happiness of life from the depth of the elements, and thus found a golden age.

“In the same manner, in which the magnificent light-virgins create ever new fire-figures from within themselves, the master over the cosmic life-breath very naturally creates his own world by using his light-giving creative power, and rules it in the very same playful way in which the fiery light-beings dance around the virgins of fire.”