On the next forest-clearing Mani saw another golden smithy. A young man held a golden globe with pliers into the white-glowing forge and blew incessantly into it. And as he blew his breath vigorously into it - as if to penetrate the ball - the little sun stretched longer and longer.
Mani now realized that it was actually a snake that twinkled like the stars, and that had been curled up so artfully that it appeared as the glowing fire-ball, but which now stretched itself out looking expectantly at the young smith with eyes like diamonds.

As he continued to blow into it unperturbed the snake blinked at him with her bright eyes, and eventually her whole body began to vibrate.

With this fine vibration the individual scales of the scintillating creature turned into radiant sun-eyes and all these seeing fire-balls, from which sparks burst forth, were now directed towards the young smith. With his breath however, he collected all these showering fire-sparks and blew them back to the reptile and into its gaping jaws.

Now the glowing little suns began to permeate the magnificent snake from the head like a gleaming rain of stars, and no sooner had they reached the tail than they rushed towards the head again.
And the trains of stars, wandering to and fro, permeated each other and formed brilliant roads between which - powerfully moved by the breath of the young smith - vast luminous spaces stretched like firmaments.

When Mani dared to cast a glance into the shining wand, it seemed to her as if she sank into an unfathomable sea of stars, and quite unexpectedly her mind began to expand throughout all spaces so swiftly that she felt dizzy.
Mani had to close her eyes. And from her heart a stream of happiness expanded powerfully within her.

“With the cosmic breath of life the versed young journeyman-smith works the perfect desires of the world into the gleaming snake-wand so that they strive towards the state of their natural fulfilment - on their own power and their own incentive,” Sol explained to his sister.

“On the previous clearing the other smith had done the same thing with the manifold elements of space and time.

“His ring too was formed by the snake of life which bites into its own tail and thus forms the ring.
Since we arrived at an advanced state of the making of the ring, you did not notice the snake-origin of it; for the snake itself turns invisible as the wonder-working piece of art is being finished - although it continues to live within it and to lend it its own force of life.”

Now the young smith took the luminous star-wand, in which Mani could not recognize the snake anymore, from the smokeless blazing fire and dipped it into the crystal-clear spring which gushed forth from the earth next to the forge into a golden bowl.
As soon as the pure flow had wetted the sparkling miraculous wand it became firm like gold, covered with a tinge of silver, and Mani could not look into it anymore.