Why: behold the sun gods, the storm gods, and other various celestial beings, many wonders never seen before, describing the vision's initial scope as vast but still somewhat within familiar mythic categories.

In life: the earliest stage of encountering something genuinely vast often still feels graspable, using categories you already recognize, before it expands beyond what those categories can hold.

Teaching: notice this same pattern in your own encounters with something genuinely overwhelming, the beginning often still feels manageable using familiar categories, before it expands past what those categories can actually contain.