Time, for starters.
manifest destiny = revealed destiny
Light hovering over the waters, complete with big bang:
While the debates continue over "covenant of salt", here's but one of multiple angles (covenants: bonds):
The metal salts are packed into small pea- to plum-sized pellets called “stars” or “pyrotechnic stars.”2 Chron 13.5 ought ye not to know that the LORD, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?After a firework is ignited, a lift charge propels it into the sky. That’s just explosive black powder in a confined space that, when lit, causes a fast increase of heat and gas that can send a firework as high as 1,000 feet (300 meters) into the air.
Weird stuff! Free the mind. :)
Reminds me of a great pun in the account of the little star of Bethlehem, because it starts with the revealing of the hidden, the word "hester". That's the subject of commentaries re the title of the scroll of Esther, as the "revealing of the hidden", the meaning of the word "hester".
Well, to my point (puns are the lowest form of humor so they'll be vindicated and exalted in due time):
The wise men stated "we have seen his star in the east..."