 And according to the mythology, at the time when the universe was being built, Manaunaun swayed all of the materials out of which the universe was being built with fine particles which were distributed everywhere through cosmos.And he kept these moving in rhythmical tides so that they should remain fresh when the time came for their use in the building of the universe.During the first two decades of his compositional career, Cowell continued often to reference Irish mythology in the titles of his piano pieces.