a days rest sufficed to recover from those labors and on monday i was up and about , everywhere at once , inspiring prophets and saints , imposing diets and ritual , upholding , downbringing , halting the sun , cleaving the seas , decimating evil-bent hosts , generating whirlwinds and out of them posing mighty insoluble conundrums to blasphemous wailers on their dung-heaps , etc , etc .