two-halves of the whole

Here is Earth & Sky and how it was viewed by the authors of The Rig Veda. This is as it appears to be.

Thunder & Lightning with rain

This type of storm, often found with lots of rain, was as at least as awesome for those who created The Rig Veda as it is for readers of today. The feelings this inspires was a probable cause for the identification or intimate association of gods and these storms. If the storm and the god did not have one identity then both were typically viewed as weapons of a particular god. Science shows up that the lightning together with the rain is a powerful fertilizer of the Earth. Lightning actually reaches up from the ground and down from the sky. At this time meteorologists believe that the thunder is a result of consolidated sections of air of...