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Chandogya Upanishad

Hindu
trans. Max Müller • c. c. 800-600 BCE (translation 1879)

Prapathaka III, Khanda 3

1
The western rays of the sun are the honey-cells behind. The Sâman verses are the bees, the Sâma-veda sacrifice is the flower, the water is the nectar.
2
Those very Sâman verses (as bees) brooded over the Sâma-veda sacrifice; and from it, thus brooded on, sprang as its (nectar) essence, fame, glory of countenance, vigour, strength, and health.
3
That flowed forth and went towards the sun. And that forms what we call the dark (krishna) light of the sun.