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Chandogya Upanishad

Prapathaka V, Khanda 5
Hindu trans. Max Müller • c. c. 800-600 BCE (translation 1879)
1
'The altar is Parganya (the god of rain), O Gautama; its fuel is the air itself, the smoke the cloud, the light the lightning, the coals. the thunderbolt, the sparks the thunderings .
2
'On that altar the Devas offer Soma, the king (the moon). From that oblation rises rain .