The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads) c8.31

c8.31

Perkunas is the god of thunder. In the mythology of these peoples he has absorbed the characteristics of the old god of heaven and become the chief god, just as Zeus, conversely, has taken upon himself the functions of the "Thunderer." This folk-story presents the materials of the Hindu Açvin legend in a new arrangement, not at all applicable to the Hindu myth. But the materials, Sun-Maiden, Moon, and "Sons of God," are there. In another folk-song, this time a Lettish one, the morning-star is represented as pursuing amorously Saulē, the equivalent of Vedic Sūryā, the "Sun-Maiden "²