The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads) c9.10

c9.10

And there are other gods, not a few, whose origin in nature is positively on the surface. So the two wind-gods Vāta and Vāyu, the former of whom, on the likely evidence of Teutonic Wotan-Odhin, is probably prehistoric. A good bit of profound human philosophy is contained in the mere fact that Vāta is described as a real person in language such as that of the following hymn,¹ and that he may finally be invited to partake of oblations: