On the Nature of Wind, Clouds, and Rain

Abstract

Chapter 21 focuses on meteorology and expands on the mythic battle between good and evil that causes precipitation. The roles of the principal actors—the wind, the clouds, Sirius, the Wāzišt fire, and the demons—are described in detail, and the chapter presents a meteorological theory that explains the existence of rain, storms, lightning, rainbows, and other phenomena.