Rain

• Rain is connected to Water.

  Rain is water arriving from the sky. The identity is material.

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• Rain is associated with Season.

  Wet and dry seasons are one way people have named a year. Not every climate quarters that way.

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• Mountain is associated with Rain.

  Slopes catch weather. Rain on a mountain is hydrology before it is a fertility rite.

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Nahua tradition

• Rain appears in Nahua tradition.

  Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records quiahuitl in weather and Tlaloc-adjacent ethnography — named rain among weather and agricultural speech. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.

  from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577

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Buddhist traditions

• Rain appears in Buddhist traditions.

  Watson’s Lotus Sūtra seats the one Dharma rain that falls equally on many plants. A named rain in that medicinal-herbs teaching, not Nahua rain speech alone and not ordinary weather report.

  from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

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Norse tradition

• Rain appears in Norse tradition.

  Eddic weather speech in the Poetic Edda names rain among sky-fall of the living worlds. A named rain in that corpus, not a fertility-slogan dump and not hail as hard ice.

  from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014

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Vedic tradition

• Rain appears in Vedic tradition.

  The Ṛgveda hymns rain as Indra’s and Parjanya’s gift among storm and fertility speech. A named Vedic rain in that corpus, not a Florentine rain dump and not frog as the Maṇḍūka chorus alone.

  from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older

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• Rain is sacred to Indra.

  The Ṛgveda praises Indra as the releaser of the waters — rain and flood freed when he breaks the serpent’s hold. A named sacred weather-bond in that corpus, not the already-filed rain→vedic appears_in alone and not Parjanya as a second unpublished hub.

  from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older

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Roman religion

• Rain appears in Roman religion.

  Pliny’s Natural History seats rain among Book 2 precipitations and weather speech. A named rain in that encyclopedia, not rainwater as collected pharmacy water and not a Vedic rain-god dump.

  from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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Egyptian religion

• Rain appears in Egyptian religion.

  Herodotus stresses Egypt’s rainlessness against the Nile’s gift of water — rain as the absent weather in Egyptian logos. A named rain in that traveler’s speech, not a generic storm dump and not modern climate copy.

  from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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Islam

• Rain appears in Islam.

  The Qur’an repeatedly names rain sent down to revive the earth as provision and as a rising-sign. Islamic rain speech in that revelation, not Indra rain-craft dumps and not water as the bare element alone.

  from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

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Chinese tradition

• Rain appears in Chinese tradition.

  Wilhelm’s Yijing Image and line speech repeatedly names rain among the classic’s weather figures. A named rain in that hexagram imagery, not Indra’s rain and not a meteorology dump.

  from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950

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Shinto

• Rain appears in Shinto.

  The Kojiki ties Susanoo’s raging to ruined rice fields and storm weather that afflicts the land before the cave crisis. Named rain-and-storm damage speech in that narrative, not Indra’s Vedic rain alone.

  from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968

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Astrology

• Rain is used in Astrology.

  Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos treats rain among annual and local weather forecasts of judicial astrology. A named rain in that handbook, not aquarius the sign and not a monsoon dump.

  from Claudius Ptolemy · Tetrabiblos, c. 150 CE

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