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souls of the dead in other mythologies are often connected with the winds. In the Veda the only other reference to this which presents itself is the possibility that the Maruts may be the souls of the dead, regarded as riding in the storm-winds, but for this there is no clear evidence. A group of the fathers, the "Seven Seers," is identified with the stars of the Bear, doubtless for no better reason than the similarity of rsi, "seer," and rksa, "bear," although from time to time the idea occurs that the souls of the pious are the stars in heaven.
