In this fire the gods offer food as libation. Out of that offering semen produced.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad V, VII- The Five Fires (IV), 2
Thus in the fifth libation water comes to be called man. The foetus enclosed in the membrane, having lain inside for ten or nine months, or more or less, is born.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad V, IX – Birth and Death, 1
Having been born, he lives whatever the length of his life may be. When he is dead, they carry him to the fire of the funeral pyre whence he came, whence he arose.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad V, IX – Birth and Death, 2
You steer your path across the sky, O Sun, across the realms of space. measuring the days by means of your shining, observing all that comes to birth.
Rig Veda I, 50, 7
Seven bay mares drawing your chariot conduct you, O far-seeing God, Surya of the flaming hair.
Rig Veda I, 50, 8
