Editing Apam Napat (section)

===Conjectured original fireless myth===
Whether fire was an original part of Apam Napat's nature remains a matter of debate, especially since this connection is absent from the Iranian version. [[Hermann Oldenberg]] believed Apam Napat was originally an independent water deity who later came to be associated with Agni, in part because of an ancient Indian belief that water contained fire within itself,<ref name="Iranica"/> fire appearing to "enter into" water when quenched by it.<ref name="Oldenberg">{{Cite book |last=Oldenberg |first=Hermann |url=https://archive.org/details/diereligiondesv00oldegoog |title=Die Religion des Veda |year=1894 |location=Berlin, Germany |pages=100–119 |language=de |trans-title=The Religion of the Veda}}</ref><ref name=Boyce-1989/>{{rp|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=F3gfAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA45 45]}}

Associations with Savitr could be understood as similarly deriving from an image of the setting sun sinking into the ocean. Another theory explains the connection between fire and water through lightning, "the flash of fire born from the rainbearing clouds".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Findly |first=Ellison Banks |year=1979 |title=The 'Child of the Waters': A Revaluation of Vedic Apāṃ Napāt |journal=Numen |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=164–184 |doi=10.2307/3269717 |jstor=3269717 }}</ref>