Veda is 3,000 years old and is made up of poetry (mantra) and prose (brahmana). Within the prose we find stories (itihasa) about conflicts over resources between humans, between gods and sometimes between humans and gods. It makes us realise Vedic people had issues similar to contemporary issues. We still fight over resources.

For example, as per Jaiminiya Brahmana (1.184), the boy Trita was very talented and secured a lot of cows for his services. This made his two elder brothers jealous, who pushed him in a dry well and claimed the cows as their own. The boy then invoked the gods who saved him from the dry well, by causing rain to fall. The water level of the well rose, and the boy floated up. The brothers were cursed to become a bear and a monkey. The boy returned home with his cows.