Aditi

Aditi (Sanskrit, f, अदिति, aditi, "unbound ", " unlimited", "infinity", "free" ) is a mother and goddess of heaven to the Hindu mythology, which is already sung in the Vedas.

Aditi is the mother of the Adityas, with which it is exclusively called together in the Rigveda. From the water, the earth and the gods descended from Aditi, their mother is Djaur - Aditi ( "Heaven Aditi "), which she rears with sweet milk. The Soma " lays in the lap of Aditi the seed by which we obtain seeds and bodily offspring ". Her chest is considered the navel of the world. Therefore, one sacrifices her in Erdöffnungen. Closely connected with it is the immortal cow that represents the nurturing power of the earth, generosity, fertility and maternity. Aditi is also considered the goddess of the earth and preserver of the world. The cock applicable in spätvedischer time often as their vahana ( mount ). Often Aditi wears earrings that will be emerged in the Quirlung of the milk ocean as one of fourteen treasures and gave her her son Indra. In the Atharvaveda, it appears as imperishable and protective mistress of the world order RTA, which wipes out debt and offense and freed from want, disease and fear. In the Rig Veda Aditi is assigned no male partner. In a song of the Atharvaveda it is called deviation from the Rigveda as the sister of the Adityas, their common parents are here, the Vasus, and as the son of Aditi, Rudra is called.

In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad it is identified as the goddess of infinite space and consciousness with the creator god Prajapati, in recent writings such as the Shatapatha - Brahmana it appears mainly as a personification of the earth. In the Mahabharata and the Puranas she appears as the daughter and mother of Daksha and the mother of the gods, especially the Aditya Vivasvat and Vishnu, with whom she was pregnant during the reign of Danavas. Daksha is known simultaneously as Aditi's son and father. They appear either as consort of Brahma or Kashyapa. With Kashyapa bespeaks the Adityas. They also considered the mother and wife of Vishnu.

The Indology, the question of the nature of Aditi is controversial. She is seen both as a representation of the sky, as well as the personification of non- bondage, the expanding earth or as Magna Mater. Some of them also hold for a personification of the day or the day light. Opposite her is her sister or subsequent appearance of Diti, which represents the limitations of individual human consciousness.