Hindu Goddess Aditi: Source Of All Living Beings, Ruler Over The Future, Past, And Fertility

A. Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - In the Rigveda, a collection of hymns, the authors appeal to many gods, and one of them is the goddess Aditi, who is believed to be the most mysterious deity of the Indian pantheon. She is associated with the beginnings of the Universe.

Aditi prays to Surya. Image credit: Gita Press Gorakhpur - CC0

In her cosmic matrix, all the heavenly bodies were born. Aditi plays the role of guardian of ‘Rta’, the cosmic-moral order that represents an impersonal and powerful force. Both the physical and ethical worlds are based on ‘Rta’.

Aditi ("unbound" or “free”) is the mother of the great god Indra and Vishnu in his dwarf incarnation and, even in a later reappearance as Krishna. She is also the mother of kings. The Vedas say that Aditi is Devamata, which means ‘mother of the celestial gods’.

The Rigveda, estimated to have been composed between 1700 BC and 1100 BC, mentions this primeval goddess nearly 80 times.

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