Additi

representation of the goddess Aditi. She's a Hindu deity.

In the framework of Vedism Aditi is a mother goddess, wife of Kashiapa and mother of the Āditiás (name derived from Áditi) and other gods. Celestial in character, she at a later time was identified with the earth. She is the personification of the vast infinite and vast cosmos; she and therefore she the goddess of the earth, the sky, unconsciousness, the past, the future and fertility.

It is frequently mentioned in the Rig-veda (mid-2nd millennium BC) and other Hindu texts.

In the Rig-veda she is the most important female goddess (devi). She is the origin of all creatures, including some or all of the devas; as well as a dispenser of the necessary food for everyone to survive. She was invoked as sponsor of children and cattle.She is Diti's sister.

Theosophists and in Hindu philosophy comment that the following verse indicated in the Vedas "Daksha arose from Aditi, and Aditi from Daksha" as a reference to the " eternal cyclical rebirth of the same divine Essence" and divine wisdom.

In most of the Puranas (such as the Bhágavata-purana, from about the 11th century AD) she has a much more secondary role, as the wife of Kashiapa, and who gave birth to twelve children, the Aditiás, who will later be considered as the gods of the firmament, eternal and inviolable. These twelve children give rise to the twelve months of the year.

In some Puranas she is said to be the wife of Márichi; while in the Shatapatha-bráhmana Áditi is seen as if she were alone (without a husband).

He would be an "equivalent" to the personification of the concept of Sakti, as the energy that gives rise to the devas; and associated with the primary substance (mulaprakriti) in the Vedanta school of philosophy.

Meaning

• ‘infinity’, ‘eternal and infinite expansion’ or ‘unlimited’
• a-diti also means ‘nothing to give’ (in the Rig-veda)
• a-diti: not tied, free (according to Rig-veda 7.52.1)
• without borders, not broken, whole, happy according to Rig-veda and Vashasanei-samjitá.
• freedom, security
• immensity, inexhaustible abundance, perfection, creative power.
• a cow, milk (in the Rig-veda)
• the Earth (according to Naigh.)
• speech (in the Rig-veda 8.101.15)
• heaven and earth (according to Naigh.)
• when pronounced adíti is a common male noun, and means ‘devourer’ (an epithet of death), according to the Brijad-araniaka-upanishád.