Diti
deity figure · 3 works · 6 mentions · 10 anchored passages
goddess Diti
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Wife of the sage Kāśyapa and mother of the Daityas; after her sons are slain by Indra she seeks a son to destroy him, but Indra splits her embryo into seven, who become the Maruts.
thereupon Diti awoke.
"Do not weep, do not weep" — thus Śakra addressed the embryo;
grant your permission for one such as this — a slayer of Śakra.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Goddess Diti, named as the winnowing-fan in the riddle-hymn equating parts of the sacrificial preparation with cosmic and divine agents.
The eye is the pestle, Desire the mortar, Diti the winnowing-fan, Aditi the one who grasps the winnowing-fan, the Wind has winnowed it clean;
Diti and Aditi are its two horns;