The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v1.c20.s6.7

v1.c20.s6.7

Aditi, however, appears in other connexions than the freeing from sin. Not only the Ādityas, but all the gods are said to be born from her : as the sky she supplies them with honied milk. But the Taittirīya Saṁhitā ³ and other texts expressly assert her identity with the earth, and by the time of the Naighaṇṭuka this is so much the accepted version that the word is placed as a synonym for earth. But she often in the Rigveda ⁴ is clearly differentiated from both. Again she is identified pantheistically with sky, air, mother, father, son, the five tribes, what has been or shall be.⁵ Dakṣa, who is her son, is also her father,⁶ and she appears as celebrating Savitṛ and producing a hymn for Indra.