Home›Open Questions›Is Diti an old goddess whose name Aditi negates, or a back formation made to give the negation something to negate?Open QuestionsIs Diti an old goddess whose name Aditi negates, or a back formation made to give the negation something to negate?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Is Diti an old goddess whose name Aditi negates, or a back formation made to give the negation something to negate?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/is-diti-an-old-goddess-whose-name-aditi-negates-or-a-back-formation-made-to-give-the-negation-something-to-negate.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Is Diti an old goddess whose name Aditi negates, or a back formation made to give the negation something to negate?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/is-diti-an-old-goddess-whose-name-aditi-negates-or-a-back-formation-made-to-give-the-negation-something-to-negateCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-is-diti-an-old-goddess-whose-name-aditi, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Is Diti an old goddess whose name Aditi negates, or a back formation made to give the negation something to negate?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/is-diti-an-old-goddess-whose-name-aditi-negates-or-a-back-formation-made-to-give-the-negation-something-to-negate}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionDiti is named only a handful of times in the Rigveda, always in formulaic proximity to Aditi, with no hymn, no epithet and no story of her own. A figure of that antiquity with that little attached to her is unusual, and her full career begins only when the Puranic genealogists need two mothers.What would resolve this Comparative Indo-Iranian evidence for an independent figure behind the abstract noun, or a demonstration that the Vedic occurrences are all secondary to the divine name Aditi.OpenVedic philology and comparative Indo-Iranian linguisticsArthur Anthony Macdonell, Vedic MythologyCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnDiti, Deities Well-attested Source Vedic MythologyArthur Anthony Macdonelltier 1SourcesVedic Mythologytier 1Arthur Anthony Macdonell, Karl J. Trubner, Strassburg, 1897View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year