In the Vedic (Hindu mythology ‘Aditi’) originally meant ‘the illimitable space of sky beyond hte Far East, whence the bright light gods sprang’. Then in later myths Aditi became the mother (by Daksa, the sun god) of the first gods, the seven Aditya who fashioned the world“. Greek...
8). The Pleiades (Krittika) are particularly revered in Hindu mythology as the six mothers of the war god Murugan, who developed six faces, one for each of them. Some scholars of Islam suggested that the Pleiades (ath-thurayya) are the star mentioned in the sura (chapter) Najm of the ...