Thanks for your post Bodhi.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In PaurAnik sense, Aditya comes from Aditi, mother of all the devas,<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Like Aditi is the mother of all Adityas, it says that her sister Diti is the mother of all Daityas. And in the Lakshmi Ashthotaram, it says "Aditiim cha Ditim" meaning that Lakshmi is both Aditi and Diti: the Mother of all Beginnings, of all the Gods. All that ever was came from the Mother of the Universe.
I love the mystery that then ensues.... Vishnu is manifested as an Aditya (as described in the Bhagavad Gita). And Lakshmi emerged from the Churning of the Ocean; yet Lakshmi is both Diti and Aditi the progenitor of the Daityas and Adityas....
The answer is simple, of course, because it is the eternal cycle of the Gods: they always existed, but for manifestation purposes one came from the other... It is the same with other Ancient Religions.
In this world they took birth at the beginning of times. It's like how a programming Class exists outside of program execution, while an Object of this class is instantiated whenever the program is run. Similarly, the Gods always exist but then take birth as Instances into each universe or world at its beginning. Crude explanation, I know, but I found it hard to come up with anecdotal examples for this.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In PaurAnik sense, Aditya comes from Aditi, mother of all the devas,<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Like Aditi is the mother of all Adityas, it says that her sister Diti is the mother of all Daityas. And in the Lakshmi Ashthotaram, it says "Aditiim cha Ditim" meaning that Lakshmi is both Aditi and Diti: the Mother of all Beginnings, of all the Gods. All that ever was came from the Mother of the Universe.
I love the mystery that then ensues.... Vishnu is manifested as an Aditya (as described in the Bhagavad Gita). And Lakshmi emerged from the Churning of the Ocean; yet Lakshmi is both Diti and Aditi the progenitor of the Daityas and Adityas....
The answer is simple, of course, because it is the eternal cycle of the Gods: they always existed, but for manifestation purposes one came from the other... It is the same with other Ancient Religions.
In this world they took birth at the beginning of times. It's like how a programming Class exists outside of program execution, while an Object of this class is instantiated whenever the program is run. Similarly, the Gods always exist but then take birth as Instances into each universe or world at its beginning. Crude explanation, I know, but I found it hard to come up with anecdotal examples for this.