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She was also known as the Hindu Vedic cow goddess Aditi, who was the immortal personification of solar radiance and a source of primordial creativity. She was the benefactor mentor of all the Vedic aspects of communications including hearing, speech, sight, and writing. Mentioned in the Vedas and other Hinduism writings, she was portrayed in the guise of a cow guardian who cleared away obstacles and brought forth prosperity. The Mahadevas like Aditi Vac with the assistance of multitudes of Animal Totems, Devas, Mahadevas and Nature Spirits protected and provided daily guidance to Hindus over the ages. Hinduism recognized their valuable contribution to the overall development and harmonic balance of India and the planetary evolutionary spirals of the Hindus. Hindus revered numerous Hindu semi-divine goddesses and gods as manifold deities and Mahadevas with many different names and qualities. They were believed to really be different forms of the one, all pervasive, supreme being of Hinduism. All of these Mahadeva goddesses and gods had Animal Totems helpmates. For instance, Candra was an Epic and Puranic Hindu moon god named Candra who drove a chariot across the sky pulled by ten white horses. Portrayed with a club, a lotus, a prayer wheel and a sacred rope, he was the keeper of the sanctified golden elixir soma cup.
Candra was also a Dikpala guardian of the northern direction and the planetary alignment with the North Star. Attended by the Goose Animal Totem, his color was white and his symbol was a moon disc on a lotus blossom. Chandra was also the hero archer god Arjuna of the Hindu Veda, Epics and Puranas. Particularly renown for his role in the Bhagavad Gita (the Hindu Song of Life), Arjuna was mentored by Lord Krishna who was later on known as Maitreya Shangdi Kumara. Arjuna was also credited with convincing Vishnu to assume his Visvarupa form. Lord Krishna (who was often depicted with blue skin because of the radiant spiritual blue of his aura) was attended by a White Holy Cow. Another instance was Parvati who was a brilliantly benevolent Hindu agricultural fertility mother goddess mentioned in Puranic texts and the Epic Ramayana. Revered from around 400 ACE until the present times, she was depicted in reliefs and sculptures. Considered by many to be an earlier aspect of Sakti, the embodied of the feminine aspect of creative divinity, she was portrayed with a conch, a decorated headband, a lotus blossom, a mirror and a rosary. She was sometimes depicted as a human female with an elephant head.
Some of the earlier Hindu
deities included he Asvins who were two of the Nine Kumaras or Tortoise
Avatars who have been acted as benefactor mentors for the peoples of India over
the ages. The Asvins were twin Hindu physician gods who travelled around
together in a horse drawn chariot. Besides the Tortoise their
other primary Animal Totem was the Peacock.
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