In
Hinduism,
Diti is an earth goddess and mother of the
Maruts with
Rudra. She wanted to have a son who would be more powerful than
Indra (who had killed her previous children) and so she practiced
magic and kept herself
pregnant for one-hundred years. Indra used a
thunderbolt to splinter the fetus into many pieces, the
Maruts.
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