It is really very absurd for an atheist the structure and worship of Goddess Durga and Her Family. Because as per our modern science, no super human can have as many hands as of Maa Durga. Same question knocked me from my very childhood and finally came up with a hypothesis. Actually everything in Vedic age was encoded with hidden meanings, so we just need to find it on our own.
If we see from the view point of our Parliamentary System or Structure, we find three most important things which are
1. President- Head of the Nation but works on the advice of the Prime Minister and the Union Cabinet
2. Prime Minister- the Head of Government, chief adviser to the President and Head of all the Union Cabinet, and lastly
3. Union Cabinet- Who performs tasks specified for them by the Prime Minister..
Same way, in the Durga Family we find, Lord Shiva at the Top of the Scenario, Maa Durga at the Centre with other members by the side.
Here Lord Shiva serves as Head of the Family though non-functional to his existence. Maa Durga as the chief in the Scenario. Here, Maa Durga has ten hands which depicts the initial Union Cabinet form of main 10 Cabinet Ministers. Each weapons in her hand defines different function of different Ministries. For Example, the Trident's Upper end has 3 Claws while the lower end meets to a single pointed end. This depicts that Defense Ministry has 3 wings, Army-Navy-Air Force, which is Directly under Ministry of Defense. Now comes her mount, the Lion. Every Prime Minister is provided with strongest possible body guards along with a strong Vehicle which is same in this scenario. Next is Mahisasura. Every country has enemies which is represented in this way.
Now coming to the family members.
Lord Karthik- He is portrayed as the Commander-in-Chief which in today's structure is the Defense Minster having a powerful mount peacock, which is a strong flying bird correspond to our Air Force.
Lord Ganesha- He is present day's Commerce Minister as all the followers are mostly Business men and his mount, Rat shows the path of conservation of resourses for the most unfortunate hour.
Goddess Laxmi- She is the Goddess of Wealth so now it is easily understandable that she was depicted as the Finance Minister. Now it can also be note that all the financial announcements comes to effect from midnight which is why the Owl, a bird which works at night.
Goddess Saraswati- The Goddess of Knowledge portrayed as the HRD Minister whose mount, a Swan represents the purity of knowledge as it has the capacity to divide water from the milk.
Now I hope the the whole scenario can be made somewhat clear from this hypothesis for all those who are sceptic and atheist.
