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Saraswati

Saraswati is generally regarded as the daughter of Lord Brahma, instead of his wife as is Durga to Siva and Lakshmi to Vishnu. Regardless, whereas Brahma is tinged with scandal and rarely rather than the evoked, Mother Saraswati is popular and very often praised. She is the Goddess of wisdom and knowledge, science and the Vedas themselves. She rules creativity and the arts, music and all forms of higher learning and expression. She is also the inventor of the Devanagri script, the Sanskrit lettering, considered to be sacred and originating from  divine inspiration. She is depicted in modest dress with four arms, dressed in white and seated on a white lotus. As goddess of the arts, she is often seen playing a veena (a stringed instrument) with 2 hands. In her other hands she is holding a book of palm leaves, and in the other, a lotus flower of perhaps a string of pearls or mala beads.
Saraswati is also the name of the ancient river that I s believed to have flowed from this region and around which Vedic Culture originally sprung. As the Goddess she takes on similar attributes bestowing bounty, fertility and riches to those who seek her grace and guidance. Her waters give nourishment to the seeds of creativity in each of us, so they can produce a higher more sustenant fruit. Also, Saraswati, as the Goddess represents purity, (Sattwa) as does water as the flowing river is ever renewing itself and a dip in Sacred waters in considered an act of purification. According to the Vedas, The banks of the  Saraswati River were especially sacred and used for ritual purposes. And yet another important association with the symbolism if the river is the imagery of crossing from the world of ignorance or Maya to the shore of wisdom and peace, enlightenment and freedom. The river is a powerful metaphor for this the state of transition, from Knowledge and purity to transcendence.
Legends say that Saraswati sprung from the forehead of her father, Brahma. As soon as Brahma looked at hi beautiful daughter,  he desired her, even though she was his kin. Saraswati disliked the attention of the old man and kept fleeing. But whichever way she moved, Brahma grew a head in that direction to try to see her better, This is why Brahma has 4 heads. Eventually he married her, but became impatient with her fleeting and elusive nature. But It was through her that he created the 4 Vedas. However as a mate she was largely unresponsive and uninterested in family matters and most things related to being a wife.
Thus Saraswati, though married, does not enjoy domestic bliss like Durga or Lakshmi. According to most myths she has no children. She is described as possessing a very independent will and is not very obliging to the male gods. As a kept daughter / wife, Saraswati lives a perpetually self-imposed exile. Calm and ascetic, she is a witness to the futility of passion and warfare in all forms as well as the trappings of wealth. To her temples are built, yet she offers no protection or riches or other things that make our outward embodied condition more comfortable. Saraswati is the Sattwic goddess of Jnana Yoga, the Yoga of discrimination. She offers detachment, purity and peace, which helps us cross the river of Maya through a calm and reassured detachment.