Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Daiomon" | Greek | Good or malevolent supernatural beings. Greek |
Spirit name "Dakini" | Buddhist | A female being, generally of volatile temperament, who acts as a muse for spiritual practice. Buddhist |
Goddess name "Dala Kadavara" | Singhalese | Elephant goddess who brings diseases and misfortune. Singhalese |
"Dancing-water" | French | Which beautifies ladies, makes them young again, and enriches them. It fell in a cascade in the Burning Forest, and could only be reached by an underground påśśage. Prince Chery fetched a bottle of this water for his beloved Fair-star, but was aided by a dove. French Fairy Tale |
God name "Daronwy" | Wales | This god appears only in the songs / Book of Taleisin |
Spirit name "Davas" | Persia | Malevolent spirits. Persia |
Spirit name "Davas/ Daevas/ Devas/ Devs" | Persia | Rather malevolent spirits |
"Deidameia" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Bellerophontes and wife of Evander, by whom she became the mother of Sarpedon. Homer calls her Laodameia. 2. A daughter of Lycomedes in the island of Scyrus. When Achilles was concealed there in maiden's attire, Deidameia became by him the mother of Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus, and, according to others, of Oneirus also. (Apollodorus iii) 3. The wife of Peirithous, who is commonly called Hippodameia. Greek |
God name "Descended into hell" | Greek | Means the place of the dead. (Anglo-Saxon, helan, to cover or conceal, like the Greek "Hades," the abode of the dead, from the verb a-cido, not to see. In both cases it means "the unseen world" or "the world concealed from sight." The god of this nether world was called "Hades" by the Greeks, and "Hel" or "Hela" by the Scandinavians. In some counties of England to cover in with a roof is "to hell the building," and thatchers or tilers are termed "helliers." |
"Devala" | Hindu | Music personified as female. Hindu |
Deity name "Devi" | Hindu | The consort of Siva and daughter of Himavat, the Himalaya mountains. As the female energy of Siva she considered either as a beneficent or as a malignant deity. Hindu |
Deities name "Devi" | India | These are female deities |
Goddess name "Devi (the goddess)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess epitomizing the active female principle. Devi evolved as a major goddess out of the older notion of mother and vegetation goddesses. She is seen more as an abstract principle who will nevertheless respond directly to worshipers' prayers. By the fifth century AD she appears in many forms as the active (feminine) aspect or power of male deities. General attributes: conch, hook, noose, prayer wheel and trident. Devi is also the generic name given to a female deity, in her capacity as the consort of a god or DEVA.See also SRI(DEVI), BHUMIDEVI.... |
Goddess name "Dhanistha" | Hindu / Puranic | Minor goddess of misfortune to and malevolent astral deity. Hindu / Puranic |
Goddess name "Dhanistha (very rich)" | Hindu / Puranic | Minor goddess of misfortune. A malevolent NAKSATRA or astral deity; daughter of DAKSA and wife of CANDRA (SOMA). Also SRAVISTHA.... |
Deity name "Dianic Wicca" | Greek | A Wiccan path that focuses on the strong female deity Diana. |
Demon name "Dimme" | Sumeria | Female demon of fever and and diseases of infants. There were seven evil spirits of this kind, who were apparently regarded as being daughters of Anu, the god of the heavens. Sumeria |
King name "Diomedes" | Greek | A son of Tydeus and Deipyle, the husband of Aegialeia, and the successor of Adrastus in the kingdom of Argos, though he was descended from an Aetolian family. Greek |