Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Nymph name "Cymodoce" | Roman | A sea nymph and companion of Venus. Roman |
"Da-Shi-Zhi" | Buddhist / China | One of Amitabha Buddha's two great female Bodhisattva companions in the Pure Land. Buddhist / China |
God name "Dabog" | Slav / Balkans / southern Russia | Sun god. References found in inscriptions from Kiev. After Christianization he was reduced to a diabolic personality.... |
God name "Dadimunda" | Singhalese Buddhist / Sri Lanka | Tutelary god. An attendant on the god UPULVAN to whom he acted as treasurer. The guardian of Buddhism in Sri Lanka. His sacred animal is an elephant. Also Devata bandara.... |
Supreme god name "Dagan" | Kafir / Afghanistan | A local supreme god that it bears no relation to be Semitic god Dagan |
Supreme god name "Dagan (2)" | Western Semitic / Canaanite / Phoenician | Grain and fertility god. The father of BAAL in Ugaritic creation epics. A major sanctuary was built in his honor at Mari [Syria] and he was recognized in parts of Mesopotamia where he acquired the consort Salas. Worshiped mainly at Gaza and Asdod, but also the supreme god of the Philistines. Known in biblical references as Dagon (Judges 16.23). Mentioned in the apocryphal Book of Maccabees. The cult is thought to have continued until circa 150 BC. Israelite misinterpretation of the Ugaritic root Dagan led to the åśśumption that he was a fish god, therefore attributes include a fish tail.... |
Supreme god name "Dagan (3)" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Local supreme god. This god bears no relation to the Semitic god Dagan, but is known by several synonyms including Dagon, Doghan and Deogan. He has been identified in several villages in the south of the Kafir region [southern Nuristan]. Dagan may be less a proper name than a title of respect.... |
God name "Daksa (skilled and able)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | Sun god. The son of BRAHMA and ADITI, he is an ADITYA and demiurge. His consort is PRASUTI, and he is said to have had up to sixty daughters. He appears in conflict with his son-in-law SIVA as the main offender against Siva's consort SATI (accounted as one of his daughters), who was so insulted by Daksa that she committed suicide by jumping into a ritual fire. Siva took revenge by decapitating Daksa but later, after intercession from other gods, Brahma brought him back to life, giving him the substitute head of a sacrificial goat. Attribute: head of a goat. Also PRAJAPATI.... |
Goddess name "Dali aka Deyla" | Georgia / Russia | Dalila, the hunt goddess and lady of stones and animals'. Georgia / Russia |
"Daphne" | Greek | A fair maiden who is mixed up with various traditions about Apollo. According to Pausanias she was an Oreas and an ancient priestess of the Delphic oracle to which she had been appointed by Ge. Diodorus describes her as the daughter of Teiresias, who is better known by the name of Manto. Greek |
Goddess name "Daya" | Hindu / Puranic | A goddess who oddly enough is considered a minor aspect of the god of Visnu |
Goddess name "Daya (compåśśion)" | Hindu / Puranic / A SAKTI of Acyuta / never falling / , a minor aspect of the god VIS NU | Goddess. Decima... |
"Deianira" | Greek | wife of Hercules, and the inadvertent cause of his death. Nessos told her that anyone to whom she gave a shirt steeped in his blood, would love her with undying love; she gave it to her husband, and it caused him such agony that he burnt himself to death on a funeral pile. Deianira killed herself for grief. Greek |
God name "Deimos" | Greek | The god of terror & panic |
God name "Dercetius" | Roman | God of mountains Roman / Iberia / Hispanic |
God name "Deva" | Hindu / Puranic / Vedic | Generic name of a god. Hindu / Puranic / Vedic |
Deities name "Deva (the god)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | Generic name of a god. Originally, in the Rg Veda, thirty or thirty-three devas are indicated, divided into three groups of eleven. In later Hinduism, the term deva is generally applied to deities not included in the chief triad of BRAHMA, VISNU and SIVA.... |
Goddess name "Devaki" | Hindu / Puranic / Epic | Mother goddess. Hindu / Puranic / Epic |