| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Dharani (earth)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | (1) Goddess. Consort of PARASURAMA and an avatara of the goddess LAKSMI.(2) Collective name for a group of deities. Buddhist. Twelve personifications of a particular kind of short mystical religious text used as a charm. Also dharini.... |
| Goddess name "Diana" | Greek / Roman | A goddess of childbirth, chastity, virginity, fertility, hunting, the moon & the sky |
"Diarmaid" | Celtic | Had a beauty spot which, any woman chanced to see it, would make her instantly fall in love with him. Celtic |
"Dicilla" | s | One of Logistilla's handmaids, famous for her chastity. Orlando Furioso |
"Dirce" | Greek | A daughter of Helios and wife of Lycus. Her body was changed by Dionysus into a well on mount Cithaeron. Greek |
| Goddess name "Discordia" | Roman | Goddess of strife and Discordian goddess of chaos. Roman |
| Archangel name "Djibril" | Arabic | The Arabic name for the archangel Gabriel. |
| Goddess name "Djila'qons" | Haida Indian / Queen Charlotte Island, Canada | Sea goddess. An old woman who lives at the head of a major inlet in Haida territory and controls all the creatures of the sea.... |
"Dobby's Walk" | Ireland | The goblin's haunt or beat. Dobby is an archaic word for a goblin or brownie. |
| Spirit name "Dom-Daniel" | Arabian | The abode of evil spirits, gnomes, and enchanters, somewhere "under the roots of the ocean," but not far from Babylon. (Continuation of the Arabian Tales.) |
| Angel name "Dominations" | Christian | One of the nine accepted orders or choirs of angels. The ruling princes of the order are said to be Hashmal, Zadkiel, Muriel, and Zacharael. |
| Angel name "Dragon" | Christian | dragon in Christian art symbolises Satan or sin. In the pictures of St. Michael and St. Margaret it typifies their conquest over sin. Similarly, when represented at the feet of Christ and the Virgin Mary. The conquest of St. George and St. Silvester over a dragon means their triumph over paganism. In the pictures of St. Martha it means the inundation of the Rhone, spreading pestilence and death; similarly, St. Romåñuś delivered Rouen from the inundation of the Seine, and Apollo's conquest of the python means the same thing. St. John the Evangelist is sometimes represented holding a chalice, from which a winged dragon is issuing. |
"Drome" | Norse | One of the fetters by which the Fenris-wolf was chained. Norse |
| Goddess name "Dubh Lacha" | Ireland | Early goddess of the sea Ireland |
| God name "Ebisu" | Shinto / Japan | God of luck. The most popular of seven gods of fortune recognized in Shintoism and frequently linked with the god DAIKOKU. He is depicted as a fat, smiling and bearded fisherman holding a fishing rod in one hand and a sea bream in the other. The name does not appear in the clåśśical sacred texts Nibongi and Kojiki, but Ebisu is known to have been worshiped in ancient times among fishermen. From about the sixteenth century his character changed and he became a deity åśśociated with profit. Thus he is a patron of commerce and his picture hangs in most establishments. He is perhaps syncretized with the gods HIRUKO and KOTO-SHIRO-NUSHI. He may also be identified with Fudo, the god of knowledge. He does not join the rest of the Shinto pantheon in the great October festival at Izumo because he is deaf. His festival is celebrated concurrently in his own temple.... |
"Eee-A-O (Yao)" | Gnostic Christian | Primordial being. The first of the androgynous principles born to YALDABAOTH, the prime parent, ruling the seven heavens of chaos in gnostic mythology.... |
| God name "Egres" | Finnish | Fertility god in charge of the the turnip crop Finnish |
| God name "Egres/ Akras Karelian" | Finland | A fertility god in charge of the the turnip crop |
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