Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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King name "Daji" | China | A concubine that was possessed by a fox who was sent to mess up the state affairs of the Shang Dynasty as a punishment for the evil thought of king Zhou. China |
Goddess name "Dakini Guru" | Tibetan | A goddess of teaching |
"Danaus" | Greek | A son of Belus and Anchinoe, and a grandson of Poseidon and Libya. He was brother of Aegyptus, and father of fifty daughters, and the mythical ancestor of the Danai. (Apollodorus. ii.) Greek |
Goddess name "Dashizhi" | China | Goddess of knowledge. China |
"Deluges" | Chinese | The principle ones are: the deluge of Fohi, Chinese. The Satyavrata, of the Indians; the Xisuthrus, of the Assyrians; the Mexican deluge; Noah's Flood and the Greek deluges of Deucalion and Ogyges. |
God name "Deus ex machina" | Roman | The intervention of a god, or some unlikely event. Literally, it means "a god let down upon the stage or flying in the air by machinery." |
Spirit name "Devas aka daeva" | Hindu | A type of celestial being that appears in both Persian mythology and Hinduism. Named after a Sanskrit word meaning "god," the deva emerged in Hindu teachings as a spiritual being, serving the supreme beings. |
God name "Deving Iching" | Latvia | God of horses. Latvia |
God name "Di Jun" | China | God of the eastern sky China |
Goddess name "Dou Mou" | China | A goddess North Star, health & diseases & justice |
Goddess name "Doushen" | China | Goddess of justice. China |
"Echinades" | Greek | One of the five surviving Spartae that had grown up from the dragon's teeth, which Cadmus had sown. Greek |
God name "Egata" | Basque | A God who warns of approaching fire and windstorms. Basque |
Spirit name "Ehlose" | Zulu | The guardian spirit which may take many forms, and warns of approaching dangers. Zulu |
Goddess name "Eir" | Scandinavia | A goddess of mercy & teaching |
God name "Ek Chuah" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of merchants. Also the deity responsible for the cacao crop. (The cacao bean was traditionally the standard currency throughout Mesoamerica.) Probably of Putun origin, he is typically depicted painted black, except for a red area around the lips and chin. He has a distinctive downwardly projecting lower lip, horseshoe shapes around each eye and a highly elongated nose. He may also bear a scorpion's tail. Other attributes include a carrying strap in his headdress and sometimes a pack on his back. Also God M.... |
Goddess name "Ekineba" | Africa | Goddess of teaching Africa |
Demon name "Erh Lang" | China | God, with a magic dog, who fights the mountain demons. China |