| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Angel name "Destroying Angel" | Roman | Another name for the angel of destruction, aka the angel of death. |
| God name "Dhanvantari (traveling through an arc)" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | Sun god. In later tradition a minor incarnation or avatara of the god VISNU, also closely åśśociated with Medicine. In Vedic mythology Dhanvantari carried the ambrosia created from the primeval ocean of milk. He brought medical science to mankind. Only as the religion evolved did he become identified as an avatara. As KANTATMAN (PRADYUMNA), he is thought to be Kama reincarnated after his death at the hands of SIVA. Various other epithets and existences are attributed to this deity. Offerings are due to him at dusk in the northeastern quarter. He is the guardian deity of hospitals which are usually in the vicinity of a sanctuary of Visnu. Attributes: two bowls containing ambrosia. Also Kantatman.... |
"Dido" | Carthage | Dido was queen of Carthage, who fell in love with ?neas, driven by a storm to her spéñïśs. After abiding awhile at Carthage, he was compelled by Mercury to leave the hospitable queen. Dido, in grief, burnt herself to death on a funeral pile. |
| Goddess name "Don" | Welsh | Goddess who is called a god of death Ireland / Welsh |
| Goddess name "Don/ Donn/ Dhonn" | Irish / Wales | A goddess that is called a god of death |
| God name "Donn" | Ireland | God of the underworld, the Dark One responsible for the påśśage of the dead to the underworld. Ireland |
| God name "Donn" | Celtic / Irish | Chthonic underworld god. According to legend, he lives on an island to the southwest of Munster and is responsible for the påśśage of the dead toward the otherworld.... |
| Ghost name "Dove" | Christian | In Christian art, symbolises the Holy ghost. In church windows the seven rays proceeding from the dove signify the seven gifts of the Holy ghost. It also symbolises the human soul, and as such is represented coming out of the mouth of saints at death. |
| 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. |
"Druj nasu" | Avesta | A "Corpse-fiend", the incarnation of pollution and contagion arising from decomposition of a dead body. Avesta |
| 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.... |
| King name "Elidure" | Britain | A legendary king of Britain, advanced to the throne in place of his elder brother, Arthgallo, supposed by him to be dead. Arthgallo, after a long exile, returned to his country, and Elidure resigned to him the throne. |
| Goddess name "Elphame aka Elphlane" | Scotland | Elphane, Goddess of death and disease. Scotland |
| Goddess name "Elphame/ Elphlane/ Elphane/ Queen of Elphame" | Scotland | A goddess of death & disease |
| God name "Emma O" | Buddhist / Japan | God of death and lord of hell. Buddhist / Japan |
"Erathipa" | Australian | A huge boulder in the shape of a pregnant woman. It is said that the souls of dead children reside within it, and that if a woman of child-bearing age walks by a soul slips from the boulder and into her womb to be reborn. Australian |
| Goddess name "Eriiys" | Greek | Chthonic goddess of wrath. According to legend she was a consort of POSEIDON by whom she bore the fabulous horse Areon. By implication she may also have been a grim maternal figure who engendered all horses. She may be equated with a wrathful DEMETER who is sometimes given the epithet Erinys. Erinys appears in the collec tive form of three Erinyes, their heads covered with snake locks and bearing torches from the underworld. In the Iliad they are described as those who beneath the earth punish dead men, whoever has sworn a false oath. In Roman mythology they are the Furies.... |
| Demon name "Eriskegal aka Erishkigal" | Babylon / Allatu | demon queen of Seduction and Undeath, Mistress of Succubi. Babylon / Allatu |
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