| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Dana/ Donu/ Don/ Ana" | Welsh / Irish | The mortal Celtic race are her descendants, she is a goddess |
| Goddess name "Danu" | Hindu | Primordial goddess Hindu / Vedic |
| Goddess name "Danu" | Ireland | major mother goddess ancestress of the Tuatha De Danann. She gave her name to the Tuatha De Dannan (People of the Goddess Danu). Another aspect of the Morrigu. Ireland |
| Goddess name "Demi-Gods" | Greek | The "half-gods", is used to describe mythological figures or heroes such as Hercules, Achilles, Castor and Pollux, etc. Sons of mortals and gods or goddesses, they raised themselves to the standard of gods by their acts of bravery. |
| Demon name "Demogorgon" | Christian | Often ascribed to Greek mythology, is actually an invention of Christian scholars, imagined as the name of a pagan god or demon, åśśociated with the underworld and envisaged as a powerful primordial being, whose very name had been taboo. |
| 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 "Dhumorna" | Hindu | Goddess Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
| Goddess name "Dhumorna (smoke)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess. The consort of YAMA. Attribute: a pomegranate.... |
| Deities name "Dii Mauri" | Africa | The God of Moors. Immortal, they act as redeemers, and benevolent indigenous deities. North Africa |
| Deities name "Dii Mauri Moor" | N Africa | They were redeemers, immortals, & exalted deities that were almost never named |
| God name "Dilis Varskvlavi" | Russia | Dilis Varskvlavi "the Morning Star", the Winter god. Russia |
| King name "Dion" | Greek | A king in Laconia whose daughters were metamorphosed into rocks. Greek |
"Djamar" | Australia | The supreme being and creator, the giver of the moral laws and of initiation rites. He was responsible for the first bull-roar. |
| Goddess name "Domnu" | Ireland | Goddess of the Formorians Ireland |
"Doris" | Greek | A daughter of Oceåñuś and Thetys, and the wife of her brother Nereus, by whom she became the mother of the Nereides. (Theogony 240, Metamorphoses by Ovid ii. 269.) The Latin poets sometimes use the name of this marine divinity for the sea itself. Greek |
| Monster name "Dragon of Wantley" | Britain | warncliff, in Yorkshire. A monster slain by More, of More Hall, who procured a suit of armour studded with spikes; and, proceeding to the well where the dragon had his lair, kicked it in the mouth, where alone it was vulnerable. Britain |
"Dun Cow" | Britain | The dun cow of Dunsmore heath was a savage beast slain by Sir Guy, Earl of warwick. A huge tusk, probably that of an elephant, is still shown at Harwich Castle as one of the horns of the dun-cow. The fable is that this cow belonged to a giant, and was kept on Mitchell Fold (middle fold), Shropshire. Its milk was inexhaustible; but one day an old woman who had filled her pail, wanted to fill her sieve also. This so enraged the cow, that she broke loose from the fold and wandered to Dunsmore heath, where she was slain by Guy of warwick. Britain |
"Ee-A-o/ Yao" | Gnostic Christian | A primordial being |
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