| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| 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.... |
| God name "Dharmadhatuvagisvara" | Buddhist | God of the law. A variety of MANJUSRI and therefore an emanation of AMITABHA. Color: reddish-white. Attributes: arrow, bell, Book, bow, hook, image of Amitabha on crown, staff, sword and water jar. Depicted with four heads and setting the law wheel in motion.... |
| Goddess name "Dharti Mata" | Hindu | Mother goddess Hindu / Puranic |
| Goddess name "Dharti Mata" | Hindu / Puranic | Mother goddess. A deity who appears late in Hinduism and equates with PRTHIVI or BHUMIDEVI. According to some authors she is the consort of THAKUR DEO. Also Dhartri Mai, Darti Awwal.... |
| Goddess name "Dhupa (incense)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Mother goddess. One of the ASTAMATARA mothers. Color: yellow. Attribute: a censer.... |
"Dias" | Greek | Father of Cleolla, the mother of Agamemnon by Pleisthenes. Greek |
| Goddess name "Dictynna" | Crete | A mother goddess |
| Goddess name "Dictynna" | Cretan | Mother goddess. She became syncretized with the Greek goddess RHEA.... |
| Goddess name "Diksa (initiation)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess. The consort of Ugra and mother of SANTANA. Also the name of the Buddhist Tantric initiation ceremony.... |
"Dindymene" | Greek | The Great Mother of Mount Dindimus. Greek |
"Dione" | Greek | A female Titan, a daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and, according to others, of Uråñuś and Ge, or of Aether and Ge. She was beloved by Zeus, by whom she became the mother of Aphrodite. Greek |
| Goddess name "Dipa (personification of the oil lamp)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Goddess of light. Considered to be among the group of ASTAMATARAS (mothers). Color: blue or red. Attribute: a lamp.... |
| Goddess name "Disa (the ten directions of space)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess. Consort of SI IVA in his terrible aspect of BHIMA and mother of the minor god Sarga (creation).... |
| Goddess name "Disani" | Afghanistan | Supreme fertility and mother goddess. Afghanistan |
| Goddess name "Diti" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | Goddess. The daughter of DAKSA, a consort of ADITI (in the Rg Veda) or KASYAPA and the mother of a race of demons. Attributes: blue lotus, child and fruit.See also Aditi.... |
| Goddess name "Don" | Celtic / Welsh | Mother goddess. Described in the Mabinogion as the progenitress of the Welsh pantheon. Equates with the Irish goddess DANU.... |
"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 |
| God name "Du-l Halasa" | SW Arabia | A god that was demoted to the rank of an idle |
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