| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Dhanistha (very rich)" | Hindu / Puranic | Minor goddess of misfortune. A malevolent NAKSATRA or astral deity; daughter of DAKSA and wife of CANDRA (SOMA). Also SRAVISTHA.... |
| God name "Dhvajosnisa" | Buddhist | God, apparently Guardian deity Buddhist |
| Deities name "Dhvajosnisa" | Buddhist | God. An USNISA deity apparently connected with the guardian deities or dikpalas in the southwestern quarter. Color: reddish-blue. Attributes: banner with jewel.... |
| Goddess name "Disani" | Afghanistan | Supreme fertility and mother goddess. Afghanistan |
| Spirit name "Djinn" | Arabian | Jin, Ginn, spirits of vanished ancient peoples who acted during the night and disappeared with the first light of dawn. Arabian |
| God name "Dogumrik" | Afghanistan | Local warrior and guardian god. Afghanistan |
| God name "Dogumrik" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Local guardian and warrior god. Known from the village of Shtiwe in the southeastern Hindukush, Dogumrik is the herdsman to the daughters of the god IMRA and possibly a localized equivalent of the god MON.... |
| God name "Doh Yenisi" | Siberia | a rather good magician that could fly over the waves, become weary, then create islands to rest on, almost god like |
| Angel name "Dorothea" | Greek | Represented with a rose-branch in her hand, a wreath of roses on her head, and roses with fruit by her side; sometimes with an angel carrying a basket with three apples and three roses. The legend is that Theophilus, the judge's secretary, scoffingly said to her, as she was going to execution, "Send me some fruit and roses, Dorothea, when you get to Paradise." Immediately after her execution, while Theophilus was at dinner with a party of companions, a young angel brought to him a basket of apples and roses, saying, "From Dorothea, in Paradise," and vanished. |
| 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. |
| Spirit name "Duende" | Spanish | A Spanish house-spirit. |
| God name "Duzhi" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Local god of uncertain affinities. Known only from an altar stone which was generally erected beside that of the water god BAGISHT. Sacrifice was in the form of a male goat.... |
| God name "Duzi" | Kafir / Afghanistan | a local god known only from of an altar stone, but he did like male goats as a sacrifice |
| God name "Ec Yenisei" | Siberia | The high god |
| God name "Edeke" | Teso / Uganda, East Africa | God of disasters. The antagonist of the creator god APAP, Edeke is propitiated during times of famine and plague.... |
| God name "Egres" | Finnish | Fertility god in charge of the the turnip crop Finnish |
| God name "Elkunisra" | Canaan | Creator god. Canaan |
| Spirit name "Elle Woman" | Danish | The spirit of the elder tree. Danish |
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