| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "DMu-bDub Kam-Po Sa-Zen" | Tibet / Bon | a sky god & the head of the ancient pantheon |
| King name "Dactyloi" | Greek | Ancient smiths and healing magicians. In some myths, they are in Hephaestus' employ, and they taught metalworking, mathematics, and the alphabet to humans. Greek |
"Dame du Lac" | Britain | A fay, named Vivienne, who plunged with the infant Lancelot into a lake. This lake was a kind of mirage, concealing the demesnes of the lady "en la marche de la petite Bretaigne." Britain |
| Demon name "Danavas" | India | Danava. An ancient name for demons. Half Divine / half demonic beings. India |
"Daphne" | Greek | A fair maiden who is mixed up with various traditions about Apollo. According to Pausanias she was an Oreas and an ancient priestess of the Delphic oracle to which she had been appointed by Ge. Diodorus describes her as the daughter of Teiresias, who is better known by the name of Manto. Greek |
| Supreme god name "Deive" | Latvia | The supreme god. The same word refers to the Christian deity in modern Latvian. In ancient Latvian mythology, Dievs was not just the father of the gods, he was the essence of them all. Latvia |
| Goddess name "Dendritis" | Greek | The goddess of the tree, occurs as a surname of Helen at Rhodes, and the following story is related to account for it. After the death of Menelaus, Helen was driven from her home by two natural sons of her husband. She fled to Rhodes, and sought the protection of her friend Polyxo, the widow of Tlepolemus. But Polyxo bore Helen a grudge, since her own husband Tlepolemus had fallen a victim in the Trojan war. Accordingly, once while Helen was bathing, Polyxo sent out her servants in the disguise of the Erinnyes, with the command to hang Helen on a tree. |
| 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.... |
| Goddess name "Dia Griene" | Scotland | Goddess of war Scotland |
| Demon name "Div" | Turkish | A giant demon or a fiend of gigantic size, and ugly, really ugly. Turkish |
"Divus Pater Falacer" | Italian | An ancient and forgotten Italian divinity, considered to be the same as Jupiter. |
| 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 |
"Djinnestan" | India | The realm of the djinns or genii of Oriental mythology. |
"Dodona" | Greece | A famous oracle in Epiros, and the most ancient of Greece. It was dedicated to Zeus, and situated in the village of Dodona. |
"Dondasch" | India | An Oriental giant contemporary with Seth, to whose service he was attached. He needed no weapons, as he could destroy anything by the mere force of his arms. |
"Druj nasu" | Avesta | A "Corpse-fiend", the incarnation of pollution and contagion arising from decomposition of a dead body. Avesta |
| Demon name "Dusiens" | Gauls | The name given by the Gauls to those demons that produce nightmares. |
| God name "Ea" | Babylon / Mesopotamia | As a member of the supreme trinity he was god of the waters, giver of arts and sciences and the healer of the sick. Babylon / Mesopotamia |
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