Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Dhrtarastra (his empire is firm)" | Buddhist | Minor god. One of the dikpalas or guardians of the easterly direction. Color: white. Attribute: lute.... |
Deities name "Dhruva (immovable)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Astral god. The son of Uttanapada, a star in the constellation of Ursa Minor which was the pole star in the last millennium BC. An avatara of V IS NU. Also one of a group of Vasu deities answering to the god INDRA. In different context, the description of a kind of fixed icon. Attributes: prayer wheel, rosary, spear and water jar.... |
Goddess name "Dhupa (incense)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Mother goddess. One of the ASTAMATARA mothers. Color: yellow. Attribute: a censer.... |
Goddess name "Dhupatara (incense-Tara)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. Color: black. Attribute: a censer.... |
God name "Dilis Varskvlavi" | Russia | Dilis Varskvlavi "the Morning Star", the Winter god. Russia |
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 "Dipa Tara" | Buddhist | Minor goddess Buddhist / Mahayana |
Goddess name "Dipa Tara (lamp Tara)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. Color: yellow. Attribute: a torch.... |
Goddess name "Dirona aka Sirona" | Gaul | Serona, Sarona, Dirona, Sthirona. The Star Goddess of Gaul |
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. |
Goddess name "Dou Mou" | China | A goddess North Star, health & diseases & justice |
God name "Doudoun" | Nubia | The god of the Nile cataracts |
God name "Doudoun" | Nubian | God of Nile cataracts. Depicted as an antelope with twisted horns. His consorts are Sati and Anuket. Modeled on the Egyptian ram god KHNUM. Also Dodonu.See also ANUKIS.... |
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 |
Hero name "Dwarf Alberich" | Scandinavian | Is the guardian of the famous "hoard" won by Siegfried from the Nibelungs. The dwarf is twice vanquished by the hero, who gets possession of his Tarn-kappe (cloak of invisibility). Nibelungen Lied |
God name "Dyaus Pitar" | Hindu / India / Vedic | Creator god. Hindu / India / Vedic |
Goddess name "Eabani" | Armenian | The companion of Gilgamesh, the first primaeval man who was turning his rugged face towards civilization through the love of a woman. He takes part in the wanderings of Gilgamesh, and fights with him against Ishtar and the heavenly bull sent by Anu to avenge the insulted goddess. Apparently wounded in this struggle Eabani dies. Armenian Mythology |