Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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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.... |
Angel name "Dirachiel" | Christians | angels of the Mansions of the moon. |
"Divine Pagan" | Christian | Hypatia, who presided over the Neoplatonic School at Alexandria. She was torn to pieces (CE. 415) by a Christian mob with the concurrence of the Archbishop Cyril. |
"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. |
God name "Docetes" | Christian | An early Christian sect, which maintained that Jesus Christ was only God, and that His visible form was merely a phantom; that the crucifixion and resurrection were illusions. Most of the followers were burnt by the Catholic Church. |
Angel name "Dominations" | Christian | One of the nine accepted orders or choirs of angels. The ruling princes of the order are said to be Hashmal, Zadkiel, Muriel, and Zacharael. |
God name "Dongo" | Songhai / Niger valley, West Africa | storm god. The creator of thunderbolts, which are perceived as stone ax-heads. As the celestial smith he forges lightning and strikes a huge bell with his ax to generate thunder.... |
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.... |
Ghost name "Dove" | Christian | In Christian art, symbolises the Holy ghost. In church windows the seven rays proceeding from the dove signify the seven gifts of the Holy ghost. It also symbolises the human soul, and as such is represented coming out of the mouth of saints at death. |
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. |
Goddess name "Druantia" | Celtic | A goddess |
"Druidiactos" | Celtic | The Celtic religious movement returning to the traditional pre-Christian values, customs and faith of the Celtic people. |
God name "Dzakuta" | Nigeria | A sky god and the thrower of celestial stones.' The Yoruba, Nigeria |
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.... |
"Ee-A-o/ Yao" | Gnostic Christian | A primordial being |
"Eee-A-O (Yao)" | Gnostic Christian | Primordial being. The first of the androgynous principles born to YALDABAOTH, the prime parent, ruling the seven heavens of chaos in gnostic mythology.... |
Angel name "Egibiel" | Christians | angels of the Mansions of the moon. |
God name "Eiael" | Christian | A minor god of the occult sciences and longevity. Christian |