| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Corybantes aka Kurbantes" | s | Corybants, were Rhea's enthusiastic priests, who with drums, cymbals, horns, and in full armour, performed their orgiastic dances in the Forests and on the mountains of Phrygia. |
"Corythallia" | Greek | A surname of Artemis at Sparta, at whose festival of the Tithenidia the Spartan boys were carried into her sanctuary. Greek |
| God name "Credne aka Creidhne" | Ireland | A son of Brigid and Tuireann and the artificer of the Tuatha De Danann, working in bronze, bråśś and gold. He and his brothers Goibniu and Luchtaine were known as the Tri Dee Dana, the three gods of art, who forged the weapons which the Tuatha De used to battle the Fomorians. Ireland |
| Goddess name "Creiddylad / Creudylad/ Cordelia" | Wales | A goddess of summer flowers & the sea |
| Goddess name "Creiddylad aka Creudylad" | Wales | Cordelia. Connected with Beltane and often called the May queen. Goddess of summer flowers. Wales |
| God name "Cromm Cruaich" | Ireland | Ancient deity, a harvest, death and sacrificial God. It is thought human sacrifices were once made to him at Samhain. Ireland |
"Cuba" | Roman | Cunina and Rumina, three Roman genii, who were worshipped as the protectors of infants sleeping in their cradles, and to whom libations of milk were offered. |
| Cyclop name "Cyclopes" | Greek | Cyclopes According to the ancient cosmogonies, the Cyclopes were the sons of Uråñuś and Ge; they belonged to the Titans, and were three in number, whose names were Arges, Steropes, and Brontes, and each of them had only one eye on his forehead. Together with the other Titans, they were cast by their father into Tartarus, but, instigated by their mother, they åśśisted Cronus in usurping the government. |
| Goddess name "Dabaiba" | Panama | Mother of Creation and a goddess of thunder and lightning and in whose honour slaves were burnt to death.. Panama |
| God name "Daffodil" | Greek / Roman | Or "Lent Lily," was once white; but Persephone, daughter of Demeter, delighted to wander about the flowery meadows of Sicily. One spring, throwing herself on the gråśś, she fell asleep. The god of the Infernal regions, Pluto, fell in love with the beautiful maid, and carried her off for his bride. His touch turned the white flowers to a golden yellow, and some of them fell in Acheron, where they grew luxuriantly; and ever since the flower has been planted on graves. Greek / Roman |
| God name "Daityas" | India | A race of giants who fought against the gods because they were jealous of their Deva half-brothers. India |
"Danace" | Greek | A coin placed by the Greeks in the mouth of the dead to pay their påśśage across the ferry of the Lower world. |
"Danaides" | Greek | Daughters of Danaus. They were fifty in number, and married the fifty sons of ?gyptos. They all but one murdered their husbands on their wedding-night, and were punished in the infernal regions by having to draw water everlastingly in sieves from a deep well. |
| Goddess name "Daphne" | Greek | Oracular goddess. A number of oracular shrines were dedicated to her in various places in Asia Minor, including Antiocheia, Mopsuestia (Cilicia), Sura and Patara (Lycia), Telmessos (Caria). Represented by the laurel Dapbne she is linked with the Dapbnepboria festivals honoring APOLLO. Tradition has it that she was changed into the laurel to avoid sexual submission to the god.... |
| God name "Debata Toba-Batak" | Sumatra | Word used to denote an individual god / Divine power. Sumatra |
| God name "Dei Lucrii" | Roman | Early gods of wealth, profit, commerce and trade. They were later subsumed by Mercury. Roman |
"Delphian Oracle" | Greek | The most famous oracle in the world. The oracles were given forth by a priestess, the Pythia, who seated herself upon a golden tripod above a chasm, whence issued mephitic vapours. Greek |
| Demon name "Demogorgon" | Christian | Often ascribed to Greek mythology, is actually an invention of Christian scholars, imagined as the name of a pagan god or demon, åśśociated with the underworld and envisaged as a powerful primordial being, whose very name had been taboo. |
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