| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Dionysia" | Greek | Festivals celebrated in various parts of Greece in honour of Dionysus. We have to consider under this head several festivals of the same deity, although some of them bore different names, for here, as in other cases, the name of the festival was sometimes derived from that of the god, sometimes from the place where it was celebrated, and sometimes from some particular cirçúɱstance connected with its celebration. Greek |
"Dionysius" | Greek | These mysterious rites were, at first, imparted to a few, but afterwards communicated to great numbers, both men and women Greek |
| Deity name "Dipankara (light causer)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | deity. One of a minor group of buddhas. Color: yellow. Attributes: none in particular.... |
| Goddess name "Disciplina" | Roman | Minor goddess. Significant in the legions, known particularly from the second century BC.... |
| Goddess name "Diti" | Hindu | Goddess of the earth. Hindu |
| 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. |
| 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. |
"Dragons Guardin Ladies" | European | The walls of feudal castles ran winding round the building, and the ladies were kept in the securest part. As adventurers had to scale the walls to gain access to the ladies, the authors of romance said they overcame the serpent-like defence, or the dragon that guarded them. Sometimes there were two walls, and then the bold invader overcame two dragons in his attempt to liberate the captive damsel. European |
| King name "Draught of Thor" | Norse | The ebb of the sea. When Asa Thor visited Jotunheim he was set to drain a bowl of liquor. He took three draughts, but only succeeded in slightly reducing the quantity. On leaving Jotunheim, the king, Giant Skrymir, told him he need not be ashamed of himself, and showed him the sea at low ebb, saying that he had drunk all the rest in his three draughts. We are told it was a quarter of a mile of sea-water that he drank. Norse |
| God name "Dsahadoldza" | Navaho | Fiery god of earth and water. Navaho |
| Deities name "Dsahadoldza (fringe mouth)" | Navaho / USA | Chthonic god of earth and water. A number of deities are known under this title. The priest impersonating the god has one side of his body painted red and the other side black. He wears a buckskin mask painted with a horizontal yellow band to represent the evening sky and eight vertical black stripes to represent Rain.... |
| Angel name "Duma aka Dumah" | Egypt | The angel of Egypt and the angel of silence and who appeared to terrified the Israelites as they departed Egypt with Moses. |
"Dunlyrr" | Norse | Harts that gnaw the branches of Ygdrasil. Norse |
| Spirit name "Dymphna" | Britain | Saint of those stricken in spirit. She was a native of Britain, and a woman of high rank. It is said that she was murdered, at Geel, in Belgium, by her own father, because she resisted his incestuous påśśion. Geel, or Gheel, has long been a famous colony for the insane, who are sent thither from all parts of Europe, and are boarded with the peasantry. Britain |
| Goddess name "Dzivaguru" | Kore | Great goddess of the earth. Kore |
| Goddess name "Dzivaguru" | Korekore / Shona / northern Zimbabwe, southern Africa | Chthonic mother goddess. Originally said to have ruled both heaven and earth and lived in a palace by a sacred lake near Dande. She is depicted wearing goatskins and bearing a cornucopia holding magical substances. Her sacred creatures are mythical golden Sunbirds, probably modeled on swallows, a pair of which were actually discovered in Zimbabwe.... |
| Goddess name "E Alom (conceiver of cbildren)" | Mayan / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Guatemalan highlands | Primeval creator goddess. The consort of E QUAHOLOM, identified in the sacred Maya Book, the Popol Vub. Her son is GUKUMATZ, the counterpart of the Aztec god QUETZALCOATL. Also Bitol.... |
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