Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Cred aka Creide" | Ireland / Scotland | Fairy queen Goddess who is åśśociated with Dana's mountains, the Paps of Anu. She vowed never to sleep until she found a man who could create for her the most majestic poem ever penned. Ireland / Scotland |
God name "Credne" | Ireland | God of metallurgy and smithing who worked in bronze. Ireland |
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 "Crobh Dearg" | Ireland | the red claw. Goddess of war. Ireland |
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 |
Goddess name "Crone" | Ireland | Third aspect of the Triple goddess. She signifies old age or death, Winter, the end of all things, the waning moon, post-mentrual phases of women's lives. Ireland |
Hero name "Cuchulainn" | Ireland | The pre-eminent hero of Ulster in the Ulster Cycle. Ireland |
King name "Cychreus or Cenchereus" | Greek | A son of Poseidon and Salamis, became king of the island of Salamis, which was called after him Cychreia, and which he delivered from a dragon. Greek |
Goddess name "Cythereia" | Greek | Or Cythera, Cytherias, different forms of a surname of Aphrodite, derived from the town of Cythera in Crete, or from the island of Cythera, where the goddess was said to have first landed, and where she had a celebrated temple. Greek |
"Da-Shi-Zhi" | Buddhist / China | One of Amitabha Buddha's two great female Bodhisattva companions in the Pure Land. Buddhist / China |
God name "Dagda" | Ireland | God of the earth, death, rebirth and long life. He was famous as a warrior, harpist and he liked his porridge. Ireland |
"Dahu" | Scotland | A folkloric creature well known in France and Switzerland also known as a Haggis in Northern England and Scotland. |
Goddess name "Dana" | Ireland / Welsh | Goddess, ancestor of mortal celtic people. Ireland / Welsh |
Goddess name "Danu" | Ireland | major mother goddess ancestress of the Tuatha De Danann. She gave her name to the Tuatha De Dannan (People of the Goddess Danu). Another aspect of the Morrigu. Ireland |
Goddess name "Dechtere aka Dechtire" | Ireland | Goddess who alternately takes on the images of maiden, mother and crone. Ireland |
"Deidameia" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Bellerophontes and wife of Evander, by whom she became the mother of Sarpedon. Homer calls her Laodameia. 2. A daughter of Lycomedes in the island of Scyrus. When Achilles was concealed there in maiden's attire, Deidameia became by him the mother of Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus, and, according to others, of Oneirus also. (Apollodorus iii) 3. The wife of Peirithous, who is commonly called Hippodameia. Greek |
"Delectable Mountains" | s | In Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, are a range of mountains from which the "Celestial City" may be seen. They are in Immanuel's land, and are covered with sheep, for which Immanuel had died. |
Demon name "Delhan" | Arabic | An ostrich riding demoniacal being who inhabits the islands of the seas who eats the flesh of shipwrecked seamen. Arabic |