| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Deities name "Dharmapala" | Buddhist / particularly Lamaist / Tibet | Collective name for a group of eight tutelary deities. They wear royal apparel but are of terrible appearance and are considered to be the guardians of the law. General attributes: ax, cup, knife and snake.... |
| Goddess name "Dharmapratisamvit (analysis of nature)" | Buddhist / Vajrayana | Goddess of nature analysis. One of a group of four PRATISAMVITS. Color: whitish-red. Attributes: noose and staff with crook.... |
| Goddess name "Dharmavasita (control of law)" | Buddhist | Minor goddess. One of a group of twelve VASITAS personifying the disciplines of spiritual regeneration. Color: white. Attributes: water jar on a red lotus.... |
| God name "Dhurjati (with matted hair)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | God. A manifestation of SI IVA in which his body is smeared with ash.... |
| Deities name "Dhvajosnisa" | Buddhist | God. An USNISA deity apparently connected with the guardian deities or dikpalas in the southwestern quarter. Color: reddish-blue. Attributes: banner with jewel.... |
"Dice" | Greek | The personification of justice, was, according to Hesiod, a daughter of Zeus and Themis, and the sister of Eunomia and Eirene. She was considered as one of the Horae; she watched the deeds of man, and approached the throne of Zeus with lamentations whenever a judge violated justice. Greek |
| Deities name "Dii Mauri" | Africa | The God of Moors. Immortal, they act as redeemers, and benevolent indigenous deities. North Africa |
| Deities name "Dii Mauri Moor" | N Africa | They were redeemers, immortals, & exalted deities that were almost never named |
| Goddess name "Dike" | Greek | Goddess of justice. The daughter of ZEUS. Depicted as a maiden whom men violently abuse in the streets but who is honored by the gods and who reports to her father on the misdeeds of mankind, causing Divine retribution. She is depicted on the Kypselos chest as an attractive woman strangling an ugly goddess of injustice, ADIKIA.... |
| 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.... |
"Divus Pater Falacer" | Italian | An ancient and forgotten Italian divinity, considered to be the same as Jupiter. |
| Spirit name "Djinn" | Arabian | Jin, Ginn, spirits of vanished ancient peoples who acted during the night and disappeared with the first light of dawn. Arabian |
"Dolops" | Greek | A son of Hermes, who had a sepulchral monument in the neighbourhood of Peiresiae and Magnesa, which was visible at a, great distance, and at which the Argonauts landed and offered up sacrifices. (Argonautica) Greek |
| Goddess name "Dombi" | Buddhist | Goddess of terrifying appearance. One of a group of GAURI. Color: red or blue. Attribute: a banner.... |
| 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. |
| Monster name "Dragon of Wantley" | Britain | warncliff, in Yorkshire. A monster slain by More, of More Hall, who procured a suit of armour studded with spikes; and, proceeding to the well where the dragon had his lair, kicked it in the mouth, where alone it was vulnerable. Britain |
| 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 |
"Draupner or Draupnir" | Norse | Odin's ring from which every ninth night dropped eight rings equal in size and beauty to itself. It was put on Balder's funeral-pile. Skirner offered it to Gerd. Norse |
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