Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Dekla" | Latvia | One of a trinity of fate goddesses that included her sisters Karta and Laima. Latvia |
Goddess name "Dendritis" | Greek | The goddess of the tree, occurs as a surname of Helen at Rhodes, and the following story is related to account for it. After the death of Menelaus, Helen was driven from her home by two natural sons of her husband. She fled to Rhodes, and sought the protection of her friend Polyxo, the widow of Tlepolemus. But Polyxo bore Helen a grudge, since her own husband Tlepolemus had fallen a victim in the Trojan war. Accordingly, once while Helen was bathing, Polyxo sent out her servants in the disguise of the Erinnyes, with the command to hang Helen on a tree. |
Goddess name "Derketo" | Chaldea | Goddess of the moon åśśociated with fertility. Chaldea |
Goddess name "Despina" | Greek | Or Despoena, the daughter of Poseidon and Demeter after they mated disguised as horses. Despoena, the ruling goddess or the mistress, occurs as a surname of several divinities, such as Aphrodite, Demeter and Persephone. Greek |
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.... |
Goddess name "Dharti Mata" | Hindu / Puranic | Mother goddess. A deity who appears late in Hinduism and equates with PRTHIVI or BHUMIDEVI. According to some authors she is the consort of THAKUR DEO. Also Dhartri Mai, Darti Awwal.... |
Goddess name "Dhatar (creator)" | Hindu / Puranic | Sun god. An original Vedic list of six descendants of the goddess ADITI or Adityas, all of whom take the role of Sun gods was, in later times, enlarged to twelve, including Dhatar. Color: golden. Attributes: two lotuses, lotus rosary and waterjar. Also Dhatr.... |
Goddess name "Dhisana" | Hindu / Vedic | Minor goddess of prosperity. Associated with the acquisition of wealth. Also the name given to a bowl of fermented drink or soma.... |
Goddess name "Dhumorna (smoke)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess. The consort of YAMA. Attribute: a pomegranate.... |
Goddess name "Diang" | Shilluk / Sudan | cow goddess. Living along the west bank of the Nile, the Shilluk perceive Diang as the consort of the first human, Omara, sent by the creator god. Her son is Okwa, who married the crocodile goddess NYAKAYA. Thus the three main elements of Shilluk life are contained in their religious beginningsmen (sky), cows (earth) and crocodiles (water).... |
Goddess name "Didi" | Thakrun | Hindu a plague goddess åśśociated with cholera |
Goddess name "Didi Thakrun" | Hindu / northern India | Plague goddess. Associated with cholera. Worshiped locally at Bardvan.... |
Goddess name "Divona" | Celtic / Gallic | Fertility goddess. Associated with water and known only from inscriptions.... |
Goddess name "Divonia" | Celtic / Gaelic | Goddess of fertility åśśociated with water. Celtic / Gaelic |
Goddess name "Djanggawuls" | Aus | The goddesses of fertility that messed up & created humanity & of vegetation |
Goddess name "Dola" | Russia / Serbia | Goddess of fate. Russia / Serbia |
Goddess name "Dola/ Dolya" | Russia / Serbia | A goddess of fate |
Goddess name "Don" | Celtic / Welsh | Mother goddess. Described in the Mabinogion as the progenitress of the Welsh pantheon. Equates with the Irish goddess DANU.... |