| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Dahak" | Persia | The Satan of Persia. According to Persian mythology, the ages of the world are divided into periods of 1,000 years. When the cycle of "chiliasms" (1,000-year periods) is complete, the reign of Ormuzd will begin, and men will be all good and all happy; but this event will be preceded by the loosing of Dahak, who will break his chain and fall upon the world, and bring on man the most dreadful calamities. Two prophets will appear to cheer the oppressed, and announce the advent of Ormuzd. |
"Dahu" | Scotland | A folkloric creature well known in France and Switzerland also known as a Haggis in Northern England and Scotland. |
| God name "Daikokr" | Shinto / Japan | God of luck. One of seven gods of fortune in Shintoism and often linked with the god EBISU. Originally a god of kitchens, he became a deity concerned with happiness. He is depicted as a fat, well-to-do figure seated on two rice bales and carrying a sack on his back. He also holds a hammer in his right hand. In depictions there is often a mouse nibbling at one of the rice bales. Small gold icons of the god may be carried as talismans of wealth. According to tradition, when Daikoku's hammer is shaken, money falls out in great profusion. In western Japan he is also syncretized with the god of rice paddies, TA-NO-KAMI, and thus becomes the god of Agriculture and farmers. He may have developed from the Buddhist god MAHAKALA.... |
| God name "Daikoku" | Japan | God of wealth and happiness and one of the Seven Gods of Fortune. The god invoked specially by the artisans of Japan. He sits on a ball of rice, holding a hammer in his hand, with which he beats a sack; and every time he does so the sack becomes full of silver, rice, cloth, and other useful articles. Japan |
"Dainn aka Daain" | Norse | A hart that gnaws the branches of Ygdrasil. Norse |
| God name "Daityas" | India | A race of giants who fought against the gods because they were jealous of their Deva half-brothers. India |
| King name "Daji" | China | A concubine that was possessed by a fox who was sent to mess up the state affairs of the Shang Dynasty as a punishment for the evil thought of king Zhou. China |
| God name "Daksa" | Hindu | God of the Sun and master of the works of unerring right discernment. Hindu |
| God name "Daksa (skilled and able)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | Sun god. The son of BRAHMA and ADITI, he is an ADITYA and demiurge. His consort is PRASUTI, and he is said to have had up to sixty daughters. He appears in conflict with his son-in-law SIVA as the main offender against Siva's consort SATI (accounted as one of his daughters), who was so insulted by Daksa that she committed suicide by jumping into a ritual fire. Siva took revenge by decapitating Daksa but later, after intercession from other gods, Brahma brought him back to life, giving him the substitute head of a sacrificial goat. Attribute: head of a goat. Also PRAJAPATI.... |
| Demon name "Daktyloi" | Greek | These are the demonic beings discovered the art of working in metal |
| Deity name "Dalai-Lama" | Tibet | Chief of the two Tartar priests and a sort of incarnate deity. The other lama is called the "Tesho-lama." Tibet |
| Goddess name "Dali" | Russian / Georgia | A goddess of the hunt |
| Goddess name "Dali aka Deyla" | Georgia / Russia | Dalila, the hunt goddess and lady of stones and animals'. Georgia / Russia |
| Deities name "Dama" | Huli | Invisible deities which control the weather, attack people and cause illness, sterility or death. Huli |
| Goddess name "Damaannrna" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Mother goddess. She first appears as a consort of ENLIL and, as Mesopotamian traditions progress, becomes åśśociated with EA and the mother of the Babylonian god MARDUK. Also DAMKINA (Akkadian).... |
"Dame du Lac" | Britain | A fay, named Vivienne, who plunged with the infant Lancelot into a lake. This lake was a kind of mirage, concealing the demesnes of the lady "en la marche de la petite Bretaigne." Britain |
| Goddess name "Damgalnuna" | Babylon / Akkadia / Sumeria | Mother goddess who whelped Marduk. Babylon / Akkadia / Sumeria |
| Goddess name "Damkina" | Babylon / Akkadia / Sumeria | earth mother goddess and consort of Ea. Babylon / Akkadia / Sumeria |
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