Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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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 |
God name "Debata Toba-Batak" | Sumatra | Word used to denote an individual god / Divine power. Sumatra |
God name "Dei Judicium" | Latin | The judgment of God; so the judgment by ordeals was called, because it was supposed that God would deal rightly with the appellants. Latin |
Goddess name "Demi-Gods" | Greek | The "half-gods", is used to describe mythological figures or heroes such as Hercules, Achilles, Castor and Pollux, etc. Sons of mortals and gods or goddesses, they raised themselves to the standard of gods by their acts of bravery. |
Goddess name "Demophon" | Greek | The youngest son of Celeus and Metaneira, who was entrusted to the care of Demeter. He grew up under her without any human food, being fed by the goddess with her own milk, and ambrosia. During the night she used to place him in fire to secure to him eternal youth ; but once she was observed by Metaneira, who disturbed, the goddess by her cries, and the child Demophon was consumed by the flames. Greek |
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 |
God name "Devata" | Hindu | The gods in general or, as most frequently used, the whole body of inferior gods. Hindu |
Goddess name "Deverra" | Roman | Minor goddess of birth. A guardian of newborn children. Symbolized by a broom used to sweep away evil influences.... |
Goddess name "Dharani (earth)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | (1) Goddess. Consort of PARASURAMA and an avatara of the goddess LAKSMI.(2) Collective name for a group of deities. Buddhist. Twelve personifications of a particular kind of short mystical religious text used as a charm. Also dharini.... |
Goddess name "Djanggawuls" | Aus | The goddesses of fertility that messed up & created humanity & of vegetation |
God name "Dua" | Egypt | Lion headed god of the future and protector of the stomach of the deceased. Egypt |
Deities name "Ehecatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The Sun deity representing the second of the five world ages, each of which lasted for 2028 heavenly years, each heavenly year being fifty-two terrestrial years. Assigned to the air or wind and presided over by QUETZALCOATL, to whose complex of deities he belongs. According to tradition, the age ended in a cataclysmic destruction caused by hurricanes. All humanity turned into monkeys. Illustrated by the Stone of the Four Suns [Yale Peabody Museum]. Also (4) Ehecatl; Ehecatonatiuh.... |
Goddess name "Eileithyia" | Greek | Also called Eleithyia, Eilethyia, or Eleutho. The ancients derive her name from the coming or helping goddess. She was the goddess of birth, who came to the åśśistance of women in labour; and when she was kindly disposed, she furthered the birth, but when she was angry, she protracted the labour and delayed the birth. Greek |
Goddess name "Eithne" | Ireland | Old goddess who lived off nothing but the milk of a sacred Indian cow and was protected by a spirit who chased away all would-be suitors. Ireland |
God name "Elagabal (lord of the mountain)" | Syrian | Local tutelary god. Probably originating as a mountain deity with strong solar links. His sacred animal is the eagle. His cult was based on the town of Emesa [Homs], where he was worshiped in the form of a dome-shaped, black stone obelisk. His name became Hellenized as Heliogabalos.... |
God name "Elohim" | Semitic | In theology, Elohim (the plural of Eloah) means the "Lord of Hosts," or Lord of all power and might. Jehovah signifies rather the God of mercy and forgiveness. Hence, Elohim is used to express the God of creation, but Jehovah the God of the covenant of mercy. Semitic |
God name "Enkimdu" | Sumeria | God of canals, ditches, irrigation and sedentary farming. Sumeria |
Deities name "Ennead" | Egypt / Lower | The Heliopolis pantheon. The nine major deities enumerated and given their genealogy by the priesthood of Heliopolis, the center of the Sun-worshiping cult in Lower Egypt. Comprising the Sun god ATUM (or Atum-Re) and his offspring, S U, TEFNUT, GEB, NUT, OSIRIS, ISIS, SETH and NEPHTHYS. Other Egyptian cult centers possessed similar pantheons though not necessarily including the same list of deities. Thus, for example, the god PTAH presided at Thebes.... |