Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Dionysia" | Greek | Festivals celebrated in various parts of Greece in honour of Dionysus. We have to consider under this head several festivals of the same deity, although some of them bore different names, for here, as in other cases, the name of the festival was sometimes derived from that of the god, sometimes from the place where it was celebrated, and sometimes from some particular cirçúɱstance connected with its celebration. Greek |
God name "Dionysus" | Greek | The youthful, beautiful, but effeminate god of wine. He is also called both by Greeks and Romans Bacchus, that is, the noisy or riotous god, which was originally a mere epithet or surname of Dionysus, but does not occur till after the time of Herodotus. Greek |
God name "Dis Pater / Dispater" | Celtic | Dis Pater aka Dispater, was a Roman and Celtic god of the underworld. |
Goddess name "Disa" | Hindu | In minor goddess and the momma of the minor creation god Sarga Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
Goddess name "Disa (the ten directions of space)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess. Consort of SI IVA in his terrible aspect of BHIMA and mother of the minor god Sarga (creation).... |
Goddess name "Disani" | Afghanistan | Supreme fertility and mother goddess. Afghanistan |
Goddess name "Discordia" | Roman | Goddess of strife and Discordian goddess of chaos. Roman |
Goddess name "Disir" | Nordic / Icelandic / / Germanic | Collective name for guardian goddesses. They were the subject of a sacrificial ritual in autumn and have strong fertility connotations as vegetation and fertility deities. They are identified in the Sigr drifumal (Poetic Edda) and include the Valkyries and Norns of Germanic mythology.... |
Goddess name "Diti" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | Goddess. The daughter of DAKSA, a consort of ADITI (in the Rg Veda) or KASYAPA and the mother of a race of demons. Attributes: blue lotus, child and fruit.See also Aditi.... |
Goddess name "Divona" | Celtic / Gallic | Fertility goddess. Associated with water and known only from inscriptions.... |
Goddess name "Diwali" | India / Bhil | Goddess of happiness and merriment. India / Bhil |
Goddess name "Djigonasee" | Huron | Goddess of justice, fairness and peace. Huron |
Goddess name "Djila'qons" | Haida Indian / Queen Charlotte Island, Canada | Sea goddess. An old woman who lives at the head of a major inlet in Haida territory and controls all the creatures of the sea.... |
God name "Docetes" | Christian | An early Christian sect, which maintained that Jesus Christ was only God, and that His visible form was merely a phantom; that the crucifixion and resurrection were illusions. Most of the followers were burnt by the Catholic Church. |
God name "Dogumrik" | Afghanistan | Local warrior and guardian god. Afghanistan |
God name "Dogumrik" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Local guardian and warrior god. Known from the village of Shtiwe in the southeastern Hindukush, Dogumrik is the herdsman to the daughters of the god IMRA and possibly a localized equivalent of the god MON.... |
God name "Doh Yenisi" | Siberia | a rather good magician that could fly over the waves, become weary, then create islands to rest on, almost god like |
God name "Dolichenus" | Western Semitic / Syrian | weather god. Depicted bearded and standing upon a bull. Attributes include a double ax and lightning. He became syncretized with the Roman god JUPITER.... |