| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| God name "Daityas" | India | A race of giants who fought against the gods because they were jealous of their Deva half-brothers. India |
| 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.... |
| 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 |
| 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).... |
| 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 |
| Goddess name "Damona" | Gaul | Goddess of cows, worshipped as the consort of Apollo Borvo. Gaul |
| Goddess name "Dan" | Benin / Mahi | Goddess of order and the Rainbow. Benin / Mahi |
| Goddess name "Dan" | Mahi / Benin | A goddess of order & the Rainbow |
| Goddess name "Dana/ Donu/ Don/ Ana" | Welsh / Irish | The mortal Celtic race are her descendants, she is a goddess |
| Goddess name "Danaids" | Greek | The goddesses of fountains & water |
| Goddess name "Danu" | Greek | The Aegean mother goddess |
| Goddess name "Danu" | Ireland | major mother goddess ancestress of the Tuatha De Danann. She gave her name to the Tuatha De Dannan (People of the Goddess Danu). Another aspect of the Morrigu. Ireland |
| Goddess name "Danu / Danann/ Dana" | Irish | The major mother goddess |
| Goddess name "Daphne" | Greek | Oracular goddess. A number of oracular shrines were dedicated to her in various places in Asia Minor, including Antiocheia, Mopsuestia (Cilicia), Sura and Patara (Lycia), Telmessos (Caria). Represented by the laurel Dapbne she is linked with the Dapbnepboria festivals honoring APOLLO. Tradition has it that she was changed into the laurel to avoid sexual submission to the god.... |