Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Devi (the goddess)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess epitomizing the active female principle. Devi evolved as a major goddess out of the older notion of mother and vegetation goddesses. She is seen more as an abstract principle who will nevertheless respond directly to worshipers' prayers. By the fifth century AD she appears in many forms as the active (feminine) aspect or power of male deities. General attributes: conch, hook, noose, prayer wheel and trident. Devi is also the generic name given to a female deity, in her capacity as the consort of a god or DEVA.See also SRI(DEVI), BHUMIDEVI.... |
Goddess name "Dharmamegha (cloud of the law)" | Buddhist / Vajrayana | Minor goddess. One of twelve deified BHUMIS recognized as different spiritual spheres through which a disciple påśśes. Color: blue. Attributes: Book and staff.... |
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 "Dhyanibuddhasakti" | Buddhist | Collective name for a specific group of goddesses Buddhist |
Goddess name "Dhyanibuddhasakti" | Buddhist | Collective name for a group of goddesses. The five SAKTIS of the Dhyanibuddhas. Common attributes include a cup and knife.... |
Goddess name "Diablesse" | Haiti | Goddesses of justice Haiti |
Goddess name "Disir" | Germanic | Collective name for guardian goddesses norse / germanic |
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 "Djanggawuls" | Aus | The goddesses of fertility that messed up & created humanity & of vegetation |
Goddess name "Dou Mou" | China | A goddess North Star, health & diseases & justice |
Goddess name "Duillae" | RomanoIberian | Fertility and vegetation goddesses. Comparable with the MATRES in Gaul.... |
Goddess name "Dunawali" | Huli | An evil goddess who lodges herself in a woman' s internal organs making the victim the innocent vehicle of the goddesses evil power. Huli |
Goddess name "Durangama (going far away)" | Buddhist / Vajrayana | Minor goddess. One of several deified BHUMIS recognized as different spiritual spheres through which a disciple påśśes. Color: green. Attributes: staff on a great lotus.... |
Goddess name "Dziwozony" | Poland | Goddesses of healing, herbs and love. Poland |
Goddess name "E Alom" | Mayan | Primeval creator goddessess, literally, those who conceive and give birth Mayan |
Goddess name "Elasii" | Greek | Goddesses of healing and epilepsy Greek |
Goddess name "Epona" | Celtic | Divine horse. Mother Goddess and goddess of horses. Celtic |
Goddess name "Eriiys" | Greek | Chthonic goddess of wrath. According to legend she was a consort of POSEIDON by whom she bore the fabulous horse Areon. By implication she may also have been a grim maternal figure who engendered all horses. She may be equated with a wrathful DEMETER who is sometimes given the epithet Erinys. Erinys appears in the collec tive form of three Erinyes, their heads covered with snake locks and bearing torches from the underworld. In the Iliad they are described as those who beneath the earth punish dead men, whoever has sworn a false oath. In Roman mythology they are the Furies.... |