A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Gods, Goddesses, Ghosts, Ghoulies,
Heroes, Villains and Things That Go Bump In The Night
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- Da. The rainbow serpent, ”the symbol of flowing,
sinuous movement” is of a dual nature, male and female. The
Fon, Dahomey
- Daath, Sephirah on the Tree of Life, the Child of Wisdom and
Understanding
- Dabaiba, Mother of Creation and a goddess of thunder and
lightning and in whose honour slaves were burnt to death..
Panama
- Dabbat. The Beast of the Apocalypse, which will appear with
Antichrist, called by them daggial. Islam
- Dabog aka Dazhbog, Dazhdbog, Dajbog, Dachbog, one of major
gods of Slavic mythology, most likely a solar deity and possibly
a culture hero. Balkans
- Dactyls,
the Dactyls of mount Ida in Phrygia, fabulous beings to whom the
discovery of iron and the art of working it by means of fire was
ascribed. Their name Dactyls, that is, Fingers, is accounted for
in various ways; by their number being five or ten, or by the
fact of their serving Rhea just as the fingers serve the hand, or
by the story of their having lived at the foot of mount Ida.
Greek
- Dactyloi, ancient smiths and healing magicians. In some
myths, they are in Hephaestus'
employ, and they taught metalworking, mathematics, and the
alphabet to humans. Greek
- Dadimunda, Treasurer of the god Upulvan and protector of
Buddhism. Sri Lanka
- Daedalos A Greek who formed the Cretan labyrinth, and made
for himself wings, by means of which he flew from Crete across
the Archipelago. He is said to have invented the saw, the axe and
the gimlet.
- Daeira, "the knowing," a divinity connected with
the Eleusinian mysteries. A daughter of Oceanus, and became by
Hermes the mother of Eleusis but others
called her a sister of Styx. Greek
- Daemones, Family of elementals who inhabit fields, forests,
mountains, oceans, streams, lakes, valleys, desert, some towns
and they are immortal Greek
- Daena, Goddess of insight and revelation who meets the souls
of the dead. Persia
- Daffodil, or “Lent Lily,” was once white; but
Persephone, daughter of Demeter, delighted to wander about the flowery
meadows of Sicily. One spring, throwing herself on the grass, she
fell asleep. The god of the Infernal Regions, Pluto, fell in love with the beautiful maid, and
carried her off for his bride. His touch turned the white flowers
to a golden yellow, and some of them fell in Acheron, where they
grew luxuriantly; and ever since the flower has been planted on
graves. Greek/Roman
- Dagan, Fertility and grain god who in the Ugatitic creation
myth was the father of Baal. Babylon/Akkadia/Canaan
- Dagan. Local supreme god. Afghanistan
- Dagda, God of the earth, death, rebirth and long life. He was
famous as a warrior, harpist and he liked his porridge.
Ireland
- Dagr, the god of the daytime, a son of Delling (god of
twilight) and Nótt. Dagr, the Bright and the Fair, drove
across the sky in a chariot every day, pulled by a horse named
Skinfaxi. Norse
- Dagon, a god of grain and agriculture.
Semitic/Mesopotamia
- Dagon, the fish avatar of Krishna. Hindu
- Dagon, a god of the Philistines whose worshippers made
golden
hemorrhoids as a trespass offering for stealing the ark of
God.
- Dagonet. In the romance La Mort d' Arthure he is called
the fool of King Arthur, and was knighted by the king himself.
Britain
- Dahak. 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.
- Daho, the force of evil. India
- Dahu, a folkloric creature well known in France and
Switzerland also known as a Haggis in Northern England and
Scotland.
- Dahud Ahes, Goddess of debauchery British
- Dahud-Ahes aka Dahut. Goddess of earthly pleasure.
Britain
- Daiboth. A Japanese idol of colossal size. Each of her hands
is full of hands.
- Daikoku, 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
- Daini. A witch. Bengal
- Dainn aka Daain. A hart that gnaws the branches of Ygdrasil.
Norse
- Daiomon, good or malevolent supernatural beings. Greek
- Daityas, a race of giants who fought against the gods because
they were jealous of their Deva half-brothers. India
- Daji, 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
- Dakini, a female being, generally of volatile temperament,
who acts as a muse for spiritual practice. Buddhist
- Daksa, God of the sun and master of the works of unerring
right discernment. Hindu
- Daldah. Muhammad's favourite white mule.
- Dala Kadavara, Elephant goddess who brings diseases and
misfortune. Singhalese
- Dali aka Deyla, Dalila, the hunt goddess and ‘lady of
stones and animals’. Georgia/Russia
- Dalai—Lama. Chief of the two Tartar priests and a sort
of incarnate deity. The other lama is called the
“Tesho—lama.” Tibet
- Dama, Invisible deities which control the weather, attack
people and cause illness, sterility or death. Huli
- Damara, Goddess of fertility associated with Beltane.
British
- Dame du Lac. 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
- Damballah, Goddess of sweet waters. Haiti
- Damgalnuna, Mother goddess who whelped Marduk.
Babylon/Akkadia/Sumeria
- Damkina, Earth mother goddess and consort of Ea.
Babylon/Akkadia/Sumeria
- Damocles' Sword. Evil foreboded or dreaded. Damocles, the
sycophant of Dionysius the elder, of Syracuse, was invited by the
tyrant to try the felicity he so much envied. Accordingly he was
set down to a sumptuous banquet, but overhead was a sword
suspended by a hair. Damocles was afraid to stir, and the banquet
was a tantalising torment to him. Related by Cicero
- Damona, Goddess of cows, worshipped as the consort of Apollo
Borvo. Gaul
- Damu, God of exorcism. Sumeria
- Dan, God of unity. Fon
- Dan, Goddess of order and the rainbow. Benin/Mahi
- Dana, Goddess, ancestor of mortal celtic people.
Ireland/Welsh
- Danace. A coin placed by the Greeks in the mouth of the dead
to pay their passage across the ferry of the Lower World.
- Danae,
a daughter of King Acrisius of Argos and Eurydice (no relation to
Orpheus' Eurydice). She was the mother of Perseus by Zeus.
She was sometimes credited with founding the city of Ardea in
Latium. Greek
- Danae. An Argive princess whom Zeus seduced under the form of
a shower of gold, while she was confined in an inaccessible
tower. She thus became the mother of Perseus.
- Danaus,
a son of Belus and Anchinoe, and a
grandson of Poseidon and Libya. He was brother of Aegyptus, and father of fifty daughters, and
the mythical ancestor of the Danai. (Apollodorus. ii.) Greek
- Danaides. Daughters of Danaus. They
were fifty in number, and married the fifty sons of Ægyptos. They all but one murdered their
husbands on their wedding—night, and were punished in the
infernal regions by having to draw water everlastingly in sieves
from a deep well.
The names of the fifty Danaïdes and their respective
husbands are as follows:
- Actaea wife of Periphas.
- Adianta wife of Daïphron.
- Adyta wife of Menalces.
- Agave wife of Lycos.
- Amymone wife of Encelados.
- Anaxibia wife of Archelaos.
- Antodica wife of Clytos.
- Asteria wife of Choetos.
- Autholea wife of Cisseus.
- Automata wife of Architelos.
- Autonoe wife of Eurylochos.
- Brycea wife of Chthonios.
- Callidice wife of Pandion.
- Celeno wife of Hyxobios.
- Chrysippe wife of Chrysippos.
- Chrysothemis wife of Asteris.
- Cleodora wife of Lixos.
- Cleopatra wife of Agenor.
- Clio wife of Asterias.
- Critomedia wife of Antipaphos.
- Damone wife of Amyntor.
- Dioxippe wife of Ægyptos.
- Electra wife of Peristhenes.
- Erato wife of Bromios.
- Eupheno wife of Hyperbios.
- Eurydice wife of Dryas.
- Evippe wife of Imbros.
- Glauca wife of Alcis.
- Glaucippa wife of Potamon.
- Gorga wife of Hyppothooa.
- Gorgophon wife of Proteus.
- Helcita wife of Cassos.
- Hippodami'a wife of Ister.
- Hippodica wife of Idras.
- Hippomeduse wife of Alcmenon.
- Hyperippa wife of Hippocoristes.
- Hypermnestra wife of *Lynceus (saved by his wife).
- Iphimedusa wife of Euchenor.
- Mnestra wife of Egios.
- Ocypete wife of Lampos.
- Oime wife of Arbelos.
- Pharte wife of Eurydamas.
- Pilarga wife of Idmon.
- Pirene wife of Agaptolemos.
- Podarca wife of Œneus.
- Rhoda wife of Hippolytos.
- Rhodia wife of Chalcedon.
- Sthenela wife of Sthenelos.
- Stygna wife of Polyctor.
- Theano wife of Phanthes.
- Danaparamita, Philosophical deity. Buddhist
- Danavas.Danava. An ancient name for demons. Half divine/half
demonic beings. India
- Dancing—water, which beautifies ladies, makes them
young again, and enriches them. It fell in a cascade in the
Burning Forest, and could only be reached by an underground
passage. Prince Chery fetched a bottle of this water for his
beloved Fair—star, but was aided by a dove. French Fairy
Tale
- In Java mythology, each village has a Danhyang Desa which is
a spirit who lives in a large tree near to or in the village. All
blessings emanate from him. Any disasters occurring to the
village are seen as a sign that he has been neglected.
- Dannebrog or Danebrog. The old flag of Denmark. The tradition
is that Waldemar II. of Denmark saw in the heavens a fiery cross
which betokened his victory over the Esthonians (1219).
- Dano. An Indian demon who is similar to the Bir.
- Danu, Primordial goddess Hindu/Vedic
- Danu, 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
- Daoji, a Buddhist monk who became a minor Taoist deity
- Daphne,
a fair maiden who is mixed up with various traditions about
Apollo. According to Pausanias she was
an Oreas and an ancient priestess of the Delphic oracle to which
she had been appointed by Ge. Diodorus
describes her as the daughter of Teiresias, who is better known by the name
of Manto. Greek
- Daphnaea and Daphnaeus, surnames of Artemis and Apollo
respectively, derived from a laurel, which was sacred to Apollo.
In the case of Artemis it is uncertain why she bore that surname,
and it was perhaps merely an allusion to her statue being made of
laurel-wood. Greek
- Daphnis,
a Sicilian hero, to whom the invention of bucolic poetry is
ascribed. He is called a son of Hermes by a nymph, or merely the
beloved of Hermes. Ovid calls him an Idaean shepherd; but it does
not follow from this that Ovid connected him with either the
Phrygian or the Cretan Ida, since Ida signifies any woody
mountain. Greek
- Darago, Goddess of fire and volcanos. Philippines
- Daramulum, Lunar being and mediator between the creator and
humans. Australia
- Darbas. “The Tearers”. Rakshasas and other
destructive demons.
- Dardanus,
a son of Zeus and Electra, the daughter of Atlas. He was the
brother of Jasus, Jasius, Jason, or Jasion, Aetion and Harmonia,
and his native place in the various traditions is Arcadia, Crete,
Troas, or Italy. Dardanus is the mythical ancestor of the
Trojans, and through them of the Romans. It is necessary to
distinguish between the earlier Greek legends and the later ones
which we meet with in the poetry of Italy. Greek
- Dark Angel, the angel who wrestled with Jacob the Book of
Genesis in the Old Testament. There has long been question as to
which angel was sent to wrestle Jacob. Hebrew
- Darkness Angel of, often said to be Satan or the fallen
Lucifer. Christian
- Dark Night of the Soul. Term coined by 16th-century Spanish
Carmelite St. John of the Cross used to describe the intense
desolation which characterized the eighth of his ten stages of
spiritual ascent.
- Daronwy, Appears only in the songs/book of Taleisin.
Welsh
- Darzamat, Goddess of the gardens. Latvia
- Da-Shi-Zhi. One of Amitabha Buddha's two great female
Bodhisattva companions in the Pure Land. Buddhist/China
- Dashizhi, Goddess of knowledge. China
- Dasim. A son of Iblis, a jinn, who causes hatred between
husband and wife. Arabic
- Daspi, a minor angel. Enochian
- Dasyllius, the giver of foliage. Greek
- Datin. A deity worshipped in pre-Islamic northern Arabia.
Datin was an oracular deity also associated with oaths and
justice. Arabic
- Datt, a minor angel. Enochian
- Daunus. A son of Lycaon in Arcadia
- Daunus. A son of Pilumnus and
Danaë, was married to Venilia.
- Davas, malevolent spirits. Persia
- Davy Jones's Locker, i.e. he is dead. Jones is a
corruption of Jonah, the prophet, who was thrown into the sea.
Locker, in seaman's phrase, means any receptacle for private
stores; and duffy is a ghost or spirit among the West Indian
negroes. So the whole phrase is, “He is gone to the place
of safe keeping, where duffy Jonah was sent to.”
- Daya, Compassionate goddess. Hindu
- Dayan. Goddess of fire. Borneo
- Dazhbog, God of the sky, wealth and war. Slavic
- Dazimus, Goddess of healing. Sumeria
- Dead Pan, the tradition that at the crucifixion a cry swept
across the ocean in the hearing of many, “Great Pan is
Dead,” and that at the same time the responses of the
oracles ceased for ever.
- Dea Matrona aka Deae Matres Deae Matrones, Mother goddesses,
who in many areas was worshipped as a triple goddess.
British
- Death Angel of, the appointed servant of God, with the task
of bringing an end, at the appointed time, to the lives of
humans. Pan-cultural. Pan-religions
- Debata Toba-Batak, Word used to denote an individual
god/divine power. Sumatra
- Debena, Goddess of hunting and forests. Slavic
- Dechtere aka Dechtire, Goddess who alternately takes on the
images of maiden, mother and crone. Ireland
- Decima, Goddess of birth who watches over the pregnancy, one
of the Parcae, the personifications of destiny. Roman
- Dedun aka Dedwen, God who was the lord and giver of incense,
depicted as a lion. Egypt
- Degei, god of the Kauvadra hills who interrogates the souls
of the dead and punishes the souls of lazy people while rewarding
those of hard working people. Fiji
- Deidameia,
1. A daughter of Bellerophontes
and wife of Evander, by whom she became the mother of Sarpedon. Homer calls her Laodameia. 2. A daughter of Lycomedes in the
island of Scyrus. When Achilles was concealed there in
maiden's attire, Deidameia became by him the mother of
Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus, and, according to others, of Oneirus
also. (Apollodorus iii) 3. The
wife of Peirithous, who is commonly
called Hippodameia. Greek
- Deima,
the personification of fear. She was represented in the form of a
fearful woman on the tomb of Medeia's children at Corinth.
Greek
- Deianeira,
a daughter of Althaea by Oeneus, Dionysus,
or Dexamenus (Apollodorus
i), and a sister of Meleager.
Greek
- Deianira. Wife of Hercules, and
the inadvertent cause of his death. Nessos told her that anyone
to whom she gave a shirt steeped in his blood, would love her
with undying love; she gave it to her husband, and it caused him
such agony that he burnt himself to death on a funeral pile.
Deianira killed herself for grief. Greek
- Dei Judicium. The judgment of God; so the judgment by ordeals
was called, because it was supposed that God would deal rightly
with the appellants. Latin
- Dei Lucrii, early gods of wealth, profit, commerce and trade.
They were later subsumed by Mercury.
Roman
- Deimas,
a son of Dardanus and Chryse and brother of Idaeus, who when his
family and a part of the Arcadian population emigrated, remained
behind in Arcadia. Greek
- Deion,
a son of Aeolus and Enarete, was king
in Phocis and husband of Diomede, by
whom he became the father of Asteropeia, Aenetus, Actor, Phylacus, and Cephalus. After the death
of his brother, Salmoneus, he took
his daughter Tyro into his house, and
gave her in marriage to Cretheus. His
name occurs also in the form Deioneus. Greek
- Deiphobus. 1. A son of Priam and Hecabe, was
next to Hector the bravest among the
Trojans. When Paris, yet unrecognized,
came to his brothers, and conquered them all in the contest for
his favourite bull, Deiphobus drew his sword against him, and
Paris fled to the altar of Zeus Herceius.
- Deiphobus. 2. A son of Hippolytus at Amyclae, who purified Heracles
after the murder of Iphitus.
Greek
- Deive, the supreme god. The same word refers to the Christian
deity in modern Latvian. In ancient Latvian mythology, Dievs was
not just the father of the gods, he was the essence of them all.
Latvia
- Dievini, Group of minor gods. Latvia
- Deja Vu. The feeling that current experiences are repetitions
of something that has happened previously.
- Dekla, one of a trinity of fate goddesses that included her
sisters Karta and Laima. Latvia
- Delectable Mountains, in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress,
are a range of mountains from which the “Celestial
City” may be seen. They are in Immanuel's land, and are
covered with sheep, for which Immanuel had died.
- Delias. The sacred vessel made by Theseus and sent annually from Athens to
Delos. This annual festival lasted 30 days, during which no
Athenian could be put to death, and as Socrates was condemned
during this period his death was deferred till the return of the
sacred vessel. The ship had been so often repaired that not a
stick of the original vessel remained at the time, yet was it the
identical ship. So the body changes from infancy to old age, and
though no single particle remains constant, yet the man 6 feet
high is identical with his infant body a span long. Greek
- Delling [Dayspring]. The father of Day. Norse
- Demeter,
one of the great divinities of the Greeks. The name Demeter is
supposed by some to be the same as mother earth, while others
consider Deo, which is synonymous with Demeter and as derived
from the Cretan word barley, so that Demeter would be the mother
or giver of barley or of food generally. Greek
-
Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Greek
- Demonassa,
1. The wife of Irus, and mother of
Eurydamas and Eurytion. (Argonautica) 2. A daughter of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle, was the wife of Thersander, by whom
she became the mother of Tisamenus.
3. The mother of Aegialus by Adrastus. Greek
- Deiphobe,
a daughter of the seer Glaucus and one
of the Cumaean Sibyls. (Aeneid
Book IV) Greek
- Deiphontes. A son of Antimachus, and husband of Hyrnetho, the
daughter of Temenus the Heracleide, by
whom he became the father of Antimenes, Xanthippus, Argeius, and Orsobia.
- Delhan. An ostrich riding demoniacal being who inhabits the
islands of the seas who eats the flesh of shipwrecked seamen.
Arabic
- Delos. A floating island made fast to the bottom of the sea
by Poseidon. Apollo having become possessor of it by exchange,
made it his favourite retreat. It is one of the Cyclades.
- Delphian Oracle. The most famous oracle in the world. The
oracles were given forth by a priestess, the Pythia, who seated
herself upon a golden tripod above a chasm, whence issued
mephitic vapours. Greek
- Deluges. The principle ones are: the deluge of Fohi, Chinese.
The Satyavrata, of the Indians; the Xisuthrus, of the Assyrians;
the Mexican deluge; Noah's Flood and the Greek deluges of
Deucalion and Ogyges.
- Demi-Gods. 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.
- Demiurge, the mysterious agent which made the world and all
that it contains. The Logos or Word spoken of by St. John, in the
first chapter of his gospel, is the Demiurgus of Platonising
Christians. In the Gnostic systems, Jehovah (as an eon or
emanation of the Supreme Being) is the Demiurge. Platonists
- Demo,
a name of Demeter. It also occurs as a proper name of other
mythical beings, such as the Cumaean Sibyl and a daughter of
Celeus and Metaneira, who, together with her sisters, kindly
received Demeter at the well Callichoros in Attica. Greek
- Demogorgon, often ascribed to Greek mythology, is actually an
invention of Christian scholars, imagined as the name of a pagan
god or demon, associated with the underworld and envisaged as a
powerful primordial being, whose very name had been taboo.
- Demon CO. A humorous reference to carbon monoxide.
-
Demonology And Witchcraft, by Sir Walter Scott
-
Demonology in Elizabethan Times, by Thomas Alfred
Spalding
-
Demonology and Shakespeare by Thomas Alfred Spalding
- Demon of Matrimonial Unhappiness. Another name for Asmodeus,
Prince of Demons, who slew the seven husbands of Sara.
Talmud
- Demophon,
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
- Demurge, "artisan" or "craftsman" the
Creator or Maker of the world. Gnostic
- Dena, Goddess the daughter of Ahura Mazda. Persia
- Dendrites, the god of the tree, a surname of Dionysus, which has the same import as
Dasyllius, the giver of foliage. Greek
- Dendritis, the goddess of the tree, occurs as a surname of
Helen at Rhodes, and the following story
is related to account for it. After the death of Menelaus, Helen was driven from her home by
two natural sons of her husband. She fled to Rhodes, and sought
the protection of her friend Polyxo,
the widow of Tlepolemus. But Polyxo bore Helen a grudge, since
her own husband Tlepolemus had fallen a victim in the Trojan war.
Accordingly, once while Helen was bathing, Polyxo sent out her
servants in the disguise of the Erinnyes, with the command to
hang Helen on a tree.
- Deng. God of rain. Dinka, Sudan
- Denys, according to tradition, carried his head, after
martyrdom, for six miles, and then deliberately laid it down on
the spot where stands the present cathedral bearing his
name.
- Deohako, Collective name of the three daughters of the Earth
Mother. Seneca
- Deo. Originally the term for the thirty-three great
divinities. Hindu
- Deo Qui Vias Et Semitas Commentus Est. 'The God who
Invented Roads and Pathways' is mentioned on a single
altarstone in Britain.
- Deputy Angels, certain angels who, in Jewish lore and magic,
act as spirit servants. Jewish scholar Eleazar of Worms declared
them to be entirely good.
- Deosil. Clockwise. The term used to refer to the direction of
a witch's dance or Circle-casting.
- Dercetius, God of mountains Roman/Iberia/Hispanic
- Derceto, Goddess of fertility and mermaids. Greek
- Dercynus, a son of Poseidon and brother of Albion. Greek
- Derketo, Goddess of the moon associated with fertility.
Chaldea
- Derrhiatis. A surname of
Artemis, which she derived from the
town of Derrhion on the road from Sparta to Arcadia.
- Derzelas, god of health and human spirit's vitality, also
known under the names of Great God Gebeleizis, Derzis or the
Thracian Knight.
- Despina,
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
- Despoena,
1. A goddess of fruit. A daughter of Demeter and Poseidon. Known
as Pomona to the Romans 2. The ruling goddess or the mistress,
occurs as a surname of several divinities, such as Aphrodite,
Demeter and Persephone. Greek
- Destroying Angel. Another name for the angel of destruction,
aka the angel of death.
- Destruction Angels. A fearsome type of angel who descends to
the earth to inflict terrible suffering upon the wicked and in
need of punishment. Jewish
- Devas aka daeva, a type of celestial being that appears in
both Persian mythology and Hinduism. Named after a Sanskrit word
meaning "god," the deva emerged in Hindu teachings as a
spiritual being, serving the supreme beings.
- Deucalion,
son of Prometheus and Clymene. He was king in Phthia, and married to
Pyrr. When Zeus, after the treatment he
had received from Lycaon, had resolved
to destroy the degenerate race of men who inhabited the earth,
Deucalion, on the advice of his father, built a ship, and carried
into it stores of provisions and when Zeus sent a flood all over
Hellas, which destroyed all its inhabitants, Deucalion and Pyrrha
alone were saved. Greek
- Deus, the Latin word for "god" or
"deity".
- Deus Coelestis. Another name of Baal Hamon. Libya
- Deus ex machina. The intervention of a god, or some unlikely
event. Literally, it means “a god let down upon the stage
or flying in the air by machinery.” Latin
- Deus Munificentissimus. Latin for "The most bountiful
God"
- Devala. Music personified as female. Hindu
- Devas. The spirits of evil. Zoroastrianism
- Devata. The gods in general or, as most frequently used, the
whole body of inferior gods. Hindu
- Devi. The consort of Siva and daughter of Himavat, the
Himalaya Mountains. As the female energy of Siva she considered
either as a beneficent or as a malignant deity. Hindu
- Devil. The supreme spirit of evil, the tempter and spiritual
enemy of mankind, the foe of God and holiness. Jewish and
Christian
- Devil and the Deep Sea, Between the. Between Scylla and Charybdis; between two evils, each
equally hazardous. The allusion seems to be to the herd of swine
and the devils called Legion.
- Devil's Advocate. In the Catholic Church when a name is
suggested for canonisation, some person is appointed to oppose
the proposition, and is expected to give reasons why it should
not take place. This person is technically called Advocatus
Diaboli. Having said his say, the conclave decides the
question.
- Devil's Arrows. Three Druid stones near Boroughbridge.
Britain
- Devil catch the Hindmost, when a class of students have made
a certain progress in their mystic studies, they are obliged to
run through a subterranean hall, and the last man is seized by
the devil, and becomes his imp. Scotland
-
Devils Classification of by Thomas Alfred Spalding.
-
Devils and Fairies by Thomas Alfred Spalding.
- Deva, Generic name of a god. Hindu/Puranic/Vedic
- Devaki, Mother goddess. Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Devananda, Mother goddess of happiness and joy. Jain
- Devaputra, Designation for the lower ranked gods.
Buddhist
- Devas, Some gods at perpetual war with the demons. India
- Devasena, Goddess. Hindu/Puranic
- Devel, Highest being/god. Gypsy
- Deverra, one of the three symbolic beings, Pilumnus,
Intercidona, and Deverra, whose influence was sought by the
Romans at the birth of a child, as a protection for the mother
against the vexations of Sylvanus. Roman
- Devi, Twelve armed warrior goddess. Hindu
- Devi, Female deities. India
- Devi, giants, usually believed to be evil beings. Russia
- Deving Iching, God of horses. Latvia
- Devona, Goddess of the rivers of Devon. Briton
- Devonshire, a corruption of Debon's—share. This
Debon was one of the heroes who came with Brute from Troy. One of
the giants that he slew in the south coasts of England was
Coulin, whom he chased to a vast pit eight leagues across. The
monster trying to leap this pit, fell backwards, and lost his
life in the chasm. When Brutus allotted out the island, this
portion became Debon's—share. Britain
- Dewden aka Dedun, a Nubian god worshipped since at least
2400BC. There is much uncertainty about his original nature,
especially since he was depicted as a lion, but the earliest
known information indicates that he had become a god of
incense.
- Dewi Ratih, Goddess of the moon. Bali
- Dewi Shri, Rice goddess. Bali
- Dewy, Goddess rain. Canaan
- Dhanada, Form of the goddess Tara. Buddhist/Mahayana
- Dhanistha, Minor goddess of misfortune to and malevolent
astral deity. Hindu/Puranic
- Dhanvantari, God of the sun who later became an avatar of the
god Visnu. Hindu/Puranic/Vedic/Epic
- Dhara, Attendant god Hindu/Puranic
- Dharma, God of justice, righteousness and virtue Hindu
- Dharmadhatuvagisvara, Physician god Buddhist
- Dharmamegha, Minor goddess Buddhist/Vajrayana
- Dharmapala, Minor goddess concerned with law
Buddhist/Vajrayana
- Dharni Pinnu, Goddess of health India
- Dharti Mata, Mother goddess Hindu/Puranic
- Dhat Badan, Primary goddess Yemen
- Dhatar, God of the sun Hindu/Puranic
- Dhavajagrakeyura, Goddess who sits on a sun throne
Buddhist/Mahayana
- Dhisana, Minor goddess of prosperity Hindu
- Dhrti, Minor goddess who apparently just hangs around
Jain
- Dhruva, Astral god Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Dhumavati, Goddess Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Dhumorna, Goddess Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Dhumravati, Rather terrible goddess, walks around with a
skull in the hand Hindu/Puranic
- Dhupa, Minor goddess and a censor Buddhist/Mahayana
- Dhurjati, God, a manifestation of Siva
Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Dhvajosnisa, God, apparently Guardian deity Buddhist
- Dhyanaparmita, Philosophical deity Buddhist
- Dhyani, Five meditating Buddhas who came from the primeval
Buddha Buddhist
- Dhyanibuddha, Generic name for a spiritual or meditation
Buddha Buddhist
- Dhyanibuddhasakti, Collective name for a specific group of
goddesses Buddhist
- Di Jun, God of the eastern sky China
- Dia Griene, Goddess of war Scotland
- Diablesse, Goddesses of justice Haiti
- Diancecht. A Gaelic god of medicine. Celtic
- Diang. Cow goddess and the wife of the first human, Omara,
sent by the creator god. Her son is Okwa, who married the
crocodile goddess Nyakaya. Shilluk, Sudan
- Diari, a minor angel. Enochian
- Diarmaid. Had a beauty spot which, any woman chanced to see
it, would make her instantly fall in love with him. Celtic
- Digawina, a demoness who steals food and stuffs it into her
enormous vagina.
- Dimt, a minor angel. Enochian
- Dinmt, a minor angel. Enochian
- Diom, a minor angel. Enochian
- Diri, a minor angel. Enochian
- Diana, the goddess of hunting.
Roman
- Dianic Wicca, a Wiccan path that focuses on the strong female
Deity Diana.
- Dias,
father of Cleolla, the mother of
Agamemnon by Pleisthenes. Greek
- Dice,
the personification of justice, was, according to Hesiod, a
daughter of Zeus and Themis, and the sister of Eunomia and
Eirene. She was considered as one of the Horae; she watched the
deeds of man, and approached the throne of Zeus with lamentations
whenever a judge violated justice. Greek
- Dicilla. One of Logistilla's handmaids, famous for her
chastity. Orlando Furioso
- Dickepoten. The Jack-o’-Lantern of Mark and Lower
Saxony.
- Dictaeus, a surname of Zeus, derived
from mount Dicte in the eastern part of Crete. Greek
- Dicte, a nymph from who was
beloved and pursued by Minos, but she
threw herself into the sea, where she was caught up and saved in
the nets of fishermen. Greece
- Dictynna aka Britomartis,
originally a Cretan divinity of hunters and fishermen. Her name
is usually derived from sweet or blessing, and a maiden, so that
the name would mean, the sweet or blessing maiden.
- Dido was queen of Carthage, who fell in love with
Æneas, driven by a storm to her shores. After abiding
awhile at Carthage, he was compelled by Mercury to leave the
hospitable queen. Dido, in grief, burnt herself to death on a
funeral pile.
- Dievas aka Dievs, the supreme god in the pre-Christian
religion of Lithuanians, where Dievas was understood to be the
supreme being of the world. Latvia
- Digambara, “clothed with the directions of space;
sky-clad” That is, wears nothing other than space; naked.
Jain
- Dii Mauri, the God of Moors. Immortal, they act as redeemers,
and benevolent indigenous deities. North Africa
- Dii Penates. Household gods. Roman
- Diiwica, Goddess of the hunt. Serbia
- Diksa, or initiation is personified as the wife of Soma, the
Moon. Hindu
- Dilis Varskvlavi "the Morning Star", the winter
god. Russia
- Dil Ki Baat. Goddess of strength and wisdom. India
- Dilmun, God of fresh water Sumeria
- Dilwica, Goddess of hunting Slavic
- Dimme, Female demon of fever and and diseases of infants.
There were seven evil spirits of this kind, who were apparently
regarded as being daughters of Anu, the god of the heavens.
Sumeria
- Dinawagan, the wife of Hatan ”The head anito, who made
the laws of the sky world and rules it” and invoked for
help particularly in illness. Tinguian
- Dinditane, Fertility god of gardening. Huli
- Dindymene. The Great Mother of Mount Dindimus. Greek
- Diomede,
a daughter of Phorbaa of Lemnos, was beloved by Achilles.
Greek
- Diomedes,
a son of Tydeus and Deipyle, the husband of Aegialeia, and the
successor of Adrastus in the kingdom of Argos, though he was
descended from an Aetolian family. Greek
- Dion, a king in Laconia whose daughters were metamorphosed
into rocks. Greek
- Dione,
a female Titan, a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and, according to others,
of Uranus and Ge, or of Aether and Ge. She was beloved by Zeus,
by whom she became the mother of Aphrodite. Greek
- Dionysia,
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
circumstance connected with its celebration. Greek
- Dionysius,
these mysterious rites were, at first, imparted to a few, but
afterwards communicated to great numbers, both men and women
Greek
- Dionysus,
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
-
Pater On Dionysus Greek
- Dioscuri,
sons of Zeus, the well-known heroes, Castor and Pollux, or
Polydeuces Greek
- Dipa, Goddess of light Buddhist/Tibet
- Dipa Tara, Minor goddess Buddhist/Mahayana
- Dipamkara, Proceeded the Buddha in east Asia Buddhist
- Dipankara, Deity who is one of the minor group of Buddhas
Buddhist/Tibet
- Dipti, Minor goddess Hindu/Puranic
- Dirce, a daughter of Helios and
wife of Lycus. Her body was changed by
Dionysus into a well on mount
Cithaeron. Greek
- Dirona aka Sirona, Serona, Sarona, Dirona, Sthirona. The Star
Goddess of Gaul
- Dis plural Disir. Attendant spirit or guardian angel. Any
female mythic being may be called Dis. Norse
- Dis, contracted from Dives, a name sometimes given to Pluto,
and hence also to the lower world. Roman
- Disa, In minor goddess and the momma of the minor creation
god Sarga Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Disani, Supreme fertility and mother goddess.
Afghanistan
- Disciplina, a minor deity and the personification of
discipline. Roman
- Disciplina Etrusca, the three books of fate. Etruscan
- Discordia, Goddess of strife and Discordian goddess of chaos.
Roman
- Disir. Collective name for guardian goddesses
norse/germanic
- Dis Pater aka Dispater, was a Roman and Celtic god of the
underworld.
- Diti, Goddess of the earth. Hindu
- Dius Fidus, god of oaths, associated with Jupiter. Roman
- Div. A giant demon or a fiend of gigantic size, and ugly,
really ugly. Turkish
- Divé zeny. “Wild women”, female
forest-spirits. Bohemian
- Dives aka Divs, Deevs. Demons of Persian mythology. According
to the Koran, they are ferocious and gigantic spirits under the
sovereignty of Eblis.
- Divine Pagan. Hypatia, who
presided over the Neoplatonic School at Alexandria. She was torn
to pieces (CE. 415) by a Christian mob with the concurrence of
the Archbishop Cyril.
- Divining Rod. A forked branch of hazel, suspended by the two
prongs between the balls of the thumbs. The inclination of the
rod indicates the presence of water—springs, precious
metal, and anything else that simpletons will pay for.
- Diviriks, Deity of the rainbow. Lithuania
- Divonia, Goddess of fertility associated with water.
Celtic/Gaelic
- Divus Pater Falacer, an ancient and forgotten Italian
divinity, considered to be the same as Jupiter.
- Diwali, Goddess of happiness and merriment. India/Bhil
- Dixom, a minor angel. Enochian
- Djalai A sky goddess of the Kenta, Malaya
- Djamar The supreme being and creator, the giver of the moral
laws and of initiation rites. He was responsible for the first
bull-roar. Australia
- Djanggau with Her sister Djunkgao, are dual fertility goddess
who brought forth all life in the beginning. Australian
- Djibril. The Arabic name for the archangel Gabriel.
- Djigonasee, Goddess of justice, fairness and peace.
Huron
- Djila'qons. Goddess of the sea. Haida
- Djinnestan. The realm of the djinns or genii of Oriental
mythology.
- Djua Mulungu. The sun god. Tanzania
- Dobrochot. A demon, especially a domestic spirit.
Russian
- Dobby's Walk. The goblin's haunt or beat. Dobby is an
archaic word for a goblin or brownie.
- Docetes. 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.
- Doda aka Dodola, Goddess of rain Serbia
- Dodona. A famous oracle in Epiros, and the most ancient of
Greece. It was dedicated to Zeus, and situated in the village of
Dodona.
- Dodon,
a son of Zeus by Europa, from whom the oracle of Dodona was
believed to have derived its name. Other traditions traced the
name to a nymph of the name of Dodone.
Greek
- Dogumrik. Local warrior and guardian god. Afghanistan
- Dohit, God who created the first human from clay.
Mosetene
- Dola, Goddess of fate. Russia/Serbia
- Dolop, a minor angel. Enochian
- Dolops,
a son of Hermes, who had a sepulchral monument in the
neighbourhood of Peiresiae and Magnesa, which was visible at a,
great distance, and at which the Argonauts landed and offered up
sacrifices. (Argonautica) Greek
- Dolya. The personification of the fortune of an individual
who accompanies the person throughout his life. Slavic
- Dom—Daniel. The abode of evil spirits, gnomes, and
enchanters, somewhere “under the roots of the ocean,”
but not far from Babylon. (Continuation of the Arabian
Tales.)
- Domfe Kurumba, God of rain and wind Africa
- Domnu, Goddess of the Formorians Ireland
- Dominations. One of the nine accepted orders or choirs of
angels. The ruling princes of the order are said to be Hashmal,
Zadkiel, Muriel, and Zacharael.
- Domovoy. A. Every house has its domovoy, domestic spirit, who
lives with his wife and family. Slavic
- Don, Goddess who is called a god of death Ireland/Welsh
- Don. The ancestress of the forces of knowledge and light who
overcame the powers of darkness. Cymric
- Don. A Cymric goddess, ancestress of gods. Celtic
- Donar, God of the sky and thunder. germanic
- Donaufürst. An water-spirit who asks all who come to the
river what they wish most, and then ducks them in the river.
Austrian
- Dondasch. An Oriental giant contemporary with Seth, to whose
service he was attached. He needed no weapons, as he could
destroy anything by the mere force of his arms.
- Dongo, God of thunder. Songhoi
- Donn, God of the underworld, the Dark One responsible for the
passage of the dead to the underworld. Ireland
- Donpa, a minor angel. Enochian
- Doom—rings or Circles of Judgment. An Icelandic term
for circles of stones resembling Stonehenge and Avebury.
- Doomstead. The horse of the Scandinavian Nornes or
Fates.
- Doop, a minor angel. Enochian
- Dopa, a minor angel. Enochian
- Dorina, Goddess of hunting. Nigeria
- Doris,
a daughter of Oceanus and Thetys, and the wife of her brother Nereus, by whom she became the mother of the
Nereides. (Theogony 240, Metamorphoses
by Ovid ii. 269.) The Latin poets sometimes use the name of
this marine divinity for the sea itself. Greek
- Dorje, destroyer of ignorance. Tibet
- Dornoll, Goddess of physical prowess Celtic
- Dorothea, represented with a rose—branch in her hand, a
wreath of roses on her head, and roses with fruit by her side;
sometimes with an angel carrying a basket with three apples and
three roses. The legend is that Theophilus, the judge's
secretary, scoffingly said to her, as she was going to execution,
“Send me some fruit and roses, Dorothea, when you get to
Paradise.” Immediately after her execution, while
Theophilus was at dinner with a party of companions, a young
angel brought to him a basket of apples and roses, saying,
“From Dorothea, in Paradise,” and vanished.
- Dorus,
the mythical ancestor of the Dorians; he is described either as a
son of Hellen, by the nymph Orseis, and a brother of Xuthus and Aeolus
(Apollodorus i); or as a
son of Apollo, by Phthia, and a brother
of Laodocus and Polypoites (Apollodorus i), whereas Servius
calls him a son of Poseidon.
Greek
- Dositheans. A religious sect which sprang up in the first
century; so called because they believed that Dositheus had a
divine mission superior to that of prophets and apostles.
- Doushen, Goddess of justice. China
- Dove, in Christian art, symbolises the Holy Ghost. In church
windows the seven rays proceeding from the dove signify the seven
gifts of the Holy Ghost. It also symbolises the human soul, and
as such is represented coming out of the mouth of saints at
death.
- Dove with six wings is emblematic of the Church of Christ.
The seven gifts of the Holy Ghost are:
(1) counsel,
(2) the fear of the Lord,
(3) fortitude,
(4) piety,
(5) understanding,
(6) wisdom, and
(7) knowledge.
- Dowsing. The ability to discover underground water sources
(or hidden objects or people) using a pendulum or a divining
rod.
- Drac. A sort of fairy in human form, whose abode is the
caverns of rivers. Sometimes these dracs will float like golden
cups along a stream to entice women and children bathing, and
when they attempt to catch the prize drag them under water. South
of France
- Drachenfels (Dragon—rocks). So called from the
legendary dragon killed there by Siegfried, the hero of the
Nibelungen—Lied. Byron: Childe Harold
-
Dragon. One of the world's great mythological beings,
described most often as a fabulous winged serpent or crocodile.
The dragon is found in myths of cultures all over the world.
- Dragons
and Dragon Lore By Ernest Ingersoll
- Dragon. This word is used by ecclesiastics of the Middle Ages
as the symbol of sin in general and paganism in particular. The
metaphor is derived from Revelation xii. 9, where Satan is termed
“the great dragon.” In Psalms xci. 13 it is said that
the saints “shall trample the dragon under their
feet.” In the story of the Fall, Satan appeared to Eve in
the semblance of a serpent, and the promise was made that in the
fulness of time the seed of the woman should bruise the
serpent's head.
- Dragon is the Celtic use of the word for “a
chief.” Hence pen—dragon (summus rex), a sort of
dictator, created in times of danger. Those knights who slew a
chief in battle slew a dragon, and the military title soon got
confounded with the fabulous monster. Dragon, meaning
“quicksighted,” is a very suitable word for a
general.
- Dragon or serpent have also caused great hence Apollo (the
sun) is said to have destroyed the serpent Python (i.e. dried up
the overflow). Similarly, St. Romanus delivered the city of Rouen
from a dragon, named Gargouille (waterspout), which lived in the
river Seine.
- Dragons as watchers. From the idea of watching, we have a
dragon placed in the garden of the Hesperldes; and a duenna is
poetically called a dragon:
“In England the garden of beauty is kept
By a dragon of prudery placed within call;
But so oft the unamiable dragon hath slept,
That the garden's but carelessly watched after
all.”
T. Moore: Irish Melodies.
- Dragoness. A spiteful, violent, tyrannical woman.
- The blind dragon, the third party who plays propriety in
flirtations.
- Dragon in Christian art symbolises Satan or sin. In the
pictures of St. Michael and St. Margaret it typifies their
conquest over sin. Similarly, when represented at the feet of
Christ and the Virgin Mary. The conquest of St. George and St.
Silvester over a dragon means their triumph over paganism. In the
pictures of St. Martha it means the inundation of the Rhone,
spreading pestilence and death; similarly, St. Romanus delivered
Rouen from the inundation of the Seine, and Apollo's conquest
of the python means the same thing. St. John the Evangelist is
sometimes represented holding a chalice, from which a winged
dragon is issuing.
- Dragons Guardin Ladies. The walls of feudal castles ran
winding round the building, and the ladies were kept in the
securest part. As adventurers had to scale the walls to gain
access to the ladies, the authors of romance said they overcame
the serpent—like defence, or the dragon that guarded them.
Sometimes there were two walls, and then the bold invader
overcame two dragons in his attempt to liberate the captive
damsel. European
- Flying dragon. A meteor.
- Chinese dragon. In China, the drawing of a five—clawed
dragon is not only introduced into pictures, but is also
embroidered on state dresses and royal robes. This representation
is regarded as an amulet.
- Green Dragon. A public—house sign in compliment to St.
George.
- Red Dragon. A public—house sign in compliment to Henry
VII., who adopted this device for his standard at Bosworth
Field.
- Dragon Slayers
- St. Philip the Apostle is said to have destroyed a huge
dragon at Hierapolis, in Phrygia.
- St. Martha killed the terrible dragon called Tarasque at Aix
(la Chapelle).
- St. Florent killed a dragon which haunted the Loire.
- St. Cado, St. Maudet, and St. Paul did similar feats in
Brittany.
- St. Keyne of Cornwall slew a dragon.
- St. Michael, St. George, St. Margaret, Pope Sylvester, St.
Samson (Archbishop of Dol), Donatus (fourth century), St. Clement
of Metz, and many others, killed dragons.
- St. Romain of Rouen destroyed the huge dragon called La
Gargouille, which ravaged the Seine.
- Dragon of Wantley, Warncliff, in Yorkshire. A monster slain
by More, of More Hall, who procured a suit of armour studded with
spikes; and, proceeding to the well where the dragon had his
lair, kicked it in the mouth, where alone it was vulnerable.
Britain
- Dragon's Hill, Berkshire is where the legend says St.
George killed the dragon. A bare place is shown on the hill,
where nothing will grow, and there the blood of the dragon ran
out. Britain
- The pendragon Naud, Cedric, founder of the West Saxon
kingdom, slew Naud, the pendragon, with 5,000 men. This Naud is
called Natanleod, a corruption of Naudan ludh (Naud, the
people's refuge). Anglo Saxon
- Draught of Thor. The ebb of the sea. When Asa Thor visited
Jötunheim he was set to drain a bowl of liquor. He took
three draughts, but only succeeded in slightly reducing the
quantity. On leaving Jötunheim, the king, Giant Skrymir,
told him he need not be ashamed of himself, and showed him the
sea at low ebb, saying that he had drunk all the rest in his
three draughts. We are told it was a quarter of a mile of
sea—water that he drank. Norse
- Draupner or Draupnir. Odin's ring from which every ninth
night dropped eight rings equal in size and beauty to itself. It
was put on Balder's funeral-pile. Skirner offered it to Gerd.
Norse
- Drawing Down the Moon. A ritual in which the Goddess is drawn
into the body of the High Priestess. Wicca
- Drome. One of the fetters by which the Fenris-wolf was
chained. Norse
- Druid. Pre-Roman spiritual leaders of Europe.
- Druidiactos. The Celtic religious movement returning to the
traditional pre-Christian values, customs and faith of the Celtic
people.
- Druj nasu. A “Corpse-fiend”, the incarnation of
pollution and contagion arising from decomposition of a dead
body. Avesta
- Drupadi, a warrior and expert archer, wife of Yudistira. She
often joins in battle dressed as a male warrior. Javanese
- Dryas,
a son of Ares, and brother of Tereus, was one of the Calydonian
hunters. He was murdered by his own brother, who had received an
oracle, that his son Itys should fall by the hand of a relative.
Greek
- Dryops,
a son of the river-god Spercheius, by the Danaid Polydora or,
according to others, a son of Lycaon (probably a mistake for
Apollo) by Dia, the daughter of Lycaon, who concealed her
new-born infant in a hollow oak tree.
- Dsahadoldza, Fiery god of earth and water. Navaho
- Dtaa, a minor angel. Enochian
- Dtoaa, a minor angel. Enochian
- Dua, Lion headed god of the future and protector of the
stomach of the deceased. Egypt
- Duamutef aka Tuamutef, was one of the Four sons of Horus and
a funerary god who protected the stomach and small intestines of
mummified corpses. Egypt
- Duan Luteh, Goddess of the moon Ireland
- Dubdiel, an angel who acted as a guardian over the seventy
nations. Jewish
- Duberdicus, god of fountains and water. Lusitanian
- Dubh Lacha, Early goddess of the sea Ireland
- Dugnai, Goddess of baking and kneading and liquor
Lithuania
- Duha Deo, Minor god the bridegroom Hindu
- Duillae, Fertility and vegetation goddess Roman/Iberia
- Dulcinists. Followed the teaching of Dulcin, who lived in the
fourteenth century. He said that God reigned from the beginning
to the coming of Messiah; and that Christ reigned from His
ascension to the fourteenth century, when He gave up His dominion
to the Holy Ghost. Dulcin was burnt by order of Pope Clement
IV.
- Dullahan. A malicious sullen spirit, or goblin. Irish
- Duma aka Dumah, the angel of Egypt and the angel of silence
and who appeared to terrified the Israelites as they departed
Egypt with Moses.
- Dumuzi, God of fertility. Babylon
- Dumuzi, Summerian form of Tammuz, a god of vegetation,
fertility and the Underworld. Possibly the husband of
Inanna.
- Dumu-zi. “Child of life.” A god of the sun.
Babylonian
- Dumu-zi-zuab. A local deity. Nebo, under this name, is
described as a son of the deep. Babylonian
- Dunatis, God of fortifications Celtic
- Dunawali, Evil goddess Huli
- Dun-shagga. A local deity. Babylonian
- Dun Cow. The dun cow of Dunsmore heath was a savage beast
slain by Sir Guy, Earl of Warwick. A huge tusk, probably that of
an elephant, is still shown at Harwich Castle as one of the horns
of the dun—cow. The fable is that this cow belonged to a
giant, and was kept on Mitchell Fold (middle fold), Shropshire.
Its milk was inexhaustible; but one day an old woman who had
filled her pail, wanted to fill her sieve also. This so enraged
the cow, that she broke loose from the fold and wandered to
Dunsmore heath, where she was slain by Guy of Warwick.
Britain
- Duergar. Dwarfs who dwell in rocks and hills; noted for their
strength, subtilty, magical powers, and skill in metallurgy. They
are the personification of the subterranean powers of nature.
According to the Gotho—German myth, the duergar were first
maggots in Ymir's flesh, but afterwards assumed the likeness
of men. The first duergar was Modsogner, the next Dyrin.
Norse/Germany
- Dunawali, an evil goddess who lodges herself in a woman'
s internal organs making the victim the innocent vehicle of the
goddesses evil power. Huli
- Dunne, Goddess of the sky, fire and who ruled over the clan
territory Siberia/Tungus
- Dunroamin, god of semi-detached houses. Britain
- Dunlyrr, Harts that gnaw the branches of Ygdrasil. Norse
- Dunstan.
Patron saint of goldsmiths. He burnt
the devil's nose with red hot tongs. Britain
- Duppies, the ghosts of deceased people. An Obeah man will
summon a Duppy and plant it in a home to curse the occupants. A
sample of the victim's clothing, hair or especially menstrual
fluid may be obtained so that a Duppy may rape a female victim
while she sleeps and make her ill. Jamaican
- Dur, Underworld god Iran/Kassite
- Durangama, Minor goddess Buddhist/Vajrayana
- Durandana or Durindana. Orlando's sword, given him by his
cousin Malagigi. It once belonged to Hector, and was made by the
fairies. It could cleave the Pyrenees at a blow.
- Durathror. one of the four stags living in the branches of
Yggdrasill. Norse
- Durga, Goddess of fire and a vengeful warrior
Hindu/Puranic
- Durjata, Minor goddess who waits on the god Buddhakapala
Buddhist/Mahayana
- Durinn. A dwarf, second in degree. Norse
- Dusara. Local god associated with vegetation and fertility
survived until about 500 BCE. Semitic
- Dusiens. The name given by the Gauls to those demons that
produce nightmares.
- Duttur, Goddess of ewes. Sumeria
- Duzi. Youthful God of Vegetation and Plants. He has a river
named after him. Afghanistan
- Dvalinn. A dwarf. Norse
- Dvergr. A dwarf. In modern Icelandic lore dwarfs disappear,
but remain in local names, as Dverga-steinn, and in several words
and phrases. From the belief that dwarfs lived in rocks an echo
is called dwerg-mal (dwarf talk), and dwerg-mala means to echo.
The dwarfs were skilled in metal-working. Norse
- Dvorvoy. A household spirit who lives in the yard.
Russian
- Dweller on the Threshold, a phenomenon frequently encountered
by people on a spiritual path. Wicca
- Dwarf Alberich, is the guardian of the famous
“hoard” won by Siegfried from the Nibelungs. The
dwarf is twice vanquished by the hero, who gets possession of his
Tarn—kappë (cloak of invisibility). Nibelungen
Lied
- Dwarf Peter aka das Peter Manchen. The dwarf is a castle
spectre that advises and aids the family; but all his advice
turns out evil, and all his aid productive of trouble. Norse
- Dwyn, God of love. Celtic
- Dwyn Kazoba Baziba, God of the sun as well as the moon.
Africa
- Dxagz, a minor angel. Enochian
- Dxgz, a minor angel. Enochian
- Dyaus, Dyaus-pitri. Denotes heaven or the father of the gods.
Vedic
- Dyaus Pitar, Creator god. Hindu/India/Vedic
- Dyaush, First supreme god. India
- Dylan, Guardian deity of the mouth of the River Conway.
British/Welsh
- Dylan. A Cymric sea-god, son of Arianrod. Celtic
- Dylan Eil Ton, a sea-god. He is sometimes said to be a god of
darkness. Wales
- Dymphna, saint of those stricken in spirit. She was a native
of Britain, and a woman of high rank. It is said that she was
murdered, at Geel, in Belgium, by her own father, because she
resisted his incestuous passion. Geel, or Gheel, has long been a
famous colony for the insane, who are sent thither from all parts
of Europe, and are boarded with the peasantry. Britain
- Dyser. The deities who conduct the souls of the deceased to
the palace of Odin. Scandinavian
- Dynamis. One of the aeons - the first created entities -
thought to be divine emanations from God. The male
personification of power.
- Dyrrhachius, a son of Poseidon
and Melissa, from whom the town of Dyrrachium derived its name.
Greek
- Dysaules, the father of Triptolemus and Eubuleus, and a
brother of Celeus. He was expelled from Eleusis by Ion, and had
come to Phlius, where he introduced the Eleusinian mysteries.
Greek
- Dysponteus aka Dyspontius, a son of Oenomaus or Pelops,
believed to be the founder of the town of Dyspontium, in Pisatis.
Greek
- Dzakuta A sky god and the ‘thrower of celestial
stones.’ The Yoruba, Nigeria
- Dzalarhons, Goddess of fire and volcanoes. Haida
- Dziva, Goddess of justice. Africa
- Dzivaguru, Great goddess of the earth. Kore
- Dziwozony, Goddesses of healing, herbs and love. Poland
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