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In Panama mythology, Dabaira is an idol to which slaves are burned to death in sacrifices to honour the idol.
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Dagon was the god of the Philistines. He had the upper torso of a man and the tail of a fish.
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In Hausa mythology, the Dakaki is a serpent spirit which causes the evil eye resulting in stomach ulcers.
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In Huli mythology, Dama are invisible deities which control the weather and attack people causing illness, sterility or death. Most of them can also bring good fortune, but a small minority are completely evil.
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In Huli mythology, Dama Dagenda are evil forest-spirits that attack travellers making their noses bleed and giving them sores.
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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.
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In Huli mythology, Datagaliwabe is a giant who punishes offences against kinship laws with illness, fatal accidents or death in battle.
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In Slavic mythology, Dazhbog (Dabog or Dadzbog) was the sun, the giver of happiness, justice, success and wealth.
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In Fijian mythology, Degei is the god-god in the Kauvadra hills who interrogates the souls of the dead and punishes the souls of lazy people while rewarding those of hard working people.
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In Hebrew mythology, the deluge or great flood was the universal inundation which, according to the Mosaic history, took place to punish the great iniquity of mankind. It was produced, according to Genesis, by a rain of forty days; and covered the earth 15 cubits above the tops of the highest mountains, and killed every living creature except Noah, with his family, and the animals which entered the ark by the command of God. Many other nations mention, in the mythological or prehistoric part of their history, inundations which, in their essential particulars, agree with the Scriptural account of Noah's preservation, each nation localizing the chief events and actors as connected with itself.
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In Ghanaian mythology, Demonio was one of the two chief gods. Demonio was the principle of evil.
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In theology, a devil (from the Greek, diabolos, a slanderer or accuser), is an evil spirit or being; specifically the evil one, represented in Scripture as the traducer, father of lies, etc. Most of the old religions of the East acknowledge a host of devils. The doctrine of Zoroaster, who adopted an evil principle called Ahriman, opposed to the good principle and served by several orders of inferior spirits, spread the belief in such spirits among the people.
The Greek mythology did not distinguish with the same precision between good and bad spirits. With the Muslim Eblis, or the devil, was an archangel whom god employed to destroy a pre-Adamite race of jinns, or genii, and who was so filled with pride at his victory that he refused to obey god.
The Satan of the New Testament is also a rebel against god. He uses his intellect to entangle men in sin and to obtain power over them. But he is not an independent self-existent principle like the evil principle of Zoroaster, but a creature subject to omnipotent control. The doctrine of Scripture on this subject soon became blended with numerous fictions of human imagination, with the various superstitions of different countries, and the mythology of the pagans. The excited imaginations of hermits in their lonely retreats, sunk as they were in ignorance and unable to account for natural appearances, frequently led them to suppose Satan visibly present; and innumerable stories were told of his appearance, and his attributes - the horns, the tail, cloven foot, etc - distinctly described.
The New Testament hardly describes more regarding the devil than that he has a distinct personality; that he is a spirit or angel who in some way fell; that he is devoid of truth and of all moral goodness, always warring against the soul of man and leading him towards evil; that he has demons, spirits, or angels under him who work his will, and enter into or 'possess' men; but of his or their origin, original state, or fall, the New Testament doesn't say.
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In Tibetan Buddhism, the Dharmapalas were eight giant warriors who defended the True Path against demons. Their heads extended from horizon to horizon and were equipped with razor sharp fangs, tongues of fire and a third eye in the middle of their forehead which seared all enemies of Truth with the light of perfect knowledge.
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In Chinese mythology, Di Jun was the ruler of the eastern sky. He lived in a palace built in the branches of a mulberry tree and in the lower branches roosted his children, the ten suns.
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Dido was a Phoenician princess. The legendary founder of Carthage, she committed suicide to avoid marrying a local prince.
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In Baltic mythology, Dievas was the father of the gods.
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In the mythology of Melanesia, Digawina is a demoness who steals food and stuffs it into her enormous vagina.
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In Polish mythology, Dilwica was a hunting goddess, beautiful, radiant and unapproachable.
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In Huli mythology, Dinditane is a fertility god of gardening.
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In Australian mythology, Djanggau with Her sister Djunkgao, are dual fertility goddess who brought forth all life in the beginning.
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In Persian mythology, the Djinn were evil, ugly spirits of wild desolate places. They were shape-changers who could also be invisible.
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In Germanic mythology, Donar was the god of thunder, equivalent to the Norse god Thor.
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The Dorje or thunderbolt was an amulet for obtaining riches.
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In southern French mythology, a drac is a sort of fairy in human form. Dracs live in the caverns of rivers and sometimes float along the river appearing as a golden cup, so as to entice bathers to try and catch them, and then drag the bather under the water.
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In Chinese mythology, the dragon or long is a beneficial spirit of the moist yang principle. The dwell in the clouds or waters. There were five sorts: heavenly, which guarded the mansions of the gods; spiritual, which controlled winds and rains, and only accidentally caused flooding; earthly, which cleared rivers and deepened seas; those of hidden treasure; and imperial, marked by five claws, the others having four.
In Christian tradition, during the Middle Ages the dragon was symbolic of paganism, rather than a winged crocodile-like creature that breathes fire.
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In Shetland Island mythology, drows or trows are a sort of fairy race living in hills and caverns. They are skilled in metalwork and produce artefacts in iron and precious metals.
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In Javanese mythology, Drupadi is a warrior and expert archer, wife of Yudistira. She often joins in battle dressed as a male warrior.
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In Spanish mythology, a duende is a goblin or house-spirit.
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In Huli mythology, Dunawali is an evil goddess who lodges herself in a woman' s internal organs making the victim the innocent vehicle of the goddesses evil power.
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In Jamaican folklore, Duppies are 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.
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In Balinese and Javanese mythology, Durga is the goddess of death and disease. She is married to Waruna or Kala-Siwa and is the queen of the cemetery Gandamait, where she lives, ruling ghosts and demons. She is the patroness of witches, sorcerers and other magicians of the black arts, guna- guna.
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In Korekore mythology, Dzivaguru was the great earth goddess. She lived in a valley near Dande, kept cattle and goats and dressed in goatskins. She possessed a long horn which gave he whatever she wished for.
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