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DACTYLS (Daktyloi)
-Magician-smiths of the Greek island of Crete in the service of the goddess Rhea.
DAEIRA
-A goddess-nymph of the Eleusinian mysteries.
DAEMONAE (Daimonai)
-Female daimones or spirits including nymphs and female personifications and abstractions such as Eris (Strife) and Tyche (Luck).
DAEMONES (Daimones)
-Spirits of the air, earth, sea and underworld. They included personifications such of Elpis (Hope) and Hypnos (Sleep) and nature spirits like the river-gods and nymphs.
DAEMONES, AGATHI (Daimones Agathoi)
-Good spirits which protected and bestowed blessings upon mankind.
DAEMONES ARGYREAN (Daimones Argyreoi)
-Men of the silver age who were immortalised as underground spirits responsible for the earth's fertility.
DAEMONES, CACO- (Kakodaimones)
-Harmful spirits which escaped from the jar of Pandora to forever plague mankind.
DAEMONES CHRYSEAN (Daimones Khryseoi)
-Men of the golden age who were immortalised as earth-dwelling spirits to watch over and protected mankind.
DAEMONES CHTHONIAN (Daimones Khthonioi)
-The daemon-spirits of the underworld.
DAEMONES GEORGICI (Daimones Georgikoi)
-The spirits of agriculture and farming.
DAEMONES HALIAN (Daimones Halioi)
-The spirits of the sea.
DAEMONES NOMIAN (Daimones Nomioi)
-The spirits of the countryside, pastureland and wilds.
DAEMONES URANIAN (Daimones Ouranioi)
-The spirits of the sky.
DAEMONES PROSEOUS (Daimones Proseoos)
-Evil spirits which haunted the dark, seaside caverns of the island of Rhodes.
DAMASEN
-A giant who slew a fearsome dragon terrorising the kingdom of Lydia.
DAMIA
-The springtime Hora of earth's fertility.
DAMNAMENEUS
-One of the metal-working Dactyls.
DAMYSUS (Damysos)
-The swiftest of the Gigantes (Giants) who waged war on the gods. The centaur Chiron extracted the swiftness from his feet and placed it in the heel of Achilles.
DANAIS
- A nymph of Elis loved by King Pelops of Pisa.
DAPHNE
-A Naiad-nymph daughter of the river Peneus who was chased by amorous god Apollo. Just as he was about to catch her she was transformed into a laurel tree.
DAPHNAIE
-Dryad-nymphs of the laurel-tree.
DAPHNIS (1)
-An Oread-nymph prophetess who served as the oracle of Gaea at Delphi before Apollo took over the shrine.
DAPHNIS (2)
-The hero and demigod of idyllic poetry.
DAULIS
-A Naiad-nymph who gave her name to the Boeotian town of Daulis.
DEIMUS (Deimos)
- The god of terror, a companion of the war-god Ares. Illustrated
DEINO (1)
-One of the Graeae--ancient hags who shared one eye and one tooth between them.
DEINO (2)
-The Naiad-nymph wife of the river Spercheius in northern Greece.
DEIPNEUS
-The daemon of the making of meals.
DELPHIN (Delphin)
-A dolphin demigod who helped Poseidon track down the goddess Amphitrite and persuade her to marry to him. As a reward for his service, Poseidon placed him amongst the stars as the constellation Delphinus.
