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Damgalnuna Mesopotamian (Sumerian and Babylonian-Akkadian)
mother Goddess.
Damkina Mesopotamian (Sumerian and Babylonian-Akkadian)
Goddess.
Danu Celtic (Irish) founding Goddess, and/or Hindu (Verdic)
primordial Goddess.
Daphne Greek oracular Goddess, who was changed into the
laurel, so she could avoid sexual submission.
Daya Hindu (Puranic) Goddess, whose name means compassion.
Decima Roman Goddess of birth. She watches over the critical
months of creation.
Demeter Greek vegetation and
mother Goddess. Her daughter is Persephone,
who is a mistress of Hades, and can only enter the earth above for
six months every year. Demeter means mother.
Dena Persian (Iran) Goddess.
Derceto Western Semitic (Phoenician) mother Goddess.
Devaki Hindu (Epic and Puranic) mother Goddess. Her name
means divine.
Devananda Jain (Indian) Goddess, whose name means delight
of the Gods.
Devasena Hindu (Puranic) Goddess, her name meaning heavenly
host.
Deverra Roman Goddess of birth. Guardian of newborn children.
Devi Hindu (Epic and Puranic) Goddess epitomizing the active
female principle. Her name means the Goddess.
Dhanada Buddhist (Mahayana) Goddess. She is usually associated
with color green and some of her attributes are noose, blue lotus,
book and rosary.
Dhanistha Hindi (Puranic) Goddess of misfortune. Her name
means very rich.
Dharani Hindu (Epic and Puranic) Goddess. Her name means
earth.
Dharmamagha Buddhist (Vajrayana) Goddess. She is usually
associated with color blue, and her attributes are book and staff,
and her name means cloud of the law.
Dharmapratisamvit Buddhist (Vajrayana) Goddess of nature
analysis. She is usually associated with color whitish-red and her
attributes are noose and staff with crook.
Dharmavasita Buddhist Goddess. She is usually associated
with color white, and her attributes are water jar and red lotus,
and her name means control of law.
Dharti Mata Hindu (Puranic) mother Goddess.
Dhisana Hindu (Verdic) Goddess of prosperity.
Dhrti Jain (Indian) Goddess, whose name means firmness.
Dhumravati Terrible Hindu (Puranic) Goddess.
Dhumavati Hindu (Epic and Puranic) Goddess. Her name means
smoky.
Dhumorna Hindu (Epic and Puranic) Goddess. Her name means
smoke.
Dhupa Buddhist-Lamais (Tibet) mother Goddess. She is usually
associated with color yellow, and her attribute is censer, and name
means incense.
Dhupatara Buddhist (Mahayana) Goddess. She is usually associated
with color black and her attribute is censer.
Dhvajagrakeyura Buddhist (Mahayana) Goddess, whose name
means ring on banner.
Deianeira Mortal wife of Heracles, who did cause death of
her husband by accident.
Dione Greek Goddess, who was one of the Titans. In some
stories mother of Aphrodite.
Diya Chinese Goddess, who is a female half of primal pair
that created all living things.
Diana Roman moon Goddess, who lives in the forest. She is
a protector of animal, and her daughter is Aradia, queen of witches.
Diang Shilluk (Sudan) cow Goddess.
Dictynna Cretan mother Goddess.
Didi Thakrun Hindu (northern India) plague Goddess, who
is associated with cholera.
Digambara Buddhist-Lamaist (Tibet) Goddess, whose name means
naked.
Dike Greek Goddess of justice. She is maiden whom men violently
abuse, but is honored by the Gods. She reports to Zeus (her father)
on misdeeds of mankind, causing divine retribution.
Diksa Hindu (Epic- Puranic) Goddess. Her name means initiation.
Dipa Buddhist-Lamaist (Tibet) Goddess of light and her name
means personification of the oil-lamp. She is usually associated
with color blue or red and her attribute is a lamp.
Dipa Tara Buddhist (Mahayana) Goddess.
Dipti Hindu (Epic) Goddess, whose name means brightness.
Dirghadewi Hindu (Epic- Puranic) Goddess. Her name means
long Goddess.
Disa Hindu (Epic- Puranic) Goddess, whose name means the
ten direction of space.
Disani Karif (Afghanistan, southern Hindukush) fertility
and mother Goddess. She is the most important Goddess of the Hindukush.
She is also comforting Goddess of death, who brings the deceased
into the House of the Great Mother.
Disciplina Roman Goddess.
Discordia Roman Goddess of dissent.
Diti Hindu (Vedic, Epic and Puranic) Goddess. Mother of
the race of demons.
Divona Celtic (Gallic) fertility Goddess, who is associated
with water.
Djila´qons Haida native Americans (Queen Charlotte Island,
Canada) sea Goddess. She controls all the creatures of the sea.
Dombi Buddhist Goddess of terrifying appearance.
Don Celtic (Welsh) mother Goddess.
Doris Greek sea Goddess.
Duillea Romano-Iberian fertility and vegetation Goddess.
Durangama Buddhist (Vajrayana) Goddess, whose name means
going far away.
Durga Hindu (Puranic, Indian) vengeful warrior Goddess.
She rides upon a lion or a tiger..
Durjaya Buddhist (Mahayana) Goddess, whose name means unconquerable.
Dzivaguru Korekore (Shona, northern Zimbabwe, southern Africa)
chthonic mother Goddess. She rules both heaven and earth.
E Alom Mayan (Quiche- classical Mesoamerican, Guatemala
highlands) primeval creator Goddess. Her name means conceiver of
children.
Egeria Roman fertility Goddess. She is also Goddess of oak
trees, and number of springs and lakes were sacred to her.
Eileithyia Greek (previously Mycenaean) Goddess of birth.
She was worshipped by women, and called upon to ease the pain and
danger of childbirth.
Eirene Greek Goddess of peace.
Eir Norse Goddess of healing and medicine, her name meaning
help, or mercy.
Ekajata Buddhist (Varjayana) Goddess of good fortune. She
offers happiness, removes personal obstacles and her name means
she who has but one chignon.
Ellaman Hindi-Dravidian (Tamil, southern India) Goddess
of passage. She guards boundaries of villages and fields.
Eithinoha Iroquois native American (USA) earth Goddess.
Embla Nordic Goddess, who was the first woman.
Erato Greek Muse of love poetry.
Ereshkigal Mesopotamian Goddess, who was queen of the underworld.
Estanatlehi Navajo native American (USA) Goddess, who was
a source of all good things.
Eumenides Group of female spirits, also known as the Furies,
who punish people that have committed crime.
Eve First woman in Christian mythology. Her name means life.
Eos Hellenizel Indo-European Goddess. She is a spirit of
dawn, and sister of Helios (God of the sun) and Selene (Goddess
of the moon).
Eostre Anglo-Saxon fertility Goddess of spring. Easter is
named after her.
Epona Celtic (Gallic) horse and fertility Goddess. Her name
means mare, and she is also Goddess of dreams.
Ereskigal Mesopotamian (Sumerian and Babylonian-Akkadian,
Iraq) Chthonic underworld Goddess. She is a queen of the underworld
and her name means the great below.
Enyo Greek Goddess of war and depicted being covered in
blood and carrying weapons. Her name means horror.
Euphene Greek Goddess of good omen, praise, and shouts of
triumph. Her name means well-spoken.
Eurybia Greek Goddess of the seas, her name meaning wide
violent force.
Erinys Greek chthonic Goddess of wrath.
Eris Greek Goddess of dissent or strife and she is a consort
or sister of Ares (God of War). She was mad because she wasn´t invited
at the wedding of Peleus and Thesis, so she threw down in front
of the other Goddesses a golden apple, and a note that said ”To
the fairest”. That apple was a original cause of Trojan war.
Eriu Celtic (Irish) fertility Goddess. One aspect of Morrigan.
She is also a warrior Goddess.
Estsanatlehi Navaho native Americans (New Mexico and Arizona)
fertility Goddess, whose name means woman that changes.
Eunomia Greek Goddess of order.
Eurynome Greek Goddess of sea.
Fauna Roman vegetation Goddess, who also guards woods and
plants with her consort (vegetation God).
Felicitas Roman Goddess of good luck, her name meaning fortune
or good luck. In some stories she is a male.
Fjorgyn Nordic (Icelandic) Goddess of fertility.
Flaitheas Celtic (Irish) tutelary Goddess.
Flora Roman Goddess of flowers.
Fortuna Roman Goddess of good fortune. She was very popular,
and many temples were build in her honor.
Feng Bo Chinese Goddess of the winds.
Feronia Roman Goddess.
Februa Roman Goddess of the passion of love and month February
is named after her and 14 February (now known as St. Valentines
day) was her festival. She is also known as Juno Februa.
Frida German Goddess of fertility and giving birth. Friday
is believed to be named after her.
Freyja Nordic and Germanic fertility and vegetation Goddess.
She is also Goddess of love and her twin brother is Freyr (fertility
God).
Frigg Nordic and Germanic mother Goddess.
Fulla Germanic Goddess.
Fuamnach Irish Goddess who turns Étaín into a pool of water,
then a worm, and finally a beautiful butterfly.
Gabija Lithuanian fire Goddess.
Gabjauja Lithuanian corn Goddess.
Gaia She is a primordial essence of earth and her name means
earth.
Ganapatihrdaya Buddhist (Mahayana) Goddess.
Gandha Buddhist-Lamaist (Tibet) Goddess. She is usually
associated with color green, and her name means odour.
Gandhari Jain (Indian) Goddess of learning.
Gandha Tara Buddhist (Mahayana) Goddess. She is usually
associated with color red.
Ganga Hindu (Puranic) river Goddess, who is a guardian of
river Ganges.
Gangir Mesopotamian (Sumerian) Goddess.
Garmangabis South Germanic tutelary Goddess.
Gatumdug Mesopotamian (Sumerian and Babylonian-Akkadian)
fertility Goddess.
Gauri Hindu (Vendic and Puranic) Goddess. Also Buddhist
Goddess and Jain (Indian) messenger Goddess. Her name means whitish
brilliant.
Gefjon Germanic and Nordic Goddess of agriculture.
Gestin-Ana Mesopotamia (Sumerian) chthonic Goddess.
Ghasmari Buddhist Goddess of terrifying appearance, whose
name means voracious.
Giltine Lithuanian Goddess of death. She enters the house
of dying wearing a white gown, and suffocates them.
Gita Buddhist-Lamaist (Tibet) mother Goddess.She is usually
associated with color red and her attributes are Indian gong and
lute.
Glati Fon (Benin, West Africa) moon Goddess.
Gerd Nordic (Scandinavian) Goddess.
Gorgons Group of three Greek female monsters.
Gudrun Scandinavian Goddess.
Guan Yin Chinese Goddess of mercy.
Guenever In Welsh tales, she was a daughter of a giants,
and a minor Goddess herself. Later she did became wife of King Arthur
and mistress of knight Lancelot. Also known as Gwenhwyfar and Guinevere.
Grahamatrka Buddhist (Mahayana) Goddess, whose attributes
are arrow, bow, lotus and staff and her name means demon mother.
Gratiae Roman Goddess of arts.
Grdhrasya Buddhist Goddess. Her name means face of vulture.
Grismadevi Buddhist-Lamaist (Tibet) seasonal Goddess. She
is usually associated with color red, and her attributes are ax
and cup, and her name means Goddess of summer.
Gula Mesopotamian (Sumerian and Babylonian-Akkadian) Goddess
of healing. Her name means great one.
Gulsilia Mata Hindu (Epic and Puranic) mother Goddess.
Ganabibi Australian aboriginal creator Goddess.
Sources:
Michael Jordan, Encyclopedia of gods 2002
Michael Senior, Who´s who in mythology 1985
Elizabeth Hallan, Mytologian Jumalat (Gods and Goddesses, 96)
1997
Nigel Pennick, the Pagan book of days 1992
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