Dei Gratia By God's grace. Introduced into English charters in 1106; as much as to say, "dei non hominum gratia," by divine right and not man's appointment. The archbishops of Canterbury from 676 to 1170 assumed the same style.
    From the time of Offa, King of Mercia (A.D. 780), we find occasionally the same or some similar assumption as, Dei dono, Christo donante, etc. The Archbishop of Canterbury is now divina providentia.
   Dei Gratia omitted on a florin. (See Graceless Florin.)

Dei Judicium (Latin). The judgment of God; so the judgment by ordeals was called, because it was supposed that God would deal rightly with the appellants.

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.

Deiphobus (4 syl.). One of the sons of Priam, and, next to Hector, the bravest and boldest of all the Trojans. On the death of his brother Paris, he married Helen; but Helen betrayed him to her first husband, Menelaos, who slew him. (Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Æncid.)

Deities
   Air: Ariel, Elves (singular, Elf).
   Caves or Caverns: Hill-people (Hög-folk, hög = height).
   Corn: Ceres (2 syl.) (Greek, Demeter).
   Domestic Life: Vesta.
   Eloquence: Mercury (Greek, Hermes).
   Evening: Vesper.
   Fates (The): Three in number (Greek, Parcæ, Moiræ, 2 syl., Keres).
   Fire: Vulcan (Greek, Hephaistos, 3 syl.), Vesta, Mulciber.
   Fairies: (q.v.).
   Furies: Three in number (Greek, Eumenides, 4 syl., Erinnyes)
   Gardens: Priapus, Vertumnus with his wife Pomona.
   Graces (The): Three in number (Greek, Charites).
   Hills: Trolls. There are also Wood Trolls and Water Trolls. (See below Mountains.)
   Home Spirits (q.v.): Penates (3 syl.), Lares (2 syl.).
   Hunting: Diana (Greek, Artemis).
   Infernal Regions: Pluto, with his wife Proserpine, 3 syl. (Greek, Aides and Persephone).
   Justice: Themis, Astræa, Nemesis.
   Love: Cupid (Greek, Eros).
   Marriage: Hymen.
   Medicine: Æsculapius.
   Mines: Trolls.
   Morning: Aurora (Greek, Eos).
   Mountains: Oreads or Oreades (4 syl.), from the Greek, oros a mountain; Trolls.
   Ocean (The): Oceanides.
   Poetry and Music: Apollo, the nine Muses.
   Rainbow (The): Iris.
   Riches: Plutus. Shakespeare speaks of "Plutus' mine," (Julius Caesar, iv. 3).
   Rivers and Streams: Fluviales, 4 syl. (Greek, Potameides, 5 syl.).
   Sea (The): Neptune (Greek, Poseidon, 3 syl.), his son Triton, Necks, Mermaids, Nereids (3 syl.). (See Sea.)
   Shepherds and their Flocks: Pan, the Satyrs.
   Springs, Lakes, Brooks, etc.: Nereides or Naiads (2 syl.).
   Time: Saturn (Greek, Chronos).
   War: Mars (Greek, Ares), Bellona, Thor.
   Water-nymphs: Naiads (2 syl.), Undine (2 syl.).
   Winds (The): Æolus.
   Wine: Bacchus (Greek, Dionysos).
   Wisdom: Minerva (Greek, Pallas, Athene or Pallas-Athene).
   Woods: Dryads (A Hama-Dryad presides over some particular tree), Wood-Trolls.
   Youth: Hebe
    Of course this is not meant for a complete list of heathen and pagan deities. Such a list would require a volume.


  By PanEris using Melati.

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