Not attested in the provided source. The supplied overview of Taoism outlines a philosophical and religious tradition focused on harmony with the Tao and lists categories of practice (meditation, qigong, feng shui, internal alchemy) but does not supply a mythic origin or narrative for any entity called 'Diao Si.' Any origin-story for such an entity would require additional sources specific to Taoist ritual texts or folklore, which were not provided.
Not attested in the provided source. The excerpt contains no description of physical appearance for 'Diao Si' or comparable spirit-binding beings.
Not attested in the provided source. The material mentions general Taoist goals (self-cultivation, harmony with the Tao) and practices but does not attribute particular powers, behaviors, or spirit-binding capacities to an entity named 'Diao Si.'
Di inferi
A ritual-technical collective in Roman religion denoting the gods and powers 'below' (the underworld), the di inferi comprise chthonic deities, ancestral forces (often overlapping with the Manes), and other underworld entities who receive burnt offerings and are propitiated outside Rome's sacred boundary.
Di sma undar jordi
Di sma undar jordi are a Gotlandic class of small, subterranean 'hidden people' (Gutnish: Di sma undar jordi; Swedish: de små under jorden) who act as caretakers of farms, people, and animals so long as they are not angered. They belong to the regional underjordiska/vættir-like tradition and are normally invisible except under a peculiar viewing condition recorded in local tales.
Dia (wife of Ixion)
Dia is a mortal woman in Greek mythic genealogies, chiefly attested as the wife of Ixion and in some traditions the mother of Pirithous. Her figure functions relationally in narratives about divine–human interaction, contested paternity, and the consequences of transgressive kinship and desire.
Diamond (dog)
Diamond is a named dog appearing in anecdotal accounts associated with Sir Isaac Newton; in popular and literary retellings the animal is said to have overturned a candle and so caused the destruction of Newton's experimental manuscripts. The story is widely reproduced in 19th‑century biographies and literature but is described in some sources as largely apocryphal.
Diana
Diana is a Roman goddess of the countryside, wild animals and hunting, childbirth, crossroads, the night, and the Moon. In Roman religion she was equated with the Greek Artemis and absorbed much of Artemis' mythic profile; later receptions reinterpreted aspects of her in folklore and neo-pagan writing.
Diana monkey
The Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana) is an Old World monkey native to West African primary forests. Treated in the supplied sources as a biological species of conservation concern, it is notable for a white crescent browband, complex vocal alarm system, frugivorous diet, and sociable group structure.
Diarmuid Ua Duibhne
Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, often called Diarmuid of the Love Spot, is a heroic figure of the Irish Fenian Cycle described as a warrior and demigod-like hero fostered by the Tuatha Dé Danann. He is best known for the magical 'ball seirce' (love-spot), his role as Gráinne's lover in the Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne, and for otherworldly adventures including a voyage to the Land-under-Waves.
Dictys
Dictys is a personal name applied to multiple distinct figures in Greek myth and pseudo‑historical tradition: a fisherman of Seriphos who rescues Danaë and Perseus, a sailor transformed into a dolphin by Dionysus, a centaur at Pirithous's wedding who dies in the Lapiths' battle, and the literary persona Dictys Cretensis who purports to be an eyewitness of the Trojan War.
Didaeon
Didaeon is a minor genealogical figure in Greek mythic tradition, recorded as one of the sons of King Eurytus of Oechalia and his wife (variously named Antiope or Antioche). He appears only in lineage lists and catalogues; no deeds, cult, or supernatural attributes are ascribed to him in the surviving citations.
Dido (Elissa)
Dido (also Elissa or Elishat/Elisha) is the legendary founder and first queen of the Phoenician settlement that became Carthage in Greek and Roman literary tradition. Her tale—flight from Tyre, clever acquisition of land by an oxhide trick, foundation of Byrsa, and death on a funeral pyre—appears in Hellenistic historiography and Roman epic and is used etiologically to explain Carthage's origins.
Dies
Dies is the Roman personification of Day, treated in literary and encyclopedic sources as the counterpart of the Greek Hemera and as a divine figure in genealogical accounts of cosmic forces.
Dietrich (tradition)
Dietrich is not presented in the supplied sources as a supernatural being but as an ancient Germanic dithematic personal name meaning 'ruler of the people', used historically as both a given name and a surname and appearing in literary tradition as the name of legendary heroes such as Dietrich von Bern.
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