According to Navajo tradition, Diné Bahaneʼ is the creation story of the Navajo people. It encompasses their emergence as a part of their spiritual beliefs.
As a creation story, Diné Bahaneʼ does not possess abilities in the classical sense. Its significance lies in shaping the Navajo worldview and informing their traditions.
Fire-breathing monster
A cross-cultural mythic category of monster defined by the ability to expel flame (or fire-like phenomenon) from the mouth or nostrils. Appears in multiple traditions (e.g., Greco-Roman, Hebrew/Biblical, Anglo‑Saxon, Japanese, Philippine, Native American, West African, Mapuche) and in modern fantasy as a recurring trope.
Little people
A cross-cultural folkloric category of diminutive supernatural or semi-supernatural beings found worldwide. They occupy liminal places near humans (woods, mounds, anthills, mines, shorelines) and range from helpful household spirits to mischievous tricksters or dangerous guardians of places and resources.
Dimoetes
Dimoetes (Ancient Greek: Διμοίτης, sometimes spelled Thymoetes in manuscripts) is a mortal figure in Greek mythic narrative, known from a Hellenistic-era love-tragedy compilation. His story, preserved in Parthenius' Sorrows of Love (attributed to earlier author Phylarchus), presents him as a tragic lover whose obsessive attachment to a corpse ends in his suicide.
Dinadan
Dinadan is a fictional human knight of Arthurian romance, a member of King Arthur's Round Table best known as a pragmatic, comic, and cynical foil—especially to Tristan—appearing in the Old French Prose Tristan, later continuations, and Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. He is portrayed as a competent but reluctant warrior, a teller of satirical commentary on chivalry and courtly love, and is killed in Malory during the internal collapse of Arthur's court.
Dinah Soar
Dinah Soar is a fictional superpowered humanoid pterosaur appearing in American Marvel Comics, a founding member of the Great Lakes Avengers who possesses high-speed flight, a hypersonic/inaudible voice, and an empathic calming rapport. She was introduced in 1989 and is portrayed as born in the Savage Land with her precise lineage unrevealed.
Dingir
Dingir (Sumerian DIĜIR, 𒀭) is a Sumerian cuneiform sign and word that functions as an ideogram for sky/heaven and as a logogram/determinative for divinity (god/goddess). It is a written/symbolic category in Sumerian and later Mesopotamian orthographies rather than an agentive supernatural being.
Dingonek
A large aquatic or semi-aquatic 'beast' reported in early 20th-century European hunter accounts from the Lake Victoria region. Described by eyewitness John Alfred Jordan (as recorded by Edgar Beecher Bronson) as a 4.3–4.6 m scaled, leopard-marked reptilian with a broad fin-like tail and large fangs; colonial-era commentators and later compendia treat it as a cryptid associated in some reports with local ritual practice.
Diocorystes
Diocorystes (Ancient Greek: Διοκορυστὴς) is a minor figure in Greek mythic genealogy, one of the fifty sons of King Aegyptus who were each married to a daughter of Danaus (the Danaids). He is recorded as the husband of the Danaid Hippodamia and as being slain on his wedding night along with most of his brothers.
Diodorus (son of Sufax)
A legendary Berber/Numidian ancestral king named in modern summaries of North African mytho-historical traditions. He is presented in the cited materials as son of Sufax and as a legendary ruler linked genealogically to Numidian dynasties and to Hellenic mythic figures.
Diogeneia
Diogeneia (Ancient Greek: Διογένεια) is a personal name borne by multiple mortal women in Greek myth and later reused in civic and modern contexts. In ancient sources the name identifies distinct genealogical figures (daughters, wives, mothers) rather than a single supernatural being; a later civic festival and modern events and groups also bear the name.
Diogenia
Diogenia is an Attic naiad attested in classical genealogical sources as a daughter of the river-god Cephisus who, by marriage to Phrasimus, became mother of Praxithea and thereby linked river-divinity to the royal house of Erechtheus in Athenian legendary history.
Diomedes
Diomedes (Ancient Greek: Διομήδης) is a hero of Greek myth, foremost among Achaean warriors in the Trojan War, later a king of Argos and a legendary founder of cities in Italy; some traditions report he received cult after death. The name also appears for other historical and modern persons and places but within the supplied sources refers primarily to the mortal heroic figure(s) of classical tradition.
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