In the series' mythos, the world of the immortals was formed as the world was being created by the almighty Bathala. The immortal realm was divided into benevolent Kabanuas and evil Kasamayans. After contest and rivalry among immortal figures, Mariang Magayon turns Mariang Sinukuan into a unicorn; the unicorn later gave birth to a human baby girl. That child grows up unaware of her identity and is revealed as the Takda (Chosen One) — the Dyosa — who hails from the Kabanua line and is destined to save humankind from the imbalance caused by the Kasamayans. The Sun God (Bathala ng Araw) and Apo Suga/Amang Suga are named figures in the sequence that results in the arrival of the Destined Child.
Within the television narrative the protagonist Josephine manifests multiple supernatural physical forms corresponding to elemental powers: Dyosa Tierra appears as a centauride (human above the waist with an equine lower body), Dyosa Agua as a mermaid, and Dyosa Cielo as a harpy. The origin account also recounts Mariang Sinukuan's transformation into a unicorn prior to the birth of the human child who becomes the Dyosa.
The series states that as a full-fledged Dyosa the Takda possesses divine powers of the earth, air, and water. To harness these powers she transforms into the corresponding elemental embodiments (Dyosa Tierra for earth, Dyosa Agua for water, Dyosa Cielo for air). Narratively her role is mediatory and salvific: she is chosen to restore balance between the Kabanuas and the Kasamayans and faces tension between mortal attachments and her cosmic duty.
Dyesebel
Dyesebel is a fictional Filipino comic-book mermaid character created by Mars Ravelo and drawn by Elpidio Torres, widely adapted into films and television. In her stories she inhabits the marine realm, interacts with humans (notably a love interest named Fredo), and in some versions gains full human form via a bargain with a sea-witch.
Dyggvi
Dyggvi (Old Norse Dyggvi/Dyggve, glossed 'Useful, Effective') is presented in the Old Norse legendary-historical tradition as a Swedish king of the Yngling dynasty. He appears in genealogical and saga sources (Ynglingatal, Snorri Sturluson's Ynglinga saga, Historia Norwegiae, and the Íslendingabók succession list) and is said in later summary tradition to have died and become a concubine of Hel, the ruler of the dead.
Dying God (motif)
A comparative-mythology motif in which one or more deities die, are destroyed, or depart permanently from the world; used by scholars and popular writers to explain mythic themes of change, loss, fertility cycles, or cultural transition rather than denoting a single named being.
Dylan ail Don
A mythological sea-being from the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi (Welsh tradition), born to Arianrhod and immediately assuming the nature of the sea at his baptism; famed for swimming as well as the best fish and later slain by his uncle Gofannon.
Dymas
Dymas (Ancient Greek: Δύμας) is a personal name borne by multiple distinct mortal figures in ancient Greek epic and mythic traditions rather than a single supernatural being. Bearers of the name appear in narratives connected to the Argonautica, the Theban cycle, Dorian genealogies, Trojan War material, and the Odyssey; no consistent divine or liminal attributes are ascribed to them in the cited sources.
Dynamene
Dynamene (Ancient Greek: Δυναμένη) is one of the Nereids in Greek mythology, a daughter of the sea-god Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. Her name is a participle meaning glossed as both “the bringer” and more precisely “she who can, the capable one,” and she is associated with the might of great ocean swells and with the ability to appear and disappear rapidly. She appears in Homer’s Iliad as one of the Nereids who comes to Thetis in her grief for Achilles.
Dyspontos
Dyspontos (also attested in a cataloguing entry as Dysponteus) appears only in very limited genealogical material within Greek mythic traditions connected to the royal house of Pisa in the Peloponnesus. The surviving attestations treat the name as a minor mythic figure recorded in lineage lists with variant parentage rather than as a fully developed narrative character.
Dywel fab Erbin
Dywel fab Erbin is a minor heroic figure of medieval Welsh literary tradition: a son of Erbin, brother to Geraint and Ermid, and named among King Arthur's knights at Celliwig. He is attested in early Welsh poetry (the Black Book of Carmarthen and the Stanzas of the Graves) and in the Arthurian tale Culhwch ac Olwen, where his death in battle and the location of his grave at Caewaw/Caeo are recorded.
Dyēus
Dyēus (reconstructed *Dyēus, extended *Dyēus ph₂tḗr) is the Proto-Indo-European scholarly reconstruction of a daylight-sky personification and sky‑father. In comparative accounts it functions as the bright daytime sky, seat of the gods, and a sovereign ordering principle inferred from descendant traditions (e.g., Vedic Dyauṣ, Greek Zeus, Roman Jupiter).
Dzahui
Dzahui (also spelled Dzavui) is the Mixtec rain deity attested in Mixtec codices and brief modern summaries. He is depicted with Mesoamerican rain-deity iconography and was the recipient of extreme propitiatory offerings in times of drought, disease, and at harvest.
Dzedka
Dzedka is a benevolent figure of Belarusian folklore associated with wealth and fortune. Described as an old man who walks roads and fields by day, he is said to cause a passerby to sleep and later find money, and to appear in dreams to advise wealthy but unhappy people.
Dziwożona
A malevolent supernatural entity associated with swamps in Slavic mythology. (Note: - The power tier should be Primordial because the Dziwożona is a powerful, malevolent entity associated with swamps and death. - The origin story summary should note that it's specifically female in S)
Community Record
- [1]Dyosa — Wikipedia. Wikipedia contributors. "Dyosa." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyosawiki
- [2]Dyosa — Wikidata. Wikidata entry Q5319250 for Dyosa. http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5319250other
- [3]Dyosa — archived Yahoo Groups posts and web synopses (supporting media/context references). Archived Yahoo Groups and web synopses collected relating to the television series Dyosa. https://archive.org/details/yahoo-groups-2018-01-05T06-25-45Z-6cd892other
- [4]Dyosa series mentions in contemporary press and fan pages. Television plot summary and related pages referencing Dyosa. https://www.nothings.org/wikiplot/wikiplot_2/wikiplot_247.htmlother
