Dis - Religion, Mythology, and Fiction

Religion, Mythology, and Fiction

  • Dis (Divine Comedy), the fictional city in The Divine Comedy that contains the lower circles of hell and alternate name for Lucifer
  • Dis, an alternative name for Satan
  • Dīs, the alternative name for Pluto (mythology)
  • Dis Pater, predecessor of Pluto in Roman Mythology and ancestor of the Gauls according to Roman thought
  • Dís, singular of dísir, a group of goddesses in Norse mythology
  • Dís (Middle-earth), a female Dwarf from J. R. R. Tolkien's universe

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