Deva

Deva may refer to:

Religion and derived traditions

• Deva (Buddhism), a superhuman being in traditional Buddhist cosmology
• Deva (Hinduism), a favorable supernatural entity in Hinduism
• Deva (New Age), spiritual forces or beings behind nature
• Deva people of Sri Lankan mythology
• Devic kingdom, mystical beings in generic doctrines

Toponymy

• Deva (river), a river in Northern Spain, between Asturias and Cantabria
• Deva Victrix, a Roman fortress and town of Chester in England
  • The Deva Stadium, a football stadium in Chester named after the city's Roman name
• Deva, Romania, a city in Hunedoara county, Romanian
• River Dee, Aberdeenshire by Roman name
• River Dee, Galloway by Roman name
• River Dee, Wales by Roman name

An Indian given name or surname

• Deva Premal, a German musician
• Nirj Deva, United Kingdom politician
• Prabhu Deva Sundaram, a South Indian actor, dancer, and movie director
• Sarah Jezebel Deva, stage name of vocalist Sarah Jane Ferridge

In pop culture

• Aasimar or devas, fictional race of humanoids with celestial or angelic ancestors in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
• Deva (film), a Tamil movie from 1994
• Deva (music director), South Asian music director
• Digimon Tamers, the beast guardians from; inspired by the Chinese zodiac
• In the the anime-manga series Naruto, the character Pain makes use of a technique known as the Six Paths of Pain, which allows him to manipulate six corpses as if they are his own body. Each of these corpses are named after a part of the wheel of life present in many Indian religions. One of these are known as the Deva Path due to his godlike abilities.
• In computer game Rappelz Deva (theists or demigods) are one of three races (others two are Asura or atheistic demons and Gaia or humans)

Abbreviations or acronyms

• Democratic Alternative (Finland) (abbreviated "DeVa" in Finnish, from Demokraattinen Vaihtoehto, a Finnish Communist party of 1986–1990

See also

• Daeva, an unfavorable supernatural entity in Zoroastrianism
• Dev
• Devas (disambiguation)
• Diva (disambiguation)