Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Kolpia" | Phoenicia | Lesser God of wind Phoenicia |
God name "Kotar" | Western Semitic / Syrian | Blacksmith god. Identified in the Ugaritic (Ras Samra) texts as building a palace for the god BAAL and forging his weapons for the conflict against the sea god YAMM. Known also from Phoenician inscriptions. Also Kosar, Chusor, KINYRAS.... |
Monster name "Leviathan/ Livjatan" | Phoenicia | A monster also claimed that in the xian O. T. |
God name "MOT (death)" | Canaanite / Phoenician / northern Israel, Lebanon / Syrian coastal regions | God of natural adversity. ot is the Canaanite representation of adversity in the natural world. He lives in a pit within the earth and is responsible for its annual death from drought and heat: he has scorched the olive, the produce of the earth and the fruit of the trees. He engages in the clåśśic confrontation with the Canaanite hero and national god, BAAL. Though the duel results in Baal's demise, his death is avenged by his twin sister ANAT, who slays Mot, then cleaves, winnows, burns and grinds him with a millstone, in what appears to be a ritual allied to the sowing of seed and harvesting (see OSIRIS). Baal is later restored. The conflict probably formed the basis of an annual ritual drama at the Canaanite New Year which was held in the autumn. In the texts Mot is the son of Il and his mother is AS'ERAH (ATHIRAT).... |
God name "Melkart" | Phoenicia | God in charge of travelers, sailors, colonies and the city of Tyre who, like the Phoenix, is regenerated by fire Phoenicia |
God name "Melqart" | Tyre | Melkart, the tutelary god of the Phoenician city of Tyre. |
God name "Meni" | Phoenicia | God of luck, both good and bad Phoenicia |
Goddess name "Mikal" | Phoenicia | Local goddess with a cult in Cyprus Phoenicia |
God name "Mikal" | Western Semitic / Phoenician | Local god. The cult was followed strongly on Cyprus. Some authorities believe he was invoked as a plague god.... |
God name "Moloch" | Africa | Molek, either the name of a god or the name of a particular kind of sacrifice åśśociated historically with Phoenician and related cultures in north Africa and the Levant. |
God name "Mot" | Phoenicia | The god of the dead and of all the powers that opposed life |
God name "Mot 'Death'" | Phoenicia | Son of 'El, according to instructions given by the god Hadad (Baal) to his messengers, lives in a city named hmry ('Mirey'), a pit is his throne, and Filth is the land of her heritage. Phoenicia |
"Mundane Egg" | Egyptian | In the Phoenician, Egyptian, Hindu, and Japanese systems, it is represented that the world was hatched from an egg. In some mythologies a bird is represented as laying the mundane egg on the primordial waters. |
"Mylitta" | Babylon / Phoenicia | Represented the productive principle of nature, and received the title of the queen of fertility. Babylon / Phoenicia |
Goddess name "Mylitta/ Mu'Allidtu" | Phoenician / Babylon | A goddess of fire, childbirth & fertility |
Goddess name "Myrrha / Syyrna" | Western Semitic / Phoenician | Fertility goddess. Known from inscriptions as the mother of the god Kinnur. Also Syyrna.... |
Spirit name "Omichie" | Phoenician / Hellenic | Primordial principle. The element of darkness in chaos which fuses, or consorts, with POTHOS to engender the spiritual and physical elements of the cosmos.... |
"Omichle" | Phoenicia | Primordial principle in the form of particles floating or falling in the atmosphere. Phoenicia |