| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Lycabas" | Greek | The name of three fictitious personages mentioned by Ovid Metamorphoses. (iii, v, xii.) Greek |
| King name "Lynceus" | Greek | A son of Aegyptus and Argyphia, and husband of the Danaid Hypermnestra, by whom he became the father of Abas. He was king of Argos, whence that city is called Abas. Greek |
"Magbabaya" | Philippines | The highest and most powerful divinity, the creator and the sources of all life. Philippines |
"Mah-Abadean Dynasty" | Persia | The first dynasty of Persian mythological history. Mah Abad (the great Abad) and his wife were the only persons left on the earth after the great cycle, and from them the world was peopled. Azer Abad, the fourteenth and last of this dynasty, left the earth because "all flesh had corrupted itself," and a period of anarchy ensued. |
| God name "Mahabala" | Buddhist | God, a rather fearsome emanation of Amitabha Buddhist / Mahayana |
| God name "Mahabala (very strong)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | God. A fearsome emanation of AMITABHA and a dikpala (guardian) of the northwestern quarter. Color: red. Attributes: jewel, snakes, sword, tiger skin, trident and white fly whisk. Three-headed.... |
"Manang Jaban" | Bali | A Medicine man or woman, a witch doctor or wizard. There are both terrestrial and celestial Manang. Bali. |
| Goddess name "Manawat" | Western Semitic / Nabataean | Goddess of destiny. Mentioned in a large number of inscriptions.... |
| God name "Meizabac (black powder maker)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | weather god. He sprinkles black dye on the clouds, which causes them to generate Rain. Believed to live on the edge of a lake. Also a fever god and a keeper of good souls. Also Metzabac.... |
| God name "Menzabac" | Mayan | weather god who causes the Rain by sprinkling black dye on the clouds, he has a side line as a fever god and the keeper of good souls Mayan |
| Goddess name "N ssaba" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Goddess of writing and wisdom. A daughter of AN and probably orig inally a vegetation deity. Her symbol is the inscribing stylus. She is a patron deity of Unug [Warka].... |
| Deity name "Nabongo" | Kenya | The Father of all and the supreme deity of the Abaluyia. Kenya |
| Nymph name "Nana" | Greek | A nymph of Sangarius, a river located in present-day Turkey. She became pregnant when an almond from an almond tree fell on her lap. The almond tree had sprung where Agdistis, a mythical being connected with the Phrygian worship of Attes, was slain. Agdistis was a son of Cybele, the Mother of all things. Nana abandoned the baby, who was adopted by his grandmother, Cybele. The baby, Attis, grew up to become Cybele's servant and lover. Greek |
| Goddess name "Nidaba" | Sumeria | Goddess of fertility, in particular of the date palm and the reed. Sumeria |
| Goddess name "Nissaba" | Sumeria | Nisaba or Nidaba, goddess of fertility, in particular of the date palm and the reed. In Assyrian times, she came to be regarded as the goddess of writing, learning and astrology. Sumeria |
| Goddess name "Nunbarsegunu" | Sumerian | An alternate name for the Goddess Nisaba, mother of Ninlil, the Sumerian goddess of fertility, in particular of the date palm and the reed. Sumerian |
| Supreme god name "Oduduwa" | Yoruba | The son of the supreme God Olodumare or Olorun, and was sent by him from heaven to create the earth. Descending from the heavens via a chain let down to Ile Ife, Oduduwa brought with him a chicken, some soil in a snail shell, and a calabash. After throwing the soil upon the waters, he set the çõçk on the soil who in turn scratched and scattered it around to create the rest of dry land that became the earth's surface. Yoruba |
| Supreme god name "Oduduwa" | Yoruba | The son of the supreme God Olodumare or Olorun, and was sent by him from heaven to create the earth. Descending from the heavens via a chain let down to Ile Ife, Oduduwa brought with him a chicken, some soil in a snail shell, and a calabash. After throwing the soil upon the waters, he set the çõçk on the soil who in turn scratched and scattered it around to create the rest of dry land that became the earth's surface. Yoruba |
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