| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"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. |
"Mundilfare" | Norse | One of the giant race, who had a son and daughter of such surpåśśing beauty that their father called them Mani and Sol: moon and Sun. Norse |
| God name "Mungan Ngour" | Australian aboriginal | Creator god. Chiefly revered among the Kurnai Koori aborigines in Victoria State. The Southern Lights or Aurora australis are regarded as a sign of his displeasure when the law and order given to humankind by the gods are abused. His son is Tundun, who is responsible for the secret ceremonies originally divulged only to men and including the initiation rights of påśśage from boyhood to maturity. When these were revealed to women, the Dreamtime ended, a period of chaos ensued and Mungan Ngour elected to live henceforth in the sky.... |
"Mungu" | Africa | The name of the Creator in the Swahili language. Africa |
| God name "Mungu" | Swahili / East Africa | Creator god. The name applied to the notion of a single god in the heavens, influenced by the spread of Christianity. Also Mulungu.... |
| God name "Mungu/ Mulungu" | Swahali / EAfrica | The creator god |
"Munin" | Norse | Memory. One of Odin's ravens. Norse |
| Deity name "Munisvara" | Hindu / Dravidian | A regional Tamil deity who is popular amongst the least Sanskritized social groups of South India specifically Tamil Nadu. Hindu / Dravidian |
| God name "Munisvara" | Hindu | Deified saint. Technically a demigod but worshiped as a deity by Dravidians in southern India. Also Municami (Tamil).... |
| God name "Munjem Malik" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Chthonic or earth god. He appears as a rival and possible predecessor of the god IMRA, but one whose realm is in the earth rather than the sky. Imra controls mountains and high pastures. Munjem Malik rules the earth of the valleys. He presides over the council of gods. His main sanctuary was at Arte in the Parun valley where a large boulder represented his head.... |
| God name "Munjen Malik" | Kafir / Afghanistan | A chthonic earth god |
| Angel name "Munkar and Nakir" | Arabic | Two black angels of appalling aspect, the inquisitors of the dead. The Koran says that during the inquisition the soul is united to the body. If the scrutiny is satisfactory, the soul is gently drawn forth from the lips of the deceased, and the body is left to repose in peace; if not, the body is beaten about the head with iron clubs, and the soul is wrenched forth by racking torments. |
| God name "Munkata-No-Kami" | Japan / Shinto | The sea gods [3] that protected seafarers |
"Munnin (Memory)" | Scandinavian | One of the two ravens that sit perched on the shoulders of Odin; the other is Hugin (thought). Scandinavian |
"Munume" | Uganda | Can be found in Limbo in the Land of the Dead. Uganda |
| God name "Munume" | Bunyoro / Uganda, East Africa | God of weather. Invoked during times of drought or deluge and propitiated by means of sacrifice, usually an ox from the tribal chief and sheep or fowl from the villagers. The blood is sprinkled on the floor of the sanctuary and the flesh is eaten at the door.... |
| God name "Munume Bunyoro" | Uganda | The god weather |
"Munychia" | Greek | A surname of Artemis, derived from the Attic port-town of Munychia, where she had a temple. Her festival was celebrated at Athens in the month of Munychion. Greek |
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