| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Moccus" | Roman / Celtic / European | Local swine god. Assimilated with Mercury.See also MERCURIUS.... |
| Deity name "Mogounos" | Roman / Celtic / Gallic | Local tribal deity. Assimilated with APOLLO.... |
| God name "Moirai" | Greek | Properly signifies "a share," and as a personification "the deity who åśśigns to every man his fate or his share," or the Fates. Homer usually speaks of only one Moira, and only once mentions the Motpai in the plural. In his poems Moira is fate personified, which, at the birth of man, spins out the thread of his future life, follows his steps, and directs the consequences of his actions according to the counsel of the gods. Homer thus, when he personifies Fate, conceives her as spinning, an act by which also the power of other gods over the life of man is expressed. Greek |
| 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. |
| Ghost name "Mombo Wa Ndhlopfu" | Mozambique | Masters of the Forest, serpents that were credited with speech and bad breath. Often åśśociated with the flesh-eating maggots of corpses, ancestral spirits and ghosts took that form as a disguise. Ronga, Mozambique |
"Morgane" | s | A fay to whose charge Zephyr committed young Påśśelyon and his cousin Bennucq. Påśśelyon fell in love with Morgane's daughter, and the adventures of these young lovers are related in the romance of Pereeforest. |
"Mormo" | Greek | A female spectre, with which the Greeks used to frighten little children. Mormo was one of the same clåśś of bugbears as Empusa and Lamia. |
| Goddess name "Mors" | Roman | Minor god of death. Mors replaces the Greek THANATOS and, according to legend, is one of the twin sons of NYX, goddess of the night. He lives in part of the remote cave occupied by SOMNUS, god of sleep, beside the river Lethe. Ovid depicts him as a hideous and cadaverous figure dressed in a winding sheet and holding a scythe and hour glåśś. Known particularly through Lacedaemonian culture where twin statues of Mors and Somnus were placed side by side.... |
| Deity name "Mu'Allidtu" | Omoroka / Thalatth | deity who åśśists women in childbirth. |
| God name "Muati" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Obscure local god. Associated in some texts with the mythical island Paradise of Dilmun, he becomes syncretized with NABU.... |
| Goddess name "Mulliltu" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Goddess. The consort of ELLIL (ENLIL) and of ASSUR. She derives from the Sumerian goddess NINLIL.... |
| God name "Mullo" | British | God of mules. He is known from inscriptions and is åśśociated with the god Mars in the form of Mars Mullo Roman / British |
| God name "Mullo" | Roman / Celtic | Mule god. Known from inscriptions and apparently åśśociated with the god MARS.... |
"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.... |
| Goddess name "Murigen" | Celtic | A goddess of lakes, and åśśociated with flooding. Celtic |
"Musaeus" | Greek | A semi-mythological personage, to be clåśśed with Olen, Orpheus, and Pamphus. He was regarded as the author of various poetical compositions, especially as connected with the mystic rites of Demeter at Eleusis, over which the legend represented him as presiding in the time of Heracles. Greek |
"Muses" | Greek | Daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, presided over the liberal arts particularly, were nine in number, and dwelt along with Apollo near Parnåśśus, Pieria, and Helicon; Clio presided over history, Euterpe over music, Thalia over comedy, Melpomene over tragedy, Terpsicpéñïś over choral dance and song, Erato over erotic poetry and elegy, Polyhymnia over lyric poetry, Urania over astronomy, and Calliope over eloquence and epic poetry. Greek |
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