| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Mog Ruith" | Ireland | A powerful blind druid of Munster who lived on Valentia Island, County Kerry. He could grow to enormous size, and his breath caused storms and turned men to stone. He wore a hornless bull-hide and a bird mask, and flew in a machine called the roth ramach, the "oared wheel". He had an ox-driven chariot in which night was as bright as day, a star-speckled black shield with a silver rim, and a stone which could turn into a poisonous eel when thrown in water. Ireland |
| God name "Mu Gong" | China | God of immortality China / Taoist |
| God name "Mu Gong" | Taoist / Chinese | God of immortality. The personification of the principle of Yang and the consort of Xi-Wang-Mu. He lives in the east, she in the west.See also HSI WANG MU.... |
| God name "Mu King" | China | God of fire China |
| God name "MyokennBooklhisattva" | Buddhist Chinese | Astral god. The apotheosis of the Pole Star, equating with AME-NO-KAGASEWO in Japanese Shintoism.... |
| Goddess name "NA CHA (here is a loud cry)" | Taoist / Chinese | Guardian god. A somewhat ambiguous god who is generally regarded as benevolent, but whose traditions hint at a more destructive aspect. He was born a god of human parents, the reincarnation of an older deity, Ling Chu-Tzu, the intelligent pearl. According to tradition, his father was Li Ching, who threatened to kill his mother because she claimed she was made pregnant by the mystical actions of a Taoist priest who told her she was to bear the child of a unicorn. Na Cha is said to have fought in the Shang-Chou war on the side of the Chou dynasty circa 1027 BC. His chief adversary was the sea dragon king. Ultimately he became involved with the goddess Shih-Chi Niang Niang, accidentally killed her attendant and, in remorse, committed suicide.... |
| God name "Na Cha" | China | Guardian god who takes pity on oppressed mortals and challenges both the undersea god and his own father in a fight on land, under the sea, and in the air. China |
| God name "Na Cha/ Li No Cha" | Chinese / Taoist | The guardian god that was born as a god of from human parents |
| God name "Nan chi Hsien wang" | China | Nan chi Hsien wang, "Old Man of the South Pole". God of longevity. China |
| God name "Nan chi Hsien weng" | China | The god of longevity |
"Ndo" | China | The omniscient supreme being whose name also means the sky, the firmament, the weather. The Miao, China |
| God name "Nebo" | Assyria | The god of teaching, writing & wisdom and in |
"Nehalennia" | S America | The queen of the Dead moon Circus who is trapped within a mirror and searching for the legendary Golden Crystal, which will allow Nehellenia to break free of her entrapment and take over the earth. Sailor moon |
| Goddess name "Nephthys [Greek]" | Egypt | Funerary goddess. Nephthys is the younger sister of ISIS, OSIRIS and SETH, who are the offspring of the chthonic god GEB and the sky goddess NUT in the Ennead genealogy of Egyptian deities defined by the priests of Heliopolis. Nephthys is depicted in human form wearing a crown in the style of the hieroglyphic for a mansion, the translation of her Egyptian name. She can also take the form of a hawk watching over the funeral bier of Osiris. According to legend Nephthys liaised briefly with Osiris and bore the mortuary god ANUBIS. She is said to guide the dead Egyptian ruler through the dark underworld and to weep for him. Also Neb-hut (Egyptian).... |
| Deity name "Nezha" | Chinese | Nataku or Nata, a deity, the enfant terrible trickster, originally of Chinese mythology. His official Taoist deity name is Zhongtan Yuanshuai. |
| Goddess name "Niangniang" | China | One of the Sacred Goddess of the heavenly Sages. A legend says Emperor Kangxi dedicated a temple to these female immortals in honour of good deeds they performed on his behalf. China |
"Nilalohita" | Hindu | Sent by Shiva to take birth on earth to drive away the insanity of the people under the preachings of the Mayavadis and to propagate Srouta Sivaradhya Sampradayam. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Niu She" | China | Goddess of literacy. China |
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