Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Maya[devi]" | Buddhist | A mother goddess |
Goddess name "Mayan[devi]" | Buddhist | Mother goddess Buddhist |
Supreme god name "Mayin" | Tungus / Siberia | A benevolent, remote, supreme God |
Supreme god name "Mayin" | Tungus / eastern / central Siberia | Supreme god. A benevolent but remote deity who breathes life into newborn children and receives the spirits of the dead.... |
Supreme god name "Mayin Tungus" | Siberia | Benevolent, remote, supreme god Siberia |
Goddess name "Mbombe" | Nkundo / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Mother goddess. The consort of ITONDE and mother of the hero LIANJA.... |
Goddess name "Mbombe Nkundo" | Zaire | Mother goddess Zaire |
Goddess name "Melicertes" | Greek | Son of Ino, a sea deity. Athamas imagined his wife to be a lioness, and her two sons to be lion's cubs. In his frenzy he slew one of the boys, and drove the other, Melicertes, with his mother into the sea. The mother became a sea-goddess, and the boy the god of harbours. greek |
God name "Memphis" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Nilus and wife of Epaphus, by whom she became the mother of Libya. The town of Memphis in Egypt was said to have derived its name from her. Others call her a daughter of the river-god Ucpéñïśus, and add that by Nilus she became the mother of Aegyptus. 2. One of the daughters of Danaus. Greek |
Goddess name "Mena" | Hindu | mountain goddess. The consort of HIMAVAN and the mother of GANGA and PARVATI.... |
Goddess name "Meter" | Greek | Mother goddess Greek |
Goddess name "Meter" | The essence of the great mother of all gods, equating most closely to GAIA | Mother goddess, Greek. Known throughout the Greek Empire and generally the object of devotion by individuals rather than large cult followings. Also known as Meter oriae (mother of the mountain). Her popularity is thought to have spread from northern Ionia. Herodotus mentions a festival of Meter in Kyzikos. Probably derived originally from the western Asiatic great mother (see KYBELE).... |
Goddess name "Metis" | Greek | Goddess of wisdom. The daughter of OKEANOS and TETHYS. The original consort of ZEUS and mother of ATHENA. According to legend, Zeus swallowed her because he feared she would engender a child more powerful than he.... |
Goddess name "Metsaka" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | moon goddess. Known as grandmother moon, she is the consort of the fire god TATEVALI. She guards the Huichol against the god of death, TOKAKAMI.... |
Goddess name "Minaksi (fish eyed)" | Hindu | Local fish goddess. Regarded as a SAKTI of SI IVA (i.e. PARVATI) and the daughter of KUBERA. She is the mother of Ugra. Minaksi is known mainly from southern India where one of her main temples is at Madurai.... |
God name "Mistilleinn" | Norse | Mistletoe. The mistletoe or mistle-twig, the fatal twig by which Balder, the white Sun-god was slain. After the death of Balder, Ragnarok set in. Balder's death was also symbolical of the victory of darkness over light, which comes every year at midwinter.. The mistletoe in English households at Christmas time is no doubt a relic of a rite lost in the remotest heathendom, for the fight of light and darkness at midwinter was a foreshadowing of the final overthrow in Ragnarok. The legend and the word are common to all Teutonic peoples of all ages. Norse |
Goddess name "Mnemosyne" | Greek | Goddess of memory. A consort of ZEUS and mother of the legendary nine Muses of Helicon.... |
Goddess name "Modron" | Welsh | Divine Mother, one of the most powerful of the Celtic mother goddesses. She may have been the prototype of Morgan le Fay from Arthurian legend. Welsh |