| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Mata (great mother)" | Hindu | Primeval mother goddess. The archetypal progenitrix of all living things. She becomes the tutelary goddess of every village in northern India, but is also seen as a plague goddess åśśociated with smallpox, in which case her epithet becomes Maha Mai. Her Tamil counterpart is Amman.... |
| Goddess name "Matergabiae" | Lithuania | Goddess of fire, and the home Lithuania |
| God name "Maturaiviran" | Hindu | Locally worshiped god. Of fearsome character, he is the deification of a seventeenth century policeman who eloped with a princess and was slain. Known from southern India, where he is also a god of wine. Attributes: shield and sword.... |
| Goddess name "Mayahuel" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor fertility goddess. One of the group clåśśed as the Ometochtli complex åśśociated with the maguey plant from which pulque is brewed. She may be depicted seated upon a tortoise beside an agave plant in bloom. According to legend she was abducted by QUETZALCOATL and subsequently dismembered by wild animals. From the fragments grew the first agave plants.... |
| God name "Meher" | Pre - Christian Armenian | Sun god. Closely linked with the Persian model of MITHRA, he is the son of Aramazd who appears in the form of fire. In contrast to this imagery, his home is said to be in a cave and he takes the animal guise of a raven.... |
| Goddess name "Mehet-Weret (great flood)" | Egypt | Minor goddess åśśociated with creation accounts. In some versions of the story she epitomizes the primeval ocean, while in others she is the waterway on which the barque of the Sun god RE travels. She is depicted as a cow bearing a Sun disc between its horns and lying on papyrus reeds.... |
| Goddess name "Melpomene" | Greek | The singing goddess, one of the nine Muses, became afterwards the Muse of Tragedy. Greek |
| God name "Men Ascaenus" | Antioch - near - Pisidia | Local tutelary god. Possibly originating as a Persian moon god and known chiefly from a description by Strabo. He enjoyed a substantial cult including a temple some 1,200 meters above sea level. His symbol is the head of a bull above a crescent moon and wreath; it appears on local coinage circa AD 200. The popularity of the cult earned antagonism from the Roman occupation.See also MEN.... |
| Deities name "Men Shen" | Chinese | God of påśśage. One of a pair of deities, armed with bow and arrows, who guard doorways and gates. Paper images are pinned to entrances of homes during the New Year celebrations to ward off evil spirits.... |
| Goddess name "Menchit" | Egypt | Originally a foreign war goddess, and the female counterpart, and thus wife, to Anhur. It was said that she had come from Nubia with Anhur. Her name depicts this warrior status, as it means she who måśśacres. Egypt |
| God name "Menesthius" | Greek | 1. A son of Areithous and Philomedusa, of Arne in Boeotia, was slain at Troy by Paris. 2. A son of the river-god Spercheius or of Borus and Polydora, was one of the commanders of the hosts of Achilles. Greek |
| God name "Metztli" | Aztec | Lowly god of worms who failed to sacrifice himself to become the Sun, and became the moon instead, his face darkened by a rabbit. Aztec |
| God name "Mi-Kura-Tana-No-Kami (august storehouse chief kami)" | Shinto / Japan | house god. One of a number of domestic guardian KAMIS, he is particularly concerned with the protection of storehouses.... |
| Deities name "Mi-Wi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | God of wells. One of three deities responsible for wells, worshiped jointly in the MiWi-Jinja shrine. He is particularly the god of domestic wells.... |
| God name "Mi-kura-Tana-Kami" | Japan | Domestic guardian god who looks after storehouses Japan / Shinto |
| God name "Mikal" | Western Semitic / Phoenician | Local god. The cult was followed strongly on Cyprus. Some authorities believe he was invoked as a plague god.... |
| 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 "Mizuhanome" | Japan | water goddess who was born from the urine of the primordial creator goddess Honokagutsuti. Japan |
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