| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Leukothea" | Greco - Roman | Sea goddess. Popular around the coasts of the Mediterranean with fishing communities. A mermaid who was originally Ino, a mortal daughter of Kadmos. She was wet nurse to DIONYSOS (BACCHUS), but became mad and threw herself in the sea with her son Melikertes. In another version of the story she was escaping the wrath of Athamas, king of Thebes. The gods elevated her to the status of goddess and her son became the god PALAEMON.... |
| God name "Lugh" | Pan-Celtic | The Shining One, "Sun God", "Many Skilled", "Fair-Haired One", "White or Shining". A hero and god of war. Pan-Celtic |
| God name "Makila" | Californoa | The thunder god who gave the people knowledge and taught them hunting and fishing and the arts. With Kuksu, the creators. The northern Pomo, California |
| God name "Manibozho" | Algonquin | The Great Hare, a trickster god, and founder of their magical worship. He is also regarded as the inventor of fishing, hieroglyphs, and as the creator of the earth. Algonquin |
| Goddess name "Marici (shining)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | (1) Astral goddess. An emanation of VAIROCANA and also his female aspect or SAKTI. She is further identified as a buddha-designate or BODHISATTVA. She may also be the mother of SAKYAMUNI (a form of the BUDDHA). Considered by some to be the equal of the Hindu SURYA. She may be depicted in a three-headed form (as the Sakti of HAYAGRIVA), in which case her left head is that of a pig. She rides in a chariot drawn by seven boars. Color: red, yellow or white. Attributes: arrow, bow, fly whisk, horse's head image in the hair, needle, prayer wheel, staff, sword, thread and trident. Three-eyed.(2) Demiurge. Hindu. A product of the creator god BRAHMA.... |
| God name "Matsuo" | Japan | God of sake brewers Japan / Shinto |
| God name "Matsuo" | Shinto / Japan | God of sake brewers. Celebrated annually in a festival in Kyoto, when the presence of the god is carried on a palanquin. It is rowed down the river prior to a general celebration, during which sake is drunk liberally.... |
| 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.... |
| God name "Mi-Toshi-No-Kami" | Japan | God of rice Japan / Shinto |
| God name "Mi-Toshi-No-Kami (the august harvest kami)" | Shinto / Japan | Agricultural god. The offspring of O-TOSHI-NO-KAMI, the harvest god of rice, and Kagayo-Hime (refulgent princess), he is in charge of crops other than rice.... |
| God name "Mi-Wi-No-Kami" | Japan | God of wells [one of 3] Japan / Shinto |
| 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 "Michi-No-Kami" | Japan | Gods of påśśage åśśociated with road and crossroads Japan / Shinto |
| God name "Michi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Gods of påśśage. The generic name for three KAMIS åśśociated with roads and crossroads. They also protect the boundaries of house and environs and may be known as Yakushin gods, guardians against plague. See KUNADO. Also Chiburi-No-Kami.... |
| Goddess name "Mika-Hiya-Hi" | Japan | God of the Sun, subservient to Goddess of the Sun Japan / Shinto |
| Goddess name "Mika-Hiya-Hi (terrible swift sun)" | Shinto / Japan | Sun god. A deity subservient to the Sun goddess AMATERASU and engendered from the blood of the fire KAMI KAGU-TSUCHI. Certain Japanese still worship the Sun, going outside in the morning, facing east, bowing and clapping their hands in a daily ritual.See also HI-HIYA-HI.... |
| God name "Minato-No-Kami" | Japan | God of river mouths and estuaries Japan / Shinto |
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