| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Manuzi/ Liluri" | Syria | A mountain goddess, part of the pair with the weather god |
| Goddess name "Marama" | Polynesian / Maori | moon goddess. She equates with the Tahitian goddess HINA, daughter of TANGAROA. Tradition has it that her body wastes away with each lunar cycle but is restored when she bathes in the sea from which all life springs.... |
| Goddess name "Mari (2) (queen)" | Basque / Pyrenean region | Supreme mother goddess. She is both a sky and chthonic goddess and her consort is MAJU. She is depicted dressed in rich clothing and jewels. Her home is within the earth but she also rides through the air in a chariot pulled by four horses or carried by a ram. She may breathe fire and is symbolized by the Rainbow. When she and her consort meet, a thunderstorm forms. Her symbol is a sickle which is still employed as a device to ward off evil.... |
| Goddess name "Mari Mai" | Hindu | Plague goddess åśśociated with cholera Hindu |
| Goddess name "Mari Mai (mother death)" | Hindu | Plague goddess. The sister of SITALA, åśśociated with cholera. Her Tamil counterpart is MARIYAMMAN.... |
| Goddess name "Mariyamman" | Dravidian | Plague goddess with a bizarre form of penance Dravidian / Tamil |
| Goddess name "Mariyamman (mother of smallpox)" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Plague goddess. A terrible goddess, one of the NAVASAKTIS and linked with the goddess KALI. She is honored in a ritual during which victims (in penance) are suspended from a rope and an iron hook through the flesh of the back and whirled around a pole. Also Mariyattal.... |
| 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 "Mater Matuta" | Italic | sky goddess. The personification of the dawn light who evolved into a fertility deity concerned with childbirth. She is also a tutelary goddess of mariners.See also ISIS.... |
| Goddess name "Matlalceuitl aka Matlalcueje" | Aztec | Goddess of Rainfall and singing. Identified with Chalchiuhtlicue. Aztec |
| Goddess name "Matlalcueye (her skirt is blue)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor fertility goddess. One of the group clåśśed as the TLALOC complex, closely åśśociated with water.... |
| Goddess name "Maya(devi)" | Buddhist | Mother goddess. The mother of the BUDDHA perceived as the world lotus or PADMA from which the Buddha was born. She equates with the Hindu goddess LAKSMI. The term is also applied to the personification of the visible universe and, in Hinduism, as an epithet of the goddess DURGA.... |
| Goddess name "Mayahuel" | Aztec | A minor fertility goddess åśśociated with the maguey plant |
| 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.... |
| Goddess name "Mefitis" | Roman | This goddess was åśśociated with sulfur springs |
| 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 "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 |
| 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 |
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