Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Matres" | Celtic | Triads of mother goddesses Roman / Pan-Celtic |
Goddess name "Matronae" | Celtic | These are the three mother goddesses that oversee fertility, they prefer peace, tranquillity & kids |
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 |
Goddess name "Moirai" | Greek | Collective name for a group of goddesses. The Fates of human life: KLOTHO, the spinner, LACHESIS, the caster of lots, and ATROPOS, the unturnable inevitability of death. The daughters of ZEUS and THEMIS, depicted with spindle, scroll and scales respectively. Also Moires.... |
Goddess name "Morrigan" | Celtic | Morrigan, Morrighan, Goddesses of war of death and destruction from prehistoric origins Celtic / Ireland |
Goddess name "Morrigu" | British | Crone aspect of the goddesses who were a trinity responsible for war and ghosts British / Ireland / Welsh |
Goddess name "Morrigu/ Morrigan/ Morrighan/ Morgan/ Badb/ Nemain" | Irish / Wales / Britain | The Crone aspect of the goddesses who were a trinity responsible for war & ghosts |
Goddess name "Morta" | Roman | Goddess of death. In later Roman times she becomes linked with the birth goddesses DECIMA and NONA, as a trio of goddesses of fate, the PARCAE.... |
Goddess name "MutialAmma "PearlMother"" | Tamil | village mother goddesses represented by a stone. Tamil |
Goddess name "NAMMU" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian / Iraq | Chthonic creator and birth goddess. Nammu is identified in various texts as the goddess of the watery deeps. As a consort of AN she is the mother of ENKI and the power of the riverbed to produce water. Alternatively Nammu is the progenitrix of An and KI, the archetypal deities of heaven and earth. She also engendered other early gods and in one poem is the mother of all mortal life. She molded clay collected by creatures called sig-en-sig-du and brought it to life, thus creating mankind. She is attended by seven minor goddesses and may ultimately have become syncretized with NINHURSAG A.... |
Goddess name "Nabudi" | Oceania | Goddesses of illness. Oceania |
Goddess name "Naksatara[s]" | Hindu | A group of astral goddesses |
Goddess name "Naksataras" | Hindu | Group of astral goddesses. Hindu |
Goddess name "Naksatra(s)" | Hindu | Generic title for a group of astral goddesses. Stars or constellations which became personified as deities, accounted as twenty-seven daughters of DAKSA and consorts of CANDRA or SOMA. They can exert benign or evil influence.... |
Goddess name "Navasakti(s)" | Hindu | Generic title of a group of goddesses. The nine MATARAS or mothers. In southern India they are considered virgin goddesses and are held in higher esteem that the comparable group of SAPTAMATARAS.... |
Goddess name "Nekhbet" | Egypt / Upper | Local mother goddess. Known from Nekhab (el-Kab), she is generally depicted in the form of a vulture with one or both wings spread and holding the symbols of eternity in her talons. Nekhbet is known from at least 3000 BC and is mentioned in the Pyramid Texts as the great white cowa familiar epithet in respect of Egyptian mother or creator goddesses.... |
Goddess name "Nemain" | Ireland | One of the triune crone goddesses of battle Ireland |
Goddess name "Nemain" | Irish | She is one of the triune crone goddesses of battle |