| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Maui" | Maori | Tutelary god Polynesia / Maori |
| Goddess name "Maui" | Polynesian / Maori / New Zealand | Tutelary god. Not a creator god but one who åśśists mankind in various supernatural ways. According to tradition he was aborted at birth and cast into the sea by his mother, who thought he was dead. He was rescued entangled in seaweed. He is the deity who drew the islands of New Zealand from the floor of the ocean in a net. Maui caught the Sun and beat it into submission, making it travel more slowly across the sky so that the days became longer. He also brought fire from the underworld for mankind and tried, unsuccessfully, to harness immortality for him by entering the vulva of the underworld goddess HINE-NUI-TE-PO while she was asleep. She awoke and crushed him to death. Though a deity, he had been made vulnerable to death by a mistake during his rites of birth (see also Balder). Also Mawi.... |
| God name "Melqart" | Tyre | Melkart, the tutelary god of the Phoenician city of Tyre. |
| God name "Men Ascaenus" | Antioch / Asia Minor | A local tutelary god |
| 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.... |
| God name "Men Ascaenus Antioch" | Asia Minor | Local tutelary god Asia Minor |
| God name "Milkastart" | Semitic | Local tutelary god of the from Umm el-Ammend Semitic(West) |
| God name "Milkastart" | Western Semitic | Local tutelary god. Known only from Umm el-Ammed where his cult apparently co-existed with that of BAAL SAPON. One of two major temples built at Umm el-Ammed in the third century BC was probably dedicated to milkASTART, and the name is regarded as a syncretization of MELQART and ASTARTE.... |
| Deities name "Milkom" | Western Semitic / Ammonite | Tutelary god. One of the deities mentioned in the Vetus Testamentum (1 kings 11.5) as being worshiped by the Israelite king Solomon. Also Milcom.... |
| God name "Mombo Wa Ndhlopfu (elephant face)" | Ronga / Mozambique, southern Africa | Tutelary god. An ancestral deity who lives in and controls the Forests, also appearing in the guise of a huge snake. He is propitiated by the sacrifice of a çõçkerel.... |
| God name "Mombo Wa Ndhlopfu Ronga" | Mozambique | A tutelary god that lives in & controls the Forest |
| God name "Mucalinda" | Buddhist | Tutelary god. The guardian of a lake near Bodh Gaya. He is identified as a king of the nagas or snake gods and is said to have protected the BUDDHA from a storm by coiling around him.... |
| Goddess name "Mulindwa" | Uganda | Tutelary goddess of the tribal chiefs. Bunyoro, Uganda |
| Goddess name "Mulindwa" | Bunyoro / Uganda, East Africa | Guardian goddess. The tutelary protector of the tribal chiefs and their families constituting the royal clan.... |
| Goddess name "Mulindwa Bunyoro" | Uganda | The tutelary goddess of the tribal chiefs |
| Deities name "Munakata-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Sea gods. A group of three KAMIS, generally identified as the SUMIYOSHI-NO-KAMI, who protect seafarers, including fishermen. They are the subject of special worship by the JInguKogo sect, whom they escorted to Korea in distant times. They are also tutelary deities of poets and may have a purifying function. Their main sanctuaries are the Sumiyoshi Taisha in Osaka and the Munakata-Taisha.... |
| God name "Naguai" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Tutelary deity. A generic name for a personal god. A nagual generally takes the form of an animal and it may be adopted either by a mortal being or by another deity.... |
| God name "Natha" | Buddhist / Sri Lanka | A tutelary god |
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