| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Mana" | Oceanic | A concept of an impersonal force or quality that resides in people, animals, and inanimate objects and that instills in the appreciative observer a sense of respect or wonder. Oceanic |
| 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.... |
"Medeia" | Greek | A daughter of Aeetes by the Oceanid Idyia, or, according to others, by Hecate, the daughter, of Perses. Greek |
| 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.... |
| Nymph name "Melia" | Greek | A nymph, a daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, became by Inachus the mother of Phoroneus and Aegialeus or Pegeus. (Apollodorus. ii) By Seilenus she became the mother of the centaur, Pholus (Apollodorus. ii), and by Poseidon of Amycus. Greek |
"Meliboea" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and, by Pelasgus, the mother of Lycaon. 2. A daughter of Magnes, who called the town of Meliboea, in Magnesia, after her. 3. One of the daughters of Niobe. Greek |
| Nymph name "Melobosis" | Greek | A nymph, said to have been a daughter of Oceåñuś. Greek |
| Goddess name "Mere Ama" | Finnish | Goddess of the ocean, streams and brooks Finnish |
"Merope" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and by Clymenus the mother of Phaeton. 2. One of the Heliades or sisters of Phaeton Greek |
"Metis" | Greek | The personification of prudence, is described as a daughter of Oceåñuś and Thetys. At the instigation of Zeus, she gave to Cronos a vomitive, whereupon he brought back his children whom he had devoured. Greek |
"Midgard-serpent" | Norse | The world-serpent hidden in the ocean, whose coils gird around the whole Midgard. Thor once fishes for him, and gets him on his hook. In Ragnarok Thor slays him, but falls himself poisoned by his breath. Norse |
| Demon name "Mohini (illusion)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor incarnation of VIS'NU. Mohini is an avatara who appears in the form of an enchantress whose form Vis'nu adopted briefly to deceive demons attempting to remove the ambrosia created by churning the primeval ocean of milk (see also GARUDA). Vis'nu used the same guise to dupe and seduce the god SIVA.... |
| Spirit name "Morva" | India | They are invisible sky spirits Andaman Is. / India Ocean |
| Goddess name "Muireartach" | Ireland | Goddess of the ocean Ireland |
| Goddess name "Muireartach" | Irish | A goddess of the ocean |
| Goddess name "Nabudi" | Oceania | Goddesses of illness. Oceania |
| Supreme god name "Nai" | Gan / Accra, Ghana, West Africa | God of the ocean. The second-in-command to the supreme god ATAA NAA NYONGMO. His eldest daughter is the goddess ASHIAKLE.... |
| God name "Nai Gan" | Ghanna | A god of the ocean |
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