Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Maha-Sarasvati" | Hindu / Puranic | (1) Goddess. An emanation of LAKSMI. Attributes: Book, hook, lute and rosary.(2) Goddess. Buddhist. A variety of SARASVATI. Depicted upon a lotus. Color: white. Attributes: garland of pearls and white lotus.... |
Goddess name "Mal" | Irish | She was the goddess who ruled the hag's headland |
Goddess name "Mala (garland)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Mother goddess. One of a group of ASTAMATARA deities. Color: red or yellow. Attributes: garland of Forest flowers, or of jewels.... |
Goddess name "Mandulis [Greek]" | Nubian | Sun god. Mandulis was chiefly revered in a Greco-Roman cult. His most important sanctuary was at Kalabsha, close to the Aswan High Dam, and now relocated. A sanctuary was also constructed on the Greek island of Philae where he seems to have enjoyed an åśśociation with the goddess ISIS. Also Merwel (Egyptian).... |
Goddess name "Marzana" | Poland | Goddess of Winter Poland |
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.... |
Goddess name "Medeine (of the trees)" | Pre - Christian Latvian | Woodland goddess. Known from medieval måñuścripts.... |
Goddess name "Melusine" | Britain / Scotland | A serpent goddess |
Goddess name "Mielikki" | Finland | wife of Tapio, the goddess of the Forest. |
Goddess name "Momu" | Scotland | Goddess of wells and hillsides. Scotland |
Goddess name "Mor" | Ireland | Goddess of the Sun and dam of the kings of Munster Ireland |
Goddess name "Morgay" | British | Harvest goddess British / Scotland |
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 "Muireartach" | Ireland | Goddess of the ocean Ireland |
Goddess name "Muireartach" | Scotland | Battle goddess Ireland / Scotland |
Goddess name "Nair" | Ireland | Goddess best known for escorting High king Crebhan to the Otherworld Ireland |
Goddess name "Neharennia" | Roman / Celtic | Goddess of seafarers. Worshiped extensively between the second and thirteenth centuries AD, particularly in the Netherlands with sanctuaries at Domberg at the mouth of the Rhine and Colijnsplaat on the Scheldt. Probably began as a tribal deity of the Morini tribe. She is generally depicted with the attributes of fertilitya basket of fruit or cornucopia. She may also often have a small lapdog. Alternatively, she stands with one foot on the prow of a boat and grasps an oar or the rope.... |