Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Mayon (the black one)" | Early Dravidian / Tamil / southern India / Sri Lanka | Creator god. Animistic high god of the pastoral regions, found in Sangam literature and thought to reside in trees. Perhaps equating with VIS'NU or KRSNA.... |
God name "Mbitumbo Baule" | Ivory Coast | Creator and guardian god Ivory Coast |
Spirit name "Mbomba" | Mongo / Nkundo / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Creator god. He operates through intermediaries known as bilima and through the spirits of the dead, bakali. Also known as landa, Komba, Mbombo, Njakomba and WAI. Among the Ngbandi people there is recognized a vast water monster or river god by the same name.... |
Goddess name "Mbombe" | Nkundo / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Mother goddess. The consort of ITONDE and mother of the hero LIANJA.... |
Deities name "Mbongo" | Ngbandi / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | River god. One of seven deities invoked at Sunrise each morning. The creator god of all black people, said to reside in black waters.... |
God name "Mbongo Ngbandi" | Zaire | God of rivers Zaire |
Goddess name "Medb" | Celtic | Goddess of sexuality, jolly bonking, intoxication and war. Celtic |
Goddess name "Medeine (of the trees)" | Pre - Christian Latvian | Woodland goddess. Known from medieval måñuścripts.... |
God name "Meghanada (cloud roar)" | Hindu | Minor god. A son of Ravana who once briefly bested INDRA and became known as the Indra-conqueror.... |
God name "Meghanda" | Hindu | Minor god Hindu |
God name "Meher" | Pre - Christian Armenian | Sun god. Closely linked with the Persian model of MITHRA, he is the son of Aramazd who appears in the form of fire. In contrast to this imagery, his home is said to be in a cave and he takes the animal guise of a raven.... |
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.... |
Supreme god name "Meiechei (master of men)" | Araucania Indian / southern Andes | Supreme god. Also known as Pillan (heaven) and, west of the Andes, Guenu-Pillan (spirit of heaven).... |
Goddess name "Meiess" | Pre - Christian Latvian | moon god. Consort of the Sun goddess SAULE. He is a guardian deity of travelers and military expeditions.... |
God name "Meizabac (black powder maker)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | weather god. He sprinkles black dye on the clouds, which causes them to generate Rain. Believed to live on the edge of a lake. Also a fever god and a keeper of good souls. Also Metzabac.... |
Goddess name "Mejdejn" | Lithuanian | Goddess of trees and Forests. Lithuanian |
God name "Mekal aka Nergal" | Phoenecian | Resheph. God of the plague and of the underworld, fertility, war, well-being and plenty. Phoenecian |
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 |