| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Minato-No-Kami" | Japan | God of river mouths and estuaries Japan / Shinto |
| God name "Minato-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | God of river mouths and estuaries. The son of IZANAGI and IZANAMI and father of the heavenly and earthly water dividers.... |
| Goddess name "Minerva" | Greek | The name Minerva is connected with the root man as or mens. She first appeared in Etruria under the names of Minrva, Menrfa, Menervra. Menarv, and was perhaps a goddess of the thunderbolt. It seems that this Etruscan Minerva very early merged with the Greek Athene. Minerva is hence the least ltalic of the divinities with whom she formed the triad Jupiter-Juno-Minerva. Greek |
| God name "Minos" | Greco - Roman | Minor underworld god. A son of Zeus and Europa. The mythical king of Crete. One of three judges of the dead souls entering Hades. His cult is linked with the worship of bulls.... |
| God name "Mirsa Georgia" | Caucasus | God of light and responsible for fire Caucasus |
| God name "Mistilleinn" | Norse | Mistletoe. The mistletoe or mistle-twig, the fatal twig by which Balder, the white Sun-god was slain. After the death of Balder, Ragnarok set in. Balder's death was also symbolical of the victory of darkness over light, which comes every year at midwinter.. The mistletoe in English households at Christmas time is no doubt a relic of a rite lost in the remotest heathendom, for the fight of light and darkness at midwinter was a foreshadowing of the final overthrow in Ragnarok. The legend and the word are common to all Teutonic peoples of all ages. Norse |
| God name "Mithras" | Greco - Roman | God of soldiers. Derived from the Indian-Persian model. He became particularly prominent among military people throughout the Roman Empire during the first and second centuries AD, as a god symbolizing loyalty and truth. The cult was performed in an underground temple, the mitbraeum, and involved the sacrifice of a bull. Mithraism, under Roman influence, was an exclusively male cult.... |
| God name "Mitra" | Hindu | Minor Sun god of light and wisdom Hindu / Puranic / Vedic |
| God name "Mitra (friend)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | Minor Sun god. An Aditya, one of six descendants of ADITI, he was originally åśśociated with VARUNA (Vedic), ruling the day while Varuna ruled the night. It is from this model that first MITHRA (Persian) and then MITHRAS (Roman) were derived. He is also the god of intimate friendship. Attributes: two lotuses, trident and a sacrificial drink or soma.... |
| God name "Mixcoatl" | Aztec | Mixcoatl (cloud serpent), god of hunting, war, and the milky way. An aspect of Tezcatlpoca and father of Quetzalcoatl. Aztec |
| God name "Mixcoatl-Camaxtli" | Aztec | God of war, hunting and fire. Aztec |
| God name "Mixcoatl-Camaxtli (cloud serpent)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of war. Also a deity of hunting and fire who received human sacrifice of captured prisoners. According to tradition, the Sun god TEZCATLIPOCA transformed himself into MIXCOATL-CAMAXTLI to make fire by twirling the sacred fire sticks.... |
| God name "Miysis" | Egypt | A god of war and a protector of sacred places. He was lord of the horizon and manifested the heat of summer and fought all aggressors threatening Egypt and was also seen as one of Osiris' executioners. Egypt |
| God name "Mkulumncandi" | Swaziland | Creator god known as the great first one. Swaziland |
| God name "Mkulumncandi" | Swazi / Swaziland, South Africa | Creator god. There is no worship of this deity, though he is known as the great first one.... |
| God name "Mkulumncandi Swazi" | Swaziland | The creator god known as the great first one |
| God name "Mlentengamunye (one leg)" | Swazi / Swaziland, South Africa | Messenger god. The intermediary between mankind and the creator god MKULUMNCANDI.... |
| God name "Mlentengamunye Swazi" | Swaziland | Messenger god. Swaziland |
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