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God name "Montu" | Egypt | Local god of war. Worshiped in and around the district of Thebes in Upper Egypt. He is known from circa 2000 BC and possibly earlier, but came to special prominence overseeing the aggressive posture of Theban kings from the XI to XVIII Dynasty (2133-1320 BC). Montu is depicted in human form but with a falcon's head surmounted by twin plumes, a Sun disc and the uraeus (cobra). At some stage, probably as Month (Greek), he became identified with a sacred bull, Buchis.... |
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 "Morongo" | Zimbabwe | Goddess of the evening star, gave birth to the animals of creation and then went on to create humans. Zimbabwe |
God name "Moros" | Greek | The personification of impending doom, who drove every being, mortal, god, or whatever else to his fated doom. He was omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, and not even Zeus can defeat him. He was a son of Erebus and Nyx, and brother of the Moirae, his agents and servants. Greek |
God name "Morpheus" | Greek | The son of Sleep, and the god of dreams. The name signifies the fashioner or moulder, because he shaped or formed the dreams which appeared to the sleeper. Greek |
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 "Mors" | Roman | Minor god of death. Mors replaces the Greek THANATOS and, according to legend, is one of the twin sons of NYX, goddess of the night. He lives in part of the remote cave occupied by SOMNUS, god of sleep, beside the river Lethe. Ovid depicts him as a hideous and cadaverous figure dressed in a winding sheet and holding a scythe and hour glåśś. Known particularly through Lacedaemonian culture where twin statues of Mors and Somnus were placed side by side.... |
Goddess name "Morta" | Roman | Goddess of death. In later Roman times she becomes linked with the birth goddesses DECIMA and NONA, as a trio of goddesses of fate, the PARCAE.... |
God name "Morva signifies Locus Maritimus" | Britain | Morva signifies Locus Maritimus. Sea-women and sea-daughters. "The fishermen who were the ancestors of the Church, came from the Galilean waters to haul for men. We, born to God at the font, are children of the water. Therefore, all the early symbolism of the Church was of and from the sea. The carvure of the early arches was taken from the sea and its creatures. Fish, dolphins, mermen, and mermaids abound in the early types, transferred to wood and stone."' cornwall, Britain |
Demon name "Morvran (sea crow)" | Celtic / Welsh | Local god of war. The son of CERIDWEN and TEGID FOEL. Legend has it that he was extremely ugly and that his mother tried to imbue him with wisdom by preparing a special brew of inspiration. It was drunk by Gwion. Morvran was invincible in battle because his enemies thought him a demon.... |
God name "Mot" | Phoenicia | The god of the dead and of all the powers that opposed life |
God name "Mot" | Semitic | God of death, fertility and sterility. |
God name "Mot 'Death'" | Phoenicia | Son of 'El, according to instructions given by the god Hadad (Baal) to his messengers, lives in a city named hmry ('Mirey'), a pit is his throne, and Filth is the land of her heritage. Phoenicia |
Goddess name "Mrgasiras (head of a gazelle)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor goddess of fortune. A benevolent NAKSATRA; daughter of DAKSA, wife of CANDRA (SOMA).... |
God name "Mu Gong" | Taoist / Chinese | God of immortality. The personification of the principle of Yang and the consort of Xi-Wang-Mu. He lives in the east, she in the west.See also HSI WANG MU.... |
God name "Muati" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Obscure local god. Associated in some texts with the mythical island Paradise of Dilmun, he becomes syncretized with NABU.... |