Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Mujaji" | Africa | The Rain queens who send drought to their enemies but cause Rain to fall on their people. South Africa |
Goddess name "Mujaji" | Lovedu / South Africa | Rain goddess. She is said to reside in the northern Drakensberg mountains and sends both destructive tempests and gentle generative Rain. In past times she was propitiated with sacrifices of cattle and occasionally young girls. She is represented by a lineage of mortal queens on whose fabulous reputation the author Rider Haggard based the novel She. Also Modjadji.... |
Goddess name "Mujaji/ Modjajji Lovedu" | Africa | A goddess of Rain immortalized in the Book, She by Rider Haggard |
Supreme god name "Mukasa" | Buganda / Uganda, East Africa | Supreme god. A benevolent deity whose main oracular sanctuary was sited on the island of Bubembe, lake Victoria. His first high priest was Semagunga and, by convention, only the tribal leader was permitted to consult with the oracle there. Mukasa provides Rain, food and cattle.... |
Goddess name "Mulindwa" | Bunyoro / Uganda, East Africa | Guardian goddess. The tutelary protector of the tribal chiefs and their families constituting the royal clan.... |
God name "Mulungu" | Africa | A creator God of the Nyamwezi people of Tanzania in eastern Africa. Despite being the creator and protector of the world, he is distant and has little contact with anyone. It is said that he once lived on earth, but when someone set fire to the landscape he asked a spider to spin him a web to climb up into the sky, where he lives today. He is revered now as a sky god, with thunder as his voice. |
"Mungu" | Africa | The name of the Creator in the Swahili language. Africa |
God name "Mungu" | Swahili / East Africa | Creator god. The name applied to the notion of a single god in the heavens, influenced by the spread of Christianity. Also Mulungu.... |
God name "Mungu/ Mulungu" | Swahali / EAfrica | The creator god |
God name "Munume" | Bunyoro / Uganda, East Africa | God of weather. Invoked during times of drought or deluge and propitiated by means of sacrifice, usually an ox from the tribal chief and sheep or fowl from the villagers. The blood is sprinkled on the floor of the sanctuary and the flesh is eaten at the door.... |
God name "Musisi" | Ndonga / Namibia, southwest Africa | Messenger god. The intercessor between the creator god KALUNGA and mankind. His father is Kalunga.... |
"Muso" | Africa / west | Is the dark moon preceding the shinning new moon sliver in the night sky. Africa(west) |
Goddess name "Muso Koroni (the pure woman with the primeval soul)" | Bambara / Mali, West Africa | Chthonic fertility goddess. The mother of all living things, she introduced mankind to the principles of farming. She has a terrifying appearance, depicted either in human form, sometimes with many breasts (cf. ARTEMIS at Ephesus), or as a panther. In the latter guise she uses her claws to bring on menstruation in women and to cirçúɱcise both sexes. Prior to cirçúɱ cision a youth is said to possess wanzo, an untamed wildness. Muso Koroni is pursued by the Sun god, PEMBA, who impregnates her in the form of a tree (Acacia albida). Also Mousso Coronie.... |
Goddess name "Muso Koroni Bambarra" | W Africa | A chthonic fertility goddess of disorder |
God name "Mw-ene" | Africa | Designates God-meaning the Master, the Chief. The Sagala, East Africa |
Deity name "Na Ngutu" | West Africa | Guardian deity of warriors slain in battle. west Africa |
God name "Na Ngutu" | West / central African | God of the dead. Essentially the guardian deity of warriors slain in battle.... |
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.... |