| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Mephistopheles" | Christian | Mephistophilis, Mephostophilus. A sneering, jeering, leering tempter. The character is that of a devil in Goethe's Faust. He is next in rank to Satan. Christian |
| Goddess name "Mephitis" | Roman | Goddess of healing and poisonous gases. Roman |
| Goddess name "Meresger" | Thebes | She who loves silence. Goddess of the Valley of the kings at Thebes. |
| Goddess name "Meret/ Mer" | Egypt | A goddess of song & rejoicing as well as the treasury |
| Goddess name "Meretseger" | Egypt | Chthonic underworld goddess who brings illness and death to the disrespectful. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Meretseger" | Egypt | Localized chthonic goddess åśśociated with the underworld. At Thebes she acted in either benign or destructive fashion against workers building tombs in the Valley of the kings. She is generally depicted as a coiled cobra which may possess a human head and arm. One of the best representations is on the sarcophagus of Rameses III. She lost her popularity when the use of Thebes as a royal cemetery was discontinued early in the first millennium BC.... |
| Goddess name "Meretseger/ Meresger" | Egypt | A chthonic underworld goddess who brings illness and death to the disrespectful |
| God name "Merin" | Akkylannie | The only god, this man of war and of faith inspires his warriors with incomparable påśśion when leading them into combat against the minions of darkness. Akkylannie |
"Merrow" | Irish | A mermaid, believed by Irish fishermen to forebode a coming storm. There are male merrows, but no word to designate them. |
"Merry Dun of Dover" | Scandinavian | A large mythical ship, which knocked down Calais steeple in påśśing through the Straits of Dover, and the pennant, at the same time, swept a flock of sheep off Dover cliffs into the sea. The masts were so lofty that a boy who ascended them would grow grey before he could reach deck again. Scandinavian |
| Goddess name "Messor" | Roman | Minor goddess concerned with the growth and harvesting of crops Roman |
| God name "Messor" | Roman | Minor god of Agriculture. Concerned with the growth and harvesting of crops.... |
"Mestor" | Greek | The name of four mythical personages, of whom nothing of interest is related. Greek |
"Mestra" | Greek | A daughter of Erysichthon, and granddaughter of Triopas. She was sold by her hungry father, that he might obtain tha means of satisfying his hunger. In order to escape from slavery she prayed to Poseidon, who loved her, and conferred on her the power of metamorphosing herself whenever she was sold, and of thus each time returning to her father. Greek |
| Goddess name "Meter" | The essence of the great mother of all gods, equating most closely to GAIA | Mother goddess, Greek. Known throughout the Greek Empire and generally the object of devotion by individuals rather than large cult followings. Also known as Meter oriae (mother of the mountain). Her popularity is thought to have spread from northern Ionia. Herodotus mentions a festival of Meter in Kyzikos. Probably derived originally from the western Asiatic great mother (see KYBELE).... |
| King name "Metion" | Greek | A son of Erechtheus and Praxithea, and husband of Alcippe. His sons, the Metionidae, expelled their cousin Pandion from his kingdom of Athens, but were themselves afterwards expelled by the sons of Pandion. Greek |
| Goddess name "Metis" | Greek | Goddess of wisdom. The daughter of OKEANOS and TETHYS. The original consort of ZEUS and mother of ATHENA. According to legend, Zeus swallowed her because he feared she would engender a child more powerful than he.... |
| Deities name "Metztli" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor moon god. One of the group of deities belonging to the TEZCATLIPOCA complex.... |
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