Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deities name "Milkom" | Western Semitic / Ammonite | Tutelary god. One of the deities mentioned in the Vetus Testamentum (1 kings 11.5) as being worshiped by the Israelite king Solomon. Also Milcom.... |
God name "Milom" | Amorite | God mentioned in 1 king 11:5 worshipped by king Solomon Amorite / Semitic(West) |
God name "Milom/ Milcom Amorite" | W Semitic | The god mentioned in 1 king 11:5 worshipped by king Solomon |
"Mimallones" | Greek | The Macedonian name of the Bacchantes, or, according to others, of Bacchic Amazons. Greek |
"Mimas2" | Italy | A giant who is said to have been killed by Ares, or by Zeus with a flash of lightning. The island of Prochyte, near Sicily, was believed to rest upon his body. |
King name "Mimas3" | Greek | A son of Aeolus, king of Aeolis, and father of Hippotes. |
"Mimir" | Norse | The name of the wise giant keeper of the holy well Mimis-brunnr, the burn of Mimer, the well of wisdom, at which Odin pawned his eye for wisdom; a myth which is explained as symbolical of the heavenly vault with its single eye, the Sun, setting in the sea. Norse |
God name "Ming Shang" | China | God of the eyes China |
God name "Minga Bengale Shongon" | Africa | God of hunters, also taught humans how to make nets Africa |
Goddess name "Minona" | Fon | Goddess of teaching Fon |
King name "Minos" | Greek | The son of Zeus and Europa, brother of Rhadamanthus, and king of Crete, where he is said to have given many and useful laws. After his death he became one of the judges of the shades in Hades. 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.... |
Monster name "Minotaurus" | Greek | A monster with a human body and a bull's head, or, according to others, with the body of an ox and a human head, is said to have been the offspring of the intercourse of Pasiphae with the bull sent from the sea to Minos, who shut him up in the Cnossian labyrinth, and fed him with the bodies of the youths and maidens whom the Athenians at fixed times were obliged to send to Minos as tribute. The monster was slain by Theseus. Greek |
Goddess name "Miritatsiec" | Crow | Goddess of healing Crow |
God name "Mirsa Georgia/ Mingrelan" | Caucasus | A god of light & responsible for fire |
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 "Mithra" | Persia | A god of war & light that had all the trappings of Christianity from 400BCE-200CE |
"Mithras" | Roman | About the time of the Roman emperors his worship was introduced at Rome, and thence spread over all parts of the wearing the Phrygian cap and attire, and kneeling on a bull which is thrown on the ground, and whose throat he is cutting. The bull is at the same time attacked by a dog, a serpent, and a scorpion. This group appears frequently among ancient works of art. Roman |