Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Metztli" | Aztec | Lowly god of worms who failed to sacrifice himself to become the Sun, and became the moon instead, his face darkened by a rabbit. Aztec |
Deities name "Metztli" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor moon god. One of the group of deities belonging to the TEZCATLIPOCA complex.... |
God name "Moma" | S America | The moon god, ancestor of mankind and maker of the world. Uitoto, South America |
God name "Moma" | Uitoto Indian / South America | Creator god. Originally the creator of mankind. When he was slain he entered and ruled the underworld. Also the apotheosis of the moon.... |
God name "Moma Uitoto" | SA | A god that originally was the creator of mankind & the apotheosis of the moon |
"Moon-drop" | Roman | In Latin, virus lunare, a vaporous drop supposed to be shed by the moon on certain herbs and other objects, when influenced by incantations. Roman |
"Mrgasiras" | Hindu | The Fifth house of the moon. Hindu |
God name "Mugasa" | Bambuti | The moon god who originally lived among humankind in an earthly Paradise. But, because humans disobeyed his commandments he retreated to the heavens. Since then humans are mortal. Bambuti |
"Mundilfare" | Norse | One of the giant race, who had a son and daughter of such surpåśśing beauty that their father called them Mani and Sol: moon and Sun. Norse |
"Muso" | Africa / west | Is the dark moon preceding the shinning new moon sliver in the night sky. Africa(west) |
Goddess name "Mut" | Egypt | The patron goddess of Thebes. In Upper Egypt she is the counterpart of SAKHMET, the Lower Egyptian goddess from Memphis. After superseding the goddess AMAUNET, she became locally the consort of the Sun god AMUN, in which capacity she is the mother of the moon god KHONSU. She was also regarded as the Divine mother of the Theban kings. Mut is depicted in human form wearing a vulture headdress sur mounted by the twin crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt. She is typically dressed in a bright red or blue patterned gown. Less frequently she is drawn with a lion's head. She enjoyed a cult center at Thebes where her sanctuary was known as the Iseru.... |
Deity name "Myesyats" | Slavic | moon deity Slavic |
King name "Nabo or Nebo" | Babylon | One of the divinities of the Assyrians, supposed to be the moon. Many of the kings of Babylon åśśumed the name. |
Deities name "Nanahuati (rumor)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. In cosmogony, when on the fifth day of creation the gods sat in judgment to elect the new Sun god, Nanahuatl and TECCIZTECATL cremated themselves in the sacred fire. The heart of Nanahuatl ascended to become the new Sun and that of Tecciztecatl became the moon. Tradition suggests that Nanahuatl is diseased and impoverished but of great courage, while Tecciztecatl is wealthy and a coward. In an alternative tradition, in which Nanahuatl is the son of QUETZALCOATL and Tecciztecatl is the son of TLALOC, both deities are hurled into the fire by their fathers. NOTE: eventually all the gods sacrificed themselves so that mankind might be engendered from their remains. Also Nanahuatzin.... |
Goddess name "Nanna" | Norse | A goddess of the moon |
God name "Nanna" | Sumeria | God of the moon. Sumeria |
God name "Nanna/ As-im-babbar" | Mesopotamia / Sumeria / Iraq | A moon god |
God name "Napir" | Elamite | God of the moon. Elamite |