| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "May-day" | Roman | Polydore Virgil says that the Roman youths used to go into the fields and spend the calends of May in dancing and singing in honour of Flora, goddess of fruits and flowers. The early English consecrated May-day to Robin Hood and the Maid Marian, because the favourite outlaw died on that day. Stow says the villagers used to set up May-poles, and spend the day in archery, morris-dancing, and other amu√åǧïñåts. |
| Goddess name "Maya(devi)" | Buddhist | Mother goddess. The mother of the BUDDHA perceived as the world lotus or PADMA from which the Buddha was born. She equates with the Hindu goddess LAKSMI. The term is also applied to the personification of the visible universe and, in Hinduism, as an epithet of the goddess DURGA.... |
| Goddess name "Maya[devi]" | Buddhist | A mother goddess |
| Goddess name "Mayahuel" | Aztec | A minor fertility goddess åśśociated with the maguey plant |
| Goddess name "Mayahuel" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor fertility goddess. One of the group clåśśed as the Ometochtli complex åśśociated with the maguey plant from which pulque is brewed. She may be depicted seated upon a tortoise beside an agave plant in bloom. According to legend she was abducted by QUETZALCOATL and subsequently dismembered by wild animals. From the fragments grew the first agave plants.... |
| Goddess name "Mayahuel aka Mayahual" | Aztec | Mayouel, the goddess of maguey, and by extension, alcohol. Aztec |
| Goddess name "Mayajalakrama-Kurukulla (one who proceeds in the net of illusion)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Goddess. The personification of all DHYANIBUDDHAS. Color: red. Attributes: arrow, bow, hook, images of the five Dhyanibuddhas, lotus (red), pitcher, rosary and waterjar.... |
| Goddess name "Mayan[devi]" | Buddhist | Mother goddess Buddhist |
| Goddess name "Mayanhuel" | Mexico | Goddess of the night sky and of drunkenness Mexico |
| Goddess name "Mayavel" | India | Another goddess of children |
| Supreme god name "Mayin" | Tungus / eastern / central Siberia | Supreme god. A benevolent but remote deity who breathes life into newborn children and receives the spirits of the dead.... |
| God name "Mayon (the black one)" | Early Dravidian / Tamil / southern India / Sri Lanka | Creator god. Animistic high god of the pastoral regions, found in Sangam literature and thought to reside in trees. Perhaps equating with VIS'NU or KRSNA.... |
| Spirit name "Mbomba" | Mongo / Nkundo / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Creator god. He operates through intermediaries known as bilima and through the spirits of the dead, bakali. Also known as landa, Komba, Mbombo, Njakomba and WAI. Among the Ngbandi people there is recognized a vast water monster or river god by the same name.... |
| God name "Mbomba Mongo/ Nkundo" | Zaire | The creator god |
| Goddess name "Mbombe" | Nkundo / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Mother goddess. The consort of ITONDE and mother of the hero LIANJA.... |
| Goddess name "Mbombe Nkundo" | Zaire | Mother goddess Zaire |
| Deities name "Mbongo" | Ngbandi / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | River god. One of seven deities invoked at Sunrise each morning. The creator god of all black people, said to reside in black waters.... |
| God name "Mbotumbo" | Baule / Ivory Coast, West Africa | Creator god. A generally benevolent guardian deity with the head of an ape.... |
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