| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Mors" | Roman | Minor god of death. Mors replaces the Greek THANATOS and, according to legend, is one of the twin sons of NYX, goddess of the night. He lives in part of the remote cave occupied by SOMNUS, god of sleep, beside the river Lethe. Ovid depicts him as a hideous and cadaverous figure dressed in a winding sheet and holding a scythe and hour glåśś. Known particularly through Lacedaemonian culture where twin statues of Mors and Somnus were placed side by side.... |
| Goddess name "Morta" | Roman | Was the goddess of death. She is one of the Parcae. The term Morta is related to the Roman conception of the Fates. Roman |
| Goddess name "Morta" | Roman | Goddess of death. In later Roman times she becomes linked with the birth goddesses DECIMA and NONA, as a trio of goddesses of fate, the PARCAE.... |
| God name "Morva signifies Locus Maritimus" | Britain | Morva signifies Locus Maritimus. Sea-women and sea-daughters. "The fishermen who were the ancestors of the Church, came from the Galilean waters to haul for men. We, born to God at the font, are children of the water. Therefore, all the early symbolism of the Church was of and from the sea. The carvure of the early arches was taken from the sea and its creatures. Fish, dolphins, mermen, and mermaids abound in the early types, transferred to wood and stone."' cornwall, Britain |
| Demon name "Morvran (sea crow)" | Celtic / Welsh | Local god of war. The son of CERIDWEN and TEGID FOEL. Legend has it that he was extremely ugly and that his mother tried to imbue him with wisdom by preparing a special brew of inspiration. It was drunk by Gwion. Morvran was invincible in battle because his enemies thought him a demon.... |
| God name "Mot" | Phoenicia | The god of the dead and of all the powers that opposed life |
| God name "Mot 'Death'" | Phoenicia | Son of 'El, according to instructions given by the god Hadad (Baal) to his messengers, lives in a city named hmry ('Mirey'), a pit is his throne, and Filth is the land of her heritage. Phoenicia |
| God name "Motsesa" | Tuareg | The princess who married Bulane, the god of water. Tuareg |
| Deities name "Moyocoyani (maker of himself)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of universal power. One of the group of deities known as the TEZCATLIPOCA complex.... |
| God name "Mu Gong" | Taoist / Chinese | God of immortality. The personification of the principle of Yang and the consort of Xi-Wang-Mu. He lives in the east, she in the west.See also HSI WANG MU.... |
| God name "Muati" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Obscure local god. Associated in some texts with the mythical island Paradise of Dilmun, he becomes syncretized with NABU.... |
| God name "Mucalinda" | Buddhist | Tutelary god. The guardian of a lake near Bodh Gaya. He is identified as a king of the nagas or snake gods and is said to have protected the BUDDHA from a storm by coiling around him.... |
| 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 |
| God name "Mugasa" | Pigmy / central Africa | sky god. Originally he headed a Paradise land in which the first human beings lived. They disobeyed him, however, by entering his hut where he resided unseen, after which he left them and made them mortal. He is not worshiped in any conventional sense. Also Mugu.... |
| God name "Mugasa/ Mugu" | Pygmy / C Africa | A sky god whose story is close to that of the God of Abraham Genesis one |
| God name "Mugasha Baziba" | Africa | He is the god of water |
| God name "Mugizi" | Bunyoro / Uganda, East Africa | lake god. The guardian deity of lake Albert, invoked with offerings by those wishing to cross the lake in boats.... |
| God name "Mugu" | Kilimanjaro | A god of the Maasai, Kilimanjaro |