Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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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.... |
God name "Mehen" | Egypt | Minor chthonic underworld god Egypt |
God name "Mehen" | Egypt | Minor chthonic underworld god. The guardian of the barque of the Sun god RE during its påśśage through the underworld at night. Depicted in the form of a coiled snake.... |
Goddess name "Meilichia" | Greek | An underworld goddess |
God name "Mekal aka Nergal" | Phoenecian | Resheph. God of the plague and of the underworld, fertility, war, well-being and plenty. Phoenecian |
God name "Melwas" | Britain | God of the underworld and the "king of the Summer Country". cornwall, Britain |
God name "Men" | Turkey | God of the moon who ruled the upper and lower world Turkey |
God name "Men" | Phrygian / Turkey | moon god. Ruler of both upper and lower worlds. Probably also a god of healing, he was subsequently adopted by the Greeks and Romans. The cult was popular during the imperial period, but its inscriptions were written in Greek.... |
God name "Men Phygia" | Asia Minor | God of the moon who ruled over in the heavens, but the underworld as well Asia Minor |
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 |
"Meru" | Indian | A fabulous mountain in the centre of the world, 80,000 leagues high, the abode of Vishnu, and a perfect Paradise. It may be termed the Indian Olympus. |
God name "Mes Lam Taea" | Akkadia | God of war but thought to be an aggressive aspect of the chthonic underworld god Nergal Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia / Sumeria |
God name "Mes Lam Taea" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | God of war. An aggressive aspect of the chthonic underworld god NERGAL. Often linked with the god LUGAL-IRRA.... |
Goddess name "Micapetlacoli" | Aztec | Minor chthonic underworld goddess Aztec |
Goddess name "Micapetlacoli (dead mat chest)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor chthonic underworld goddess. One of the group of deities belonging to the MICTLANTECUHTLI complex.... |
Goddess name "Mictanteot" | S America | Goddess of the underworld. South America |