Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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King name "Medea" | Greek | A sorceress, daughter of the king of Colchis. She married Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, whom she aided to obtain the golden fleece. Greek |
King name "Medhbh" | Irish | queen of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Her father was Eochaid Feidlech, the High king of Ireland. Her best-known husband was Ailill mac Mata, although she had several husbands before him, all of whom were kings of Connacht while they were married to her. |
King name "Megapenthes" | Greek | A son of Proetus, was king of Argos, and father of Anaxagoras and Iphianeira. He exchanged his dominion for that of Perseus, so that the latter received Tiryns instead of Argos. (Apollodorus. ii.) He is said to have afterwards slain Perseus. Greek |
King name "Melaneus" | Greek | A son of Apollo, and king of the Dryopes, He was the father of Eurytus and a famous archer. According to a Messenian legend Melaneus came to Perieres who åśśigned to him a town as his habitation which he called Oechalia, after his wife's name. Greek |
King name "Melissus" | Greek | An ancient king of Crete, who, by Amalthea, became the father of the nymphs Adrastea and Ida, to whom Rhea entrusted the infant Zeus to be brought up. Other accounts call the daughters of this king Melissa and Amalthea. Greek |
King name "Melki-Ziwa" | Aramaic | king of Light behind the north star. Aramaic |
God name "Melwas" | Britain | God of the underworld and the "king of the Summer Country". cornwall, Britain |
King name "Menelaus" | Greek | A son of Atreus, and younger brother of Agamemnon and Anaxibia. He was king of Lacedaemon, and married to the beautiful Helen, by whom he was the father of Hermione and Megapenthes. Greek |
King name "Mentes" | Greek | 1. The leader of tho Cicones in the Trojan war, whose appearance Apollo åśśumed when he went to encourage Hector. 2. A son of Anchialus, king of the Taphians north of Ithaca. He was connected by ties of hospitality with the house of Odysseus. When Athena visited Telemachus, she åśśumed the personal appearance of Mentes. Greek |
Goddess name "Meresger" | Thebes | She who loves silence. Goddess of the Valley of the kings at Thebes. |
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.... |
King name "Metion" | Greek | A son of Erechtheus and Praxithea, and husband of Alcippe. His sons, the Metionidae, expelled their cousin Pandion from his kingdom of Athens, but were themselves afterwards expelled by the sons of Pandion. Greek |
King name "Mezentius" | Greek | A mythical king of the Tyrrhenians or Etruscans, at Caere or Agylla, and father of Lausus. When he was expelled by his subjects on account of his cruelty he took refuge with Turnus, king of the Rutulians, and åśśisted him in his war against Aeneas and the Trojans. Greek |
King name "Midas" | Greek | A son of Gordius by Cybele, a wealthy but effeminate king of Phrygia, a pupil of Orpheus, and a promoter of the worship of Dionysus. His wealth is alluded to in a story connected with his childhood, for it is said that while yet a child, ants carried grains of wheat into his mouth to indicate that one day he should be the richest of all mortals. Greek |
King name "Midas-eared" | Greek | Without discrimination or judgment. Midas, king of Phrygia, was appointed to judge a musical contest between Apollo and Pan, and gave judgment in favour of the satyr; whereupon Apollo in contempt gave the king a pair of åśś's ears. Midas hid them under his Phrygian cap; out his servant, who used to cut his hair, discovered them, and was so tickled at the "joke," which he durst not mention, that he dug a hole in the earth, and relieved his mind by whispering in it "Midas has åśś's ears." Greek |
God name "Milkom" | Ammonite / EJordan | He is the chief god, & may have of been worshipped by king Solomon under a different name |
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) |