Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
---|---|---|
Goddess name "Mehet-uret" | Egypt | Goddess who was the embodiment of all primeval waters Egypt |
Goddess name "Melinoe" | Greek | Or Chthonia, may mean the subterraneous, or the goddess of the earth, that is, the protectress of the fields, whence it is used as a surname of infernal divinities, such as Hecate, but especially of Demeter. Greek |
Goddess name "Mem Loimis" | Wintun | Goddess of water. Wintun |
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 "Meskhenet" | Egypt | Goddess of prophecy, childbirth, reincarnation, fate and justice Egypt |
Goddess name "Metsaka" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | moon goddess. Known as grandmother moon, she is the consort of the fire god TATEVALI. She guards the Huichol against the god of death, TOKAKAMI.... |
Goddess name "Mezamat/ Mezamate" | Latvia | She is the goddess of all Forests |
Goddess name "Mezamate" | Latvian | Goddess of the woods. Latvian |
Goddess name "Mhalsa" | Hindu / late | Minor goddess. The consort of KHANDOBA and considered to be a form of the goddess PARVATI. Locally worshiped at Jejuri, near Poona in western India.... |
Goddess name "Mictecacihuatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic underworld god. One of a pair of deities with MICTLANTECUHTLI. In the primeval waters of the cosmos, they generated the monstrous goddess CIPACTLI, from whom the earth was formed.... |
Goddess name "Mictlantecuhtli" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic underworld god. The creator of the underworld, Mictlan. Depicted with a skull-like appearance and protruding teeth. Also one of a pair of deities with MICTECACIHUATL. In the primeval waters of the cosmos, they generated the monstrous goddess CIPACTLI, from whom the earth was formed. In alternative traditions he is the god of the sixth of the thirteen heavens, Ilhuicatl Mamalhuazocan (the heaven of the fire drill), or he is one of the gods who support the lowest heaven at the four cardinal points. Mictlantecuhtli is perceived to reside in the south (codices Borgia and Vaticåñuś B). He is also one of the four great temple deities (codices Borgia, Cospi and Fejervery-Mayer).... |
Goddess name "Mika-Hiya-Hi (terrible swift sun)" | Shinto / Japan | Sun god. A deity subservient to the Sun goddess AMATERASU and engendered from the blood of the fire KAMI KAGU-TSUCHI. Certain Japanese still worship the Sun, going outside in the morning, facing east, bowing and clapping their hands in a daily ritual.See also HI-HIYA-HI.... |
Goddess name "Mizu-Ha-No-Me" | Japan / Shinto | The senior water goddess who came about from the urine of the primordial creator goddess |
Goddess name "Mizu-Ha-No-Me" | Shinto / Japan | water goddess. The senior water deity who was engendered from the urine of the primordial creator goddess Izanami during her fatal illness, having been burned producing the fire god HI-NO-KAGU-TSUCHI.... |
Goddess name "Mizuhanome" | Japan | water goddess who was born from the urine of the primordial creator goddess Honokagutsuti. Japan |
Goddess name "Moirai" | Greek | Collective name for a group of goddesses. The Fates of human life: KLOTHO, the spinner, LACHESIS, the caster of lots, and ATROPOS, the unturnable inevitability of death. The daughters of ZEUS and THEMIS, depicted with spindle, scroll and scales respectively. Also Moires.... |
Goddess name "Morongo" | Zimbabwe | Goddess of the evening star, gave birth to the animals of creation and then went on to create humans. Zimbabwe |
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 |