Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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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 "Meditirina" | Roman | Goddess of healing Roman |
Goddess name "Meditrina" | Roman | Goddess of healing, of Medicine Roman |
Goddess name "Meditrina" | Roman | Goddess of healing. Syncretized into the cult of AESCULAPIUS.... |
Goddess name "Mefitis" | Roman | This goddess was åśśociated with sulfur springs |
"Mellonia" | Roman | A Roman divinity, who was believed to protect the honey, but is otherwise unknown. |
Goddess name "Mellonia" | Roman | Goddess of bees. MELQART... |
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 Ascaenus" | Antioch - near - Pisidia | Local tutelary god. Possibly originating as a Persian moon god and known chiefly from a description by Strabo. He enjoyed a substantial cult including a temple some 1,200 meters above sea level. His symbol is the head of a bull above a crescent moon and wreath; it appears on local coinage circa AD 200. The popularity of the cult earned antagonism from the Roman occupation.See also MEN.... |
Spirit name "Mens" | Roman | I. e. mind, a personification of mind, worshipped by the Romans. She had a sanctuary on the Capitol. The object of her worship was that the citizens might always be guided by a right and just spirit. Roman |
"Menulis" | Roman | A Roman divinity who had a grove and temple in the Esquiliae, on a spot which it was thought fatal to enter. |
"Mephistopheles/ Mephisto" | Christian | The devil as found in the literature for magic & necromancy from the middle ages |
Goddess name "Mephitis" | Roman | Goddess of healing and poisonous gases. Roman |
God name "Mercury" | Roman | God of astronomy, commerce, messengers, eloquence and sidelines as the messenger of the gods. Roman |
God name "Mercury/ Mecurius" | Roman | A god of astronomy, commerce, messengers, eloquence & sidelines as the messenger of the gods |
Goddess name "Messor" | Roman | Minor goddess concerned with the growth and harvesting of crops Roman |
God name "Messor" | Roman | Minor god of Agriculture. Concerned with the growth and harvesting of crops.... |
God name "Midir" | Celtic / Irish | Chthonic god. Appears in polymorphic form. According to legend the consort of Etain and ruler of the land of Mag Mor. He lost an eye when hit by a hazel wand; the eye was replaced by DIANCECHT, the physician god. In Roman times he became more of an underworld deity. Also Mider.... |