| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Mariyamman (mother of smallpox)" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Plague goddess. A terrible goddess, one of the NAVASAKTIS and linked with the goddess KALI. She is honored in a ritual during which victims (in penance) are suspended from a rope and an iron hook through the flesh of the back and whirled around a pole. Also Mariyattal.... |
| God name "Marmalik" | Kafir / Afghanistan | A chthonic underworld god |
| God name "Marmalik Kafir" | Afghanistan | Chthonic underworld god Afghanistan |
| God name "Marnas" | N Arabia | A local tutelary god |
| God name "Marnas" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | Local tutelary god. Probably regarded as a fertility deity, his cult was centered at Gaza at the Marneion sanctuary and probably succeeded that of Dagon. He may have been the subject of a colossal statue attributed to ZEUS found near Gaza.See also DAGAN.... |
| God name "Marnas N" | Arabic | , Local tutelary god Arabic |
| God name "Marruni" | Melanesia | God of earthquakes Melanesia |
| God name "Mars" | Roman | An ancient Roman god, who was at an early period identified by the Romans with the Greek Ares, or the god delighting in bloody war, although there are a variety of indications that the Italian Mars was originally a divinity of a very different nature. Roman |
| God name "Martu" | Sumeria | 'He who dwells on the pure mountain' and is sometimes described as a 'shepherd', a son of the sky-god Anu. Sumeria |
| God name "Martu" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Tutelary god. The patron god of the city of Ninab mentioned in the texts but never re-discovered. Probably not a true Sumerian deity but adopted from an unknown western Semitic culture. He is sometimes identified as a storm god.... |
| Demon name "Maru" | Polynesian / Maori | God of war. One of the important deities revered by Maori clans in New Zealand in times of war, he may be represented in totems as an aggressive face with a prominent tuft of hair, staring eyes and tongue protruding, though these totems generally represent ancestors rather than deities. Maru may be invoked in the familiar Maori war dances and chants demonstrated popularly by the All Blacks before rugby matches all over the world.... |
| God name "Marunogere Kiwi-Papua" | New Guinea | A very popular fellow, he taught people to make their houses but most importantly he created the sexual parts of women, but not claimed to be a god |
| God name "Marutgana" | Hindu / Vedic | storm gods. The sons of RUDRA and attendants of INDRA. Also Maruts.... |
| God name "Marutgana/ Maruts" | Hindu / Vedic | storm gods |
| Goddess name "Marzana" | Poland | Goddess of Winter Poland |
| God name "Masauwu" | Hopi | God of fire, war, death, and the night Hopi |
| Goddess name "Masaya" | Nicaragua | Goddess of fire volcanoes and earthquakes Nicaragua |
| Goddess name "Måśśåśśi" | Zimbabwe | Goddess of the morning star Zimbabwe |
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