Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Mawu Fon" | Benin | Goddess of the moon Benin |
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 "Maya" | Hindu | A goddess of illusion |
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.... |
Goddess name "Maya[devi]" | Buddhist | A mother goddess |
Goddess name "Mayahuel" | Aztec | A minor fertility goddess åśśociated with the maguey plant |
Goddess name "Mayahuel" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor fertility goddess. One of the group clåśśed as the Ometochtli complex åśśociated with the maguey plant from which pulque is brewed. She may be depicted seated upon a tortoise beside an agave plant in bloom. According to legend she was abducted by QUETZALCOATL and subsequently dismembered by wild animals. From the fragments grew the first agave plants.... |
Goddess name "Mayahuel aka Mayahual" | Aztec | Mayouel, the goddess of maguey, and by extension, alcohol. Aztec |
Goddess name "Mayajalakrama-Kurukulla" | Buddhist / Mayhayana | A goddess |
Goddess name "Mayajalakrama-Kurukulla (one who proceeds in the net of illusion)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Goddess. The personification of all DHYANIBUDDHAS. Color: red. Attributes: arrow, bow, hook, images of the five Dhyanibuddhas, lotus (red), pitcher, rosary and waterjar.... |
Goddess name "Mayan" | Hindu | Goddess of illusion Hindu |
Goddess name "Mayan[devi]" | Buddhist | Mother goddess Buddhist |
Goddess name "Mayanhuel" | Mexico | Goddess of the night sky and of drunkenness Mexico |
Goddess name "Mayanjalakrama-Kurukulla" | Buddhist | Goddess Buddhist / Mahayana |
Goddess name "Mayanvel" | India | Goddess of children India |
Goddess name "Mayavel" | India | Another goddess of children |
Supreme god name "Mayin" | Tungus / Siberia | A benevolent, remote, supreme God |
Supreme god name "Mayin" | Tungus / eastern / central Siberia | Supreme god. A benevolent but remote deity who breathes life into newborn children and receives the spirits of the dead.... |