| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Matlalceuitl aka Matlalcueje" | Aztec | Goddess of Rainfall and singing. Identified with Chalchiuhtlicue. Aztec |
| Goddess name "Matlalcueye" | Aztec | Minor goddess of fertility. Aztec |
| Goddess name "Matlalcueye (her skirt is blue)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor fertility goddess. One of the group clåśśed as the TLALOC complex, closely åśśociated with water.... |
| Goddess name "Matres" | Celtic | Triads of mother goddesses Roman / Pan-Celtic |
| Angel name "Matriel, Matarel, Matariel, Ridya and Zalbesal" | Greek | angels of the Rain. |
| Goddess name "Matrona" | Celtic | Goddess of the Marne River Celtic |
| Goddess name "Matronae" | Celtic | These are the three mother goddesses that oversee fertility, they prefer peace, tranquillity & kids |
| Goddess name "Matronit" | Spain | Goddess of chastity, promiscuity, and motherhood. Spain |
| God name "Matsuo" | Japan | God of sake brewers Japan / Shinto |
| God name "Matsuo" | Shinto / Japan | God of sake brewers. Celebrated annually in a festival in Kyoto, when the presence of the god is carried on a palanquin. It is rowed down the river prior to a general celebration, during which sake is drunk liberally.... |
| God name "Matsya" | Hindu | Incarnation of the god Visnu Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
| Demon name "Matsya" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Incarnation of the god VIS'NU. In this first avatara Vis'nu appears as a fish which, according to one legend, tows a ship carrying the law-giver MANU to safety after the primal flood. Matsya engages in an epic battle with the demon HAYAGRIVA who stole the Vedas from a sleeping BRAHMA. Usually depicted with a human torso carrying symbols, e.g. wheel and conch, on a fish's body.... |
| God name "Maturaiviran" | Hindu | Locally worshipped god with an interesting story Hindu |
| God name "Maturaiviran" | Hindu | Locally worshiped god. Of fearsome character, he is the deification of a seventeenth century policeman who eloped with a princess and was slain. Known from southern India, where he is also a god of wine. Attributes: shield and sword.... |
"Maugys" | Britain | A giant who keeps a bridge leading to a castle by a riverside, in which a beautiful lady is besieged. Sir Lybius, one of Arthur's knights, does battle with the giant; the contest lasts a whole summer's day, but terminates with the death of the giant and liberation of the lady. Britain |
| God name "Maui" | Maori | Tutelary god Polynesia / Maori |
| Goddess name "Maui" | Polynesian / Maori / New Zealand | Tutelary god. Not a creator god but one who åśśists mankind in various supernatural ways. According to tradition he was aborted at birth and cast into the sea by his mother, who thought he was dead. He was rescued entangled in seaweed. He is the deity who drew the islands of New Zealand from the floor of the ocean in a net. Maui caught the Sun and beat it into submission, making it travel more slowly across the sky so that the days became longer. He also brought fire from the underworld for mankind and tried, unsuccessfully, to harness immortality for him by entering the vulva of the underworld goddess HINE-NUI-TE-PO while she was asleep. She awoke and crushed him to death. Though a deity, he had been made vulnerable to death by a mistake during his rites of birth (see also Balder). Also Mawi.... |
"Maut" | Egypt | Female principle of generation. Egypt |
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