Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Mo Hi Hai" | China | He is a god of water |
God name "Moccus" | Roman / Celtic / European | Local swine god. Assimilated with Mercury.See also MERCURIUS.... |
God name "Modi" | German / Norse | This son of Thor is a god that has yet to arrive |
God name "Modimo" | Tswana / Botswana, South Africa | Universal god. A monotheistic deity possibly, though not with certainty, influenced by Christianity. Not specifically a creator god, since the universe and MODIMO have always been. Perceived as the river of existence which flows endlessly through space and time. He rules the light and dark opposites in the universe, as well as the proper order of life on earth.... |
God name "Modimo Twana" | Botswana | A universal god, possibly monotheistic |
God name "Modimo o mogolo" | Bantu | High God who made the sky and the earth, and when he had finished them he climbed up into the sky (conceived, of course, as a solid vault) by driving in pegs on which he set his feet, taking out each one as soon as he had stepped on the next, so that people should not be able to follow him. And in the sky he has lived ever since. Bantu |
Goddess name "Modron" | Welsh | Divine Mother, one of the most powerful of the Celtic mother goddesses. She may have been the prototype of Morgan le Fay from Arthurian legend. Welsh |
Goddess name "Modron (another)" | Celtic / Welsh | Mother goddess. The mother of MABON, whom she subsequently loses. Her cult is closely linked with that of Mabon and she may originally have been one of the aspects of the goddess(es) MORRIGAN. In Christian times some authors believe that she became St. Madrun.... |
Goddess name "Moerae" | Greek | A goddess of reason |
God name "Mogounos" | Britain | A Celtic god worshipped in Roman Britain and in Gaul. The main evidence is from altars dedicated to the god by Roman soldiers, but the deity is not a native Italic one. |
Demon name "Mohini (illusion)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor incarnation of VIS'NU. Mohini is an avatara who appears in the form of an enchantress whose form Vis'nu adopted briefly to deceive demons attempting to remove the ambrosia created by churning the primeval ocean of milk (see also GARUDA). Vis'nu used the same guise to dupe and seduce the god SIVA.... |
God name "Moira/ Moirai/ Moerae/ Mories/ Fates" | Greek | They are supreme even over the gods of Olympus |
God name "Moirai" | Greek | Properly signifies "a share," and as a personification "the deity who åśśigns to every man his fate or his share," or the Fates. Homer usually speaks of only one Moira, and only once mentions the Motpai in the plural. In his poems Moira is fate personified, which, at the birth of man, spins out the thread of his future life, follows his steps, and directs the consequences of his actions according to the counsel of the gods. Homer thus, when he personifies Fate, conceives her as spinning, an act by which also the power of other gods over the life of man is expressed. Greek |
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 "Mokos" | Slavic | Goddess of shearing, spinning and weaving. Slavic |
Goddess name "Mokos" | Pre - Christian Slavonic European | Goddess of fertility. Identified in the Nestor Chronicle as a goddess of midwifery. Her cult was taken over by that of the Virgin Mary.... |
Goddess name "Mokosh" | Slavic | Slavic goddess of Healing |
God name "Molek" | Western Semitic / Ammonite | God. Synonymous with the god Moloch (Hebrew) of the Vetus Testamentum to whom Israelite children were sacrificed by burning (1 kings 11.7 and 2 kings23.10)... |