Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Mari Mai (mother death)" | Hindu | Plague goddess. The sister of SITALA, åśśociated with cholera. Her Tamil counterpart is MARIYAMMAN.... |
Goddess name "Mariyamman" | Dravidian | Plague goddess with a bizarre form of penance Dravidian / Tamil |
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.... |
Goddess name "Mata (great mother)" | Hindu | Primeval mother goddess. The archetypal progenitrix of all living things. She becomes the tutelary goddess of every village in northern India, but is also seen as a plague goddess åśśociated with smallpox, in which case her epithet becomes Maha Mai. Her Tamil counterpart is Amman.... |
God name "Mayon" | Dravidian | Creator god Dravidian / Tamil |
God name "Mayon (the black one)" | Early Dravidian / Tamil / southern India / Sri Lanka | Creator god. Animistic high god of the pastoral regions, found in Sangam literature and thought to reside in trees. Perhaps equating with VIS'NU or KRSNA.... |
"Moti Mata "Pearl Mother"" | Tamil | Moti Mata "Pearl Mother", stones which are worshipped when cholera appears. Tamil |
Deity name "Munisvara" | Hindu / Dravidian | A regional Tamil deity who is popular amongst the least Sanskritized social groups of South India specifically Tamil Nadu. Hindu / Dravidian |
God name "Munisvara" | Hindu | Deified saint. Technically a demigod but worshiped as a deity by Dravidians in southern India. Also Municami (Tamil).... |
Deity name "Muruga" | Hindu | Is the most popular Hindu deity amongst Tamils of Tamil Nadu state in India and in the Tamil diaspora. |
Spirit name "Murukan" | Tamil | The embodiment of beauty, the source of spiritual wisdom and the personification of limitless power. Tamil |
God name "Murukan" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Hunting and war god. Identified with the Hindu god SKANDA. His vehicle is an elephant or a peaçõçk. Color: red. Attributes: spear and staff with gar land.... |
God name "Murukan/ Ceyon" | Dravidian / Tamil | A hunting & war god |
Goddess name "MutialAmma "PearlMother"" | Tamil | village mother goddesses represented by a stone. Tamil |
Goddess name "Muttalamman" | Dravidian | Plague goddess, especially identified with smallpox Dravidian / Tamil |
Goddess name "Muttalamman (pearl-mother)" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Plague goddess. Specifically identified with smallpox. Also Mutyalamma.... |
Goddess name "Muttalamman/ Mutyalamma" | Davidian / Tamil | A plague goddess identified with smallpox |
Goddess name "Nappinnai" | Tamil | Local goddess who has hair surrounded by holy scent. Tamil |