Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Spirit name "Mens" | Roman | I. e. mind, a personification of mind, worshipped by the Romans. She had a sanctuary on the Capitol. The object of her worship was that the citizens might always be guided by a right and just spirit. Roman |
King name "Mentes" | Greek | 1. The leader of tho Cicones in the Trojan war, whose appearance Apollo åśśumed when he went to encourage Hector. 2. A son of Anchialus, king of the Taphians north of Ithaca. He was connected by ties of hospitality with the house of Odysseus. When Athena visited Telemachus, she åśśumed the personal appearance of Mentes. Greek |
God name "Menthu" | Egypt | God of war Egypt |
God name "Menu" | Lithuania | God of the moon Lithuania |
God name "Menu/ Menulis" | Lithuania | The moon god |
"Menulis" | Roman | A Roman divinity who had a grove and temple in the Esquiliae, on a spot which it was thought fatal to enter. |
God name "Menzabac" | Mayan | weather god who causes the Rain by sprinkling black dye on the clouds, he has a side line as a fever god and the keeper of good souls Mayan |
"Mephistopheles" | Christian | Mephistophilis, Mephostophilus. A sneering, jeering, leering tempter. The character is that of a devil in Goethe's Faust. He is next in rank to Satan. Christian |
"Mephistopheles/ Mephisto" | Christian | The devil as found in the literature for magic & necromancy from the middle ages |
Goddess name "Mephitis" | Roman | Goddess of healing and poisonous gases. Roman |
God name "Mercury" | Roman | God of astronomy, commerce, messengers, eloquence and sidelines as the messenger of the gods. Roman |
God name "Mercury/ Mecurius" | Roman | A god of astronomy, commerce, messengers, eloquence & sidelines as the messenger of the gods |
Goddess name "Mere Ama" | Finnish | Goddess of the ocean, streams and brooks Finnish |
Goddess name "Meresger" | Thebes | She who loves silence. Goddess of the Valley of the kings at Thebes. |
Hero name "Meret" | Greek | A son of Molus, conjointly with Idomeneus, led the Cretans in 80 ships against Troy where he was one of the bravest heroes, and usually acted together with his friend Idomeneus. Greek |
Goddess name "Meret/ Mer" | Egypt | A goddess of song & rejoicing as well as the treasury |
Goddess name "Meretseger" | Egypt | Chthonic underworld goddess who brings illness and death to the disrespectful. Egypt |
Goddess name "Meretseger" | Egypt | Localized chthonic goddess åśśociated with the underworld. At Thebes she acted in either benign or destructive fashion against workers building tombs in the Valley of the kings. She is generally depicted as a coiled cobra which may possess a human head and arm. One of the best representations is on the sarcophagus of Rameses III. She lost her popularity when the use of Thebes as a royal cemetery was discontinued early in the first millennium BC.... |