Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Mbitumbo Baule" | Ivory Coast | Creator and guardian god Ivory Coast |
Spirit name "Mbomba" | Mongo / Nkundo / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Creator god. He operates through intermediaries known as bilima and through the spirits of the dead, bakali. Also known as landa, Komba, Mbombo, Njakomba and WAI. Among the Ngbandi people there is recognized a vast water monster or river god by the same name.... |
God name "Mbomba Mongo" | Zaire | Creator god Zaire |
God name "Mbomba Mongo/ Nkundo" | Zaire | The creator god |
Goddess name "Mbombe" | Nkundo / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Mother goddess. The consort of ITONDE and mother of the hero LIANJA.... |
Goddess name "Mbombe Nkundo" | Zaire | Mother goddess Zaire |
Deities name "Mbongo" | Ngbandi / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | River god. One of seven deities invoked at Sunrise each morning. The creator god of all black people, said to reside in black waters.... |
God name "Mbongo Ngbandi" | Zaire | God of rivers Zaire |
God name "Mbotumbo" | Baule / Ivory Coast, West Africa | Creator god. A generally benevolent guardian deity with the head of an ape.... |
God name "Me Na/ Ninmenta" | Mesopotamia / Sumeria | Unknown god |
Spirit name "Me'mdeye-Eci'e" | Yukaghir / eastern Siberia | Fire spirit. A benevolent being residing in the sky and known as father fire.... |
Spirit name "Me'mdeye-Ecl'e" | Yukaghir / Siberia | Known as father fire, a fire spirit |
Spirit name "Me'mdeye-Ecl'e Yukaghir" | Siberia | Known as father fire, a fire spirit Siberia |
"Mecca's Three Idols" | Arabic | Lata, Aloza, and Menat, all of which Mahomet overthrew. |
Goddess name "Medb" | Celtic | Goddess of sexuality, jolly bonking, intoxication and war. Celtic |
King name "Medea" | Greek | A sorceress, daughter of the king of Colchis. She married Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, whom she aided to obtain the golden fleece. Greek |
"Medea's Kettle or Caldron" | Greek | Medea's Kettle or Caldron, to boil the old into youth again. Medea, the sorceress, cut an old ram to pieces, and, throwing the pieces into her caldron, the old ram came forth a young lamb. The daughters of Pelias thought to restore their father to youth in the same way; but Medea refused to utter the magic words, and the old man ceased to live. Greek |
"Medeia" | Greek | A daughter of Aeetes by the Oceanid Idyia, or, according to others, by Hecate, the daughter, of Perses. Greek |