Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Melkart/ Melqart" | Phonecia | A rather busy god in charge of travelers, sailors, colonies & the city of Tyre who, like the Phoenix, is regenerated by fire |
King name "Melki-Ziwa" | Aramaic | king of Light behind the north star. Aramaic |
Goddess name "Mella" | Zimbabwe | Goddess of healing, sorcery and shamanism. Zimbabwe |
"Mellonia" | Roman | A Roman divinity, who was believed to protect the honey, but is otherwise unknown. |
Goddess name "Mellonia" | Roman | Goddess of bees. MELQART... |
Nymph name "Melobosis" | Greek | A nymph, said to have been a daughter of Oceåñuś. Greek |
Goddess name "Melpomene" | Greek | The singing goddess, one of the nine Muses, became afterwards the Muse of Tragedy. Greek |
"Melpomenus" | Greek | The singer, was a surname of Dionysus at Athens, and in the Attic demos of Acharne. Greek |
God name "Melqart" | Tyre | Melkart, the tutelary god of the Phoenician city of Tyre. |
"Melusina" | France | Having enclosed her father in a high mountain for offending her mother, she was condemned to become every Saturday a serpent from her waist downward. When she married Raymond, Count of Lusignan, she made her husband vow never to visit her on a Saturday; but, the jealousy of the count being excited, he hid himself on one of the forbidden days, and saw his wife's transformation. Melusina was now obliged to quit her mortal husband, and was destined to wander about as a spectre till the day of doom. Some say the count immured her in the dungeon of his castle. France |
Goddess name "Melusine" | Britain / Scotland | A serpent goddess |
God name "Melwas" | Britain | God of the underworld and the "king of the Summer Country". cornwall, Britain |
Goddess name "Mem Loimis" | Wintun | Goddess of water. Wintun |
Goddess name "Meme" | Zaire | Goddess of healing Zaire |
God name "Memphis" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Nilus and wife of Epaphus, by whom she became the mother of Libya. The town of Memphis in Egypt was said to have derived its name from her. Others call her a daughter of the river-god Ucpéñïśus, and add that by Nilus she became the mother of Aegyptus. 2. One of the daughters of Danaus. Greek |
God name "Men" | Turkey | God of the moon who ruled the upper and lower world Turkey |
God name "Men" | Phrygian / Turkey | moon god. Ruler of both upper and lower worlds. Probably also a god of healing, he was subsequently adopted by the Greeks and Romans. The cult was popular during the imperial period, but its inscriptions were written in Greek.... |
God name "Men Ascaenus" | Antioch / Asia Minor | A local tutelary god |