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Goddess name "Mors" | Roman | Minor god of death. Mors replaces the Greek THANATOS and, according to legend, is one of the twin sons of NYX, goddess of the night. He lives in part of the remote cave occupied by SOMNUS, god of sleep, beside the river Lethe. Ovid depicts him as a hideous and cadaverous figure dressed in a winding sheet and holding a scythe and hour glåśś. Known particularly through Lacedaemonian culture where twin statues of Mors and Somnus were placed side by side.... |
"Mort" | Discworld | Having proved himself unworthy as a scarecrow he is chosen by death to be his apprentice. Discworld |
Goddess name "Morta" | Roman | Was the goddess of death. She is one of the Parcae. The term Morta is related to the Roman conception of the Fates. Roman |
Goddess name "Morta" | Roman | Goddess of death. In later Roman times she becomes linked with the birth goddesses DECIMA and NONA, as a trio of goddesses of fate, the PARCAE.... |
"Moruadh" | Ireland | Irish mermaids, they resemble human women but with webbed hands and fin-like feet. Ireland |
Spirit name "Morva" | India | They are invisible sky spirits Andaman Is. / India Ocean |
Spirit name "Morva" | Andaman Islands / Sea of Bengal | sky spirits. Invisible but thought to be of human form.... |
God name "Morva signifies Locus Maritimus" | Britain | Morva signifies Locus Maritimus. Sea-women and sea-daughters. "The fishermen who were the ancestors of the Church, came from the Galilean waters to haul for men. We, born to God at the font, are children of the water. Therefore, all the early symbolism of the Church was of and from the sea. The carvure of the early arches was taken from the sea and its creatures. Fish, dolphins, mermen, and mermaids abound in the early types, transferred to wood and stone."' cornwall, Britain |
Demon name "Morvran (sea crow)" | Celtic / Welsh | Local god of war. The son of CERIDWEN and TEGID FOEL. Legend has it that he was extremely ugly and that his mother tried to imbue him with wisdom by preparing a special brew of inspiration. It was drunk by Gwion. Morvran was invincible in battle because his enemies thought him a demon.... |
Deity name "Moschel" | Latvia | The deity in charge of cows, feminine duties and patroness of economic activities. Latvia |
God name "Mot" | Phoenicia | The god of the dead and of all the powers that opposed life |
God name "Mot" | Semitic | God of death, fertility and sterility. |
God name "Mot 'Death'" | Phoenicia | Son of 'El, according to instructions given by the god Hadad (Baal) to his messengers, lives in a city named hmry ('Mirey'), a pit is his throne, and Filth is the land of her heritage. Phoenicia |
"Moti Mata "Pearl Mother"" | Tamil | Moti Mata "Pearl Mother", stones which are worshipped when cholera appears. Tamil |
God name "Motsesa" | Tuareg | The princess who married Bulane, the god of water. Tuareg |
"Mowis" | Indian | The bridegroom of snow, who, according to American Indian tradition, wooed and won a beautiful bride; but when morning dawned, Mowis left the wigwam, and melted into the Sunshine. The bride hunted for him night and day in the Forests, but never saw him more. |
"Moyocoyani" | Aztec | The Prime Mover who created himself. Aztec |
Deities name "Moyocoyani (maker of himself)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of universal power. One of the group of deities known as the TEZCATLIPOCA complex.... |