Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Meng-Po-Niang" | China | Goddess who stands at the Ninth Chinese Hell. Her magic potion was administered to each soul, so that they would forget their past lives. China |
Goddess name "Mhalsa" | Hindu / late | Minor goddess. The consort of KHANDOBA and considered to be a form of the goddess PARVATI. Locally worshiped at Jejuri, near Poona in western India.... |
Goddess name "Mhsala" | Hindu | Minor goddess considered to be a form of Parvati Hindu |
God name "Mi-Kura-Tana-No-Kami (august storehouse chief kami)" | Shinto / Japan | house god. One of a number of domestic guardian KAMIS, he is particularly concerned with the protection of storehouses.... |
God name "Mi-Lo Fo" | Chinese Buddhist | God. The local name given to the BODHISATTVA MAITREYA. Like the Indian model he is represented as a rubicund figure. Attributes include roses and a purse.... |
God name "Mi-Lo-Fo" | Buddhist | God Buddhist / China |
God name "Mi-Toshi-No-Kami" | Japan | God of rice Japan / Shinto |
God name "Mi-Toshi-No-Kami (the august harvest kami)" | Shinto / Japan | Agricultural god. The offspring of O-TOSHI-NO-KAMI, the harvest god of rice, and Kagayo-Hime (refulgent princess), he is in charge of crops other than rice.... |
God name "Mi-Wi-No-Kami" | Japan | God of wells [one of 3] Japan / Shinto |
Deities name "Mi-Wi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | God of wells. One of three deities responsible for wells, worshiped jointly in the MiWi-Jinja shrine. He is particularly the god of domestic wells.... |
God name "Mi-kura-Tana-Kami" | Japan | Domestic guardian god who looks after storehouses Japan / Shinto |
God name "Miao Hu" | China | Agriculture god China |
God name "Michi-No-Kami" | Japan | Gods of påśśage åśśociated with road and crossroads Japan / Shinto |
God name "Michi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Gods of påśśage. The generic name for three KAMIS åśśociated with roads and crossroads. They also protect the boundaries of house and environs and may be known as Yakushin gods, guardians against plague. See KUNADO. Also Chiburi-No-Kami.... |
God name "Midgard" | Norse | The mid-yard, middle-town, that is, the earth, is a mythological word common to all the ancient Teutonic languages. The Icelandic Edda alone has preserved the true mythical bearing of this old Teutonic word. The earth (Midgard), the abode of men, is situated in the middle of the universe, bordered by mountains and surrounded by the great sea; on the other side of this sea is the Utgard (out-yard), the abode of the giants; the Midgard is defended by the yard or burgh Asgard (the burgh of the gods) lying in the middle (the heaven being conceived as rising above the earth). Thus the earth and mankind are represented as a stronghold besieged by the powers of evil from without, defended by the gods from above and from within. Norse |
Goddess name "Mika-Hiya-Hi" | Japan | God of the Sun, subservient to Goddess of the Sun Japan / Shinto |
Goddess name "Mika-Hiya-Hi (terrible swift sun)" | Shinto / Japan | Sun god. A deity subservient to the Sun goddess AMATERASU and engendered from the blood of the fire KAMI KAGU-TSUCHI. Certain Japanese still worship the Sun, going outside in the morning, facing east, bowing and clapping their hands in a daily ritual.See also HI-HIYA-HI.... |
Goddess name "Minaksi (fish eyed)" | Hindu | Local fish goddess. Regarded as a SAKTI of SI IVA (i.e. PARVATI) and the daughter of KUBERA. She is the mother of Ugra. Minaksi is known mainly from southern India where one of her main temples is at Madurai.... |