| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Medeine/ Mejdejn" | Lithuania | A goddess of the Forests |
| God name "Meiden" | Lithuania | He is the god of Forest & animals, figures doesn't it |
| Goddess name "Meiulis" | Pre - Christian Lithuanian | moon god. Consort of the Sun goddess.... |
| Goddess name "Mejdejn" | Lithuanian | Goddess of trees and Forests. Lithuanian |
| God name "Menu" | Lithuania | God of the moon Lithuania |
| God name "Menu/ Menulis" | Lithuania | The moon god |
| Goddess name "Mictecacihuatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic underworld god. One of a pair of deities with MICTLANTECUHTLI. In the primeval waters of the cosmos, they generated the monstrous goddess CIPACTLI, from whom the earth was formed.... |
| Goddess name "Mictlantecuhtli" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic underworld god. The creator of the underworld, Mictlan. Depicted with a skull-like appearance and protruding teeth. Also one of a pair of deities with MICTECACIHUATL. In the primeval waters of the cosmos, they generated the monstrous goddess CIPACTLI, from whom the earth was formed. In alternative traditions he is the god of the sixth of the thirteen heavens, Ilhuicatl Mamalhuazocan (the heaven of the fire drill), or he is one of the gods who support the lowest heaven at the four cardinal points. Mictlantecuhtli is perceived to reside in the south (codices Borgia and Vaticåñuś B). He is also one of the four great temple deities (codices Borgia, Cospi and Fejervery-Mayer).... |
| Goddess name "Mirahuato" | Peru | Goddess of health Peru |
"Nahual" | Aztec | From the Nahuatl word nahualli which was used to refer to practicioners of harmful magic. In the aztec belief system the day of a persons birth caluclated in the Tonalpohualli would determine the nature of the person - each day was åśśociated with an animal which could have a strong or weak aspect. |
| God name "Nahui Oiiin (earthquake sun)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. According to most of the codices, at the time of the Spanish conquest there had been four previous world ages, each represented by a Sun and terminated by a cataclysm. Ollin, the fifth Sun, was created at Teotihuacan and at the conquest was just under 2,000 years old. It is presided over by the god TONATIUH. Each creation is considered to last 2028 x 52 terrestrial years and the present one is destined to be destroyed by a great earthquake. Tradition has it that Ollin was originally a sickly or humble deity named NANAHUATL (the diseased one). Also (4)Ollin; Ollintonatiuh.... |
| Deities name "Nanahuati (rumor)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. In cosmogony, when on the fifth day of creation the gods sat in judgment to elect the new Sun god, Nanahuatl and TECCIZTECATL cremated themselves in the sacred fire. The heart of Nanahuatl ascended to become the new Sun and that of Tecciztecatl became the moon. Tradition suggests that Nanahuatl is diseased and impoverished but of great courage, while Tecciztecatl is wealthy and a coward. In an alternative tradition, in which Nanahuatl is the son of QUETZALCOATL and Tecciztecatl is the son of TLALOC, both deities are hurled into the fire by their fathers. NOTE: eventually all the gods sacrificed themselves so that mankind might be engendered from their remains. Also Nanahuatzin.... |
| God name "Nanahuatl" | Aztec | Creator god Aztec |
| God name "Nethinium" | Hebrew | The hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of God, an office which the Gibeomtes were condemned to by Joshua. The word means given to God. Joshua ix. 27 |
| God name "Nextepehua" | Aztec | Scatterer of ashes. Minor chthonic underworld god. Aztec |
| Deities name "Nextepehua (ash-scatterer)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor chthonic underworld god. One of the group of deities belonging to the MICTLANTECUHTLI complex.... |
| Deity name "Nezha" | Chinese | Nataku or Nata, a deity, the enfant terrible trickster, originally of Chinese mythology. His official Taoist deity name is Zhongtan Yuanshuai. |
| God name "Occopirmus" | Lithuania | Ockopirmus. Baltic god of the sky and the stars. Lithuania |
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