| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Mandulis/ Merulis" | Greek / Nubian | a Sun god |
| Spirit name "Manes" | Greek | I.e. "the good ones" [mana], is the general name by which the Romans designated the souls of the departed but as it is a natural tendency to consider the souls of departed friends as blessed spirits, the name of Lares is frequently used as synonymous with Manes, and hence also they are called dii Manes, and were worshipped with Divine honours. Greek |
"Mantius" | Greek | A son of Melampus, brother of Antiphates and the father of Cleitus. Greek |
"Manto" | Greek | 1. A daughter of the Theban soothsayer Teiresias. |
"Manto" | Greek | 2. A daughter of the soothsayer Polyeidus (Polyidus) |
| Goddess name "Marian" | Greek | An ancient pagan Sea-goddess |
"Marpessa" | Greek | A daughter of Evenus and Alcippe. She was the wife of Idas and became by him the mother of Cleopatra, or Alcyone, wife of Meleager. Their daughter was called Alcyone because Marpessa was once carried off by Apollo, and lamented over the separation from her beloved husband, as Alcyon had once wept about Ceyx. Greek |
| God name "Mars" | Roman | An ancient Roman god, who was at an early period identified by the Romans with the Greek Ares, or the god delighting in bloody war, although there are a variety of indications that the Italian Mars was originally a divinity of a very different nature. Roman |
"Marsyas" | Greek | Or Mapotfas, a mythological personage, connected with the earliest period of Greek music. He is variously called the son of Hyagnis, or of Oeagrus, or of Olympus. Some make him a satyr, others a peasant. Greek |
"Mastor" | Greek | Two mythical personages, one the father of Lycophron in Cythera, and the other the father of Halitherses in Ithaca. |
| Angel name "Matriel, Matarel, Matariel, Ridya and Zalbesal" | Greek | angels of the Rain. |
| 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 |
"Medon" | Greek | 2. A son of Oileus and Rhene, and a brother of the lesser Ajax. |
"Medusa" | Greek | A daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, and one of the Gorgons. Greek |
| Goddess name "Megaera of Eumenides" | Greek | Goddess of justice Greek |
| King name "Megapenthes" | Greek | A son of Proetus, was king of Argos, and father of Anaxagoras and Iphianeira. He exchanged his dominion for that of Perseus, so that the latter received Tiryns instead of Argos. (Apollodorus. ii.) He is said to have afterwards slain Perseus. Greek |
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