| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Mnemosyne" | Greek | She is the goddess of memory |
| Goddess name "Mnemosyne" | Greek | Goddess of memory. A consort of ZEUS and mother of the legendary nine Muses of Helicon.... |
"Mnestra" | Greek | Mnestra wife of Egios. |
| Goddess name "Moerae" | Greek | A goddess of reason |
| God name "Moira/ Moirai/ Moerae/ Mories/ Fates" | Greek | They are supreme even over the gods of Olympus |
| God name "Moirai" | Greek | Properly signifies "a share," and as a personification "the deity who åśśigns to every man his fate or his share," or the Fates. Homer usually speaks of only one Moira, and only once mentions the Motpai in the plural. In his poems Moira is fate personified, which, at the birth of man, spins out the thread of his future life, follows his steps, and directs the consequences of his actions according to the counsel of the gods. Homer thus, when he personifies Fate, conceives her as spinning, an act by which also the power of other gods over the life of man is expressed. Greek |
| Goddess name "Moirai" | Greek | Collective name for a group of goddesses. The Fates of human life: KLOTHO, the spinner, LACHESIS, the caster of lots, and ATROPOS, the unturnable inevitability of death. The daughters of ZEUS and THEMIS, depicted with spindle, scroll and scales respectively. Also Moires.... |
"Molpadia" | Greek | An Amazon, who was said to have killed Antiope, another Amazon, and was afterwards slain herself by Theseus. Her tomb was shown at Athens. Greek |
"Momus" | Greek | A son of Nyx, is a personification of mockery and censure. Thus he is said to have censured in the man formed by Hephaestus, that a little door had not been left in his breast, so as to enable one to look into his secret thoughts, Greek |
"Momus's Lattice" | Greek | Momus's Lattice or window. Momus blamed Vulcan because he did not set a window or lattice in the human breast for discerning secret thoughts. Greek |
| God name "Monoecus" | Greek | A surname of Heracles, signifying the god who lives solitary, perhaps because he alone was worshipped in the temples dedicated to him. Greek |
| God name "Monos" | Greek | The god of pain & sarcasm |
| God name "Montu" | Egypt | Local god of war. Worshiped in and around the district of Thebes in Upper Egypt. He is known from circa 2000 BC and possibly earlier, but came to special prominence overseeing the aggressive posture of Theban kings from the XI to XVIII Dynasty (2133-1320 BC). Montu is depicted in human form but with a falcon's head surmounted by twin plumes, a Sun disc and the uraeus (cobra). At some stage, probably as Month (Greek), he became identified with a sacred bull, Buchis.... |
"Monychus" | Greek | A centaur who is mentioned by Ovid (Metamorphoses xii) Greek |
| Nymph name "Mopsus" | Greek | 1. A son of Ampyx or Ampycus by the nymph Chloris and, because he was a seer, he is also called a son of Apollo by Himantis. |
| Angel name "Moriel, Ruhiel, Ben Nez and Rujiel" | Greek | angels of the wind. |
"Morius" | Greek | That is, the protector of the sacred olive trees, occurs as a surname of Zeus. Greek |
"Mormo" | Greek | A female spectre, with which the Greeks used to frighten little children. Mormo was one of the same clåśś of bugbears as Empusa and Lamia. |
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