Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Meret/ Mer" | Egypt | A goddess of song & rejoicing as well as the treasury |
Goddess name "Meretseger" | Egypt | Chthonic underworld goddess who brings illness and death to the disrespectful. Egypt |
Goddess name "Meretseger" | Egypt | Localized chthonic goddess åśśociated with the underworld. At Thebes she acted in either benign or destructive fashion against workers building tombs in the Valley of the kings. She is generally depicted as a coiled cobra which may possess a human head and arm. One of the best representations is on the sarcophagus of Rameses III. She lost her popularity when the use of Thebes as a royal cemetery was discontinued early in the first millennium BC.... |
Goddess name "Meretseger/ Meresger" | Egypt | A chthonic underworld goddess who brings illness and death to the disrespectful |
Goddess name "Mesenet" | Egypt | Goddess of the birth tile Egypt |
Goddess name "Messene" | Greek | A daughter of Triopas, and wife of Polycaon, whom she induced to take possession of the country which was called after her, Messenia. She is also said to have introduced there the worship of Zeus and the mysteries of the great goddess of Eleusis. In the town of Messene she was honoured with a temple and heroic worship. Greek |
Goddess name "Messor" | Roman | Minor goddess concerned with the growth and harvesting of crops Roman |
Goddess name "Meter" | Greek | Mother goddess Greek |
Goddess name "Meter" | The essence of the great mother of all gods, equating most closely to GAIA | Mother goddess, Greek. Known throughout the Greek Empire and generally the object of devotion by individuals rather than large cult followings. Also known as Meter oriae (mother of the mountain). Her popularity is thought to have spread from northern Ionia. Herodotus mentions a festival of Meter in Kyzikos. Probably derived originally from the western Asiatic great mother (see KYBELE).... |
Goddess name "Metis" | Greek | Goddess of wisdom. The daughter of OKEANOS and TETHYS. The original consort of ZEUS and mother of ATHENA. According to legend, Zeus swallowed her because he feared she would engender a child more powerful than he.... |
Goddess name "Metsaka" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | moon goddess. Known as grandmother moon, she is the consort of the fire god TATEVALI. She guards the Huichol against the god of death, TOKAKAMI.... |
Goddess name "Metsaka Huichol" | Mexico | Goddess of the moon. Mexico |
Goddess name "Mezamat/ Mezamate" | Latvia | She is the goddess of all Forests |
Goddess name "Mezamate" | Latvian | Goddess of the woods. Latvian |
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 "Micapetlacoli (dead mat chest)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor chthonic underworld goddess. One of the group of deities belonging to the MICTLANTECUHTLI complex.... |
Goddess name "Mictanteot" | S America | Goddess of the underworld. South America |
Goddess name "Mictecachiuatl" | Aztec | Goddess of death and Lady of Mictlan, the underworld. Aztec |