Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deity name "Madumda" | N American | The creator deity of the Pomo, frequently identified with Coyote. |
Spirit name "Maho Peneta Mandan" | N American | Great spirit USA |
God name "Mam" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of evil. A much-feared deity who lives beneath the earth and only emerges in times of crisis. Depicted in the form of a flat, life-sized piece of wood dressed as a scarecrow and set upon a stool. He is offered food and drink during Uayeb, the period of five unlucky days at the end of the year, after which the figure is undressed and unceremoniously thrown away. During Uayeb devotees fast and refer to the god as grandfather.... |
God name "Manohel-Tohel" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The deity concerned specifically with the creation of mankind, giving mortals body and soul and leading them from the caves into the light.... |
Goddess name "Matlalcueye (her skirt is blue)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor fertility goddess. One of the group clåśśed as the TLALOC complex, closely åśśociated with water.... |
Goddess name "Mayahuel" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor fertility goddess. One of the group clåśśed as the Ometochtli complex åśśociated with the maguey plant from which pulque is brewed. She may be depicted seated upon a tortoise beside an agave plant in bloom. According to legend she was abducted by QUETZALCOATL and subsequently dismembered by wild animals. From the fragments grew the first agave plants.... |
God name "Meizabac (black powder maker)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | weather god. He sprinkles black dye on the clouds, which causes them to generate Rain. Believed to live on the edge of a lake. Also a fever god and a keeper of good souls. Also Metzabac.... |
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.... |
Deities name "Metztli" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor moon god. One of the group of deities belonging to the TEZCATLIPOCA complex.... |
Deities name "Mexitli (maguey-hare)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of war. One of the group of deities belonging to the HUITZILPOCHTLI complex.... |
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 "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).... |
God name "Mixcoatl-Camaxtli (cloud serpent)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of war. Also a deity of hunting and fire who received human sacrifice of captured prisoners. According to tradition, the Sun god TEZCATLIPOCA transformed himself into MIXCOATL-CAMAXTLI to make fire by twirling the sacred fire sticks.... |
"Mowis" | Indian | The bridegroom of snow, who, according to American Indian tradition, wooed and won a beautiful bride; but when morning dawned, Mowis left the wigwam, and melted into the Sunshine. The bride hunted for him night and day in the Forests, but never saw him more. |
Deities name "Moyocoyani (maker of himself)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of universal power. One of the group of deities known as the TEZCATLIPOCA complex.... |
"Na Pe" | N American | Created men from clay and women from the leftovers. Native American Lore |
God name "Naguai" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Tutelary deity. A generic name for a personal god. A nagual generally takes the form of an animal and it may be adopted either by a mortal being or by another deity.... |