Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Mabon (son)" | Celtic / Welsh | God of youth. The son of an earthly mother, MODRON. According to legend he was abducted when three days old. Also a god of hunters and fishermen. He is known particularly from northwestern Britain and his cult extends along the region of Hadrian's Wall. Known from many Romano-Celtic inscriptions and syncretized with the Romano-Greek god APOLLO.... |
God name "Mabon ap Modron" | Celtic | Divine son, the son of Modron "divine mother"). Synonymous with the Ancient British god, Maponos. He was a hunter god who was stolen from his mother three days after his birth. He then lived in Annwn until he was rescued by Culhwch. Because of his time in Annwn, Mabon stayed a young adult forever. Celtic |
"Mahaprabhu" | India | Singi-Arke. The supreme being and creator is generally benevolent but is known to cause fever and convulsions. His wife is Sita Mahalakshmi. The Bondo, India |
God name "Mahaprabhu" | Orissa / India | Tutelary god. The local supreme deity of the Bondo tribe.... |
Deities name "Mbongo" | Ngbandi / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | River god. One of seven deities invoked at Sunrise each morning. The creator god of all black people, said to reside in black waters.... |
God name "Mbongo Ngbandi" | Zaire | God of rivers Zaire |
Goddess name "Medb" | Celtic | Goddess of sexuality, jolly bonking, intoxication and war. Celtic |
God name "Michabon" | Ottawa / Canada | This god is guilty of creating humans from animals |
God name "Michabon Ottawa" | Canada | God who created humans from animals |
Goddess name "Modron (another)" | Celtic / Welsh | Mother goddess. The mother of MABON, whom she subsequently loses. Her cult is closely linked with that of Mabon and she may originally have been one of the aspects of the goddess(es) MORRIGAN. In Christian times some authors believe that she became St. Madrun.... |
Deity name "Nabongo" | Kenya | The Father of all and the supreme deity of the Abaluyia. Kenya |
God name "Nareu" | Melanesia / Vanuatu | Creator god. As in many comparable legends, he created the world inside the shell of a mussel. He engendered a son from sand and water who, in turn, created the Sun and moon from his father's eyes, rocks from his flesh and bones and mankind from his spine.... |
God name "Nyame" | Akan / southern Ghana, West Africa | Creator god. An androgynous being symbolized in his male aspect by the Sun, and his female aspect by the moon. He gave mankind its soul and is the controller of destiny. He enjoys a dedicated priesthood and is worshiped in the form of a tree trunk. Also Odomankoma; Onyame; Onyanko pon; Totrobonsu.... |
God name "Nzame" | Gabon | A three in one god: Nzame, Mebere, and Nkwa. It was the Nzame part of the god that created the universe and the earth, and brought life to it. Gabon |
"Omumborombonga" | Namibia | The Primordial Tree which gave birth to Mukura, the first man, and his wife. Namibia |
"Orbona" | Roman | A female Roman divinity, to whom an altar was erected at Rome, near the temple of the Lares in the Via Sacra. She was invoked by parents who had been deprived of their children, and desired to have others, and also in dangerous maladies of children. Roman |
"Ossipaga" | Roman | Ossipanga, Ossilago, a Roman divinity, who was prayed to, to harden and strengthen the bones of infants. |
"Panthera" | East | A hypothetical beast which lived in the East. Reynard affirmed that he had sent her majesty the queen a comb made of panthera bone, "more lustrous than the Rainbow, more odoriferous than any perfume, a charm against every ill, and a universal panacea." France |