| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Manco Capac" | Inca | God of war and the Sun Inca / Quechua |
| Goddess name "Marishi Ten" | Japan | Goddess of dawn and warriors Japan |
| Goddess name "Matara" | Hindu | Mother goddess. Applied collectively to groups of deities, the Divine mothers, also more specifically to the consort of the god KASYAPA. As Divine mothers they are also regarded as SAKTIS. The numbers vary according to separate traditions and they are therefore identified as the SAPTAMATARAS (seven), ASTAMATARAS (eight) and NAVASAKTIS (nine). Less commonly there may be up to fifty mataras in a group. Their images are normally carved in stone (very few exist in metal) and they are depicted seated, often upon a corpse, and may be of terrifying appearance.... |
| God name "Matsuo" | Japan | God of sake brewers Japan / Shinto |
| God name "Matsuo" | Shinto / Japan | God of sake brewers. Celebrated annually in a festival in Kyoto, when the presence of the god is carried on a palanquin. It is rowed down the river prior to a general celebration, during which sake is drunk liberally.... |
| God name "Mi-Kura-Tana-No-Kami (august storehouse chief kami)" | Shinto / Japan | house god. One of a number of domestic guardian KAMIS, he is particularly concerned with the protection of storehouses.... |
| God name "Mi-Toshi-No-Kami" | Japan | God of rice Japan / Shinto |
| God name "Mi-Toshi-No-Kami (the august harvest kami)" | Shinto / Japan | Agricultural god. The offspring of O-TOSHI-NO-KAMI, the harvest god of rice, and Kagayo-Hime (refulgent princess), he is in charge of crops other than rice.... |
| God name "Mi-Wi-No-Kami" | Japan | God of wells [one of 3] Japan / Shinto |
| Deities name "Mi-Wi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | God of wells. One of three deities responsible for wells, worshiped jointly in the MiWi-Jinja shrine. He is particularly the god of domestic wells.... |
| God name "Mi-kura-Tana-Kami" | Japan | Domestic guardian god who looks after storehouses Japan / Shinto |
| God name "Michi-No-Kami" | Japan | Gods of påśśage åśśociated with road and crossroads Japan / Shinto |
| God name "Michi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Gods of påśśage. The generic name for three KAMIS åśśociated with roads and crossroads. They also protect the boundaries of house and environs and may be known as Yakushin gods, guardians against plague. See KUNADO. Also Chiburi-No-Kami.... |
| Goddess name "Mika-Hiya-Hi" | Japan | God of the Sun, subservient to Goddess of the Sun Japan / Shinto |
| Goddess name "Mika-Hiya-Hi (terrible swift sun)" | Shinto / Japan | Sun god. A deity subservient to the Sun goddess AMATERASU and engendered from the blood of the fire KAMI KAGU-TSUCHI. Certain Japanese still worship the Sun, going outside in the morning, facing east, bowing and clapping their hands in a daily ritual.See also HI-HIYA-HI.... |
| God name "Minato-No-Kami" | Japan | God of river mouths and estuaries Japan / Shinto |
| God name "Minato-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | God of river mouths and estuaries. The son of IZANAGI and IZANAMI and father of the heavenly and earthly water dividers.... |
| Goddess name "Mirume" | Japan | Goddess of justice Japan |
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