| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Mandulis [Greek]" | Nubian | Sun god. Mandulis was chiefly revered in a Greco-Roman cult. His most important sanctuary was at Kalabsha, close to the Aswan High Dam, and now relocated. A sanctuary was also constructed on the Greek island of Philae where he seems to have enjoyed an åśśociation with the goddess ISIS. Also Merwel (Egyptian).... |
| God name "Mandulis/ Merulis" | Greek / Nubian | a Sun god |
| Goddess name "Marian" | Greek | An ancient pagan Sea-goddess |
| God name "Mars" | Roman | An ancient Roman god, who was at an early period identified by the Romans with the Greek Ares, or the god delighting in bloody war, although there are a variety of indications that the Italian Mars was originally a divinity of a very different nature. Roman |
| Goddess name "Megaera of Eumenides" | Greek | Goddess of justice Greek |
| Goddess name "Meiboia" | Greek | Goddess of bees Greek |
| Goddess name "Meilichia" | Greek | An underworld goddess |
| God name "Meilichius" | Greek | I. e. the god that can be propitiated, or the gracious, is used as a surname of several divinities. 1. Of Zeus, as the protector of those who honoured him with propitiatory sacrifices. At Athens cakes were offered to him every year at the festival of the Diasia. |
| Goddess name "Melicertes" | Greek | Son of Ino, a sea deity. Athamas imagined his wife to be a lioness, and her two sons to be lion's cubs. In his frenzy he slew one of the boys, and drove the other, Melicertes, with his mother into the sea. The mother became a sea-goddess, and the boy the god of harbours. greek |
| Goddess name "Melinoe" | Greek | Or Chthonia, may mean the subterraneous, or the goddess of the earth, that is, the protectress of the fields, whence it is used as a surname of infernal divinities, such as Hecate, but especially of Demeter. Greek |
| Goddess name "Melpomene" | Greek | The singing goddess, one of the nine Muses, became afterwards the Muse of Tragedy. Greek |
| God name "Memphis" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Nilus and wife of Epaphus, by whom she became the mother of Libya. The town of Memphis in Egypt was said to have derived its name from her. Others call her a daughter of the river-god Ucpéñïśus, and add that by Nilus she became the mother of Aegyptus. 2. One of the daughters of Danaus. Greek |
| God name "Men" | Phrygian / Turkey | moon god. Ruler of both upper and lower worlds. Probably also a god of healing, he was subsequently adopted by the Greeks and Romans. The cult was popular during the imperial period, but its inscriptions were written in Greek.... |
| God name "Menesthius" | Greek | 1. A son of Areithous and Philomedusa, of Arne in Boeotia, was slain at Troy by Paris. 2. A son of the river-god Spercheius or of Borus and Polydora, was one of the commanders of the hosts of Achilles. Greek |
| Goddess name "Menrva" | Etruscan | Spiting image of the Greek goddess Athena in all aspects Etruscan |
| Goddess name "Menrva/ Menerva" | Etruscan | A spiting image of the Greek goddess Athena in all aspects |
| 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 "Meter" | Greek | Mother goddess Greek |
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