Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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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 "Me Na/ Ninmenta" | Mesopotamia / Sumeria | Unknown god |
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.... |
Deities name "Men Shen" | Chinese | God of påśśage. One of a pair of deities, armed with bow and arrows, who guard doorways and gates. Paper images are pinned to entrances of homes during the New Year celebrations to ward off evil spirits.... |
God name "Mercury" | Roman | God of astronomy, commerce, messengers, eloquence and sidelines as the messenger of the gods. Roman |
God name "Mercury/ Mecurius" | Roman | A god of astronomy, commerce, messengers, eloquence & sidelines as the messenger of the gods |
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.... |
God name "Mes Ai Du" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / BabylonianAkkadian | God. Probably an alternative title for the Sun god (see S AMAS ).... |
God name "Mes An Du" | Akkadia | God Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia / Sumeria |
God name "Mes Lam Taea" | Akkadia | God of war but thought to be an aggressive aspect of the chthonic underworld god Nergal Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia / Sumeria |
God name "Mes Lam Taea" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | God of war. An aggressive aspect of the chthonic underworld god NERGAL. Often linked with the god LUGAL-IRRA.... |
Goddess name "Mesenet" | Egypt | Goddess of the birth tile Egypt |
Goddess name "Meskhenet" | Egypt | Goddess of prophecy, childbirth, reincarnation, fate and justice Egypt |
Goddess name "Meskhoni" | Egypt | Goddess birth and midwives Egypt |
God name "Meslamtaea" | Sumeria | God, possibly of war Sumeria |
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 |