| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "MITHRA (friend)" | Persian / Iran | God of the upper air. Originating in India, Mithra is a god of light who was translated into the attendant of the god AHURA MAZDA in the light religion of Persia; from this he was adopted as the Roman deity Mithras. He is not generally regarded as a sky god but a personification of the fertilizing power of warm, light air. According to the Avesta, he possesses 10,000 eyes and ears and rides in a chariot drawn by white horses. In dualistic Zoroastrianism, which effectively demoted him, Mithra is concerned with the endless battle between light and dark forces; he represents truth. He is responsible for the keeping of oaths and contracts. He was born from a rock and, according to legend, engaged in a primeval struggle with Ahura Mazda's first creation, a wild bull, which he subdued and confined to a cave. The bull escaped, but was recaptured by Mithra, who slit its throat. From the blood sprang plant life on earth. His chief adversary is AHRIMAN, the power of darkness. Mithra is not generally worshiped on his own, but as an integral part of the Mithraic worship of Ahura Mazda, where he acts as an intercessor between gods and men. In the Hellenic period he was transformed more closely to the role of a Sun god. See also AHURA MAZDA.... |
| God name "Mah" | Persia | God, the progenitor of the cow who also presides over tides and time as well as God of the moon Persia |
| God name "Mah" | Persian / Iran | moon god. The progenitor of the cow, typically depicted with the tips of a sickle moon projecting from his shoulders.... |
| God name "Mahiuikez" | Polynesia | Fire god Polynesia |
| Goddess name "Mahui Iki" | Polynesia | Goddess of fire and the underworld. Polynesia |
| Goddess name "Mahuika" | Polynesia | Goddess of earthquakes who rules the edges of the underworld Polynesia |
| Goddess name "Mahuikez" | Polynesian | Fire god. Identified with earthquakes and possibly paralleling TOUIA FATUNA (iron stone goddess) in Tongan belief.... |
| God name "Mainatavasara" | Melanesia | One of Fiji's fourteen vanua; the ancient gods. Melanesia |
| God name "Make Make" | Polynesia | God of creation. Polynesia, Easter Island |
| God name "Make Make" | Polynesian / Easter Island | Sea god. The tutelary deity of the Easter Islanders, he created mankind and animals. His sacred animal is the sea swallow and the huge anthropomorphic stone figures which characterize the island's archaeology form part of his cult.... |
| God name "Makilehohoa" | Java | A sky god, father of Kimulani. Nukumanu and Ontong Java Melanesia |
| God name "Makumba" | Rhodesia | A great god, the tribal god from whom the chief gets his authority. He gives, deprives, and kills, is invoked and made offerings. The Baushi , Rhodesia |
| Goddess name "Marama" | Maori | Goddess of the moon Polynesia / Maori |
| Goddess name "Marama" | Polynesian / Maori | moon goddess. She equates with the Tahitian goddess HINA, daughter of TANGAROA. Tradition has it that her body wastes away with each lunar cycle but is restored when she bathes in the sea from which all life springs.... |
| God name "Marawa" | Melanesia | God who made human beings mortal, supposedly only because he did not know how they were made Melanesia |
| God name "Marruni" | Melanesia | God of earthquakes Melanesia |
| Demon name "Maru" | Polynesian / Maori | God of war. One of the important deities revered by Maori clans in New Zealand in times of war, he may be represented in totems as an aggressive face with a prominent tuft of hair, staring eyes and tongue protruding, though these totems generally represent ancestors rather than deities. Maru may be invoked in the familiar Maori war dances and chants demonstrated popularly by the All Blacks before rugby matches all over the world.... |
| God name "Maui" | Maori | Tutelary god Polynesia / Maori |
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