Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Mahayasa" | Buddhist | Minor goddess Buddhist / Marriott |
Goddess name "Mahayasa (most glorious)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. An attendant of BUDDHAKAPALA.... |
Goddess name "Mahi" | Hindu | Minor goddess of sacrifice Hindu / Vedic |
Goddess name "Mahi (earth)" | Hindu / Vedic | Minor goddess of sacrifice. She is invoked to appear on the sacrificial field before a ritual, and is identified with the act of prayer. Usually åśśociated with the goddess SARASVATI.... |
Goddess name "Mahodadhi" | Buddhist | Minor goddess Buddhist / Meola |
Goddess name "Mahodadhi (the great ocean)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. An attendant of BUDDHAKAPALA.... |
Goddess name "Maia" | Greco - Roman | Chthonic or earth goddess. Originally, in pre-Homeric times, a mountain spirit who subsequently became a minor consort of ZEUS. The Romans worshiped her as an obscure goddess of the plains who became briefly a consort of JUPITER, and they perceived her as the mother of the messenger god Mercury. Her cult was åśśociated with that of VulcanUS. Possibly the origin of the name of the month of May.See also MERCURIUS.... |
Goddess name "Matlalcueye" | Aztec | Minor goddess of fertility. Aztec |
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 | A minor fertility goddess åśśociated with the maguey plant |
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.... |
Goddess name "Medha" | Buddhist | Minor goddess Buddhist / Mahayana |
Goddess name "Medha (wisdom)" | Buddist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. The SAKTI of Sridhara.... |
Goddess name "Mehet-Weret" | Egypt | Minor goddess of the creation accounts Egypt |
Goddess name "Mehet-Weret (great flood)" | Egypt | Minor goddess åśśociated with creation accounts. In some versions of the story she epitomizes the primeval ocean, while in others she is the waterway on which the barque of the Sun god RE travels. She is depicted as a cow bearing a Sun disc between its horns and lying on papyrus reeds.... |
Goddess name "Messor" | Roman | Minor goddess concerned with the growth and harvesting of crops Roman |
Goddess name "Mhalsa" | Hindu / late | Minor goddess. The consort of KHANDOBA and considered to be a form of the goddess PARVATI. Locally worshiped at Jejuri, near Poona in western India.... |
Goddess name "Mhsala" | Hindu | Minor goddess considered to be a form of Parvati Hindu |