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Lots And Lots Of Gods
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M
- M. The five M's: Mansa, Matsya, Madya, Maithuna, and
Mudra (flesh, fish, wine, women, and gesticulation). The five
forms of Hindu asceticism.
- Ma signifies probably mother, as in Aeschylus, who applies it
to the earth to designate her as the mother of all. Greek
- Ma, the name of a nymph in the
suite of Rhea, to whom Zeus entrusted the bringing up of the infant
Dionysus. Greek
- Ma, Rhea herself was by the Lydians called Ma, and that bulls
were sacrificed to her, whence the name of the town Mastaura was
derived. Greek
- Ma. Mountain Mother and a fertility and vegetation goddess.
Anatolia
- Ma. The personification of fruitfulness. Asia Minor
- Ma, a warlike deity identified by the Greeks with Enyo and by
the Romans with Bellona. Comana
- Ma. The Goddess of Creation, and mother of Mbali-yamswira.
South Africa
- Ma Emma, Goddess of Midsummer. Baltic
- Ma Kiela, the personification of boiling and dyeing fabrics.
Southern Africa
- Ma Ku, Goddess of springtime. China
- Ma Shi-Ko, Queen of Heavens and Goddess of the Seven Seas.
China
- Ma-zu aka Matsu, Ma-Tsu, A-Ma, and Mizu-Gami, Goddess of the
sea who is a benevolent guardian of fisherman. When you are
facing great difficulty, you can call her Ma-zu and she will
immediately come to your rescue. If, however, you address her as
the "Empress of Heaven", she will have to take time to
put on her fine clothing and will be delayed in coming to your
aid. China
- Maa-Ema, Estonian earth goddess
- Maahes, a lion-god, the devourer of the guilty and protector
of the innocent. Egypt
- Maanegarm or Moongarm [Moon-swallower]. A wolf of Loke's
offspring. He devours the moon. Norse
- Ma'at, truth, order, balance and justice personified.
Egypt
- Mab, a miniature creature who drives her chariot across the
faces of sleeping people and compels them to dream dreams of
wish-fulfillment. Celtic Fairy tale
- Mab. The “fairies' midwife” i.e. employed by
the fairies as midwife of dreams to deliver man's brain of
dreams. Welsh
- Mabb, “utter intoxication.” Originally Queen of
Tara,later Queen of the Faeries and mythological queen of
Connaught. She dumped her husband, King Conchobar and created
nine Irish kings in succession and took each one her lover. She
was also a fierce battle queen. Irish
- Mabon ap Modron, "divine son", the son of Modron
"divine mother"). Synonymous with the Ancient British
god, Maponos. He was a hunter god who was stolen from his mother
three days after his birth. He then lived in Annwn until he was
rescued by Culhwch. Because of his time in Annwn, Mabon stayed a
young adult forever. Celtic
- Macaber. The dance macaber. The Dance of the dead (French,
dance macabre.) A dance over which Death presides, supposed to be
executed by the dead of all ages and conditions. Arabic
- Macar or Macareus. 1. A son of Helios and Rhodes, or,
according to others, a son of Crinacus, who after the murder of
Tenages fled from Rhodes to Lesbos. Greek
- 2. A son of Aeolus, who committed
incest with his sister Canace, and,
according to some accounts, killed himself in consequence.
- 3. A son of Lycaon, from whom the
town of Macaria in Arcadia derived its name.
- 4. A son of Jason and Medeia, who is
also called Mermerus or Mormorus.
- 5. Of Nericus, one of the companions of Odysseus.
- 6. A Lapithes, who at the wedding
of Peirithous slew the centaur Erigdupus.
- 7. The founder of Lesbos, was a son of Crineus and a grandson
of Zeus. Greek
- MacCecht. He was a man of strong and fear. inspiring
countenance. The shaft of his lance was the weight of a
plough-yoke. He had a wooden shield covered with plates of iron,
and upright in his hand he held a spear from the iron point of
which blood dripped. Ireland
- MacCuill, son of the hazel, one of the last Tuath kings, was
so-called because he worshipped the hazel. Fairies danced beneath
the hawthorn. Ogham tablets were of yew. Lady Wilde styled the
elder a sacred tree; and the blackthorn, to which the Irishman is
said to be still devoted, was a sacred tree. Ireland
- Mac Da Tho. God of the otherworld. Irish
- Macedon,
a son of Zeus and Thyia, and a brother of Magnes, from whom
Macedonia was believed to have derived its name. Greek
- Macha. “Queen of Phantoms.” The hooded crow or
raven shape of the Crone in battle aspect; one of the three faces
of The Morrigan. Celtic
- Macha, one of the greatest of the women of the Tuatha de
Danaan, she fed on the heads of men slain in battle. She, along
with Badb and Morrigu, used powers of enchantment to bring mists,
clouds of darkness, and showers of fire and blood over the
Firbolgs at Teamhair for three days. The daughter of Emmass, she
was killed by Balor in the second battle of Mag Tuireadh.
Ireland
- MacGreine, 'Son of the Sun', he was the husband of
Eriu. Ireland
- Macuilcozcacuauhtli (five vulture) - one of the Ahuiateteo,
the gods of excess. Aztec
- Macuilcuetzpalin (five lizard) - one of the Ahuiateteo the,
gods of excess. Aztec
- Macuilmalinalli (five grass) - one of the Ahuiateteo, the
gods of excess. Aztec
- Macuiltochtli (five rabbit) - one of the Ahuiateteo, the gods
of excess. Aztec
- Macuilxochitl (five flower) - the god of games and gambling,
and chief of the Ahuiateteo, the gods of excess. Aztec
- Madalait, Creator goddess and the sister-in-law of Wala, a
sun goddess. Australia
- Madari, a fertility god and he who enriches in the
mother’s womb. Qanat
- Madder-Akka. Creator goddess. Lapland
- Madb, a Celtic goddess of war.
- Madhukara, God whose name means honey maker. Buddhist
- Madumda. The creator deity of the Pomo, frequently identified
with Coyote.
- Maera. The faithful dog of Icarius which was placed amongst the stars as
the constellation Canis Major.
- Maera. A daughter of Nereus.
- Maera. A daughter of Proetus and Anteia,
was one of the companions of Artemis,
but was killed by her after she had become by Zeus the mother of Locrus
- Maera. One of the four daughters of
Erasinus of Argos.
- Maera. A daughter of Atlas, was married to Tegeates, the son of Lycaon.
- Makila. Thunder god. Pomo
- Medeia,
a daughter of Aeetes by the Oceanid Idyia, or, according to
others, by Hecate, the daughter, of Perses. Greek
- Maeltine Mor-Brethach - styled 'of the Great
Judgments', he was a wise man of the Tuatha De Danaan who
advised Lugh not to spare the life of Bres after the second
battle of Magh Tuireadh. Ireland
- Maenades,
the priestesses of Dionysus, who at the celebration of his
festivals gave way to expressions of frenzied enthusiasm, as if
they were under the spell of some demonic power. Greek
- Maeve, Mother goddess who is the apotheosis of the land
Ireland
- Mafdet, Minor goddess who is Guardian against snakes and
scorpions Egypt
- Magano. The supreme being of the Tambaro and the Sidamo,
identified with the sky. Ethiopia
- Magbabaya. The highest and most powerful divinity, the
creator and the sources of all life. Philippines
- Magh Mor, Firbolg princess/goddess Ireland
- Magi, according to Christian fable, were Melchior, Gaspar,
and Balthazar, three kings of the East. The first offered gold,
the emblem of royalty, to the infant Jesus; the second,
frankincense, in token of divinity; and the third, myrrh, in
prophetic allusion to the persecution unto death which awaited
the “Man of Sorrows.”
- Magha, Benevolent minor goddess of fortune
Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Magic Rings. This superstition arose from the belief that
magicians had the power of imprisoning demons in rings. The power
was supposed to prevail in Asia, and subsequently in Salamanca,
Toledo, and Italy.
- Magnes,
1. A son of Aeolus and Enarete, became
the father of Polydectes and Dictys by a Naiad. The scholiast of
Euripides calls his wife Philodice, and his sons Eurynomus and
Eioneus but Eustathius calls his wife Meliboea, and mentions one son Alector, and
adds that he called the town of Meliboea, at the foot of mount
Pelion, after his wife, and the country of Magnesia after his own
name. 2. A son of Argos and Perimele, and father of Hymenaeus
from him also a portion of Thessaly derived its: name Magnesia.
3. A son of Zeus and Thyia, and brother
of Macedon. Greek
- Magpyr family. A family of vampires who attempted to invade
the kingdom of Lancre. Discworld
- Megisto, another form for Callisto, the mother of Areas, who
is also called Thernisto. Greek
- Magna Mater, The Queen of Heaven, Mother of All the Gods,
Great Mother of the gods, Creatrix of the Universe, etc. Mother
goddess from the beginning of time and exists in almost every
ancient mythology. She is the Earth or bears the planet and
beings out of herself.
- Magna Mater aka Cybele, Rhea. The Great Mother. Roman
- Magni, God of the future, who has not yet arrived. son of
Thor norse
- Magog and Gog, are variously presented as men, supernatural
beings (giants or demons), national groups, or lands. Gog and
Magog occur widely in mythology and folklore.
- Mah, God, the progenitor of the cow who also presides over
tides and time as well as God of the moon Persia
- Mah—Abadean Dynasty. The first dynasty of Persian
mythological history. Mah Abad (the great Abad) and his wife were
the only persons left on the earth after the great cycle, and
from them the world was peopled. Azer Abad, the fourteenth and
last of this dynasty, left the earth because “all flesh had
corrupted itself,” and a period of anarchy ensued.
- Maha-Ganapati, Elephant god, this time with 10 arms
Hindu/Puranic
- Maha-Sarasvati, Goddess, an emanation of Laksmi
Hindu/Puranic
- Mahabala, God, a rather fearsome emanation of Amitabha
Buddhist/Mahayana
- Mahabja, Snake god, a Naga Hindu/Puranic
- Mahadara. The supreme being and creator of all things. The
Ot-danoms, Borneo and Indonesia
- Mahadeva, an aspect of Shiva, the supreme God in
Shaivism.
- Mahakala, Guardian god of science and tents Buddhist
- Mahakala, a Hindu Goddess, considered by some to be the
consort of Shiva, and by others as the basis of Reality
- Mahakali, one of three manifestations of Mahadevi, The Great
Goddess. Hindu
- Mahakali, Goddess learning Jain
- Mahakali, represent the ten Mahavidyas or "Great Wisdom
Goddesses". She is depicted in this form as having ten
heads, ten arms, and ten legs. Hindu
- Mahakapi, God and epitaph of the Buddha in a previous
incarnation when he was an ape Buddhist
- Mahalaya. A Devi goddess, the source of the universe.
India
- Mahal Mata, Mother goddess Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Mahalbiya Hausa, Goddess of healing, fevers, ulcers
Africa
- Mahalkakshmi. The Divine Mother. Goddess of war, wisdom and
passion. India
- Mahamanasika, Goddess of learning Jain
- Mahamantranusarni, Guardian goddess Buddhist
- Mahamataras, Group of goddesses Hindu
- Mahamayuri, Snake god Hindu/Buddhist/Mahayana
- Mahapadma, Snake god Hindu
- Mahapararinirvanamurti, God Buddhist
- Mahaprabhu, Singi-Arke. The supreme being and creator is
generally benevolent but is known to cause fever and convulsions.
His wife is Sita Mahalakshmi. The Bondo, India
- Mahapurub. The creator god of the Raja Maria. Identified with
Bhagavan. India
- Mahapratisara, Guardian goddess Buddhist
- Mahapratyangira, Goddess Buddhist/Mahayana
- Maharaksa, Group of guardian goddesses Buddhist
- Maharatri, Goddess associated with Kali and Kamala
Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Mahasahasprramardani, Goddess whose name means the
thousandfold destroyer Buddhist
- Mahasarasavati. One of the 108 names of Kali. India
- Mahasitavati, Guardian goddess Buddhist
- Mahaskti, Divine mother, goddess of war, passion, and wisdom,
Supreme creator of the universe India
- Mahasri-Tara, Goddess Buddhist/Mahayana
- Mahasthamparata, God of knowledge India
- Mahatala, Mahatara. The Prince Of The Sun and The King Of The
Moon. The Ngaju, Borneo
- Mahavidya, Of the collective name of a group of goddesses
Buddhist/Mahayana
- Mahayasa, Minor goddess Buddhist/Marriott
- Mahcinatra, Goddess Buddhist/Tibet/Mahayana
- Maheo. The void dwelling omnipotent Great Spirit and creator
who created the water, light and air. With the help of Coot he
made land by placing mud on the back of Grandmother Turtle, who
then became the earth. Cheyenne Indians
- Mahes, God of the sun normally worshipped in the region of
the Nile delta Egypt
- Mahesvari, the female energy of Mahesvara or Siva or as Durge
the consort of Siva. Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Mahi, Minor goddess of sacrifice Hindu/Vedic
- Mahisa, Demonic god Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Mahisasruramardini, Form of the goddess Devi
Hindu/Puranic
- Mahiuikez, Fire god Polynesia
- Maho Peneta Mandan, Great spirit USA
- Mahodadhi, Minor goddess Buddhist/Meola
- Maho Peneta. The Great Spirit of the Mandan. North
Dakota
- Mahoun. Name of contempt for Mahomet, a Moslem, a Moor. In
Scotland it used to mean devil.
- Mahpiyato. After the time of creation, the world was divided
into three regions; the sky, the earth and waters and the
underworld. When Mahpiyato created humans, they were placed in
the subterranean region.. The Lakota, Plains Indians
- Mahu. The fiend—prince that urges to theft. Lear
- Mahr, Demonic being similar to an Alp germanic/Slavic
- Mahrem Auxmite, Head of the pantheon responsible for war
Ethiopia
- Mahu Fon, Supreme goddess of the earth as well as Goddess of
the moon and fertility Africa
- Mahui Iki, Goddess of fire and the underworld. Polynesia
- Mahuika, Goddess of earthquakes who rules the edges of the
underworld Polynesia
- Mahzian-the-Word, the "spirit who bestows light."
Early Nazorean
- Maia, Goddess of midwives, the night sky, spring, fertility
and fire Greek
- Maia,
or Mcuas, a daughter of Atlas and Pleione (whence she is called
Atlantis and Pleias), was the eldest of the Pleiades, and in a
grotto of mount Cyllene in Arcadia she became by Zeus the mother
of Hermes. Areas, the son of Zeus by Callisto, was given to her
to be reared. Greek
- Maianwatahe. God of plenty and prosperous hunting. Sioux
- Maimoa-a-Longona. The iron rock called Touiafutuna was split
asunder and there leapt forth the second pair of the primordial
male and female twins, Atungake and Maimoa-a-Longona. Tonga,
Polynesia
- Mainatavasara. One of Fiji’s fourteen vanua; the
ancient gods. Melanesia
- Maipe. A supreme being associated with the darkness of night,
the violent wind of the desert and other dangers. Argentina
- Maiph. A supreme being, considered beneficent. The
Pampean/Patagonians, Argentina
- Mair. The demiurge of the Urubu. Brazil
- Maira-Monan, Maire-Monan. Among the Tupinamba, the creator
god. Among the Tupi, a culture hero. Brazil
- Maitresse Amelia. A loa or minor deity. Haitian Vodun
- Maitreya, Designate Buddhist/India
- Maja, Earth mother Sioux
- Majas Gars, Household god Latvia
- Majestas, a divinity worshipped at Rome. She is mentioned in
connection with Vulcan, and was
regarded by some as the wife of that god, though it seems for no
other reason but because a priest of Vulcan offered a sacrifice
to her on the first of May. Roman
- Maju, God who is the consort of the mother goddess and a
divine spirit Basque
- Makarom Manouwe. The masculine principle lives in the sky and
sometimes in the sun, a primordial pair with Makarom Mawakhu.
Island of Keisar, Indonesia
- Makarom Mawakhu. The feminine principle is Present in the
earth, and forms a primordial pair with Makarom Manouwe. Island
of Keisar, Indonesia
- Makawe. The chief god of the Arawa, Ngatituwharetoa, and
Whanganui tribes. New Zealand
- Make Make, god of creation. Polynesia, Easter Island
- Makila. The thunder god who gave the people knowledge and
taught them hunting and fishing and the arts. With Kuksu, the
creators. The northern Pomo, California
- Makilehohoa. A sky god, father of Kimulani. Nukumanu and
Ontong Java Melanesia
- Makonaima, Makunaima. The supreme god and creator who sent
his son Sigu to rule over the earth. Among the Makushi he created
the sky and earth, vegetation, animals and men. Among the Ackawoi
and Caribs, he created birds, animals, and food plants, assisted
by his son Sigu. British Guiana
- Makowasendo. The sky god is the husband of Nangkwijo, the
earth. The Tewa, Pueblo Indians, New Mexico and Arizona
- Ma-ku. Goddess of spring. China
- Makumba. 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
- Mal, Pastoral god whose name means either the the great one
or the dark one Dravidian/Tamil
- Mal, Goddess who ruled the hag's headland Ireland
- Mala, not actually a specific Goddess, more of a generalized
concept of a Crone goddess. Celtic
- Mala, Mother goddess Buddhist/Tibet
- Malakbel N., Vegetation god Arabic
- Malambruno. The giant, first cousin of Queen Maguncia, of
Canday'a, who enchanted Antonomasia and her husband, and shut
them up in the tomb of the deceased queen. The infanta he
transformed into a monkey of brass, and the knight into a
crocodile. Don Quixote achieved their disenchantment by mounting
the wooden horse called Clavileno.
- Malamanganga'e, Creator being who was a personification
of light Polynesia
- Malamangangaifo, Creator being who was a personification of
light Polynesia
- Maliades,
nymphs who were worshipped as the protectors of flocks and of
fruit-trees. The same name is also given to the nymphs of the
district of the Malians on the river Spercheius. Greek
- Malik, Tutelary god, this name is found among other Semitic
people and used as a designator for a god Arabic
- Malimeihevao. A supernatural being known through the oral
traditions of the Tonga, Polynesia.
- Malinalxochitl, sorceress and goddess of snakes, scorpions
and insects of the desert. Aztec
- Mallina, Goddess of the sun Inuit
- Malsum, Destructive brother of Gluskap Algonquin
- Mam, God of evil Mayan
- Mam, Rain god Mopan
- Mama, Goddess of healing Korea
- Mama. Earth Mother of just about everywhere.
- Mama Allpa, Goddess of the harvest Peru
- Mama Cocha, Goddess rain, wind and the ocean Inca/Peru
- Mama Brigitte. Guardian of the Cemetary and of the Dead.
Celtic
- Mama Kilya, Goddess of the moon Inca
- Mama Pacha, Goddess of autumn Inca
- Mama Qoca, Goddess of the ocean Inca
- Mama Quilla, Goddess of the moon Inca
- Mami Wata, a pantheon of ancient water spirits or deities of
the African diaspora.
- Mamaki, Goddess Buddhist
- Mamaldi Amur, Co-creator of earth but she was killed by her
husband for creating Asia, for spite she created souls for at the
magicians he built Siberia
- Mami, Mother goddess, created humankind Babylon
- Mami, Goddess of drunkenness and midwives Sumeria
- Mamitu, Goddess of treaties and oaths, as well as a judge in
the underworld Babylon/Mesopotamia/Akkadia
- Mamlambo, the mother goddess and the goddess of rivers.
Zulu
- Mammon. The god of this world. Mammon was the Syrian god of
wealth, similar to Plutus of Greek and Roman mythology.
Syriac
- Man of Brass. Talos, the work of Hephæstus. He traversed Crete to
prevent strangers from setting foot on the island, and threw
rocks at the Argonauts to prevent
their landing. Talos used to make himself red—hot, and hug
intruders to death.
- Man of Sin. The Roman Catholics say the Man of Sin is
Antichrist. The Puritans applied the term to the Pope of Rome;
the Fifth—Monarchy men to Cromwell; many modern theologians
apply it to that “wicked one” (identical with the
“last horn” of Dan. vii.) who is to immediately
precede the second advent.
- Mana, the "Mind" of the Nag texts. The First Mana
abode for 999,000 myriad of years in his abode. Emanator of
Nitufta, the First Drop. Early Nazorean
- Mana, a concept of an impersonal force or quality that
resides in people, animals, and inanimate objects and that
instills in the appreciative observer a sense of respect or
wonder. Oceanic
- Mana, Manna, the food miraculously produced for the
Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
- Mana uDmuta. Mana and his Likeness, or Likeness of Spirit.
Relates to the Mother of Life, coutnerpart of the Living Spirit
in Mani's system. Early Nazorean
- Manabozho aka Nanabush, Manabozo, a spirit trickster figure
and culture hero. He was the son of a human mother and
Bangishimog, a spirit father. Nanabozho most often appears in the
shape of a rabbit and is characterized as a trickster. He was
sent to Earth by Gitchi Manitou to teach the Ojibwe, and one of
his first tasks was to name all the plants and animals.
Ojibwa
- Manah, one of the three chief goddesses of Mecca. The goddess
of fate and the oldest of the three "Daughters of God".
Aribic
- Mania. An ancient and formidable
Italian, probably Etruscan, divinity of the lower world, is
called the mother of the Manes or
Lares
- Manang Jaban, a medicine man or woman, a witch doctor or
wizard. There are both terrestrial and celestial Manang.
Bali.
- Manannan, is believed to have three legs and his form of
walking was to roll in a circular motion on his three legs like a
wheel in order to get from place to place. Manx
- Manannan Mac Lir, the god of the sea. He is often seen as a
psychopomp, whose responsibility is to escort newly-deceased
souls to the afterlife, and considered to have strong connections
to the Otherworld islands of the dead, the weather, and the mists
between the worlds. Ireland/Welsh/Scots
- Manasa, a naga and goddess of fertility. She is popularly
known as the goddess of wish fulfilment and one who protects
against snakebite. She is also associated with the earth and
higher knowledge. Hindu
- Manasi, the Goddess of Snakes. Indian
- Manasvi, the goddess "That which controls mind".
Indian
- Manat, Goddess, a daughter of Allah Arabic
- Manavi, Goddess of learning Jain
- Manawat, Goddess of destiny Semitic(West)
- Manawydan, God of the sea. Welsh
- Manco Capac, God of war and the sun Inca/Quechua
- Manda, Regent of the planet Saturn India
- Manda dHiia, Manda-d-Hiya, the son of Nis'ibtun. Manda d
Hiia means Gnosis of Life, or Temple of the Living Ones. A Savior
spirit sometimes identified with Hibil. Looks out for humanity.
Younger brother of Hibil-Ziwa. Sometimes Mani's Living
Spirit, but often Yeshu and Miryai. Identified with Yeshu when he
was baptized by John. Manda dHiia and Mahzian appear to have
originally been titles for the Living Spirit, but ones attached
to Yeshu later on. Early Nazorean
- Mandah, Collective name of gods, guardian deities who took
care of irrigation Arabic
- Mandanu, God of divine judgment Babylon/Akkadia
- Mandulis, God of the sun Greek/Nubian
- Manes,
i.e. "the good ones" [mana], is the general name by
which the Romans designated the souls of the departed but as it
is a natural tendency to consider the souls of departed friends
as blessed spirits, the name of Lares is frequently used as
synonymous with Manes, and hence also they are called dii Manes,
and were worshipped with divine honours. Greek
- Mang Chin i, Goddess of the womb China
- Mang Shen, Agriculture god China
- Mangala, Goddess, a form of auspicious bliss. Hindu
- Mangala, Astral god Hindu
- Mangalla, Stellar deity who rules the planet Mars India
- Mangalubulan, God of thieves. Batak
- Mangar-kunjer-kunja, a lizard god who created humans. He
found the first beings, Rella manerinja, on one side of a hill;
they were fused together and he separated them with a knife and
cut holes for their mouths, ears, and noses, then gave them the
knife, spear, shield, fire, boomerang, and the tjurunga, and
lastly gave them a system of marriage. Australia
- Mannheimar (plural) [Homes of man]. Our earth. Manheim.
Norse
- Mani, Moon or Maane. Brother of Sol (the sun, feminine), and
both were children of the giant Mundilfare. Norse
- Mania, an ancient and formidable Italian, probably Etruscan,
divinity of the lower world, is called the mother of the Manes or Lares. As
regards her being the mother of the Manes or Lares, the idea
seems to have been, that the souls of the departed on their
arrival in the lower world became her children, and either there
dwelt with her or ascended into the upper world as beneficent
spirits.
- Manibozho, The Great Hare, a trickster god, and founder of
their magical worship. He is also regarded as the inventor of
fishing, hieroglyphs, and as the creator of the earth.
Algonquin
- Manidhara. Minor deity and Lokeshvara's attendant.
Tibetan Buddhist
- Manisha, Goddess of mind; intelligence, desires and wishes.
Indian
- Manitou, Manito, Manitu, in traditional Algonquian First
Nations culture, is the Great Spirit, the Creator of all things
and the Giver of Life. "Manitou" is an Algonquin word
for "spirit", and "Gitche Manitou" means
"Great Spirit".
- Manjughosa, speaks from the depths of Enlightened awareness
and transforms wrong views into Wisdom. A Buddhist
Bodhisattva
- Manjusri, the bodhisattva of keen awareness. Buddhist
- Manmatha, god of love, represented as a young and handsome
winged man who wields a bow and arrows. His bow is made of
sugarcane with honeybees on it as the string and his arrows are
decorated with five kinds of fragrant flowers. Its string is made
of a chain of honeybees. Hindu
- Manna of Saint Nicholas. The remains of Saint Nicholas, the
saint who Santa Claus is based on, secrete a clear liquid, that
is called "manna", from inside the tomb of the former
Bishop of Myra. The liquid is attributed with miraculous
abilities.
- Manoa. The fabulous capital of El Dorado, the houses of which
city were said to be roofed with gold.
- Manohel-Tohel, Creator god. Mayan
- Mantchu Muchangu, God of dressmakers. Shango, Africa
- Mantius,
a son of Melampus, brother of Antiphates and the father of
Cleitus. Greek
- Manto. 1. A daughter of the Theban
soothsayer Teiresias.
- Manto. 2. A daughter of the
soothsayer Polyeidus (Polyidus)
- Manto. 3. A daughter of Heracles
- Mantra or Mintra. A spell, a talisman, by which a person
holds sway over the elements and spirits of all denominations.
Persian
- Manu, Primordial creator god Hindu/Vedic
- Manungal, Chthonic underworld god
Babylon/Mesopotamia/Akkadia/Sumeria
- Manuzi, Goddess of mountains, part of the pair with the
weather god Syria
- Manzasiri Kalmyk, Primeval god from whose body at the world
of was formed Mongol
- Mao Meng, God of astronomy, Jupiter, Mercury China
- Maponos, Tribal god British
- Ma Rba. One of the names of the Great Sealing of the Mighty
Sublime Life. Early Nazorean
- Mara, Goddess of death or the evil principle Buddhist
- Mara, Definitely a goblin to fear, he seizes males while in
their beds and removes all speech and motion. Norse
- Mara d Rabuta, Mara-d-Rabutha-'laita, Aramaic word
meaning Priest and King and Angel.
- Mara d Rabutha is the Lord of Greatness. Aramaic
- Marama, Goddess of the moon Polynesia/Maori
- Marawa, God who made human beings mortal, supposedly only
because he did not know how they were made Melanesia
- Marcassin. The Prince of the Italian fairies.
- Marchocias, Prince of the hellish realms, supposedly one of
the angels who followed Satan. Medieval Europe
- Marcia Proba, Warrior queen goddess British
- Marcia Proba, Goddess of justice Celtic
- Mardal, Mardoll or Martholl. One of the names of Freyja.
Mardallar gratr (the tears of Mardal), gold. Norse
- Marduk, God of fertility , the lord of all the gods
Babylon/Mesopotamia
- Maret Jikky, Supreme goddess Botocudo
- Maretkhmakniam, Supreme god Botocudo
- Margawse, Mother, aspect of the goddess British/Welsh
- Marginen. A personification of the creative principle of the
world. The Chukchee, Siberia
- Margutte. A giant ten feet high, who died of laughter on
seeing a monkey pulling on his boots. France
- Mari, Supreme mother goddess Basque
- Mari, Deification of literature Buddhist
- Mari, Rain goddess and the goddess of smallpox
Dravidian/Tamil
- Mari, Mother and goddess of the sea Middle east
- Mari Mai, Plague goddess associated with cholera Hindu
- Marian, an ancient pagan Sea-goddess
- Mariana, Goddess of healing and protector of sailors
Belem
- Mariana, Goddess of love Brazil
- Marica. Goddess of agriculture. Etruscan
- Marici, Solar goddess Buddhist/China
- Marie aim'e, Goddess of disease Martinique
- Marina, Goddess of the moon Slavic
- Marinette, An goddess of the earth Haiti
- Marishi Ten, Goddess of dawn and warriors Japan
- Mariyamman, Plague goddess with a bizarre form of penance
Dravidian/Tamil
- Mark. A mythical king of Cornwall, Sir Tristram's uncle.
He lived at Tintagel Castle, and married Isolde the Fair, who was
passionately enamoured of his nephew, Sir Tristram. The illicit
loves of Isolde and Tristram were proverbial in the Middle
Ages.
- Marmalik Kafir, Chthonic underworld god Afghanistan
- Marnas N., Local tutelary god Arabic
- Marpessa,
a daughter of Evenus and Alcippe. She was the wife of Idas and
became by him the mother of Cleopatra, or Alcyone, wife of
Meleager. Their daughter was called Alcyone because Marpessa was
once carried off by Apollo, and lamented over the separation from
her beloved husband, as Alcyon had once wept about Ceyx.
Greek
- Marruni, God of earthquakes Melanesia
- Mars, 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
- Mars. Under this planet “is borne theves and robbers
nyght walkers and quarell pykers, bosters, mockers, and skoffers;
and these men of Mars causeth warre, and murther, and batayle.
They wyll be gladly smythes or workers of yron lyers, gret
swerers. ... He is red and angry ... a great walker, and a maker
of swordes and knyves, and a sheder of mannes blode ... and good
to be a barboure and a blode letter, and to drawe
tethe.”
Compost of Ptholomeus
- Marsyas,
or Mapotfas, a mythological personage, connected with the
earliest period of Greek music. He is variously called the son of
Hyagnis, or of Oeagrus, or of Olympus. Some make him a satyr,
others a peasant. Greek
- Martha, patron saint of good housewives, is represented in
Christian art as clad in homely costume, bearing at her girdle a
bunch of keys, and holding a ladle or pot of water in her hand.
Like St. Margaret, she is accompanied by a dragon bound, but has
not the palm and crown of martyrdom. The dragon is given to St.
Martha from her having destroyed one that ravaged the
neighbourhood of Marseilles. Christian
- Martu, 'He who dwells on the pure mountain' and is
sometimes described as a 'shepherd', a son of the sky-god
Anu. Sumeria
- Marunogere, after he taught them how to build their great
communal houses he bored a hole in each woman to give her sexual
organs and in the evening he was content to die after he felt the
gentle rocking of the great house as the men and women were
locked in the first sexual embrace. Kiwai Papuans
- Marutgana, Maruts, storm deities and sons of Rudra and Diti
and attendants of Indra. The number of Maruts varies from two to
sixty (three times sixty in RV 8.96.8. They are very violent and
aggressive, described as armed with golden weapons i.e.
lightnings and thunderbolts, as having iron teeth and roaring
like lions, as residing in the north, as riding in golden
chariots drawn by ruddy horses. Hindu
- Mary Magdalene. Patron saint of penitents, being herself the
model penitent of Gospel history.
- Marzana, Goddess of winter Poland
- Masauwu, God of fire, war, death, and the night Hopi
- Masaya, Goddess of fire volcanoes and earthquakes
Nicaragua
- Masgm. A minor angel. Enochian
- Massassi, Goddess of the morning star Zimbabwe
- Master of Winds, God of the winds Iroquois
- Mastor. Two mythical personages, one
the father of Lycophron in Cythera, and the other the father of
Halitherses in Ithaca.
- Mat, Goddess of the earth Slavic
- Mata, Primeval mother goddess Hindu
- Mata, the Sea-Turtle that could suck down a man in armour.
Ireland
- Mathgen, the great magician of the Tuatha de Danaan who had
the power to topple mountains onto his enemies. Ireland
- Matara, Mother goddess applied to the divine mothers
Hindu
- Mataras, Group of goddesses India
- Matarisvan, Minor messenger god Hindu/Epic
- Mater Matuta, Goddess of the dawn, the sky and seafaring
Roman
- Matergabiae, Goddess of fire, and the home Lithuania
- Mathit, Tree goddess who helps the dead climb to heaven
Egypt
- Math fab Mathonwy, a king of Gwynedd who needed to rest his
feet in the lap of a virgin unless he was at war, or he would
die. Welsh
- Mathgen - the great magician of the Tuatha de Danaan who had
the power to topple mountains onto his enemies. Ireland
- Matholwch, a King of Ireland, is a character in the Second
Branch of the Mabinogi
- Mathonwy, a benevolent ruler of the underworld akin to Beli,
or perhaps that god himself under another title, for the name
Mâth. Welsh
- Mati syra zemlya, Goddess of justice Slavic
- Matlalcueye, Minor goddess of fertility. Aztec
- Matlalceuitl aka Matlalcueje, goddess of rainfall and
singing. Identified with Chalchiuhtlicue. Aztec
- Matres, Triads of mother goddesses Roman/Pan-Celtic
- Matrona, Goddess of the Marne River Celtic
- Matronae, Three mother goddesses who oversee fertility, they
prefer peace, tranquillity and kids Celtic
- Matronit, Goddess of chastity, promiscuity, and motherhood.
Spain
- Matsuo, God of sake brewers Japan/Shinto
- Matsya, Incarnation of the god Visnu Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Maturaiviran, Locally worshipped god with an interesting
story Hindu
- Maugys. A giant who keeps a bridge leading to a castle by a
riverside, in which a beautiful lady is besieged. Sir Lybius, one
of Arthur's knights, does battle with the giant; the contest
lasts a whole summer's day, but terminates with the death of
the giant and liberation of the lady. Britain
- Maui, Tutelary god Polynesia/Maori
- Maut, female principle of generation. Egypt
- Mauthe Dog. A spectre hound that for many years haunted the
ancient castle of Peel town, in the Isle of Man. This black
spaniel used to enter the guard—room as soon as candles
were lighted, and leave it at day—break. While this
spectre—dog was present the soldiers forebore all oaths and
profane talk. One day a drunken trooper entered the
guard—house alone out of bravado, but lost his speech and
died in three days. Manx
- Mawu, Goddess of peace, joy, motherhood. happiness, and the
sky Benin/Fon
- Mawu Ewe, Sky god Tongo
- Mawu Fon, Goddess of the moon Benin
- May—day. Polydore Virgil says that the Roman youths
used to go into the fields and spend the calends of May in
dancing and singing in honour of Flora, goddess of fruits and
flowers. The early English consecrated May—day to Robin
Hood and the Maid Marian, because the favourite outlaw died on
that day. Stow says the villagers used to set up May—poles,
and spend the day in archery, morris—dancing, and other
amusements.
- May Molloch or The Maid of the Hairy Arms. An elf who
condescends to mingle in ordinary sports, and even to direct the
master of the house how to play dominoes or draughts. Like the
White Lady of Avenel, May Molloch is a sort of banshee.
Irish
- Mayan, Goddess of illusion Hindu
- Mayahuel aka Mayahual, Mayouel, the goddess of maguey, and by
extension, alcohol. Aztec
- Mayanhuel, Goddess of the night sky and of drunkenness
Mexico
- Mayanjalakrama-Kurukulla, Goddess Buddhist/Mahayana
- Mayanvel, Goddess of children India
- Mayan[devi], Mother goddess Buddhist
- Mayin Tungus, Benevolent, remote, supreme god Siberia
- Mayon, Creator god Dravidian/Tamil
- Mazikeen or Shedeem. A species of beings in Jewish mythology
exactly resembling the Arabian Jinn or genii, and said to be the
agents of magic and enchantment. When Adam fell, says the Talmud,
he was excommunicated for 130 years, during which time he begat
demons and spectres; for, it is written, “Adam lived 130
years and (i.e. before he) begat children in his own
image”. Genesis v
- Mbitumbo Baule, Creator and guardian god Ivory Coast
- Mbomba Mongo, Creator god Zaire
- Mbombe Nkundo, Mother goddess Zaire
- Mbongo Ngbandi, God of rivers Zaire
- Me'mdeye-Ecl'e Yukaghir, Known as father fire, a fire
spirit Siberia
- Mecca's Three Idols. Lata, Aloza, and Menat, all of which
Mahomet overthrew.
- Medea. A sorceress, daughter of the King of Colchis. She
married Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, whom she aided to
obtain the golden fleece. Greek
- Medea's Kettle or Caldron, to boil the old into youth
again. Medea, the sorceress, cut an old ram to pieces, and,
throwing the pieces into her caldron, the old ram came forth a
young lamb. The daughters of Pelias thought to restore their
father to youth in the same way; but Medea refused to utter the
magic words, and the old man ceased to live. Greek
- Medb, Goddess of sexuality, jolly bonking, intoxication and
war. Celtic
- Medeine, Goddess of the forests Lithuania
- Medha, Minor goddess Buddhist/Mahayana
- Medhbh. Queen of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle of Irish
mythology. Her father was Eochaid Feidlech, the High King of
Ireland. Her best-known husband was Ailill mac Máta,
although she had several husbands before him, all of whom were
kings of Connacht while they were married to her.
- Medici, Goddess of light Manichaean
- Meditirina, Goddess of healing Roman
- Meditrina, Goddess of healing, of medicine Roman
- Medon. 1. A herald in the house of
Odysseus.
- Medon. 2. A son of Oileus and Rhene, and a
brother of the lesser Ajax.
- Medr, Ancient earth spirit, gender unknown Ethiopia
- Medusa,
a daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, and one of the Gorgons.
Greek
- Mefitis, Goddess associated with sulfur springs Roman
- Megaera of Eumenides, Goddess of justice Greek
- Megapenthes,
a son of Proetus, was king of Argos, and father of Anaxagoras and
Iphianeira. He exchanged his dominion for that of Perseus, so
that the latter received Tiryns instead of Argos. (Apollodorus.
ii.) He is said to have afterwards slain Perseus. Greek
- Meghanda, Minor god Hindu
- Magne [megin, strength]. A son of Thor. Norse
- Mehen, Minor chthonic underworld god Egypt
- Meher, God of the sun who was closely linked with Mithra
Armenia
- Mehet-uret, Goddess who was the embodiment of all primeval
waters Egypt
- Mehet-Weret, Minor goddess of the creation accounts
Egypt
- Mehit, Goddess of lions Egypt
- Mehturt, Goddess of the sky Egypt
- Meiboia, Goddess of bees Greek
- Meiden, God of forests and animals Lithuania
- Meile. A son of Odin. Norse
- Meilichius, 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.
2. Of Dionysus in the island of Naxos.
3. Of Tyche or Fortune. The plural is also applied to certain
divinities whom mortals used to propitiate with sacrifices at
night, that they might avert all evil, as e. g. at Myonia in the
country of the Ozolian Locrians. Greek
- Mejdejn. Goddess of trees and forests. Lithuanian
- Mekal aka Nergal, Resheph. God of the plague and of the
underworld, fertility, war, well-being and plenty.
Phoenecian
- Melaneus,
a son of Apollo, and king of the Dryopes, He was the father of
Eurytus and a famous archer. According to a Messenian legend
Melaneus came to Perieres who assigned to him a town as his
habitation which he called Oechalia, after his wife's name.
Greek
- Melampus,
a son of Amythaon by Eidomene, or according to others, by Aglaia
or Hhodope and a brother of Bias. He was looked upon by the
ancients as the first mortal that had been endowed with prophetic
powers, as the person that first practised the medical art, and
established the worship of Dionysus in Greece. Greek
- Melanippe,
a daughter of Cheiron, is also called Euippe. Being with child by
Aeolus, she fled to mount Pelion but Cheiron made search after
her and in order that her condition might not become known, she
prayed to be metamorphosed into a mare. Artemis granted the
prayer, and in the form of a horse she was placed among the
stars. Greek
- Melas. A son of Poseidon by a nymph of Chios, and
brother of Angelus.
- Melas. One of the Tyrrhenian pirates
mentioned under Melanthus No.
1.
- Melas. A son of Phrixus and Chalciope, was married to Eurycleia, by whom he became the father of
Hyperes.
- Melas. A son of Porthaon and Euryte,
and brother of Oeneus.
- Meleager,
a son of Oeneus and Althaea, the daughter of Thestius, and was
married to Cleopatra, by whom he became the father of Polydora.
Greek
- Melia,
a nymph, a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys,
became by Inachus the mother of
Phoroneus and Aegialeus or Pegeus. (Apollodorus. ii) By Seilenus she
became the mother of the centaur, Pholus (Apollodorus. ii), and by Poseidon of Amycus. Greek
- Meliboea,
1. A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and, by Pelasgus, the mother
of Lycaon. 2. A daughter of Magnes, who called the town of
Meliboea, in Magnesia, after her. 3. One of the daughters of
Niobe. Greek
- Melicertes. 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
- Melinoe,
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
- Melior. A lovely fairy, who carried off Parthenopex of Blois
to her secret island in her magic bark. French
- Melissa. The prophetess who lived in Merlin's cave.
Bradamant gave her the enchanted ring to take to Rogero; so,
assuming the form of Atlantes, she went to Alcina's island,
and not only delivered Rogero, but disenchanted all the forms
metamorphosed in the island. In book xix. she assumes the form of
Rodomont, and persuades Agramant to break the league which was to
settle the contest by single combat. A general battle ensues.
Orlando Furioso
- Melissus,
an ancient king of Crete, who, by Amalthea, became the father of
the nymphs Adrastea and Ida, to whom Rhea entrusted the infant
Zeus to be brought up. Other accounts call the daughters of this
king Melissa and Amalthea. Greek
- Melkart, God in charge of travelers, sailors, colonies and
the city of Tyre who, like the Phoenix, is regenerated by fire
Phoenicia
- Mella, Goddess of healing, sorcery and shamanism.
Zimbabwe
- Mellonia, a Roman divinity, who was believed to protect the
honey, but is otherwise unknown.
- Melki-Ziwa. King of Light behind the north star. Aramaic
- Melobosis, a nymph, said to have
been a daughter of Oceanus. Greek
- Melpomene, the singing goddess, one of the nine Muses, became
afterwards the Muse of Tragedy. Greek
- Melpomenus, the singer, was a surname of Dionysus at Athens, and in the Attic demos of
Acharne. Greek
- Melqart, Melkart, the tutelary god of the Phoenician city of
Tyre.
- Melusina. Having enclosed her father in a high mountain for
offending her mother, she was condemned to become every Saturday
a serpent from her waist downward. When she married Raymond,
Count of Lusignan, she made her husband vow never to visit her on
a Saturday; but, the jealousy of the count being excited, he hid
himself on one of the forbidden days, and saw his wife's
transformation. Melusina was now obliged to quit her mortal
husband, and was destined to wander about as a spectre till the
day of doom. Some say the count immured her in the dungeon of his
castle. France
- Melwas, God of the underworld and the “king of the
Summer Country”. Cornwall, Britain
- Mem Loimis, Goddess of water. Wintun
- Meme, Goddess of healing Zaire
- Memphis,
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 Uchoreus, and add that by Nilus she became the mother
of Aegyptus. 2. One of the daughters of Danaus. Greek
- Men, God of the moon who ruled the upper and lower world
Turkey
- Men Ascaenus Antioch, Local tutelary god Asia Minor
- Men Phygia, God of the moon who ruled over in the heavens,
but the underworld as well Asia Minor
- Men Shen, Two guardians of doorways China
- Mena, Goddess of mountains Hindu
- Menahka, God of the sun Mandaean
- Menchit, originally a foreign war goddess, and the female
counterpart, and thus wife, to Anhur. It was said that she had
come from Nubia with Anhur. Her name depicts this warrior status,
as it means she who massacres. Egypt
- Mene, a female divinity presiding over the months. Greek
- Menechen, Supreme god Chile
- Menelaus,
a son of Atreus, and younger brother of
Agamemnon and Anaxibia. He was king of Lacedaemon, and
married to the beautiful Helen, by whom
he was the father of Hermione and
Megapenthes. Greek
- Meness, God of the moon as well as the guardian of travelers
and military expeditions Latvia
- Menesthius,
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
- Meng Po, Goddess of justice China
- Meng-Po-Niang. Goddess who stands at the Ninth Chinese Hell.
Her magic potion was administered to each soul, so that they
would forget their past lives. China
- Menhit, Lion goddess Egypt
- Meni, God of luck, both good and bad Phoenicia
- Menoetius,
1. A son of Japetus and Clymene or Asia, and a
brother of Atlas, Prometheus and, Epimetheus, was killed by
Zeus with a flash of lightning, in the
fight of the Titans, and thrown into
Tartarus. (Theogony of Hesiod 507)
- Menoetius
2. A son of Ceuthonyraus, a guard of the oxen of Pluto.
- Menoetius3.
A son of Actor and Aegina, a
step-brother of Aeacus, and husband of
Polymele, by whom he became the father of Patroclus. Greek
- Menrva, Spiting image of the Greek goddess Athena in all
aspects Etruscan
- Mens, i. e. mind, a personification of mind, worshipped by
the Romans. She had a sanctuary on the Capitol. The object of her
worship was that the citizens might always be guided by a right
and just spirit. Roman
- Mentes,
1. The leader of tho Cicones in the Trojan war, whose appearance
Apollo assumed when he went to encourage Hector. 2. A son of
Anchialus, king of the Taphians north of Ithaca. He was connected
by ties of hospitality with the house of Odysseus. When Athena
visited Telemachus, she assumed the personal appearance of
Mentes. Greek
- Menthu, God of war Egypt
- Menu, God of the moon Lithuania
- Menulis, a Roman divinity who had a grove and temple in the
Esquiliae, on a spot which it was thought fatal to enter.
- Menzabac, Weather god who causes the rain by sprinkling black
dye on the clouds, he has a side line as a fever god and the
keeper of good souls Mayan
- Mephistopheles, Mephistophilis, Mephostophilus. A sneering,
jeering, leering tempter. The character is that of a devil in
Goethe's Faust. He is next in rank to Satan. Christian
- Mephitis, Goddess of healing and poisonous gases. Roman
- Mercury, God of astronomy, commerce, messengers, eloquence
and sidelines as the messenger of the gods. Roman
- Mercury in astrology, “signifieth subtill men,
ingenious, inconstant: rymers, poets, advocates, orators,
phylosophers, arithmeticians, and busie fellowes.”
- Mere Ama, Goddess of the ocean, streams and brooks
Finnish
- Meresger. "She who loves silence". Goddess of the
Valley of the Kings at Thebes.
- Meret, a son of Molus, conjointly with Idomeneus, led the
Cretans in 80 ships against Troy where he was one of the bravest
heroes, and usually acted together with his friend Idomeneus.
Greek
- Meret, Goddess of song and rejoicing as well as the treasury
Egypt
- Meretseger, Chthonic underworld goddess who brings illness
and death to the disrespectful. Egypt
- Merin, the only god, this man of war and of faith inspires
his warriors with incomparable passion when leading them into
combat against the minions of Darkness. Akkylannie
- Merodach, God of the sun Babylon
- Merope,
1. A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and by Clymenus the mother
of Phaeton. 2. One of the Heliades or sisters of Phaeton
Greek
- Merrow. A mermaid, believed by Irish fishermen to forebode a
coming storm. There are male merrows, but no word to designate
them.
- Merry Dun of Dover. A large mythical ship, which knocked down
Calais steeple in passing through the Straits of Dover, and the
pennant, at the same time, swept a flock of sheep off Dover
cliffs into the sea. The masts were so lofty that a boy who
ascended them would grow grey before he could reach deck again.
Scandinavian
- Meru. A fabulous mountain in the centre of the world, 80,000
leagues high, the abode of Vishnu, and a perfect paradise. It may
be termed the Indian Olympus.
- Merulis, a form of the God of the sun. Ancient Egypt
- Mes An Du, God Babylon/Mesopotamia/Akkadia/Sumeria
- Mes Lam Taea, God of war but thought to be an aggressive
aspect of the chthonic underworld god Nergal
Babylon/Mesopotamia/Akkadia/Sumeria
- Mesenet, Goddess of the birth tile Egypt
- Meskhenet, Goddess of prophecy, childbirth, reincarnation,
fate and justice Egypt
- Meskhoni, Goddess birth and midwives Egypt
- Meslamtaea, God, possibly of war Sumeria
- Messene,
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
- Messor, Minor goddess concerned with the growth and
harvesting of crops Roman
- Mestor, the name of four mythical personages, of whom nothing
of interest is related. Greek
- Mestra, a daughter of Erysichthon, and granddaughter of Triopas. She was sold by her hungry father,
that he might obtain tha means of satisfying his hunger. In order
to escape from slavery she prayed to Poseidon, who loved her, and conferred on her
the power of metamorphosing herself whenever she was sold, and of
thus each time returning to her father. Greek
- Metabus, a son of Sisyphus, from
whom the town of Metapontum, in Southern Italy, was believed to
have derived its name. Greek
- Metaneira,
the wife of Celeus, and mother of Triptolemus, received Demeter
on her arrival in Attica. Pausanias calls her Meganaera.
Greek
- Metatron, Demon/angel of countenance and custodian of
strength, OK Jewish
- Meter, Mother goddess Greek
- Metis,
the personification of prudence, is described as a daughter of
Oceanus and Thetys. At the instigation of Zeus, she gave to
Cronos a vomitive, whereupon he brought back his children whom he
had devoured. Greek
- Metion,
a son of Erechtheus and Praxithea, and husband of Alcippe. His
sons, the Metionidae, expelled their cousin Pandion from his
kingdom of Athens, but were themselves afterwards expelled by the
sons of Pandion. Greek
- Metsaka Huichol, Goddess of the moon. Mexico
- Metztli, lowly god of worms who failed to sacrifice himself
to become the sun, and became the moon instead, his face darkened
by a rabbit. Aztec
- Mextli, a god of war and storms. Aztec
- Mezadeva, a deity skilled in the art of preparing poison.
Snookum Chuck
- Mezamat, Goddess of all forests Latvia
- Mezamate. Goddess of the woods. Latvian
- Mezavirs, God of all forests Latvia
- Mezentius,
a mythical king of the Tyrrhenians or Etruscans, at Caere or
Agylla, and father of Lausus. When he was expelled by his
subjects on account of his cruelty he took refuge with Turnus,
king of the Rutulians, and assisted him in his war against Aeneas
and the Trojans. Greek
- Mgam. A minor angel. Enochian
- Mhaya, Goddess of deserted lovers Tanzania
- Mhsala, Minor goddess considered to be a form of Parvati
Hindu
- Mi lo Fo, Coming Buddha China
- Mi-kura-Tana-Kami, Domestic guardian god who looks after
storehouses Japan/Shinto
- Mi-Lo-Fo, God Buddhist/China
- Mi-Toshi-No-Kami, God of rice Japan/Shinto
- Mi-Wi-No-Kami, God of wells [one of 3] Japan/Shinto
- Miach, a son of Diancecht and brother of Airmed, he was
better at healing than his father. He replaced the silver hand
that Diancecht had fashioned for Nuada with Nuada's original
hand and healed it. Diancecht, jealous of his son's healing
powers, killed him. But 365 healing herbs sprang up from his
grave. Ireland
- Miao Hu, Agriculture god China
- Micapetlacoli, Minor chthonic underworld goddess Aztec
- Michabon Ottawa, God who created humans from animals
Canada
- Michael. Prince of the celestial armies, commanded by God to
drive the rebel angels out of heaven. Gabriel was next to him in
command. Hebrew/Christian
- Michalon. God who created humans from animals. Central
Canada
- Michi-No-Kami, Gods of passage associated with road and
crossroads Japan/Shinto
- Mictanteot, Goddess of the Underworld. South America
- Mictecachiuatl, goddess of death and Lady of Mictlan, the
underworld. Aztec
- Mictlantecuhtli, the god of death and Lord of Mictlan, also
as god of the south, one of the skybearers. Aztec
- Mida, Goddess of oaths Greek
- Midas, a son of Gordius by Cybele, a wealthy but effeminate
king of Phrygia, a pupil of Orpheus, and a promoter of the
worship of Dionysus. His wealth is alluded to in a story
connected with his childhood, for it is said that while yet a
child, ants carried grains of wheat into his mouth to indicate
that one day he should be the richest of all mortals. Greek
- Midas—eared. Without discrimination or judgment. Midas,
King of Phrygia, was appointed to judge a musical contest between
Apollo and Pan, and gave judgment in favour of the satyr;
whereupon Apollo in contempt gave the king a pair of ass's
ears. Midas hid them under his Phrygian cap; out his servant, who
used to cut his hair, discovered them, and was so tickled at the
“joke,” which he durst not mention, that he dug a
hole in the earth, and relieved his mind by whispering in it
“Midas has ass's ears.” Greek
- Mide, the son of Brath, he kindled the first fire that was
ever kindled in Ireland, at Uisnech, for the sons of Nemed.
Ireland
- Mideia or Midea. 1. A Phrygian woman, the mother of Licymnius
and Electryon.
2. A daughter of Phylas, and by Heracles the mother of Antiochus.
3. A nymph, who became the mother of
Aspledon by Poseidon. Greek
- Midewiwin, showed and taught people the importance of
maintaining a balanced living by herbal medicines, vision
questing, and the sacred teachings and songs. Prayers and songs
invoked the power of the plant medicines. Great Lakes tribes.
Canada
- Midgard. The mid-yard, middle-town, that is, the earth, is a
mythological word common to all the ancient Teutonic languages.
The Icelandic Edda alone has preserved the true mythical bearing
of this old Teutonic word. The earth (Midgard), the abode of men,
is situated in the middle of the universe, bordered by mountains
and surrounded by the great sea; on the other side of this sea is
the Utgard (out-yard), the abode of the giants; the Midgard is
defended by the yard or burgh Asgard (the burgh of the gods)
lying in the middle (the heaven being conceived as rising above
the earth). Thus the earth and mankind are represented as a
stronghold besieged by the powers of evil from without, defended
by the gods from above and from within. Norse
- Midgard-serpent. The world-serpent hidden in the ocean, whose
coils gird around the whole Midgard. Thor once fishes for him,
and gets him on his hook. In Ragnarok Thor slays him, but falls
himself poisoned by his breath. Norse
- Midir, owned three magical cranes which stood outside his
house denying entry or hospitality to anyone who approached. They
were stolen by Athirne. Ireland
- Mihos, Lion god of Lower Egypt
- Mika-Hiya-Hi, God of the sun, subservient to Goddess of the
sun Japan/Shinto
- Mikal, Local goddess with a cult in Cyprus Phoenicia
- Mikal aka Resheph, a Semitic god of plague and war. He bore
the head of a gazelle on his forehead and was an important member
of the pantheon of Ugarit though not mentioned in Ugaritic
mythological texts.
- Milcom god of the Ammonites whose cult Solomon introduced in
Jerusalem. In the Book of Judges the name is replaced by Chemosh.
Milcom may be identifiable with Molech.
- Mildendo. The metropolis of Lilliput, the wall of which was
two feet and a half in height, and at least eleven inches thick.
The city was an exact square, and two main streets divided it
into four quarters. The emperor's palace, called Belfaborac,
was in the centre of the city. Gulliver's Travels
- Milk and knin, the names of the evil spirits and other bad
powers. Gilyaks, Siberia
- Milkastart, Local tutelary god of the from Umm el-Ammend
Semitic(West)
- Milkom, Chief god, and may have been worshipped by King
Solomon under a different name Ammonite
- Milom, God mentioned in 1 King 11:5 worshipped by King
Solomon Amorite/Semitic(West)
- Mimallones,
the Macedonian name of the Bacchantes, or, according to others,
of Bacchic Amazons. Greek
- Mimameider. A mythic tree; probably the same as Ygdrasil. It
derives its name from Mimer, and means Mimer's tree.
Norse
- Mimas,
1. A Centaur.
- Mimas2.
A giant who is said to have been killed by Ares, or by Zeus with
a flash of lightning. The island of Prochyte, near Sicily, was
believed to rest upon his body.
- Mimas3.
A son of Aeolus, king of Aeolis, and father of Hippotes.
- Mimas4.
A son of Amycus and Theano, was born in the same night as Paris.
He was a companion of Aeneas, and slain by Mezentius. Greek
- Mimir. The name of the wise giant keeper of the holy well
Mimis-brunnr, the burn of Mimer, the well of wisdom, at which
Odin pawned his eye for wisdom; a myth which is explained as
symbolical of the heavenly vault with its single eye, the sun,
setting in the sea. Norse
- Min, God potency, fertility, thunder, reproduction, roads and
the sky Egypt
- Min Jok, Goddess rain Uganda
- Minabozho. The Great Spirit. Ojibwa
- Minaci, another thunder god. Menei
- Minaski, Local fish goddess Hindu
- Minato-No-Kami, God of river mouths and estuaries
Japan/Shinto
- Minepa, God of evil Macoua
- Minerva.
The name Minerva is connected with the root man as or mens. She
first appeared in Etruria under the names of Minrva, Menrfa,
Menervra. Menarv, and was perhaps a goddess of the thunderbolt.
It seems that this Etruscan Minerva very early merged with the
Greek Athene. Minerva is hence the least ltalic of the divinities
with whom she formed the triad Jupiter-Juno-Minerva. Greek
- Ming Shang, God of the eyes China
- Minga Bengale Shongon, God of hunters, also taught humans how
to make nets Africa
- Mingrelan. A Woman came down from Heaven, and remained for
some while fluttering in the Air, not finding Ground whereupon to
put her Foot. But that the Fishes moved with Compassion for her,
immediately held a Consultation to deliberate which of them
should receive her. The Tortoise very officiously offered its
Back on the Surface of the Water. The Woman came to rest upon it,
and fixed herself there. Afterwards the Filthiness and Dirt of
the Sea gathering together about the Tortoise, there was formed
by little and little that vast Tract of Land, which we now call
America."
- Minona, Goddess of teaching Fon
- Minotaurus,
a monster with a human body and a bull's head, or, according
to others, with the body of an ox and a human head, is said to
have been the offspring of the intercourse of Pasiphae with the
bull sent from the sea to Minos, who shut him up in the Cnossian
labyrinth, and fed him with the bodies of the youths and maidens
whom the Athenians at fixed times were obliged to send to Minos
as tribute. The monster was slain by Theseus. Greek
- Minos,
the son of Zeus and Europa, brother of Rhadamanthus, and king of
Crete, where he is said to have given many and useful laws. After
his death he became one of the judges of the shades in Hades.
Greek
- Miolnier, Mjolnir [the crusher]. The magic hammer of Thor. It
would never fail to hit a Troll; would never miss to hit whatever
it was thrown at; would always return to the owner of its own
accord; and became so small when not in use that it could be put
into Thor's pocket. Scandinavian
- Mir, God of sex Egypt
- Mir Susne Khum, God of the sun Siberia
- Mirabichi. God of water. Ottawa,Canada
- Mirahuato, Goddess of health Peru
- Miritatsiec, Goddess of healing Crow
- Mirsa Georgia, God of light and responsible for fire
Caucasus
- Mirume, Goddess of justice Japan
- Miryai dMagdala aka Mary Magdalene, revered by the Order of
Nazorean Essenes as the earthly spouse and chief disciple of
Yeshu the Nazorean (Jesus) and as an incarnation of the Maiden of
Light. Early Nazorean
- Misenus. A companion of Odysseus.
Greek
- Misme. The mother of Ascalabus.
- Misor, God who created salt Semitic
- Mistilleinn, Mistletoe. The mistletoe or mistle-twig, the
fatal twig by which Balder, the white sun-god was slain. After
the death of Balder, Ragnarok set in. Balder's death was also
symbolical of the victory of darkness over light, which comes
every year at midwinter.. The mistletoe in English households at
Christmas time is no doubt a relic of a rite lost in the remotest
heathendom, for the fight of light and darkness at midwinter was
a foreshadowing of the final overthrow in Ragnarok. The legend
and the word are common to all Teutonic peoples of all ages.
Norse
- Mithra, the sun
god adapted by the early Christian to make Jesus.
The ancient Persian bowed to Mithra as the Sun, for it was said--
"May he come to us for protection, for joy,
For mercy, for healing, for victory, for hallowing.
Mithra will I honour with offerings,
Will I draw near to us as a Friend with prayer."
- Mithras. About the time of the Roman emperors his worship was
introduced at Rome, and thence spread over all parts of the
wearing the Phrygian cap and attire, and kneeling on a bull which
is thrown on the ground, and whose throat he is cutting. The bull
is at the same time attacked by a dog, a serpent, and a scorpion.
This group appears frequently among ancient works of art.
Roman
- Mithras, some make a distinction between Mithras, Mithres,
and , Mithres, and Mithra: but they were all the same Deity, the
Sun, esteemed the chief God of the Persians.
- Miti, Maternal spirit. Koryak
- Mitnal, Underworld hell where the wicked were tortured.
Mayan
- Mitra, Minor sun god of light and wisdom
Hindu/Puranic/Vedic
- Mixcoatl, Mixcoatl (cloud serpent), god of hunting, war, and
the milky way. An aspect of Tezcatlpoca and father of
Quetzalcoatl. Aztec
- Mixcoatl-Camaxtli, God of war, hunting and fire. Aztec
- Miyatanzipa, genie of the growth of plants. Akkadian
- Miyatanzipa. One of the deities who sat under the Hawthorn
tree awaiting the return of Telipinu. Hittite
- Miysis, a god of war and a protector of sacred places. He was
lord of the horizon and manifested the heat of summer and fought
all aggressors threatening Egypt and was also seen as one of
Osiris' executioners. Egypt
- Mizuhanome, water goddess who was born from the urine of the
primordial creator goddess Honokagutsuti. Japan
- Mjolner. Thor's formidable hammer. After Ragnarok, it is
possessed by his sons Mode and Magne. Norse
- Mkulumncandi, Creator god known as the great first one.
Swaziland
- Mlentengamunye Swazi, Messenger god. Swaziland
- Mlk-Amuklos, Heroic a bow-wielding God. Palestine
- Mneme, Muse of memory. Greek
- <<li>Mnemosyne,
sometimes confused with Mneme, was the personification of memory
in Greek mythology. This titaness was the daughter of Gaia and
Uranus and the mother of the Muses by Zeus. Greek
- Moakkibat. A class of angels. Two angels of this class attend
every child of Adam from the cradle to the grave. At sunset they
fly up with the record of the deeds done since sunrise. Every
good deed is entered ten times by the recording angel on the
credit or right side of his ledger, but when an evil deed is
reported the angel waits seven hours, “if haply in that
time the evil—doer may repent.” The Koran.
- Mo Hi Hai, God of water China
- Modi, Mode. Courage. A son of Thor. Norse
- Modimo o mogolo, High God who made the sky and the earth, and
when he had finished them he climbed up into the sky (conceived,
of course, as a solid vault) by driving in pegs on which he set
his feet, taking out each one as soon as he had stepped on the
next, so that people should not be able to follow him. And in the
sky he has lived ever since. Bantu
- Modjaji, the rain queen in South Africa’s Limpopo
Province
- Modron, Divine Mother, one of the most powerful of the Celtic
mother goddesses. She may have been the prototype of Morgan le
Fay from Arthurian legend. Welsh
- Modsogner. The dwarf highest in degree or rank. Norse
- Mohadi. The twelfth Imaun, who is said to be living in
concealment till Antichrist appears, when he will come again and
overthrow the great enemy. Koran
- Moin. A serpent under Ygdrasil. Norse
- Moirai,
properly signifies "a share," and as a personification
"the deity who assigns to every man his fate or his
share," or the Fates. Homer usually speaks of only one
Moira, and only once mentions the Motpai in the plural. In his
poems Moira is fate personified, which, at the birth of man,
spins out the thread of his future life, follows his steps, and
directs the consequences of his actions according to the counsel
of the gods. Homer thus, when he personifies Fate, conceives her
as spinning, an act by which also the power of other gods over
the life of man is expressed. Greek
- Mog Ruith, a powerful blind druid of Munster who lived on
Valentia Island, County Kerry. He could grow to enormous size,
and his breath caused storms and turned men to stone. He wore a
hornless bull-hide and a bird mask, and flew in a machine called
the roth rámach, the "oared wheel". He had an
ox-driven chariot in which night was as bright as day, a
star-speckled black shield with a silver rim, and a stone which
could turn into a poisonous eel when thrown in water.
Ireland
- Mogounos, a Celtic god worshipped in Roman Britain and in
Gaul. The main evidence is from altars dedicated to the god by
Roman soldiers, but the deity is not a native Italic one.
- Mohini, one of the 25 avatars of Vishnu found in the Puranas.
Hindu
- Mokosh. Slavic goddess of Healing
- Mokkerkalfe. A dense cloud. A clay giant in the myth of Thor
and Hrungner. Norse
- Mokos, Goddess of shearing, spinning and weaving. Slavic
- Molmutius. A mythical king of Britain, who promulgated the
laws called the Molmutine, and established the privilege of
sanctuary.
- Moloch, Molek, either the name of a god or the name of a
particular kind of sacrifice associated historically with
Phoenician and related cultures in north Africa and the
Levant.
- Molpadia,
an Amazon, who was said to have killed Antiope, another Amazon,
and was afterwards slain herself by Theseus. Her tomb was shown
at Athens. Greek
- Moma, the moon god, ancestor of mankind and maker of the
world. Uitoto, South America
- Mombo Wa Ndhlopfu, "Masters of the Forest",
serpents that were credited with speech and bad breath. Often
associated with the flesh-eating maggots of corpses, ancestral
spirits and ghosts took that form as a disguise. Ronga,
Mozambique
- Momu, Goddess of wells and hillsides. Scotland
- Momus,
a son of Nyx, is a personification of
mockery and censure. Thus he is said to have censured in the man
formed by Hephaestus, that a little
door had not been left in his breast, so as to enable one to look
into his secret thoughts, Greek
- Momus's Lattice or Window. Momus blamed Vulcan because he
did not set a window or lattice in the human breast for
discerning secret thoughts. Greek
- Mon Kafir, Warrior god and hero from prehistoric origins and
around today Afghanistan/Hindukush
- Monkir and Nakir, according to Mahometan mythology, are two
angels who interrogate the dead immediately they are buried. The
first two questions they ask are, “Who is your Lord?”
and “Who is your prophet?” Their voices are like
thunder, their aspects hideous, and those not approved of they
lash into perdition with whips half—iron and
half—flame.
- Monaciello [little monk]. A sort of incubus in the mythology
of Naples. It is described as a thick little man, dressed in a
monk's garment and broad—brimmed hat. Those who will
follow when he beckons will be led to a spot where treasure is
concealed. Sometimes, however, it is his pleasure to pull the
bed—clothes off, and sometimes to sit perched on a sleeper.
Italy
- Moon—drop. In Latin, virus lunare, a vaporous drop
supposed to be shed by the moon on certain herbs and other
objects, when influenced by incantations. Roman
- Moneta, a surname of Juno among the
Romans, by which she was characterised as the protectress of
money. Roman
- Monje, Goddess of rivers Yoruba
- Monju Bosatsu, God of education Japan
- Monoecus, a surname of Heracles,
signifying the god who lives solitary, perhaps because he alone
was worshipped in the temples dedicated to him. Greek
- Month aka Menthu , a hawk-god, of war. Egypt
- Monychus, a centaur who is
mentioned by Ovid (Metamorphoses
xii) Greek
- Moombi, Creator goddess Kikuyu
- Mopsus. 1. A son of Ampyx or Ampycus by the nymph Chloris
and, because he was a seer, he is also called a son of Apollo by
Himantis.
- 2. A son of Apollo and Manto, the daughter of Teiresias. He
was believed to be the founder of Mallos in Asia Minor, where his
oracle existed as late as the time of Strabo. Greek
- Mor, Goddess of the sun and dam of the kings of Munster
Ireland
- Morgane. A fay to whose charge Zephyr committed young Passelyon and his cousin
Bennucq. Passelyon fell in love with Morgane's daughter, and
the adventures of these young lovers are related in the romance
of Pereeforest.
- Morganes, Female water spirits Celtic
- Morgante. A ferocious giant, converted by Orlando to
Christianity. After performing the most wonderful feats, he died
at last from the bite of a crab. France
- Morgay, Harvest goddess British/Scotland
- Mories, places of worship and sacrifice, could never be
entered by women. Polynesian
- Morius, that is, the protector of the sacred olive trees,
occurs as a surname of Zeus. Greek
- Mormo, a female spectre, with which the Greeks used to
frighten little children. Mormo was one of the same class of
bugbears as Empusa and Lamia.
- Mormon. The last of a pretended line of Hebrew prophets, and
the pretended author of The Book of Mormon, or Golden Bible,
written on golden plates. This work was in reality written by the
Rev. Solomon Spalding, but was claimed by Joseph Smith as a
direct revelation to him by the angel Mornion.
- Mormolyce or Mormolyceion, the same phantom or bugbear
as Mormo, and also used for the same purpose. Greek
- Morongo, Goddess of the evening star, gave birth to the
animals of creation and then went on to create humans.
Zimbabwe
- Moros, the personification of impending doom, who drove every
being, mortal, god, or whatever else to his fated doom. He was
omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, and not even Zeus can
defeat him. He was a son of Erebus and Nyx, and brother of the
Moirae, his agents and servants. Greek
- Morpheus, the son of Sleep, and the god of dreams. The name
signifies the fashioner or moulder, because he shaped or formed
the dreams which appeared to the sleeper. Greek
- Morpho, or the-fair shaped, occurs as a surname of Aphrodite
at Sparta. She was represented in a sitting posture, with her
head covered, and her feet fettered. Greek
- Morrigan, Morrigan, Morrighan, Goddesses of war of death and
destruction from prehistoric origins Celtic/Ireland
- Morrigu, Crone aspect of the goddesses who were a trinity
responsible for war and ghosts British/Ireland/Welsh
- Mort. Having proved himself unworthy as a scarecrow he is
chosen by Death to be his apprentice. Discworld
- Mors, the personification of death. Roman
- Morta, was the goddess of death. She is one of the Parcae. The term Morta is related to the Roman
conception of the Fates. Roman
- Moruadh, Irish mermaids, they resemble human women but with
webbed hands and fin-like feet. Ireland
- Morva, They are invisible sky spirits Andaman Is./India
Ocean
- Morva signifies Locus Maritimus. Sea-women and sea-daughters.
"The fishermen who were the ancestors of the Church, came
from the Galilean waters to haul for men. We, born to God at the
font, are children of the water. Therefore, all the early
symbolism of the Church was of and from the sea. The carvure of
the early arches was taken from the sea and its creatures. Fish,
dolphins, mermen, and mermaids abound in the early types,
transferred to wood and stone."' Cornwall, Britain
- Moschel, the deity in charge of cows, feminine duties and
patroness of economic activities. Latvia
- Mot, God of death, fertility and sterility.
- Canaan/Ugarit
- Mot 'Death', son of 'El, according to
instructions given by the god Hadad (Ba‘al) to his
messengers, lives in a city named hmry ('Mirey'), a pit
is his throne, and Filth is the land of her heritage.
Phoenicia
- Moti Mata “Pearl Mother”, stones which are
worshipped when cholera appears. Tamil
- Motsesa. The princess who married Bulane, the god of water.
Tuareg
- Mouse. The soul or spirit was often supposed in olden times
to assume a zoomorphic form, and to make its way at death through
the mouth of man in a visible form, sometimes as a pigeon,
sometimes as a mouse or rat. A red mouse indicated a pure soul; a
black mouse, a soul blackened by pollution; a pigeon or dove, a
saintly soul.
- Mowis. The bridegroom of snow, who, according to American
Indian tradition, wooed and won a beautiful bride; but when
morning dawned, Mowis left the wigwam, and melted into the
sunshine. The bride hunted for him night and day in the forests,
but never saw him more.
- Moyocoyani, the Prime Mover who created himself. Aztec
- Mrantna'irgin. She went to the lake. Then she began to
sing on the lake-shore. "From the lake, O penis, come
out!" Then a [mere] penis appeared. She sat down upon it,
and she herself copulated with it. At the dawn of the day she
went home. Chukchee
- Mrgasiras, the Fifth House of the Moon. Hindu
- Msal. A minor angel. Enochian
- Msmal. A minor angel. Enochian
- Mtdi. A minor angel. Enochian
- Mtndi. A minor angel. Enochian
- Mto. A cacodemon. Enochian
- Mu Gong, God of immortality China/Taoist
- Mu King, God of fire China
- Mu'Allidtu, deity who assists women in childbirth.
Omoroka and Thalatth
- Muati, Maat is merely the moral expression of Muat in the
social world. An individual of this expression is known as a
Muati i.e. "One who affirms Reality". The collective
body of all Muati individuals have the anthropomorphic reference
of Haru, the establisher of Maat. Mesopotamia/Sumeria
- Mucalinda, The snake-like being who protected the Buddha from
the elements before his enlightenment. Buddhist
- Mugasa, the moon god who originally lived among humankind in
an earthly paradise. But, because humans disobeyed his
commandments he retreated to the heavens. Since then humans are
mortal. Bambuti
- Mugasha. God of water. Baziba, Africa
- Mugello. The giant slain by Averardo de Medici, a commander
under Charlemagne. The tale is interesting, for it is said that
the Medici took the three balls of this giant's mace for
their device. Pawnbrokers have adopted the three balls as a
symbol of their trade. France
- Mugizi Bunyoro, Guardian deity of Lake Albert Uganda
- Mugu. A god of the Maasai, Kilimanjaro
- Muhingo Bunyoro, God of war Uganda
- Muireartach, Goddess of the ocean Ireland
- Muireartach, Battle goddess Ireland/Scotland
- Mujaji, the rain queens who send drought to their enemies but
cause rain to fall on their people. South Africa
- Mukasa, god of Lake Victoria. Buganda, Uganda
- Mukta Devi. A wife of Dharma Thakuli invoked for fertility.
Fertility deity, prosperity, and healing god. India
- Mukhambika, “Mouth Mother” is represented by a
heap of stones within the village and receives a pig for a
sacrifice, besides special oblations when disease and sickness
are prevalent. Korku, Central Provinces
- Mula, a Lunar mansion, or Nakshatra, in Hindu Astrology.
- Mula Djadi, the Great Origin of Being. Creator god who lives
in the highest of all seven heavens. Tobak Sumatra
- Mula djadi na bolon. The self-existent supreme god and
creator of the universe is the father of Batara Guru, Soripada,
and Mangalabulan. The Batak, Indonesia
- Mulciber, a surname of Vulcan, which seems to have been given
to the god as a euphemism, and for the sake of a good omen, that
he might not consume by ravaging fire the habitations and
property of men, but might kindly and benevolently aid men in
their pursuits. Roman
- Mulhalmoni. Korean goddess of healing.
- Mulenga The creator god. The Lala, Zambia
- Mulengi The creator god of the Tumbuka. Malawi
- Mulenyi The creator, another name for Imana. Uganda
- Mulhalmoni, "Healing Waters". Goddess of women
shamans. She is called on especially to heal ailments of the eye.
Korea
- Mulindwa. Tutelary goddess of the tribal chiefs. Bunyoro,
Uganda
- Mulliltu. the consort goddess of Enlil. Sumerian
- Mullo, god of mules. He is known from inscriptions and is
associated with the god Mars in the form of Mars Mullo
Roman/British
- Muluku, the creator god of the Benue-Congo-speaking Makua and
Banayi people of Mozambique. Muluku created men and women, and
gave them the art of using tools, but the humans were
disobedient. So Muluku called up monkey and she monkey. He gave
them tools, and the monkeys used them well. So Muluku cut off the
tails of the monkeys and fastened them to the man and the woman,
saying to the monkeys, "Be men," and to the humans,
"Be monkeys." Macoua
- Mulungu, a creator God of the Nyamwezi people of Tanzania in
eastern Africa. Despite being the creator and protector of the
world, he is distant and has little contact with anyone. It is
said that he once lived on Earth, but when someone set fire to
the landscape he asked a spider to spin him a web to climb up
into the sky, where he lives today. He is revered now as a sky
god, with thunder as his voice.
- Mummu, vizier of primeval gods Apsu, the fresh water, and
Tiamat, the salt water. An ancient Sumero-Babylonian
craftsman-god, and personification of technical skill.
- Munchausen.
The hero of a volume of travels, who meets with the most
marvellous adventures. The incidents have been compiled from
various sources, and the name is said to have pointed to
Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen, a German officer
in the Russian army, noted for his marvellous stories.
- Munchia. A surname of Artemis,
derived from the Attic port-town of Munychia. Greek
- Mundane Egg. In the Phoenician, Egyptian, Hindu, and Japanese
systems, it is represented that the world was hatched from an
egg. In some mythologies a bird is represented as laying the
mundane egg on the primordial waters.
- Mundilfare. One of the giant race, who had a son and daughter
of such surpassing beauty that their father called them Mani and
Sol: moon and sun. Norse
- Munin. Memory. One of Odin's ravens. Norse
- Mungu. The name of the Creator in the Swahili language.
Africa
- Munisvara, a regional Tamil deity who is popular amongst the
least Sanskritized social groups of South India specifically
Tamil Nadu. Hindu/Dravidian
- Munkar and Nakir. Two black angels of appalling aspect, the
inquisitors of the dead. The Koran says that during the
inquisition the soul is united to the body. If the scrutiny is
satisfactory, the soul is gently drawn forth from the lips of the
deceased, and the body is left to repose in peace; if not, the
body is beaten about the head with iron clubs, and the soul is
wrenched forth by racking torments.
- Munnin (Memory), one of the two ravens that sit perched on
the shoulders of Odin; the other is Hugin (thought).
Scandinavian
- Munychia, a surname of Artemis,
derived from the Attic port-town of Munychia, where she had a
temple. Her festival was celebrated at Athens in the month of
Munychion. Greek
- Munume, can be found in Limbo in the Land of the Dead.
Uganda
- Muraja, Goddess of the tambourine. Buddhist
- Murcia, patron saint of Rednecks. Deep South
- Murcia, Murtea or Murtia. A surname
of Venus at Rome, where she had a chapel
in the circus. Roman
- Murcury.
The name Mercury is connected with the root merx (merchandise)
and mercari (to deal, trade). The early Romans, being above all
countrymen, had no need for a god of commerce. The Roman Mercury
appeared only about the fifth century BCE. and was exclusively
the god of merchants. For long he was known only in this capacity
so that Plautus, in his prologue to Amphitryon, reminds his
audience that Mercury presided over messages and commerce. Like
certain other minor divinities - Pecunia, Aesculanus, Argentinus
- he watched over tradesmen's profits. Greek
- Murigen, a goddess of lakes, and associated with flooding.
Celtic
- Muruga, is the most popular Hindu deity amongst Tamils of
Tamil Nadu state in India and in the Tamil diaspora.
- Murukan, the embodiment of beauty, the source of spiritual
wisdom and the personification of limitless power. Tamil
- Musaeus,
a semi-mythological personage, to be classed with Olen, Orpheus, and Pamphus. He was regarded as the
author of various poetical compositions, especially as connected
with the mystic rites of Demeter at Eleusis, over which the
legend represented him as presiding in the time of Heracles. Greek
- Musdamma, The one whose footers once laid down do not sag,
whose lasting house once built does not collapse, whose vault
reaches to mid-sky like a rainbow, Musdamma, great builder of
Enlil, Enki placed in charge of them. Sumeria
- Muses,
daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, presided over the liberal arts
particularly, were nine in number, and dwelt along with Apollo
near Parnassus, Pieria, and Helicon; Clio presided over history,
Euterpe over music, Thalia over comedy, Melpomene over tragedy,
Terpsichore over choral dance and song, Erato over erotic poetry
and elegy, Polyhymnia over lyric poetry, Urania over astronomy,
and Calliopë over eloquence and epic poetry. Greek
- Mushdama, when Enki organized the cosmos for Enlil he
appointed Mushdama as the divine architect. Mesopotamia
- Musisi Ndonga, Messenger god Angola
- Musisi, god of earthquakes. Uganda
- Muso, is the dark moon preceding the shinning new moon sliver
in the night sky. Africa(west)
- Muspel. The name of an abode of fire. It is populated by a
host of fiends, who are to appear at Ragnarok and destroy the
world by fire. Norse
- Muspellsheimr. The abode of Muspel. This interesting word was
not confined to the Norse mythology, but appears twice in the old
Saxon poem Heliand. In these instances muspel stands for the day
of judgment, the last day, and answers to Ragnarok of the Norse
mythology. Norse
- Mustrum Ridcully, the Archchancellor of the Unseen
University. Discworld
- Mut, an ancient Egyptian mother goddess with multiple aspects
that changed over the centuries. Rulers of Egypt supported her
worship in their own way to emphasize their own authority and
right to rule. Egypt
- Muta, Goddess of silence. Roman
- Mutinus or Mutunus, that is, the phallus, or Priapus, which
was believed to be the most powerful averter of demons, and of
all evil that resulted from pride and boastfulness, and the like.
Roman
- Muttalamman, plague goddess, especially identified with
smallpox Dravidian/Tamil
- Mutu, Personification of death and the god of the underworld
Assyria
- MutialAmma “PearlMother”, village
mother goddesses represented by a stone. Tamil
- Mutyalamma. A hill god and Pearl-Mother. Andhra
- Mwatuangi. A name for God meaning Cleaver One referring to
his giving shape, details, distinctiveness to his creations. The
Akamba, Kenya
- Mw-ene. Designates God—meaning the Master, the Chief.
The Sagala, East Africa
- Mwenenyaga. The creator god who is involved in life
ceremonies. The Kikuyu, Kenya
- Mwetyi. The supreme being who was also a god of oaths and
punished perjury. The Shekuni, Guinea
- Mycalesides, the mountain nymphs
of Mycale. Greek
- Mycalessia, a surname of Demeter,
derived from Mycalessus in Boeotia, where the goddess had a
sanctuary. Greek
- Myesyats, Moon deity Slavic
- Myhs, a god of war and a guardian and a lord of the horizon.
Egypt
- Myles,
a son of Lelex, brother of Polycaon, father of Eurotas, and king
of Lacedaemon, was regarded as the inventor of mills. Stephanus
Byzantius mentions Myles as the protectors of mills. Greek
- Mylitta, represented the productive principle of nature, and
received the title of the queen of fertility.
Babylon/Phoenicia
- Myoken-Bohdisattiva, Astral god and the god of healing
eye-disease. Buddhist
- Myrmidon,
a son of Zeus and Eurymedusa, the daughter of Cleitos, whom Zeus
deceived in the disguise of an ant. Her son was for this reason
called Myrmidon and was regarded as the ancestor of the Myrmidons
in Thessaly. He was married to Peisidice, by whom he became the
father of Antiphus and Actor. Greek
- Myrrah, a daughter of Cinyras and,
mother of Adonis. Aphrodite inspired
Myrrha with lust to commit incest with her father, Theias.
Myrrha's nurse helped with the scheme. When Theias discovered
this, he flew into a rage, chasing his daughter with a knife. The
gods turned her into a myrrh tree and Adonis eventually sprung
from this tree. Greek
- Myrto, a personification of the Myrtoan sea derived its name.
Greek
- Myrtoessa, the nymph of a well of
the same name in Arcadia. Greek
- Mysia. A surname of Demeter,
derived from an Argive Mysius, who received her kindly during her
wanderings, and built a sanctuary to her. Greek
- Mysia. A surname of Artemis, under
which she was worshipped in a sanctuary near Sparta. Greek
- Mysterious Three of Scandinavian mythology were
“Har” (the Mighty), the
“Like—Mighty,” and the “Third
Person,” who sat on three thrones above the rainbow. Then
came the “Aesir,” of which Odin was chief, who lived
in Asgard (between the rainbow and earth); next come the
“Vanir,” or gods of the ocean, air, and clouds, of
which deities Niord was chief.
- Mystis, a nurse of the god Dionysus and the Nymph who
personified initiation into the mysteries of the god while her
son Corymbus represented the sacred ivy, with which the initiates
were dressed. Greek
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