Guide to the Gods 1.0
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Mneme
Boeotian Muse of memory. The other Boeotian Muses were Aoide (Aeode) and Melete.
Mnemosyne
Greek goddess of memory. According to Hesiod, mother of the nine Muses by Zeus. One of the Titans. Daughter of Ouranos (heaven) and Gaia (earth).
Mnevis
(Egyptian Mnewer)
Sacred bull of Heliopolis.
Modgud
Norse guardian of entrance to Hel.
Mog Ruith
Irish god.
Moira
Greek divine personification of fate, to whom even the gods were subject.
Moirai
(Moires, Moirae)
The Greek Fates. According to Hesiod, the daughters of Zeus and Themis. They were Atropos (the unbending, or the inevitable), Clotho (the spinner), and Lachesis (the caster of lots). As determiners of fate, they had supremacy even over the gods. Clotho spun out the thread of life, Lachesis determined its length, and Atropos cut it, resulting in death. The Romans called them the Parcae.
Mokos
East Slav goddess of fertility.
Mo-Li
Chinese Buddhist temple guardians.
Moloch
(Molech)
Old Testament name for the Semitic god Malek. It was intended to have derogatory overtones.
Moma
Creator god of Uitoto people in South America.
Momos
(Momus)
Greek personification of blame, censure. According to Hesiod, the son of Erebos and Nyx. A god of fault-finding and criticism, he was eventually banished from Olympus for mocking the other gods.
Mon
Kafirs: 1st divine creation of Imra.
Monan
Creator god of the Brazilian Tupi-Guarani people. At one point, angered with their evil conduct, he attempted to destroy mankind by fire, but the fire was extinguished by a deluge sent by Irin Mage.
Monan
Tupinamba (Brazil) ancient hero god.
Mondamin
Chippewa corn god.
Moneta
Roman goddess of prosperity.
Monimos
See Azizos.
Montu
(Mont, Mentu, Menthu; Greek Month)
Falcon-headed war god of Upper Egypt. His cult developed at Thebes and spread throughout Egypt under the Theban kings who expanded the country's borders beginning around 2000 BC. He was the tutelary god of the Theban monarchs, and brought them victory in war. Depicted in human form with the head of a falcon, crowned with the solar disk, the uraeus (cobra) and two tall plumes. His sacred animal was a white bull with a black face known as Buchis. After death, the bulls were buried in a necropolis near Hermonthis (Armant) known as the Bucheum. His cult centers included Medu (modern Medamud), Karnak and Hermonthis.
Moombi
Kikuyu creator goddess.
Morkul Kua Luan
Australian Spirit of the Long Grass.
Mormo
Greek bogeyman.
Morning Star
Important heavenly power among the Blackfeet.
Moros
Greek god of destiny.
Morpheus
Greek god of dreams. Son of Hypnos, the god of sleep. His name derives from the Greek morphe (form, shape), and he is responsible for shaping dreams, or giving shape to the beings which inhabit dreams.
Morrigan
(The Morrigan, Morrigu)
Celtic battle goddess. She was said to hover over the battlefield in the form of a crow.
Mors
Roman god of death. Equated with the Greek Thanatos.
Morta
Roman goddess of death, who later became associated with Decima and Nona as one of the Roman Fates.
Mot
Semitic mawt, mot = death. Phoenician/Canaanite god of drought, infertility and death.
Motikitik
Melanesian hero god.
Mounanchou
A minor god of Haiti.
dMu
(rMu)
Tibetan Bon heavenly spirit.
Mugasa
(Mugu)
Sky-god of Bambuti of central Africa.
Mu Gong
Chinese Taoist god of the immortals.
Mujaji
Rain queen of the Lovedu people of the Transvaal.
Mukasa
Buganda supreme god. Brother of Kibuka, the god of war.
Mulac
One of the four Mayan Bacabs, guardians of the four cardinal directions. He was associated with the north and the colour white.
Mula Djadi
Creator god of Sumatran Toba-Batak.
Muluku
Supreme god of the Macouas of Zambesi.
Mulungu
(Mungu)
Creator god of the Yao of Malawi.
Muma Padura
Slavic Romanian wood sprite.
Mummu
Mesopotamian adviser of Apsu.
Mundilferi
(Mundilfari)
Norse father of Sun and Moon.
Munga Munga
Daughters of Kunapipi.
Mungo
(Mungu)
God of the Giryama of Kenya.
Muramura
Culture heroes and primordial ancestors of a number of Australian tribes. Credited with introducing stone knives and circumcision, they are now believed to inhabit trees, where they are accessible only to medicine men.
Murigen
Irish lake goddess, probably a form of the Morrigan.
Murugan
Supreme god of the ancient Tamils of southern India.
Murukan
Dravidian hunter/warrior god.
Musa
A spirit of the Songhay people of the Upper Niger who taught the arts of civilization to humans.
Muses
(Mousai, Moisai, Musae)
Greek goddess of the arts and sciences. Nine in number. Hesiod was the first to give them individual identities, and gave their parenst as Zeus and Mnemosyne. They included Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (love poetry), Euterpe (lyric poetry), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (song), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy).
Musisi
God of Ndonga people of Angola.
Mut
Egyptian vulture goddess and chief goddess of Thebes. She was depicted either in the form of a vulture or in human form with a vulture head-dress and the combined crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt. She was usually dressed in a bright red or blue gown. At Thebes she replaced Amaunet as the consort of the sun god Amun. With their adoptive son Khonsu the two formed the Theban triad. Her principal sanctuary was at Thebes.
Muta
Roman goddess of silence.
Mutinus
Mutunus
Roman fertility god. Depicted as ithyphallic or as a phallus. He was invoked by women seeking to bear children.
Mutu
Assyrian god of underworld.
Mwari
The great spirit of the Mtawara people of Zimbabwe.
Myesyats
Slavonic god of the moon.
Myoo
Japanese Buddhist Buddha double.
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