Gods (M)

 

Mabon

Son of Modron. His mother Madron is Matrona, 'The Divine Mother' Eponymous Goddess of the Marne in France.By the time Mabon was delivered from captivity, he was the oldest of all living creatures. His role is that of a hunter. Born only to his mother, Modron, a father is never mentioned in the literature, perhaps a divine birth. (Welsh)

Mac Da Tho

Once a king of Leinster at the time when Medb and Ailill ruled Connact. In reality he is a God of the Otherworld, he presides over the Otherworld feast

Mac Cecht

Son of Ogma, God of Eloquence. He was the husband of Fotla, one of the three Goddesses, with Banba and Eire, who asked that their name be given to Ireland. (Irish)

Mac Greine

Son of Ogma. He was the husband of the Goddess Eire, who gave her name to Ireland. (Irish)

Macha

Another of the Morrigan's incarnations. A triune Goddess of War. As the wife of Nemed in her first appearance. Wife of Nuada, she is slain by Balor in her second appearance. Then as the wife of Crunniuc Mac Agnomain of Ulster, where she cursed the men of Ulster for 9 generations to suffer labor pangs for 5 days and 4 nights in Ulster's times of greatest difficulty. (Irish)

Mac Moincanta

He succeeded the Dagda as Father of The Gods. (Irish)

Mael Duin

Son of Aillil, 'Edge of Battle'. (Irish)

Maga

Daughter Aonghus Og 'God of Love'. (Irish)

Manannan Beg/Mac y Leirr

Manx equivalent of Manannan Mac Lir / Manawydan Fab Llyr.

Manannan Mac Lir

The major Sea God. Son of Lir. He is the protector of Ireland, enclosing the Island with his own element which gaurds it. He is also a master of skills, wisdom, trickery, illusion and magic. Traditionally associated with the Isle of Man, of which he was the first king. He appears more frequently than most Gods. (Irish)

Manawydan Fab Llyr

The counterpart of the Irish Sea God Manannan, son of Lir. The brother of Bendigeidfran and Branwen. In the Third Branch of the Mabinogi he marries Rhiannon.(Welsh)

Maponos

'The Divine Youth' and 'Divine Son'. Equated with the Celtic Apollo. God of hunting and youth. May be linked with Mabon. (Gaulish)

Mars

Roman God of War. Official war God of the Roman army. Celtic surnames or epithets applied to Mars are: Mars Albiorix, tribal gaurdian in southern Gaul. Alboirix meaning 'King of the World'.

Mars Camulos

A war God indeginous to Britain and Gaul.

Mars Caturix

Caturix means 'Master of Fighting' or 'King of Combat'. He may have been the tribal God of the Caturiges.

Mars Corotiacus

Local British version of the Celic Mars from Martlesham in Suffolk.

Mars Lenus

Great Healer God of the Treveri.

Mars Loucetius

Loucetius meaning 'High' or 'Bright'. Worshipped in Bath at Aqua Sulis.

Mars Mullo

northern and north-western Gaul

Mars Nabelcus

Provence

Mars Nodens

(see Nodens)

Mars Rigisamus

Rigisamus means 'Greatest King' or 'King of Kings'. West Coker in Somerset.

Mars Rigonemetis

'King of the Sacred Grove'. Seems he was a God of the tribe of the Corieltauvi.

Mars Segomo

(see Segomo)

Mars Smertrius

(see Smertrius)

Mars Teutates

(see Teutates)

Mars Thinesus

May have been a German deity.

Mars Visucius

(see Visucius)

Mars Vorocius

A Gaulish Healer God.

Math, Son of Mathonwy

Lord of Gwynedd. Regarded as a God of Inceasing Wealth. He can live only if his feet are held in a maiden's lap, unless the turmoil of war prevents this. God of the underworld and the patron of magic. (Welsh)

Matholwch

King of Ireland who marries Branwen daughter of Llyr. (Welsh)

Mathonwy

Ancestor of the house of Don, his children were Don the Mother Goddess and Math, God of Increasing Wealth. (Welsh)

Matres Camedovae

Local version of the triple mother Goddess worshipped at Aix-Les-Bains.

Matres Domesticae

Domesticae referring to their functions as deities of the homeland. Britain.

Matres Grisclicae

Venerated at Greoulx in southern Gaul.

Matres Nemausicae

(see Nemausicae)

Matronae Aufaniae

Were a triad of Mother Goddesses worshipped by the Celto-Germanic Tribes of the Rhineland.

Matronae Vacallinehae

A local variant of the Celto-Germanic Mother Goddesses worshipped in Persch.

Matrona

Divine Mother. (Gaulish)

Mechi

Son of the Morrigan, Goddess of Death and Battles. Slain by Mac Cecht, son of Ogma. (Irish)

Medb

Sometimes Anglicised as Maeve. Another triune Goddess representing sovranty. The Great Goddess Queen of Connacht. Her name means 'she who intoxicates' and is philologically related to the word 'mead'. A Goddess of Sovereignty, war, territory and sexuality. (Irish)

Miach

Son of Dian Cecht, God of Medicine, who proved a better physician than his father, who grew jealous at his accomplishments and murdered him. (Irish)

Midir the Proud

Son of the Dagda and a powerful God himself. (Irish)

Modron

Mother of Mabon, the name seems to be a form of Matrona and therefore a Mother Goddess. (Welsh)

Mongan

Son of Manannan Mac Lir by the queen of the Dal nAraidi. (Irish)

Morca

son of Dela and a king of the Fomorii. (Irish)

Morrigan

Sometimes given as Morrigu. The major triune Goddess of War, Death and Slaughter. The name signified 'Great Queen' and she is interchangeable with Macha, Badb, and Nemain. War-Raven-Goddess. (Irish)

Mug Nuadat

Ruled over southern Ireland and equated with Nuada.

Murna of the White Neck

A descendent of Nuada and Ethlinn, the daughter of Balor of the Evil Eye. (Irish)

 

 

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