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Maa
Description: God of sight.
Maahes
Description: A Lion God. Son of Bast. A protector of the innocent
punished the transgressors of Ma'at.
Patron: personification of the heat of summer.
Maat
Description: Depicted wearing an ostrich feather on her head while
standing/sitting on her heels holding a scepter and ankh. Daughter
of Ra.
Patron: Truth, right, justice, law, final judgement of human souls,
order, divine order, reincarnation.
Mafdet
Description: A Cheetah Goddess. Daughter of Ra.
Patron: Snakebites, and scorpion cures, legal justice, or rather
of execution.
Mahaf
Description: ferryman who navigates the boat provided by Aken, along
the winding waters of the Underworld. He also acts as a herald announcing
the arrival of the king into the presence of the sun god, Re.
Mandulis
Description: wears a crown of ram-horns surmounted by high plumes,
sun disks and cobras; solar deity
Mat
Description: Goddess of moral light, she is one of the daughters
of Ra.
Mathit
Description: Helps the deceased climb into heaven.
Mattit
Description: The war goddess of 12th District of Upper Egypt, represented
as a dangerous lioness.
Mau
Description: Ra in the form a cat, a tomcat.
Mehen
Description: serpent god; defends the solar barque during Ra's nightly
passage through the underworld. Defender of the Sun boat
Mehet-Weret
Description: Universal cow Goddess. Mother of Re Later considered
to be Neith
Patron: Night
Mehurt
Description: was a celestial cow that gave birth to the sky; represented
the spiritual river of heaven and the water chaos where life had
start
Menat
Description: Lioness goddess mentioned by Budge, who was worshipped
at Heliopolis.
Men'et
Description: "Nurse" a lioness-headed goddess who is associated
with Hathor as the wife of Horus.
Mendes
Description: A god of nature
Menhit
Description: A raging lion goddess of war. Daughter of Ra.
Menkert
Description: Lioness headed goddess of the tenth hour of the night.
Menos
Description: Moon Goddess credited with invention of writing
Menthi
Description: Sun god pictured with a bullhead. Wore a solar disk
and two tall straight plumes on his head and carried a khepesh.
Husband of Rat-Taui.
Patron: Protection, war, vengeance.
Menu
Description: God of generation and fertility
Meret
Description: On Meret's head was usually seen a plant from lotus
flower and she often had an offering bowl in her hands, which she
reached, up to the sky.
Patron: goddess of joy and song.
Merui
Description: a god who originally had a lion form, who was later
shown as a human. Called a "son of Horus" and was worshipped
in Nubia.
Mertseger
Description: Cobra Goddess.
Patron: protector and guardian of the Valley of the Kings
Mesen
Description: A Blacksmith God.
Mesenet
Description: Images of her were sometimes depicted on two bricks
on which egyptian women crouched during child birth. Shown as a
woman wearing two long palm shoots, which were curved at the ends.
Patron: Childbirth, rebirth.
Meskhenet
Description: Goddess of the birth-chamber
Patron: was a goddess who presided at childbirth
Mihos
Description: Lion-war god, son of Bast
Patron: sacred places
Min
Description: Wore a crown with two tall straight plumes and held
a flail in his right hand behind his head.
Patron: Fertility, crops, sex, harvests, roads, journeys, patron
of the desert and travelers.
Miuty
Description: cat headed god of the eleventh division of the duat,
(or underworld), who carries two sceptres, one in the shape of a
serpent. He is the guardian of the gateway to this division; the
gate is called 'Mysterious of Approaches'.
Mnewer
Description: Black Bull of the Sun
Montu
Description: Falcon-headed war God also represented by a griffin.
Son of Ra.
Mu
Description: One of the children of Ra, whose name meant 'physical
light'.
Mut
Description: Sky goddess who had a lioness head Wife of Amon Re
Patron: Marriage, creation.
Mutiay
Description: Wife of Khonsu
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