MADRA, Mother. 1/36.
Latin. Sources: 1/FTNYB (4000 Names for Your Baby).
MAGDELENE, Tower-of-Strength, 1/36. Alt. mean: High-Tower, 2/111.
Hebrew. 1/36
Ety: Her name is occasionally used to denote a reformed prostitute, 3. ***
Sources: 1/FTNYB (4000 Names for Your Baby); 2/Browder NABNB; 3/AHDEL.
Aramaic. 1/37.
Ety: feminine of Aramaic mare, lord.
Sources: 1/(4000 Names for Your Baby) FTNYB; 2/AHDEL
Taoist.
Queen of heaven; Holy Mother of mercy; Matron of measure; Matroness of seafarers.
Hindustani.
Goddess of the earth; Universal soma cow; She from whom flows all prosperity and abundance. An epithet frequently applied to diving beings and powers.
Sources: Stutley HDH 174.
Welsh lang. var. of MARY/x.
Poss. Babylonian.
Sources: Cavendish MIE 88.
Egyptian.
Greek. Temple at Megara.
Goddess She who inspired the use of wool.
TWS: [sheep].
Sources: Kravitz WWGRM 147
Babylonian [?].
Peruvian. Inca and other tribes.
Goddess of the Ocean; Source of health and all food; Fish provider.
TWS: whale.
Sources: Monaghan BGH 189.
America. Inca.
Sources: Monaghan BGH 190.
S. American. Inca.
S. American. Inca.
One of Those who appearing with their brothers at creation populated the world; Most intelligent of the Inca foremothers; She who won land for Her people by Her guile.
Other foremothers [some obviously vars. of each other but source material does not indicate the matter clearly]:
Sources: Monaghan BGH 190.
S. American. Inca.
Sources: Monaghan BGH 190.
MAMA-PACHA, M*M*-P*C*, ---.
S. America. Peru.
Goddess of the earth and agriculture; Food supplier; She who lives beneath mountains; She whose quiverings are felt as earthquakes. During planting and harvest, women talk softly to Her while walking through the fields.
TWS: dragon [She probably manifests in this form]; mountain; cornmeal (poured on Her surface as a thank-offering).
Sources: Monaghan BGH 190.
MAMA-QUILLA, M*M*-KUYL/\, Mother-Moon.
TWS: Festivals: especially honoured during eclipses at which time a divine jaguar tried to devour Her.
Icon: a silver disk with a woman's face.
Sources: Monaghan BGH 190.
S. America. Inca.
Sources: Monaghan BGH 190.
Haitian voodoo.
Goddess (a Loa, Spirit) of death; Owner of cemeteries; Mother of the spirits who outline, dig, and mark graves.
Sources: Monaghan BGH 190.
Hindustani.
Hindustani.
Africa. Zulu of Natal.
Goddess of the heavens; Power of thunder and lightning; She Who pours Her waters from the sky, the rains of plenty and good fortune; She Who makes the forests green, and renews vegetation; She in Whose sparkling eyes may be seen the richness of the earth and the fruitfulness of the growing land; Teacher of the arts of husbandry; She Who instituted marriage rites.
To whom are sacred: zebra (She wears the torn hide of a zebra on Her wedding day); rainbow (rainbow arches roof Her heavenly home - Her skirt, other than on Her wedding day, is rainbow coloured); beer (a gift from Her for joyful celebrations); shaved head (She shaved Her own preparitory to Her marriage); ashes (She smears Her body with ashes prior to Her marriage).
Male associate: consort, a mortal whom She came to earth to marry and returned with to heaven.
Sources: Stone AMWv1 151-3
** Bunzi, BWNZE, ---.
Africa. Woyo of Zaire.
Serpent Goddess of rain; She Who causes fruit and nuts to grow; She Who is immanent in the rainbow.
Sources: Stone AMWv1 150.
** Mujaji, MWJ*JE, ---.
Africa. Lovedu, a Bantu trive of the Transvaal.
Linguistic note: this name is inherited by Lovedu queens.
Rain Queen incarnate in mortal Lovedu queens; Queen of the rain-makers; white-faced one; She Who is as radiant as the sun; She Who gives water to wash the face; Transformer of clouds; She Who garantees the cycle of the seasons.
Sources: Parrinder AM 118-9 (and see for more information on Mujaji).
Finno-Ugric.
Goddess of the forest.
TWS: forest trees.
**Luonnotar[?\cyc\l\Luonnotar], (qv), is a Finnish Goddess.
Hebraic.
Goddess Creatress of human-kind; Mighty power; Holy spirit of the sea.
TWS: dust (i.e. soil); sea-water.