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MACARIA (Makaria)
-The goddess of a blessed death and afterlife.
MACHAE (Makhai)
-The female personifications of battles and combat.
MACRIS (Makris)
-A rustic nymph of the island of Euboea, who nursed the infant god Dionysus.
MACROCEPHALI (Makrokephaloi)
-A fabulous tribe of African men with long heads.
MAEANDER (Maiandros)
-A river of Caria and its god.
MAERA (1) (Maira)
-A star-nymph daughter of the Titan Atlas, and wife of the Arcadian King Tegeates. She was the goddess of the scorching dog-star Sirius.
MAERA (2) (Maira)
-A Naiad-nymph daughter of the river Erasinus who, with her sisters, was an attendant of the goddess Britomartis.
MAIA
-A Pleiad star-nymph of Mount Cyllene in Arcadia who was the mother of the god Hermes by Zeus. Illustrated
MANAIE (Maniai)
-The female personification of madness and crazed frenzy.
MANTICORE (Mantikhoras)
-A Persian monster with the body of a lion, the face of a man, and a spiked tail.
MARON
-One of the drunken, old Silen-gods. He was the charioteer of the god Dionysus.
MARSYAS A
- flute-playing satyr who challenged Apollo to a musical contest. The god won and flayed the satyr alive as punishment.
MATTON
-The daemon of the kneeding of dough and baking of bread.
MEDUSA (Medousa)
-A serpent-haired Gorgon slain by the hero Perseus. When she was beheaded her two children, Pegasus and Chrysaor, burst forth from her bloody neck-stump. Illustrated
MEGAERA (Megaira)
-One of the three Erinyes or Furies.
MELAENA (Melaine)
-A Naiad-nymph of Mount Parnassus loved by the god Apollo.
MELANIPPE
-A prophetic nymph daughter of the centaur Chiron who was transformed into a mare as punishment for revealing the secrets of the gods.
MELIA (1)
-The Oceanid-nymph wife of the Argive river-god Inachus.
MELIA (2)
-The Oceanid-nymph of the sacred Ismenian spring of Thebes who was loved by the god Apollo. Illustrated
MELIA (3)
-The nymph mother of Pholus and the Arcadian centaurs by the rustic-god Silenus.
MELIA (4)
-A nymph of Bithynia loved by the god Poseidon.
MELIA (5)
-A Bithynian nymph loved by the god Silenus.
MELIA (6)
-A nymph of the island of Ceos loved by Apollo.
MELIADES
-Dryad-nymphs of fruit-trees and orchards.
MELIAE (Meliai)
-The nymphs of ash-trees and honey-sap. They were born born from the blood of the castrated sky-god Uranus along with the Gigantes and Curetes. The Melaie were the wives of the Silver Race of Man and ancestresses of mankind.
MELIBOEA (1) (Meliboia)
-The Oceanid-nymph wife of the Arcadian king Pelasgus.
MELIBOEA (2) (Meliboia)
-An Oceanid-nymph loved by the Syrian river Orontes.
MELICERTES (Melikertes)
- A boy transformed into a sea-god after his mother leapt with him into the sea. As a deity he was renamed Palaemon. Illustrated
MELINOE
-A spectral goddess of the underworld who haunted the world at night with a train of ghosts.
MELISSAE (Melissai)
-Nymphs of the honey-bees.
