The Mountain God is a tutelary deity associated with mountains, similar to dizhu shen and City Gods. According to Wikipedia, it occupies a similar role as a guardian or protector of specific geographical locations.
As a tutelary deity, the Mountain God may possess powers to protect and defend its associated mountains.
Mothman
A modern American folkloric figure originating from a cluster of 1966–67 sightings around Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Described in press reports and later retellings as a large humanoid or winged creature with notable eyes, the Mothman legend has been variously interpreted as misidentified wildlife, hoaxing/sensationalism, or a paranormal omen linked in some retellings to the Silver Bridge collapse.
Mothra
Mothra (Japanese: モスラ, Mosura) is a moth-like giant monster (kaiju) originating in Japanese popular media. First appearing in a 1961 serial/novelization and Toho's 1961 film Mothra, the character is recurrently portrayed as a colossal, often heroic/protective kaiju associated with an island culture and featured across multiple Toho and later Monsterverse films.
Motoro
Motoro is a tribal god of the Ngariki people of Mangaia in Polynesia. In the available account he is called i'o ora ('god of the living') and is noted for a myth in which he was cast into the sea during a quarrel with his elder brothers; his spirit later arrived at Mangaia on a piece of hibiscus. His followers were exempt from being used as human sacrifices.
Motutaiko Island
In Māori tradition, Motutaiko Island is a culturally significant island within Lake Taupō, associated with the black petrel bird and reflecting the Māori worldview's emphasis on connection between natural features and human society. (Note: - Power tier: Minor Spirit (given its local significance and limited abilities) - Weaknesses: drought not mentioned in source material - Wards and weaknesses inconsistent with the provided information)
Mount Meru (Buddhist Tradition)
Sacred, five-peaked mountain at the center of all physical, metaphysical, and spiritual universes in Buddhist cosmology. (Note: 1. Power tier: Downgrade to "Primordial" to "Greater". A Primordial entity would be a fundamental aspect of the universe's creation or structure, rather than a specific geographical location. Mount Me)
Mount Qaf
Legendary mountain in Persian tradition and Arab mythology, considered homeland of the jinn. (Note: * Power tier: Primordial (based on being created directly from "shining emerald material" by God) * Abilities: Not explicitly described in source material; should be removed or rephrased * Sensory cue)
Mountain spirit (Shanling / Wushan) — limited-source entry
The supplied corpus provides only minimal, non-ethnographic attestations: an English Wikipedia disambiguation page listing geographic places called 'Spirit Mountain' and a Wikidata item classifying 'mountain spirit' as a 'type of sprite.' No primary or traditional Taoist descriptions, rituals, or narratives are present in the provided materials.
Moussa Gname
A revered culture hero of the Songhai people, celebrated for his pivotal role in shaping West African folklore and mythology. (Note: * Power tier: Unclear, but likely Lesser or Minor Spirit given the lack of specific abilities * Origin story: Should be revised to "Origin unknown" as no detailed origin story is found in the source m)
Mozagro
Mozagro is attested in the provided sources as a modern toponym and commercial name rather than a supernatural being. It appears as a geographic feature (Pico Mozagro referenced in pastoral/cattle imagery), a triangulation station in Cieza, Spain, and as the name of a contemporary digital agribusiness marketplace serving smallholder farmers. The supplied materials contain no folkloric, mythic, or supernatural descriptions of Mozagro.
Mozas del Agua
Mozas del Agua (literally "Water Lasses") are a named category of Cantabrian water-associated female supernatural beings appearing in regional folklore source lists. The supplied sources list them alongside other northern Iberian water-fairies (Anjanas, Xanas/Janas, lamias) but provide no independent narratives, iconography, or documented rituals specific to them.
Moʻo (example: Kihawahine)
Moʻo are identified in the supplied sources as Hawaiian lizard deities; the supplied material gives Kihawahine as an exemplar, described as a shapeshifting lizard goddess whose deification originated when the bones of a chiefly daughter were deified and whose home was the wetland pond Mokuhinia on Mokuʻula.
Mr. Beaver
Mr. Beaver is a fictional anthropomorphic beaver character who appears in the secondary world of C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia. The provided sources identify him only as a character entry in lists/databases of Narnia characters.
Community Record
- [1]Mountain God. Wikipedia article on Mountain Godwiki