Ma - Deity - OMNIKA Mythology

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Ma was an Anatolian deity with cult temples in Cappadocia and Pontus of central and northeast Asia Minor. She may also be represented in Hittite, Greek, and other religions.

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Ma was an Anatolian deity with cult temples in Cappadocia and Pontus of central and northeast Asia Minor. She may also be represented in Hittite, Ancient Greek, Ancient Egyptian, and other religions of the broader Ancient Near East. She is oftentimes characterized as a 'Mother Goddess' type of deity who was diffused into other nearby cultures.^[1] Arthur J. Evans has even suggested that Ma could be represented in The Phaistos Disk symbols of the Minoan culture in Crete, Greece.^[2]

Notes

🡩Stefanidou Vera, "Ma", Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Asia Minor translated by Nakas Ioannis, updated May 19, 2008, http://asiaminor.ehw.gr/forms/fLemmaBodyExtended.aspx?lemmaID=7736, accessed July 17, 2020.

🡩Evans, POM 1, 656.

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MLA Modern Language Association (8th ed.)

OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "Ma." OMNIKA – World Mythology Index, OMNIKA Foundation, 17 Jul. 2020, omnika.org/stable/914. Accessed 11 Dec. 2023.

APA American Psychological Association (6th ed.)

OMNIKA (2020, July 17). Ma. Retrieved from https://omnika.org/stable/914

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OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "Ma." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation. Created July 17, 2020. Accessed December 11, 2023. https://omnika.org/stable/914.

Bibliography

Anonymous creator, The Phaistos Disc, c. 1600–1699 BCE. Clay disk, diameter: 0.16m [6.23 in]. Permanent Exhibitions Collection, Room III, Inventory No. AE 1358, Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

Evans, Arthur J. The Palace of Minos / Vol. I: A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos. Vol. 1, The Neolithic and Early and Middle Minoan Ages. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1921.

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Anatolian Belief system