Ma

Anatolian deity

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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]

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🡩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.
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🡩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 19 May. 2026.

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APA American Psychological Association (6th ed.)

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

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CMS Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.)

OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "Ma." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation. Created July 17, 2020. Accessed May 19, 2026. https://omnika.org/stable/914.

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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.
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Eberhard, David M., Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig, eds. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 25th ed. Dallas, Texas: SIL International, 2022. Accessed August 20, 2022. https://www.ethnologue.com.
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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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Hammarström, Harald, Robert Forkel, Martin Haspelmath, and Sebastian Bank. "Glottolog: A Database of Languages." Leipzig, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Created 2011 [?]. Accessed August 23, 2022. https://glottolog.org.
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SIL International Contributors. "ISO 639-3 Registration Authority: International Standard for Language Codes." Dallas, TX: SIL International. Accessed August 23, 2022. https://iso639-3.sil.org.
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SIL International Contributors. "ScriptSource: Index of Languages and Writing Systems." Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Created June 11, 2011. Accessed August 6, 2022. https://scriptsource.org.
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Unicode Consortium Contributors. "ISO 15924 Registration Authority: Codes for the Representation of Names of Scripts." Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium. Created 2004. Accessed August 24, 2022. https://unicode.org/iso15924.
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