Medicine Wheel: See UMS Wizards, Magical Creatures and Adepts course.

Mermaid: The mythic half human, half fish creature of the sea was a symbol of the goddess as Aphrodite (the lover) or Ran (the death bringer) for northern Europe. In her book The Woman’s Encyclopedia Of Myths And Secrets (1983), Barbara Walker asserts, “Literally ‘Virgin of the Sea,’ the mermaid was an image of fish-tailed Aphrodite, the medieval Minne, Maerin, Mari, Marina, mereminne, mare-mynd, mareminde, marraminde, or maraeman. The Mermaid was the creature that received the bodies and souls of men when they were sent out on funeral boats and she was the cause of drowned fishermen, entrapping them in her nets. See UMS Wizards, Magical Creatures and Adepts course.

Messiah: See Savior.