Máni
Máni is the personified moon in Norse mythology. He is described as the brother of Sól, the sun goddess, and the son of Mundilfari.
↻ synthesized from 7 sources
When
- First attested
- 500 BCE
- Attested period
- -500 – 1300
- Historical notes
- Attested in 13th century Poetic Edda and Prose Edda.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Mundilfari, Min (god), Hati Hróðvitnisson, Mánagarm, Sunna, Nótt, Glenr, Tēcciztēcatl, Iah, Igaluk/Alignak, Metztli, Bilwis, Chang E, Mahodara, Mahāmanasvī, Mahāpadma, Mahauṣadhi, Manasvin, Maṇināga, Meruśrī, Mṛgaśīrṣa, Mṛgila, Mṛṣṇāda, Mucilinda, Mudgara, Mukhakarā, Sinthgunt, Ma, Mah, Fenrir, Sköll, Jesus Christ, Allah, Nzambici, Sin, Tsukuyomi, Coyolxauhqui, Luna, Chandra, Selene, Nzambi Mpungu, Manasā, Mahākāla
- sibling of
- Sol
- student of
- Jesus the Messiah
- child of
- Mundilfari
Mentioned by
- Ma
- Mah
- Fenrir
- Sköll
- Jesus Christ
- Allah
- Nzambici
- Sin
- Tsukuyomi
- Coyolxauhqui
- Luna
- Chandra
- Selene
- Nzambi Mpungu
- Manasā
- Mahākāla
and 4 more
Sources
Source passages
“High describes that Sól is one of the two children of Mundilfari, and states that the children were so beautiful they were named after the Sun (Sól) and the Moon (Máni).”
#16176 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Simul (Old Norse, possibly meaning "eternal") that held the pail Sæg between them – Máni took them from the Earth, and they now follow Máni in the heavens, "as can be seen from the earth".”
#18354 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Máni”
#19317 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Máni, the lunar orbiter mission by ESA and University of Copenhagen”
#19388 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“However, this reading has yielded problems; the moon in Germanic mythology is considered masculine, exemplified in the personification of the moon in Norse mythology, Máni, a male figure.”
#27447 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001