Medr is the earth-god of the pre-Christian Aksumite triad, his name being simply the Ge'ez word for 'earth, land'. He is attested in the vocalised Ge'ez recension of Ezana's inscription RIÉ 185, where the name replaces the Beher (bhr[m]) of the parallel South Arabian-script text, and again in RIÉ 188 and on an inscribed stone basin from Aksum. Scholars accordingly treat Medr and Beher as one and the same chthonic power, or as two functionally interchangeable deities of land and sea. Notably, the term mədr 'earth' was retained even after Ezana's conversion in designations of the Christian God.