- List of deities
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This list of deities is an index to polytheistic deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world, listed by type and by region. This is not a list of names or epithets of God in monotheistic religions, for which see Names of God. For deified individuals see List of people who have been considered deities, Apotheosis, Imperial cult. For deities whose cult is fictional see List of deities in fiction.
Contents
By type
Lists of deities by type:
Ruler of the Pantheon
Celestial, Cosmological
- Creator
- Moon
- Sky
- Sun
- Time
- Weather, rain, thunder, lightning
Chthonic
- Earth
- Night
- Ocean, water
Human sphere
- Death
- Father, Mother
- Fate
- Fertility, love, lust
- Health, healing, medicine
- Household, hearth
- Hunting
- Knowledge or wisdom
- Thresholds, doorways
- Trickster
- War
Demigods, Deified Heroes
By cultural sphere
Near East and North Africa
Osiris, lord of the dead. His green skin symbolizes re-birth
- Ancient Near East
- Ancient Egyptian deities
- Mesopotamian deities
- Semitic gods: see El (god), Elohim
- Assyro-Babylonian pantheon (see also Family tree of the Babylonian gods)
- Canaanite deities
- Anatolia
- Hittite deities
- Hurrian deities
- Lydian deities
- Caucasus
- Armenian deities
- Ossetian deities
- Persia: see Yazata, see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
- North Africa: Berber pantheon
- Pre-Islamic Arabian Deities (see Arabian mythology)
Central / Northern Asia
- Siberian
- Turco-Mongol
East Asia
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- Chinese deities
- Japanese deities
- Korean deities
- List of bodhisattvas
India / South Asia
The image illustrates the Hindu belief that each part of the cow embodies a particular deity- Southeast Asia
- Deities of Philippine Mythology
- Malaysian Chinese Gods
Europe
- Baltic deities
- Celtic deities
- Irish deities
- Etruscan deities
- Finnic deities
- Germanic deities
- Anglo-Saxon deities
- List of Norse gods and goddesses
- Greek pantheon (see also List of Greek mythological figures, Twelve Olympians, Greek hero cult, Family tree of the Greek gods)
- Hungarian deities
- List of Roman deities
- Lusitani deities
- Paleo-Balkanic deities (Thracian/Dacian/Illyrian)
- Sami deities
- Slavic deities
Sub-Saharan Africa
- African deities
- Alusi
- Guanche deities
- Yoruba deities
- Afro-American religion
Americas
- Mesoamerica
- Aztec deities
- Maya deities
- North America
- Inuit deities
- Native American deities
- South America
Australia-Oceania
- Australian Aboriginal deities
- Māori deities
- Polynesian deities
- Rapa Nui deities (Easter Island)
Syncretic mythologies
See also
- Demigod
- Divinity
- God (male deity)
- Goddess
- List of deities in fiction
- List of folklores
- List of legendary creatures by type
- List of mythologies
- List of people who have been considered deities
- Names of God
- Pantheon (gods)
- Spiritual Hierarchy (Theosophy)
Theism List of philosophies Deity (Divinity · Numen · Male · Female · List) · Singular God (Existence · Gender) · Binitarianism · Deism · Dystheism · Henotheism · Kathenotheism · Monolatrism · Monotheism · Mysticism · Nontheism · Pandeism · Panentheism · Pantheism · Polydeism · Polytheism · Spiritualism · TheopanismReferences
Categories:- Lists of deities
- Polytheism
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