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 fictional deities (that is, deities whose cult is fictional) see List of fictional deities.

By type

Lists of deities by type:

Celestial, Cosmological

• Moon
• Sun
• sky, day
• weather, rain, thunder, lighting
• creator

Chthonic

• earth
• sun
• ocean, water
• underworld, night

Human sphere

• oath
• justice
• knowledge or wisdom
• household, hearth
• mother
• father
• love
• death
• war

Demigods, Deified Heroes

• culture heroes
• sacred king
• imperial cult

By region

Africa

• African deities
  • Ancient Egyptian deities

Americas

• North America
  • Native American deities
  • Inuit deities
• Mesoamerica
  • Aztec deities
  • Maya deities
• South America
  • Incan deities
  • Guarani
  • Mapuche
• Afro-American religion
  • Loa
  • Orisha

Asia

• Ancient Near East / Caucasus
  • Mesopotamian deities
  • Semitic gods
    • Assyro-Babylonian pantheon (see also Family tree of the Babylonian gods)
    • Canaanite deities
  • Ancient Egyptian deities
  • Yazata (Persian, see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion)
  • Anatolia
    • Hittite deities
    • Hurrian deities
    • Lydian gods
  • Caucasus
    • Ossetian deities
• Central / Northern Asia
  • Raven God of Kamchatka and Chukotka
  • Tengri
• East Asia
  • Chinese deities
  • Korean deities
  • Japanese deities
  • List of bodhisattvas
• India / South Asia
  • Hindu deities
    • Rigvedic deities (see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion)
• Southeast Asia
  • Deities of Philippine Mythology
  • Malaysian Chinese Gods

Australia

• Australian Aboriginal deities

Europe

• Baltic deities
• Celtic deities
• Paleo-Balkanic deities (Thracian/Dacian/Illyrian)
• 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
• Lusitani deities
• Roman deities, List of Roman deities
• Slavic deities

Oceania

• Polynesian deities

See also

• Names of God
• List of fictional deities
• List of people considered to be deities
• List of mythologies
• List of legendary creatures by type
• List of folklores
• Demigod
• Divinity
• God (male deity)
• Goddess
• Pantheon (gods)

External links

• Godchecker - searchable encyclopedia of approx 3,000 gods and goddesses from all cultures of the world.
• Encyclopedia Mythica - award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion. Over 7,000 articles currently available.

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