List of Deities Information
This 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.
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By type
Lists of deities by type:
Ruler of the Pantheon
Celestial, Cosmological
Baronne Rigoley d'Ogny as Aurora, by Jean-Marc Nattier, Baltimore Museum of ArtChthonic
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
- North Africa: Berber pantheon
- Pre-Islamic Arabian Deities (see Arabian mythology)
Central / Northern Asia
East Asia
India / South Asia
The image illustrates the Hindu belief that each part of the cow embodies a particular deityEurope
- Baltic deities
- Celtic deities
- Etruscan deities
- Finnic deities
- Germanic deities
- 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
Contemporary poster of a Mami Wata, "serpent priestess" painted by German (Hamburg) artist Schleisinger, ca. 1926, displayed in shrines as a popular image of Mami Wata in Africa and in the Diaspora.[1][2]Americas
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)
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