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This list of deities is an index to polytheistic deities
Deity

A deity is a postulated preternatural or supernatural immortal being, who may be thought of as holy, divinity, or sacred, held in high regard, and respected by human beings....
 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
Names of God

The Name of God, or Holy Name is the name in Eastern traditions or Western spiritual traditions or religions that is used in practice or prayer....
. For deified individuals see List of people who have been considered deities
List of people who have been considered deities

This a list of those notable human beings who were considered deity by themselves or others. The list distinguishes people who claimed divinity or were worshiped as deities during their lifetimes, and examples of individuals who were deified posthumously ....
, Apotheosis
Apotheosis

Apotheosis refers to the exaltation of a subject to divinity level. The term has meanings in theology, where it refers to a belief, and in art, where it refers to a genre....
, Imperial cult
Imperial cult

An Imperial cult is a form of state religion in which an emperor, or a dynasty of emperors , are worshiped as messiahs, demigods or deity. "Cult " here is used to mean "worship," not in the modern pejorative sense....
. For fictional deities (that is, deities whose cult is fictional) see List of fictional deities
List of fictional deities

This alphabetical list of fictional deities provides information about the sundry Deity in the religions, cultures, and Mythology of various fictional universes....
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This list of deities is an index to polytheistic deities
Deity

A deity is a postulated preternatural or supernatural immortal being, who may be thought of as holy, divinity, or sacred, held in high regard, and respected by human beings....
 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
Names of God

The Name of God, or Holy Name is the name in Eastern traditions or Western spiritual traditions or religions that is used in practice or prayer....
. For deified individuals see List of people who have been considered deities
List of people who have been considered deities

This a list of those notable human beings who were considered deity by themselves or others. The list distinguishes people who claimed divinity or were worshiped as deities during their lifetimes, and examples of individuals who were deified posthumously ....
, Apotheosis
Apotheosis

Apotheosis refers to the exaltation of a subject to divinity level. The term has meanings in theology, where it refers to a belief, and in art, where it refers to a genre....
, Imperial cult
Imperial cult

An Imperial cult is a form of state religion in which an emperor, or a dynasty of emperors , are worshiped as messiahs, demigods or deity. "Cult " here is used to mean "worship," not in the modern pejorative sense....
. For fictional deities (that is, deities whose cult is fictional) see List of fictional deities
List of fictional deities

This alphabetical list of fictional deities provides information about the sundry Deity in the religions, cultures, and Mythology of various fictional universes....
.

By type


Lists of deities by type:

Celestial
Celestial

The term celestial refers to the sky and/or Heaven. An astronomical object is sometimes referred to as a celestial body or celestial object....
, Cosmological
Religious cosmology

Religious cosmologies are ways of explaining the history and evolution of the universe based, at least in part, on the acceptance of principles that cannot be justified by accepted scientific arguments ....
  • Moon
    Lunar deity

    In mythology, a lunar deity is a god or goddess associated with or symbolizing the moon: see moon . These deities can have a variety of functions and traditions depending upon the culture, but they are often related to or an enemy of the solar deity....
  • Sun
    Solar deity

    A Solar Deity , is a deity who represents the sun, or an aspect of it. People have worshiped these for all of recorded history. Hence, many beliefs have formed around this worship, such as the "missing sun" found in many cultures ....
  • sky, day
  • weather, rain, thunder, lighting
    Weather god

    Weather god may refer to any of a number of deities connected to weather phenomena:*Thunder god*Wind god*Rain god*Lightning god...
  • creator
    Creator deity

    A creator deity is a deity in a creation myth responsible for the creation of the world .In monotheism, the single God is necessarily also the creator deity, while polytheistic traditions may or may not have creator deities....

Chthonic
Chthonic

Chthonic designates, or pertains to, deities or spirits of the underworld, especially in relation to Ancient Greek religion.Greek khthon is one of several words for "earth"; it typically refers to the interior of the soil, rather than the living surface of the Landscape or the land as territory ....
  • earth
  • sun
  • ocean, water
  • underworld, night
    List of Night Deities

    See also*Chthonic deity...

Human sphere
  • oath
  • justice
  • knowledge or wisdom
    Knowledge deity

    !Name!Place and Religion of Origin!Notes|-|Anulap|Polynesian mythology ||-|Coeus|Greek mythology|Coeus was not a god but in fact a Titan ....
  • household, hearth
    Household deity

    A household deity is a deity or spirit that protects the home, looking after the entire household or certain key members. It has been a common belief in pagan religions as well as in folklore across many parts of the world....
  • mother
    Mother goddess

    A mother goddess is a term used to refer to any goddess associated with motherhood, fertility, creation or the bountiful embodiment of the Earth....
  • father
  • love
    List of Love Deities

    References...
  • death
    Death deity

    Deities associated with death take many different forms, depending on the specific culture and religion being referenced. Psychopomps, deities of the underworld, and Life-death-rebirth deity are commonly called death deities in comparative religions texts....
  • war
    List of war deities

    "War Gods" redirects here. For the video game, see War Gods .The following is a list of war deities....


Demigod
Demigod

The term "demigod", meaning "half-god", is used to describe mythological figures whose one parent was a god and whose other parent was human. Demi-gods include the Celtic hero C?chulainn, Gilgamesh, and Heracles....
s, Deified Heroes
List of people who have been considered deities

This a list of those notable human beings who were considered deity by themselves or others. The list distinguishes people who claimed divinity or were worshiped as deities during their lifetimes, and examples of individuals who were deified posthumously ....
  • culture hero
    Culture hero

    A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to some group who changes the world through invention or discovery . A typical culture hero might be credited as the discoverer of fire, or agriculture, folk music, tradition and religion, and is usually the most important legendary figure of a people, sometimes as the founder of its ruling dyna...
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  • sacred king
    Sacred king

    For the office under ancient Rome, see Rex Sacrorum. In many historical societies, the office of monarch carries a sacral meaning, that is, it is identical with that of a high priest and of judge....
  • imperial cult
    Imperial cult

    An Imperial cult is a form of state religion in which an emperor, or a dynasty of emperors , are worshiped as messiahs, demigods or deity. "Cult " here is used to mean "worship," not in the modern pejorative sense....


By region


Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
  • African deities
    • Yoruba
      Yoruba

      Yoruba may refer to:* Yoruba people, a West African ethnic group* Yoruba language, the language spoken by the Yoruba people* Yoruba religion, the traditional religion of the Yoruba people...
  • Afro-American religion
    Afro-American religion

    Afro-American religions are a number of related religions that developed in the Americas among African slavery and their descendants in various countries of the Caribbean Islands and Latin America, as well as parts of the southern United States....
    • Loa
      Loa

      The Loa are the spirits of the Haitian Vodou religion practiced in Haiti, and other parts of the world. They are also referred to as Myst?res and the Invisibles....
    • Orisha
      Orisha

      An Orisha is a spirit or deity that reflects one of the manifestations of Olodumare in the Yoruba mythology spiritual or religion . This religion has found its way throughout the world and is now expressed in several varieties which include Anago, Adefunmi, Candombl?, Lucum?, and the Orisa religion of Trinidad, as well as some aspects o...


Americas
Americas

The Americas are the region of the Western hemisphere that consists of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions....
  • North America
  • Mesoamerica
    • Aztec deities
    • Maya deities
  • South America
    • Incan deities
    • Guarani
      Guaraní mythology

      Guaran? Mythology refers to the beliefs of the Guaran? people of the south-central part of South America, especially the native peoples of Paraguay and parts of the surrounding areas of Argentina, Brazil, and Bolivia....
    • Mapuche
      Mapuche mythology

      The beliefs of the Mapuche and their mythology, stories about to the world and creatures born of the extensive and old religious beliefs, next to a series of common legend and myths that belong to the different groups that compose the Mapuche ethnic group ....


Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
  • Ancient Near East / Caucasus
    • Mesopotamian deities
      Dingir

      Dingir is the Sumerian language for "deity". It is written as an ideogram in the cuneiform script . The sign at the same time expressed the syllable an, because it was in particular the ideogram for Anu, the supreme deity of the Sumerian pantheon....
    • Semitic gods
      • Assyro-Babylonian pantheon (see also Family tree of the Babylonian gods
        Family tree of the Babylonian gods

        See also*Family tree of the Greek gods*Mesopotamian mythology*Semitic godsReferences*Anunnaku*Nabu...
        )
      • Canaanite deities
    • Ancient Egyptian deities
    • Yazata
      Yazata

      Yazata is the Avestan language word for a Zoroastrianism concept. The word has a wide range of meaning but generally signifies a divinity. The term literally means "worthy of worship" or "worthy of veneration."...
       (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
      Kutkh

      Kutkh , is a Raven traditionally revered in various forms by various indigenous peoples of the Russian Far East. Kutkh appears in many legends: as a key figure in creation, as a fertile ancestor of mankind, as a mighty shaman and as a trickster....
    • Tengri
      Tengri

      Tengri is the supreme god of the old Turkic peoples and Mongolic languages religion named Tengriism. It is analogous with the early Chinese concept of TianLi in Western Zhou Dynasty , and later Daoist coinage of ? and derived Confucian concept of TianLi....
  • East Asia
    • Chinese deities
    • Japanese deities
    • Korean deities
    • List of bodhisattvas
      List of bodhisattvas

      In Buddhist thought, a Bodhisattva is a being who is dedicated to achieving complete Buddhahood. That is their reason for "being" or raison d'?tre....
  • India / South Asia
    • Hindu deities
      Hindu deities

      Within Hinduism a large number of personalities, or 'forms', are worshiped as murtis. These beings are either aspects of the supreme Brahman, avatars of the Bhagavan, or significantly powerful entities known as Deva ....
      • Rigvedic deities
        Rigvedic deities

        There are 1028 hymns in the Rigveda, most of them dedicated to specific deity.Indra, a heroic god, slayer of Vrtra and destroyer of the Vala, liberator of the cows and the rivers; Agni the sacrificial fire and messenger of the gods; and Soma the ritual drink dedicated to Indra are the most prominent deities....
         (see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion)
  • Southeast Asia
    • Deities of Philippine Mythology
      Deities of Philippine mythology

      The deities of ancient Philippine mythology, while not as widely known as its European and East Asian counterparts, have similar elements and characteristics when compared to other mythologies....
    • Malaysian Chinese Gods


Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
-Oceania
Oceania

Oceania is a geography, often geopolitics, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The term "Oceania" was coined in 1831 by French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville....
  • Australian Aboriginal deities
  • Polynesian Mythology
    Polynesian mythology

    Polynesian mythology is the Oral_tradition of the people of Polynesia a grouping of Central and South Pacific Ocean island archipelagos in the Polynesian triangle together with the scattered cultures known as the Polynesian outliers....


Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
  • Baltic deities
  • Celtic deities
  • Paleo-Balkanic deities (Thracian/Dacian/Illyrian)
  • Etruscan deities
  • Finnic deities
  • Germanic deities
    • Anglo-Saxon deities
      Anglo-Saxon deities

      Anglo-Saxon deities refers to the gods and goddesses worshipped in the religion of Anglo-Saxon paganism, by the Anglo-Saxons, a group of Germanic tribes who settled in modern day England in the 5th century....
    • List of Norse gods and goddesses
      List of Norse gods and goddesses

      In Germanic paganism, a religion followed by the ancient Germanic peoples that inhabited Germanic Europe, there were polytheism. This article presents a comprehensive list of these deities....
  • Greek pantheon (see also List of Greek mythological figures
    List of Greek mythological figures

    A listing of Greek mythology figures. See also family tree of the Greek gods and the list of Greek mythological creatures. For a list of the deities of many cultures , see list of deities....
    , Twelve Olympians
    Twelve Olympians

    The Twelve Olympians or younger gods, also known as the Dodekatheon , in Greek mythology, were the principal Greek Godss of the Greek pantheon , residing atop Mount Olympus, having supplanted the Titan or older gods in the greek mythogical narrative....
    , Greek hero cult
    Greek hero cult

    Hero cults were one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion. In Homeric Greek, "hero" refers to any man who was fighting on either side of the Trojan War....
    , Family tree of the Greek gods
    Family tree of the Greek gods

    |.|:| |!| | | |!| | |!}}Notes...
    )
  • Hungarian deities
  • Lusitani deities
  • Roman deities, List of Roman deities
    List of Roman deities

    This is a list of Roman mythology with brief descriptions....
  • Slavic deities


See also

  • Names of God
    Names of God

    The Name of God, or Holy Name is the name in Eastern traditions or Western spiritual traditions or religions that is used in practice or prayer....
  • List of fictional deities
    List of fictional deities

    This alphabetical list of fictional deities provides information about the sundry Deity in the religions, cultures, and Mythology of various fictional universes....
  • List of people considered to be deities
  • List of mythologies
    List of mythologies

    This is a list of Mythology of the world, by culture and region....
  • List of legendary creatures by type
    List of legendary creatures by type

    This is a list of legendary creatures from mythology, folklore and fairy tales, sorted by their classification or affiliation. Creatures from modern fantasy fiction and role-playing games are not included....
  • List of folklores
  • Demigod
    Demigod

    The term "demigod", meaning "half-god", is used to describe mythological figures whose one parent was a god and whose other parent was human. Demi-gods include the Celtic hero C?chulainn, Gilgamesh, and Heracles....
  • Divinity
    Divinity

    Divinity and divine are broadly applied but loosely defined terms, used variously within different faiths and belief systems ? and even by different individuals within a given faith ? to refer to some transcendent or transcendental power, or its attributes or manifestations in the world....
  • God (male deity)
    God (male deity)

    God, as a male deity, contrasts with female deities, or "goddesses". While the term 'goddess' specifically refers to a female deity, words like 'gods' and 'deities' can be applied to all gods collectively, regardless of gender....
  • Goddess
    Goddess

    A goddess is a female deity. Often deities are part of a polytheism system that includes several deities in a pantheon .Common associations of goddesses are the Earth goddess, the Mother Goddess, Love goddess, and the hearth goddess, reflecting historical gender roles....
  • Pantheon (gods)
    Pantheon (gods)

    A pantheon is a set of all the gods of a particular polytheistic religion or mythology.Max Weber's 1922 opus, Economy and Society discusses the link between a pantheon of gods and the development of monotheism....
  • Sequences of deities