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Mythology

The word mythology refers to a body of folklore/myths/legends that a particular culture believes to be true and that often use the supernatural to interpret natural events and to explain the nature of the universe and humanity....
, a lunar deity is a god
God

God is a deity in theism and deism religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity in polytheism....
 or 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....
 associated with or symbolizing the moon: see moon (mythology). 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
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 ....
. Lunar deities can be both male and female, and are usually held to be of the opposite sex of the corresponding solar deity. Male lunar deities are somewhat more common worldwide, although female deities are better known in modern times due to the influence of classical Greek and Roman mythology, which held the moon to be female.







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In mythology
Mythology

The word mythology refers to a body of folklore/myths/legends that a particular culture believes to be true and that often use the supernatural to interpret natural events and to explain the nature of the universe and humanity....
, a lunar deity is a god
God

God is a deity in theism and deism religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity in polytheism....
 or 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....
 associated with or symbolizing the moon: see moon (mythology). 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
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 ....
. Lunar deities can be both male and female, and are usually held to be of the opposite sex of the corresponding solar deity. Male lunar deities are somewhat more common worldwide, although female deities are better known in modern times due to the influence of classical Greek and Roman mythology, which held the moon to be female.

List of lunar deities

  • Ainu mythology
    • Chup Kamui
  • Akkadian mythology
    • Sin
      Sin (mythology)

      Sin is a Sumerian lunar deity in Mesopotamian mythology. He is the son of Enlil and Ninlil. His sacred city was Ur....
       (Sumerian: Suen). This name was corrupted to Enzu
  • Arabian mythology
    Arabian mythology

    Arabian mythology comprises the ancient, pre-Islamic beliefs of the Arabs.Prior to Islam on the Arabian Peninsula in 622, the physical centre of Islam, the Kaaba of Mecca, the Kaaba was covered in symbols representing the myriad demons, Genie, demigods and other assorted creatures which represented the profoundly polytheistic environment of...
    • Illat
    • Hilal
    • Hubal
      Hubal

      Hubal was a god worshipped in pagan Arabia, notably at Mecca before the arrival of Islam....
    • Sin
      Sin (mythology)

      Sin is a Sumerian lunar deity in Mesopotamian mythology. He is the son of Enlil and Ninlil. His sacred city was Ur....
    • Ta'lab
      Ta'lab

      A god worshipped in pre-Islamic southern Arabia, particularly in Sheba. Ta'lab was the moon god. His oracle was consulted for advice....
    • Wadd
      Wadd

      Wadd "Love, Friendship", known variously as Ilumquh, ?Amm and Suen, was the Minaeans moon god. Snakes were believed to be sacred to Wadd....
  • Aztec mythology
    Aztec mythology

    The Aztec civilization recognized a polytheistic mythology, which contained the many gods and supernatural creatures from their religious beliefs....
    • Coyolxauhqui
      Coyolxauhqui

      In Aztec mythology, Coyolxauhqui was a daughter of Coatlicue and the leader of the Centzon Huitznahuas, the star gods. Coyolxauhqui was a powerful magician and led her siblings in an attack on their mother, Coatlicue, because Coatlicue had become pregnant....
    • Metztli
      Metztli

      In Aztec mythology, Metztli was a god or goddess of the lunar deity, the night, and farmers. He/she was probably the same deity as Yohaulticetl and Coyolxauhqui and the male moon god Tecciztecatl; like the latter, he/she feared the sun because he/she feared its fire....
    • Tecciztecatl
      Tecciztecatl

      In Aztec mythology, Tecciztecatl was a lunar deity, representing the old "Man in the Moon". He could have been the sun god, but he feared the sun's fire, so Nanahuatzin became the sun god and Tecciztecatl was promptly thrown into the moon....
    • Ixchel
      Ixchel

      Ixchel or Ix Chel is the 16th-century name of the aged jaguar goddess of midwifery and medicine in the ancient Maya Civilization. She corresponds, more or less, to Toci Yoalticitl ?Our Grandmother the Nocturnal Physician?, an Aztec earth goddess inhabiting the sweatbath, and also appears to be related to another Aztec goddess invoked...
  • Babylonian mythology
    Babylonian mythology

    Babylonian mythology is a set of stories depicting the activities of Babylonian deity, heroes, and mythological creatures. While these stories are in modern times usually considered a component of Babylonian religion, their purpose was not necessarily religious in nature....
    • Sin
      Sin (mythology)

      Sin is a Sumerian lunar deity in Mesopotamian mythology. He is the son of Enlil and Ninlil. His sacred city was Ur....
  • Basque mythology
    Basque mythology

    The mythology of the ancient Basque people largely did not survive the, albeit late, arrival of Christianity in the Basque Country between the 4th and 12th century AD....
    • Ilazki
  • Cahuilla mythology
    Cahuilla mythology

    Little is known of Cahuilla mythology.For the Cahuillas, cosmology values and concepts were established when the world was created by Mukat. The Cahuilla creation story tells of the origin of the world, the death of god , and the consequences of that death for humans ....
    • Menily
  • Canaanite mythology
    • Jarih
    • Nikkal
      Nikkal

      Nikkal, full name Nikkal-wa-Ib, is a goddess of Ugarit/Canaan and later of Phoenicia. She is a goddess of orchards, whose name means "Great Lady and Fruitful" and derives from West Semitic "?Ilat ?Inbi" meaning "Goddess of Fruit"....
  • Celtic mythology
    Celtic mythology

    Celts mythology is the mythology of Celtic polytheism, apparently the religion of the Iron Age Celts. Like other Iron Age Europeans, the early Celts maintained a polytheistic mythology and religious structure....
    • Góntia
      Góntia

      G?ntia , also known as Guntia, was a Celtic mythology goddess. Her name may be etymologically related to the Celtic Languages word condate ....
    • Cerridwen
    • Lair báln
  • Chibcha mythology
    • Chia
    • Chie
  • Chinese mythology
    Chinese mythology

    File:Nine-Dragons1.jpgChinese mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, and religions that have been passed down in oral or written form....
    • Chang'e
      Chang'e (mythology)

      Chang'e, Ch'ang-O or Chang-Ngo , also known as Heng-E or Heng-O , is the China goddess of the moon. Unlike many lunar deity in other cultures who personify the moon, Chang'e only lives on the moon....
       or Heng O. The moon does not represent any deity in Chinese culture. The moon is a palace where immortals and fairies live.
  • Dahomean mythology
    • Gleti
      Gleti

      Gleti is a moon goddess from the African kingdom of Dahomey, situated in what is now Benin.In Dahomey mythology, she is the mother of all the stars. An eclipse is caused by the shadow of the moon?s husband crossing her face....
  • Elamite mythology
    • Napir
      Napir

      Napir was the Elamite Empire god of the moon. An Elamite king of the early second millennium BC was named Indattu-Napir in his honor....
  • Egyptian mythology
    Egyptian mythology

    Ancient Egyptian religion encompasses the various religious beliefs and rituals practiced in ancient Egypt over at least 3,000 years, from the Predynastic Egypt until the adoption of Coptic Christianity in the early centuries Common Era....
    • Chons
      Chons

      In Egyptian mythology, Khonsu is an ancient lunar deity, from before formal structure was given to a wiktionary:pantheon....
    • Thoth
      Thoth

      Thoth, , though variations are accepted , was considered one of the more important god of the Egyptian pantheon, often depicted with the head of an Sacred Ibis....
  • Etruscan mythology
    Etruscan mythology

    The Etruscan civilizations were a people of unknown origin living in Northern Italy, who were eventually integrated into Roman culture and politically became part of the Roman Republic....
    • Losna
      Losna

      ----Losna was the lunar deity, and was also associated with the ocean and tides. She is probably the same as the Greek mythology Leukothea....
  • Greek mythology
    Greek mythology

    Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
    • Artemis
      Artemis

      In Greek mythology, Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of forests and hills, child birth/virginity/fertility, the hunt and was often depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows.....
    • Hecate
      Hecate

      Hecate Hekate , or Hekat was originally a goddess of the wilderness and childbirth, naturalized early in Mycenaean Greece or in Thrace, but originating among the Carians of Anatolia, the region where most theophoric names invoking Hecate, such as Hecataeus or Hecatomnus, progenitor of Mausollus, are attested, and where Hekate re...
    • Phoebe
      Phoebe (mythology)

      In Greek mythology "golden-wreathed" Phoebe , in her very name simply the feminine counterpart of Phoebus, was one of the original Titan , one set of sons and daughters of Uranus and Gaia ....
    • Selene
      Selene

      Selene is the Titan goddess of the moon.In Greek mythology, Selene was an archaic lunar deity and the daughter of the Titan Hyperion and Theia....
    • Rhea
      Rhea (mythology)

      This page is about the Greek mythological figure. For the bird, see Rhea .Rhea was the Titan daughter of Ouranos , the sky, and Gaia , the earth, in Classical Greece mythology....
  • Hattic mythology
    • Kaskuh
      Kaskuh

      In Hittites mythology, Kaskuh was the lunar god of the moon. The Luwian peoples called him Arma. In carvings he is depicted as winged and wearing a hat crowned with a crescent moon....
  • Hindu mythology
    Hindu mythology

    Hindu mythology is the large body of traditional narratives related to Hinduism, notably as contained in Sanskrit literature, such as the Sanskrit epics and the Puranas....
    • Anumati
      Anumati

      In Hinduism, Anumati is a lunar deity and goddess of wealth, intellect, children, spirituality and prosperity.Also Anumati is a type of full moon day in which the moon remains slightly cut and not fully full moon called as Chaturdashi bhiddha purnima...
    • Chandra
      Chandra

      In Hinduism, Chandra is a lunar deity and a Graha. Chandra is also identified with the Veda Lunar deity Soma . The Soma name refers particularly to the juice of sap in the plants and thus makes the Moon the lord of plants and vegetation....
       (Indu)
    • Soma
      Soma

      Soma , or Haoma , from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma-, was a ritual drink of importance among the early Indo-Iranians, and the later Vedic civilization and Greater Iran cultures....
  • Hurrian mythology
    • Kusuh
      Kusuh

      The Hurrian moon-god. His holy number is 30. Kusuh has been identified with the Hittites god Kaskuh....
  • Incan mythology
    • Coniraya
    • Ka-Ata-Killa
      Ka-Ata-Killa

      In the pre-Inca cultures mythology of the Lake Titicaca Ka-Ata-Killa was a moon goddess....
    • Mama Quilla
  • Indonesian mythology
    Indonesian mythology

    History The origin of Indonesian mythology can be traced back to the earliest development of Indonesian kingdom predominantly called the Javanese Empire....
    • Dewi Shri
      Dewi Shri

      Dewi Shri also seen as Dewi Sri is the goddess of rice on the island of Bali and Java . She has the power of the underworld and the Moon....
    • Silewe Nazarate
      Silewe Nazarate

      Silawe Nazarate is the name of moon goddess of Nias Island, Indonesia. She is the symbolic of life in the universe. The god Lowalangi is her husband. She is compared with Hera of Greek mythology and her husband the powerful god Zeus....
  • Inuit mythology
    Inuit mythology

    Inuit mythology has many similarities to the religions of other polar regions. Inuit traditional religious practices could be very briefly summarised as a form of shamanism based on Animism principles....
    • Alignak
      Alignak

      In Inuit mythology, Alignak is a lunar deity and god of weather, water, tides, eclipses, and earthquakes....
    • Igaluk
      Igaluk

      In Inuit mythology, Igaluk is one of the most powerful gods of the pantheon. He is a lunar deity. In Greenland, he is known as Aningan....
    • Tarquiup Inua
      Tarquiup Inua

      In Inuit mythology, Tarquiup Inua, also known as Tarqeq, is a lunar deity....
  • Japanese mythology
    Japanese mythology

    Japanese mythology is a system of beliefs that embraces Shinto and Buddhist traditions as well as agriculture-based folk religion. The Shinto pantheon alone consists of an uncountable number of kami ....
    • Marishi-Ten
      Marishi-Ten

      In Japanese mythology is known as the goddess of heaven, goddess of light, being a Solar deity. Also known elsewhere as: Marici , Marisha-Ten , and Molichitian ....
    • Tsukuyomi
  • Kachin mythology
    • Shitta
  • Latvian mythology
    Latvian mythology

    BasicsLatvian culture, along with Lithuanian, is among the oldest surviving Indo-European culture. Much of its symbolism is ancient. Its seasons, festivals, and numerous deities reflect the essential agrarian nature of Latvian tribal life....
    • Meness
  • Lusitanian mythology
    Lusitanian mythology

    Lusitanian mythology is the mythology of the Lusitanians, the Indo-European people of western Iberian peninsula, in the territory comprising most of modern Portugal south of the Douro river....
    • Ataegina
      Ataegina

      Ataegina or Ataecina was a chthonic goddess worshipped by the ancient Iberians, Lusitanians, and Celtiberians of the Iberian Peninsula, and one of the most important Iberian deities....
  • Mandjindja mythology
    • Kidili
      Kidili

      In Australia aboriginal mythology , Kidili was an ancient moon-man who attempted to rape some of the first women on Earth. The Wati-kutjara wounded him in battle, castration him with a boomerang, and he died of his wounds in a waterhole....
  • Maya mythology
    • Ahau-Kin
    • Ixbalanque
    • Ixchel
      Ixchel

      Ixchel or Ix Chel is the 16th-century name of the aged jaguar goddess of midwifery and medicine in the ancient Maya Civilization. She corresponds, more or less, to Toci Yoalticitl ?Our Grandmother the Nocturnal Physician?, an Aztec earth goddess inhabiting the sweatbath, and also appears to be related to another Aztec goddess invoked...
  • Middle-earth
    Middle-earth

    Middle-earth refers to the fictional lands where most of the stories of author J. R. R. Tolkien take place. These stories include The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings....
     in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
    J. R. R. Tolkien

    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Order of the British Empire was an English people English literature, poetry, Philology, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion....
    • Tilion
      Tilion

      In the fantasy world of famous English author J. R. R. Tolkien, there was a youth in the world of Middle-earth named Tilion whom the Vala chose from among the Maia to steer the island of the Moon ....
  • Mochican mythology
    • Si
  • Navaho mythology
    • Yoolgai asdzaan
  • Norse mythology
    Norse mythology

    Norse, Viking or Scandinavian mythology comprises the beliefs, myths and legends of the Norse paganism of the North Germanic language people, including those who settled on Faroe Islands and Iceland, where most of the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled....
    • Mani
      Mani (god)

      In Norse mythology, M?ni is the moon personified. M?ni, personified, is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson....
  • Orokolo mythology
    • Papare
      Papare

      In New Guinea mythology , Papare is the lunar deity....
  • Pagan rituals in Medieval Italy
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
    • Madonna Oriente
      Madonna Oriente

      Madonna Oriente or Signora Oriente ', also known as La Signora del Gioco ', are names of an alleged religious figure, as described by two Italian women who were executed by the Inquisition in 1390 as witches....
  • Palmarene mythology
    • Aglibol
      Aglibol

      Aglib?l was a lunar deity in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. His name means "Calf of Bel" .Aglib?l is depicted with a lunar halo decorating his head and sometimes his shoulders, and one of his attributes is the sickle moon....
  • Pawnee mythology
    Pawnee mythology

    The Pawnee are a tribe of Native Americans in the United Statess, originally located in Nebraska, United States....
    • Pah
  • Persian mythology
    Persian mythology

    By Persian mythology is meant the myths and sacred narratives of the culturally and linguistically related group of ancient peoples who inhabited the Iranian Plateau and its borderlands, as well as areas of Central Asia from the Black Sea to Khotan ....
    • Mah
      MAH

      The National Security Service was the governmental intelligence organization of Turkey between 1926 and 1965, when it was replaced by the National Intelligence Organization ....
  • Philippine mythology
    Philippine mythology

    Philippine mythology and folklore include a collection of tales and superstitions about magical creatures and entities. Some Filipinos, even though heavily westernized and Christianized, still believe in such entities....
    • Mayari
  • Phrygian mythology
    • Men
      Men (god)

      File:Men Ankara AMM 823.jpgFile:Men BritMu020a.jpgMen was a god worshipped in the western interior parts of Anatolia.The roots of the Men cult may go back to Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium BC....
  • 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....
    • Avatea
      Avatea

      In Polynesian mythology , Avatea is a lunar deity, whose name means 'light'....
    • Fati
      Fati

      In Polynesian mythology , Fati is the god of the moon and a son of Taonoui and Roua....
    • Ina
      Ina (goddess)

      In Polynesian mythology, Ina is a lunar deity who kept an eel in a jar, but it soon grew into the eel-god, Tuna , who tried to rape her. The people of Upolo rescued her and sentenced him to death....
    • Hina-Kega
    • Hina-Uri
    • Lona
      Lona

      In Hawaiian mythology, Lona is a female lunar deity who fell in love with and married a mortal, Ai Kanaka. They lived happily together until Ai Kanaka died of old age....
    • Mahina
      Mahina

      In Hawaiian mythology, Mahina is a lunar deity, mother of Hema . Mahina is also the word for Moon in Hawaiian.Mahina is also the Hindi word for month...
    • Marama
      Marama

      Marama relates to more than one article:* Marama, South Australia is a place in South Australia* Marama is a widespread Polynesian word for 'moon' or 'light'....
    • Sina
    • Ul
      Ul (mythology)

      In Melanesian mythology , Ul is a lunar deity....
  • Pygmy mythology
    • Arebati
  • Roman mythology
    Roman mythology

    Roman mythology, or more appropriately, Latin mythology, refers to the mythology beliefs of the Italic people inhabiting the region of Latium and its main city, Rome....
    • Diana
    • Luna
      Selene

      Selene is the Titan goddess of the moon.In Greek mythology, Selene was an archaic lunar deity and the daughter of the Titan Hyperion and Theia....
  • Semitic mythology
    • Terah
  • Seran mythology
    • Dapie
  • Slavic mythology
    Slavic mythology

    Slavic mythology is the mythological aspect of the polytheism that was practised by the Slavs prior to Christianisation.The religion possesses numerous common traits with other religions descended from the Proto-Indo-European religion....
    • Myesyats
    • The Zorya
      The Zorya

      In Slavic mythology, the Zorya are the three guardian goddesses, known as the Aurora s. They guard and watch over the doomsday hound that threatens to eat the constellation Ursa Minor, the 'little bear.' If the chain breaks loose and the constellation is devoured, the universe is said to end....
  • Sumerian mythology
    • Nanna
      Sin (mythology)

      Sin is a Sumerian lunar deity in Mesopotamian mythology. He is the son of Enlil and Ninlil. His sacred city was Ur....
       (Suen)
  • Sumu mythology
    • Udó
      Udo

      Udo may refer to:*Udo *Udo Dirkschneider , heavy metal vocalist* U.D.O., 1987 band formed by Udo Dirkschneider*Udo Erasmus , nutritionist, creator of Udo's Choice Food Pyramids...
  • Thracian mythology
    • Bendis
      Bendis

      Bendis was a Thrace goddess of the moon and the hunt whom the Greeks identified with Artemis, and hence with the other two aspects of the former Minoan Triple Goddess, Hecate and Persephone....
  • Tupinamba mythology
    • Ari
  • Urartian mythology
    • Selardi
      Selardi

      Selardi is a lunar goddess of Urartu.External links...
  • Vodou
    Vodou

    Vodun or Vudun is a African traditional religion Polytheistic organised religion of coastal West Africa, from Nigeria to Ghana. It is distinct from the unorganised traditional Animisms in the interiors of these same countries, as well as from various religions with often similar names of the African Diaspora in the New World, such as...
    • Kalfu
      Kalfu

      In West African Vodun, Kalfou or Carrefour Kalfu is one of the petro aspects of the spirit Legba, he is often envisioned as a young man or as a demon, his colour is red and he favours rum infused with gunpowder, he is often syncretised with Satan....


See also

  • Moon idol
  • Man in the Moon
    Man in the Moon

    The Man in the Moon is an imaginary figure resembling a human face, head or body, that observers from some cultural backgrounds typically perceive in the bright disc of the full moon....