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 1 By type 1.1 Celestial, Cosmological 1.2 Chthonic 1.3 Human sphere 1.4 Demigods, Deified Heroes 2 By cultural sphere 2.1 Near East 2.2 Central / Northern Asia 2.3 East Asia 2.4 India / South Asia 2.5 Europe 2.6 Sub-Saharan Africa 2.7 Pre-Columbian Americas 2.8 Australia-Oceania 3 See also

By typeEdit

Lists of deities by type:

Celestial, CosmologicalEdit

• creator
• Moon
• sky
• Sun
• weather, rain, thunder, lightning
• Time

ChthonicEdit

• earth
• night
• ocean, water

Human sphereEdit

• death
• father, mother
• Fate
• fertility, love, lust
• health, healing, medicine
• household, hearth
• hunting
• war
• knowledge or wisdom
• thresholds, doorways
• trickster

Demigods, Deified HeroesEdit

• culture heroes
• sacred king
• imperial cult

By cultural sphereEdit

Near EastEdit

• Ancient Near East / Caucasus
  • Ancient Egyptian deities
  • Mesopotamian deities
  • Semitic gods
    • Assyro-Babylonian pantheon (see also Family tree of the Babylonian gods)
    • Canaanite deities
    • Abrahamic religion
  • Armenian gods
  • Persia
    • Yazata (Persian, see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion)
    • Zoroastrian
  • Anatolia
    • Hittite deities
    • Hurrian deities
    • Lydian gods
  • Caucasus
    • Ossetian deities

Central / Northern AsiaEdit

• • Raven God of Kamchatka and Chukotka
  • Mongol deities
  • Siberian deities
  • Tengri
  • Turkic deities

East AsiaEdit

• • Chinese deities
  • Japanese deities
  • Korean deities
  • List of bodhisattvas

India / South AsiaEdit

• • Hindu deities
    • Rigvedic deities (see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion)
• Southeast Asia
  • Deities of Philippine Mythology
  • Malaysian Chinese Gods

EuropeEdit

• 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
• List of Roman deities
• Sami deities
• Slavic deities

Sub-Saharan AfricaEdit

• African deities
  • Yoruba
  • Guanche deities
• Afro-American religion
  • Loa
  • Orisha

Pre-Columbian AmericasEdit

• North America
  • Native American deities
  • Inuit deities
• Mesoamerica
  • Aztec deities
  • Maya deities
• South America
  • Incan deities
  • Guarani
  • Mapuche

Australia-OceaniaEdit

• Australian Aboriginal deities
• Polynesian Mythology
• Maori deities
• Rapa Nui deities (Easter Island)

See alsoEdit

• Names of God
• List of deities in fiction
• 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)
• Spiritual Hierarchy (Theosophy)

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