List of deities

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.

By type

Lists of deities by type:

Celestial, Cosmological

Baronne Rigoley d'Ogny as Aurora, by Jean-Marc Nattier, Baltimore Museum of Art

• Creator
• Moon
• Sky
• Sun
• Time
• Weather, rain, thunder, lightning

Chthonic

• Earth
• Night
• Ocean, water

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

• Culture heroes
• Imperial cult
• Sacred king

By cultural sphere

Near East and North Africa

Osiris, lord of the dead. His green skin symbolizes re-birth

• Ancient Near East
  • Ancient Egyptian deities
  • Mesopotamian deities
  • Semitic gods: see El (god), Elohim
    • Assyro-Babylonian pantheon (see also Family tree of the Babylonian gods)
    • Canaanite deities
  • Anatolia
    • Hittite deities
    • Hurrian deities
    • Lydian deities
  • Caucasus
    • Armenian deities
    • Ossetian deities
  • Persia: see Yazata, see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
• North Africa: Berber pantheon
• Pre-Islamic Arabian Deities (see Arabian mythology)

Central / Northern Asia

• Siberian
  • Raven God of Kamchatka and Chukotka
• Turco-Mongol
  • Tengri

East Asia

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

India / South Asia

The image illustrates the Hindu belief that each part of the cow embodies a particular deity

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

Europe

• Baltic deities
• Celtic deities
  • Irish deities
• 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
• 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.

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

Americas

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

Australia-Oceania

• Australian Aboriginal deities
• Māori deities
• Polynesian deities
• Rapa Nui deities (Easter Island)

Syncretic mythologies

• List of Theosophical/Ascended Master Teachings deities

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)