Lists of deities by cultural sphere

This is an index to deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world, listed by region or culture.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Poster of a Mami Wata, "serpent priestess" painted ca. 1926 by German (Hamburg) artist Schleisinger, displayed in shrines as a popular image of Mami Wata in Africa and in the Diaspora.

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

Asia

Northeast Asia

• Chinese deities
• Japanese deities
• Korean deities
• Siberian deities

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)
  • Sri Lankan Tamil local deities
  • Tamil Nadu local deities
• Buddhist Bodhisattvas
• Manipuri deities
  • King of Gods in Manipuri mythology
  • King of Serpent deities in Manipuri mythology
  • Ancestral deities of Manipur

Southeast Asia

• Indonesian deities
• Philippine deities

Greater Middle East

Osiris, lord of the dead. His green skin symbolizes rebirth

• North Africa
  • Berber mythology
  • Egyptian deities
  • Guanche deities
• Anatolia
  • • Hittite deities
    • Hurrian deities
    • Lydian deities
• Caucasus
  • Armenian deities
  • Georgian deities
  • Vainakh deities
• Middle East
  • Mesopotamian deities
    • Sumerian deities
    • Assyro-Babylonian pantheon (see also Family tree of the Babylonian gods)
    • Kassite deities
  • Semitic gods: see El, Elohim
    • Canaanite deities
    • Pre-Islamic Arabian deities
      • Nabataean deities
• Persia
  • Yazata, see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
  • Elam
• Central Asia
  • Turkic deities

Americas

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

Europe

• Baltic deities
  • Latvian deities
  • Lithuanian 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, Mycenaean gods, Hellenismos)
• Hungarian deities
• Lusitani deities
• Paleo-Balkanic deities (Dacian/Illyrian/Thracian)
• List of Roman deities
• Sami deities
• Slavic deities

Oceania

• Australian Aboriginal deities
• Polynesian deities
  • Hawaiian deities
  • Māori deities of New Zealand.
  • Rapa Nui deities of Easter Island.