List of rain deities
There are many different gods of rain in different religions:
African
African mythology
- Anẓar, god of rain in Berber mythology.
- Achek, wife of the rain god Deng in Dinka mythology
- Mangwe, a water spirit known as "the flooder" in the beliefs of the Ila people of Zambia[1]
- Oya, goddess of violent rainstorms in Yoruba mythology
- Sinvula, god of rain in Bantu mythology
- Nanvula/Nomvula goddess of rain Bantu mythology
- Mbaba Mwana Waresa, goddess of rain in Bantu mythology
American
Mesoamerica
- Chaac, in Maya religion;
- Tohil, in K'iche' Maya mythology
- Q'uq'umatz, another K'iche' Maya rain god
- Tlaloc, in Aztec and all the other Nahua religions;[2]
- Cocijo, in Zapotec religion;[3]
- Tirípeme Curicaueri, in Purépecha religion;
- Dzahui, in Mixtec religion;[4]
- Mu'ye, in Otomi religion
- Jaguar, in Olmec religion
- Quiateot of the Nicarao people in Nicaragua
North America
- Yuttoere, in De'ne' and Carrier
- Asiaq, goddess among Greenlandic Inuit,[5] and Inuit in Northern Canada
- Shotokunungwa of Hopi people
- Tó Neinilii of Navajo people
- Coyote (Navajo mythology)
South America
- Eschetewuarha of Chamacoco
- Chibchacum in the religion of the Muisca
Asian
Hindu mythology
Middle Eastern mythology
Tibetan mythology
- Kalden[citation needed]
- Lumo, sky goddess of rain and mist
European
Greek mythology
Lithuanian mythology
- Blizgulis, god of snow
Norse Mythology
- Freyr, Norse god of rain, sunshine, summer and fertility
Slavic mythology
- Dodola, goddess of rain
- Dudumitsa, Bulgarian goddess of rain
Oceanian
Hawaiian mythology
Australian Aboriginal Dreaming
- the Wandjina
Notes
- ^ McVeigh, Malcolm J. (1974). God in Africa: Conceptions of God in African Traditional Religion and Christianity. C. Stark. p. 14. ISBN 9780890070031.
- ^ Noticia del Dia (in Spanish)
- ^ Miller & Taube 1993, 2003, p.64.
- ^ Terraciano, Kevin (2001). The Mixtecs of colonial Oaxaca: Ñudzahui history, sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-3756-8. OCLC 45861953.
- ^ Monaghan, Patricia (2009). Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-313-34990-4.
- ^ Thompson, Hunter (1979). The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time, 1st ed., Summit Books, 105-109. ISBN 0-671-40046-0.
