List of art deities
Africa
- Bastet (Egyptian mythology)
- Bes (Egyptian mythology)
- Ptah (Egyptian mythology)
- Hathor (Egyptian mythology)
- Meret (Egyptian mythology)
- Seker (Egyptian mythology)
Americas
- Huehuecóyotl (Aztec mythology)
- Xochipilli (Aztec mythology)
- Erzulie (Haitian vodou)
- Maîtresse Délai (Haitian vodou)
- Kokopelli (shared among various Southwestern Native American mythologies)
Asia
- Kotar or Kothar-wa-Khasis (Canaanite mythology)
- Cao Guojiu (Chinese mythology), patron god of the theater [1]
- Han Xiangzi (Chinese mythology)
- Nüwa (Chinese mythology)
- Zhang Guolao (Chinese mythology), who carries a fish-drum
- Saraswati (Hindu mythology)
- Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto (Japanese mythology)
- Benzaiten(Japanese-Buddhist mythology
- Nuska (Mesopotamian mythology)
- Maria Makiling (Philippine mythology)
- Arubani (Urarte mythology)
Europe
- Bragi ([Norse Mythology])
- Brigid (Celtic & Irish mythology)
- Menrva (Etruscan mythology)
- Väinämöinen (Finnish mythology)
- Apollo (Greek mythology)
- Athena (Greek mythology)
- Dionysus (Greek mythology)
- Muses (Greek mythology)
- Pan (Greek mythology)
- Abhean (Irish mythology)
- Odin (Norse mythology)
- Minerva (Roman mythology)
- Gwydion (Welsh mythology)
Pacific islands
- Lono (Hawaiian mythology)
- Pele (Hawaiian mythology)
References
- ^ Fang, Jing Pei (2004). Symbols and Rebuses in Chinese Art: Figures, Bugs, Beasts, and Flowers. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. p. 68. ISBN 9781580085519.