Lists Of Deities By Cultural Sphere

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

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.[1][2]

North Africa

  • Berber mythology
  • Egyptian deities
  • Guanche deities
Osiris, lord of the dead. His green skin symbolizes rebirth

Sub-Saharan Africa

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

Asia

Caucasus

  • Armenian deities
  • Georgian deities
  • Vainakh deities

Central Asia

  • Turkic deities

East Asia

  • Chinese deities
    • Taoist pure ones
  • Japanese deities
  • Korean deities

North Asia

  • 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
  • Buddhas
  • Buddhist Bodhisattvas
  • Tirthankara

Southeast Asia

  • Indonesian deities
  • Manipuri deities
    • King of Gods in Manipuri mythology
    • King of Serpent deities in Manipuri mythology
    • Ancestral deities of Manipur
  • Philippine deities

West Asia

  • Anatolia
    • Hittite deities
    • Hurrian deities
    • Lydian deities
  • Middle East
    • Mesopotamian deities
      • Sumerian deities
      • Assyro-Babylonian pantheon (see also Family tree of the Babylonian gods)
      • Kassite deities
    • Ugaritic deities
    • Semitic gods
      • Canaanite deities
      • Elohim in Abrahamic religions
      • Pre-Islamic Arabian deities
        • Jinn
        • Nabataean deities
  • Persia
    • Yazata, see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
    • Elam

Americas

Central America

  • Aztec deities
  • Maya deities

North America

  • Inuit deities
  • Native American deities
  • Christian 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 deities (see also List of Greek mythological figures, Twelve Olympians, Greek hero cult, Family tree of the Greek gods, Mycenaean gods, Hellenismos)
    • Neoplatonic triad
  • Hungarian deities
  • Lusitani deities
  • Paleo-Balkanic deities (Dacian/Illyrian/Thracian)
  • List of Roman deities
  • Sami deities
  • Slavic deities
  • Thelemic deities

Oceania

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

References

  1. Jell-Bahlsen 1997, p. 105
  2. Chesi 1997, p. 255)



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