Lists of deities by cultural sphere

Short description: Lists of deities

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

## Contents

* 1 Africa
* 2 Americas
* 3 Asia
* 4 Europe
* 5 Oceania
* 6 References

## 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 deities
* Guanche deities
* Egyptian deities

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

Sub-Saharan Africa

* African deities
* Alusi
* Oriṣa
* Afro-American religion
* Loa
* Orisha

## Americas

Central America

* Aztec deities
* Maya deities

North America

* Inuit deities
* Native (North and South) American deities

South America

* Incan deities
* Guarani deities
* Mapuche deities
* Muisca deities

## Asia

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

* Buddhas
* Buddhist Bodhisattvas
* Buddhist deities
* Hindu deities
* Rigvedic deities (see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion)
* Sri Lankan Tamil local deities
* Tamil Nadu local deities

* Tirthankara

Southeast Asia

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

West Asia

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

Caucasus

* Armenian deities
* Georgian deities
* Vainakh deities

## Europe

* Albanian deities
* Baltic deities
* Latvian deities
* Lithuanian deities
* Basque deities
* Celtic deities
* Irish deities
* Etruscan deities
* Finnic deities
* Germanic deities
* Anglo-Saxon deities
* List of Norse gods and goddesses
* Greek deities (see also Lists of Greek mythological figures, Mycenaean deities)
* Hungarian deities
* Lusitani deities
* Paleo-Balkan 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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