This is an index to polytheistic deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world, listed by type and by region. This is not a list of names or epithets of gods in modern monotheistic religions, for which see "Names of God". For deified individuals see "List of people who have been considered deities", "Apotheosis" and "Imperial cult". For deities whose cult is fictional see "List of deities in fiction".
By classification
Ruler of the Pantheon
Cosmological
- Creator
- Moon
- Mother
- Earth Mother ul>
- Nature
- Night
- Ocean, water
- Sky
- Sky Father
- Sun
- Time
- Weather
- Rain
- Thunder
- Wind
Human sphere
- Animals
- Death
- Rebirth
- Fate
- Fertility, love, lust
- Health, healing, medicine
- Household, hearth
- Hunting
- Knowledge or wisdom
- Thresholds, doorways
- Trickster
- Tutelary
- Vegetation
- Tree
- War
Demigods, Deified Heroes
- Culture heroes
- Imperial cult
- Sacred king
- Spiritual entity
- Avatar
By cultural sphere
Near East and North Africa
- Ancient Near East
- List of Egyptian deities
- Mesopotamian deities
- Kassite deities
- Semitic gods: see El, Elohim
- Assyro-Babylonian pantheon (see also Family tree of the Babylonian gods)
- Canaanite deities
- Anatolia
- Hittite deities
- Hurrian deities
- Lydian deities
- Caucasus
- Armenian deities
- Georgian deities
- Ossetian deities
- Persia: see Yazata, see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
- North Africa: Berber mythology
- Pre-Islamic Arabian deities
Central / Northern Asia
- Siberian
- Raven God of Kamchatka and Chukotka
- Turco-Mongol
- Tengri
East Asia
- Chinese deities
- Japanese deities
- Korean deities
- List of bodhisattvas
India / South Asia
- Hindu deities
- Rigvedic deities (see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion)
Southeast Asia
- Deities of Philippine mythology
- Malaysian Chinese Gods
Europe
- Baltic 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
- List of Roman deities
- Lusitani deities
- Paleo-Balkanic deities (Thracian/Dacian/Illyrian)
- Sami deities
- Slavic deities
Sub-Saharan Africa
- African deities
- Alusi
- Guanche deities
- Yoruba deities
- Afro-American religion
- Loa
- Orisha
Americas
- Mesoamerica
- Aztec deities
- Maya deities
- North America
- Inuit deities
- Native American deities
- South America
- Incan deities
- Guarani
- Mapuche
Australiaâ€"Oceania
- Australian Aboriginal deities
- MÄori deities
- Polynesian deities
- Rapa Nui deities (Easter Island)
Syncretic mythologies
- List of Theosophical/Ascended Master Teachings deities
See also
- Avatar
- Christ myth theory
- Demigod
- List of deities in fiction
- Divinity
- Entities
- List of folklores
- God (male deity)
- Goddess
- List of legendary creatures by type
- List of mythologies
- Names of God
- Pantheon (gods)
- List of people who have been considered deities
- Reincarnation
- Resurrection
- Spiritual deity
- Spiritual entity
- Spiritual Hierarchy (Theosophy)
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