Deity — Mythology Registry

Amaterasu Shinto sun goddess, ancestress of the Japanese imperial line, whose retreat once plunged the world into darkness.

Anubis The Egyptian jackal-headed god of embalming, who guarded graves, guided the dead and weighed their hearts. Horus Egyptian falcon god of kingship, son of Isis and Osiris, whose eye became the great amulet of protection. Isis The great Egyptian magician and mother, who reassembled Osiris and raised Horus, and whose cult reached the whole Roman world. Osiris Egyptian god of the dead and of resurrection, murdered by Set and revived as judge and hope of every Egyptian. Ra The Egyptian sun god, creator and king of the gods, who sailed the sky by day and the underworld by night. Seth Wikidata Q131795 God of the desert, storms, and foreigners in ancient Egyptian religion. Egyptian god of chaos, storms and the desert, and the killer of Osiris in Egyptian myth.

Aphrodite Goddess of love and beauty, born of the sea's foam, whose power no god or mortal refused twice. Apollo Greek god of prophecy, music, healing and the sun's clear light, whose oracle at Delphi spoke to all Greece. Athena Goddess of wisdom and strategic war, born armed from Zeus's head, patron of Athens and its olive tree. Diana Roman goddess of the hunt and the moon, virgin mistress of wild places and guardian of women in childbirth. Gaea Greek primordial earth goddess and mother of the Titans. The Mesopotamian earth goddess Ki occupies a comparable place in her own pantheon; the two traditions are separate. Hera Queen of the Greek gods, goddess of marriage and childbirth, and Zeus's jealous and formidable wife. Hermes Messenger of the gods, god of roads, trade, thieves and boundaries, quickest of the Olympians in winged sandals. Jupiter King of the Roman gods, sky father and guarantor of oaths, whose temple on the Capitol watched over the state. Mars Roman god of war and of the fields — father of Romulus and Remus, and second only to Jupiter in the state cult. Venus Roman goddess of love and victory, divine mother of Aeneas and ancestress of the Julian line. Zeus King of the Greek gods, lord of the sky and thunder, who ruled from Olympus after overthrowing his father Cronus.

Indra King of the Vedic gods, wielder of the thunderbolt vajra, who slew the dragon Vritra and released the waters. Shiva The Hindu destroyer and regenerator, lord of yoga and the dance, whose drum and fire make and unmake the cosmos. Vishnu The preserver of the Hindu trimurti, who descends into the world as avatars whenever dharma fails.

Quetzalcoatl The feathered serpent of Mesoamerica — wind god, morning star, and the civilizer who brought maize and the calendar.

Baal Wikidata Q590467 Canaanite storm deity. Levantine storm and fertility god, worshipped across Canaan and at Ugarit, and frequently compared with the Mesopotamian storm god Ishkur . Hadad Wikidata Q682855 god of thunder and rain that belongs to Aramean and Assyrian pantheon. Northwest Semitic storm god of Syria and the Levant. The Akkadian Adad and Sumerian Ishkur are the same god under other names. Teshub Wikidata Q248242 God of thunder. Hurrian storm god, associated with Ishkur , wielding power over weather and divine authority. Ullikummis Stone giant of Hurrian myth, raised by Kumarbi to challenge the storm god Teshub .

Freyja Norse goddess of love, fertility and war's chosen dead, who rides a chariot of cats and weeps tears of gold. Loki Norse trickster of the blood-brotherhood of Odin, whose cleverness saves the gods and whose children end them. Odin The Allfather of the Norse gods, one-eyed seeker of wisdom, lord of Valhalla and god of poetry, war and the hanged. Thor Norse thunder god, wielder of the hammer Mjölnir, the great protector of gods and men against the giants.