List of deities

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 God in monotheistic religions, for which see Names of God. For deified individuals see List of people who have been considered deities, Apotheosis, Imperial cult. For deities whose cult is fictional see List of deities in fiction.

By classification

Lists of deities by classification:

Ruler of the Pantheon

Celestial, Cosmological

Baronne Rigoley d'Ogny as Aurora, by Jean-Marc Nattier, Baltimore Museum of Art

Chthonic

Human sphere

Demigods, Deified Heroes

By cultural sphere

Near East and North Africa

Osiris, lord of the dead. His green skin symbolizes re-birth

Ancient Near East
- Ancient Egyptian deities
- Mesopotamian deities
  - Kassite deities
- Semitic gods: see El (god), Elohim
  - Assyro-Babylonian pantheon (see also Family tree of the Babylonian gods)
  - Canaanite deities
- Anatolia
- Caucasus
  - Armenian deities
  - Ossetian deities
- Persia: see Yazata, see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
North Africa: Berber pantheon
Pre-Islamic Arabian Deities (see Arabian mythology)

Central / Northern Asia

East Asia

India / South Asia

The image illustrates the Hindu belief that each part of the cow embodies a particular deity

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)
Hungarian deities
List of Roman deities
Lusitani deities
Paleo-Balkanic deities (Thracian/Dacian/Illyrian)
Sami deities
Slavic deities

Sub-Saharan Africa

Contemporary poster of a Mami Wata, "serpent priestess" painted by German (Hamburg) artist Schleisinger, ca. 1926, displayed in shrines as a popular image of Mami Wata in Africa and in the Diaspora.^[1]^[2]