This list of deities 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 type[]
Lists of deities by type:
Celestial, Cosmological[]
Chthonic[]
- earth
- night
- ocean, water
Human sphere[]
- death
- father, mother
- Fate
- fertility, love, lust
- health, healing, medicine
- household, hearth
- hunting
- war
- knowledge or wisdom
- thresholds, doorways
- trickster
Demigods, Deified Heroes[]
- culture heroes
- sacred king
- imperial cult
By cultural sphere[]
Near East[]
- Ancient Near East / Caucasus
- Ancient Egyptian deities
- Mesopotamian deities
- Semitic gods
- Assyro-Babylonian pantheon (see also Family tree of the Babylonian gods)
- Canaanite deities
- Abrahamic religion
- Armenian gods
- Persia
- Yazata (Persian, see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion)
- Zoroastrian
- Anatolia
- Hittite deities
- Hurrian deities
- Lydian gods
- Caucasus
- Ossetian deities
Central / Northern Asia[]
- Raven God of Kamchatka and Chukotka
- Mongol deities
- Siberian deities
- Tengri
- Turkic deities
East Asia[]
- Chinese deities
- Japanese deities
- Korean deities
- List of bodhisattvas
India / South Asia[]
- Southeast Asia
- Deities of Philippine Mythology
- Malaysian Chinese Gods
Europe[]
- Baltic deities
- Celtic deities
- Paleo-Balkanic deities (Thracian/Dacian/Illyrian)
- 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
- Lusitani deities
- List of Roman deities
- Sami deities
- Slavic deities
Sub-Saharan Africa[]
- African deities
- Yoruba
- Guanche deities
- Afro-American religion
- Loa
- Orisha
Pre-Columbian Americas[]
- North America
- Native American deities
- Inuit deities
- Mesoamerica
- Aztec deities
- Maya deities
- South America
Australia-Oceania[]
- Australian Aboriginal deities
- Polynesian Mythology
- Maori deities
- Rapa Nui deities (Easter Island)
See also[]
- Names of God
- List of deities in fiction
- List of people considered to be deities
- List of mythologies
- List of legendary creatures by type
- List of folklores
- Demigod
- Divinity
- God (male deity)
- Goddess
- Pantheon (gods)
- Spiritual Hierarchy (Theosophy)
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