Lists of deities by cultural sphere
This is an index to deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world, listed by region or culture.
Sub-Saharan Africa
- African deities
- Afro-American religion
Asia
Northeast Asia
- Chinese deities
- Japanese deities
- Korean deities
- Siberian deities
South Asia
The image illustrates the Hindu belief that each part of the cow embodies a particular deity
- Hindu deities
- Buddhist Bodhisattvas
- Manipuri deities
Southeast Asia
- Indonesian deities
- Philippine deities
Greater Middle East
Osiris, lord of the dead. His green skin symbolizes rebirth
- North Africa
- Anatolia
- Caucasus
- Middle East
- Mesopotamian deities
- Sumerian deities
- Assyro-Babylonian pantheon (see also Family tree of the Babylonian gods)
- Kassite deities
- Semitic gods: see El, Elohim
- Canaanite deities
- Pre-Islamic Arabian deities
- Mesopotamian deities
- Persia
- Yazata, see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
- Elam
- Central Asia
Americas
- Mesoamerica
- Aztec deities
- Maya deities
- North America
- Inuit deities
- Native American deities
- South America
Europe
- Baltic deities
- Latvian deities
- Lithuanian deities
- Celtic 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
- Lusitani deities
- Paleo-Balkanic deities (Dacian/Illyrian/Thracian)
- List of Roman deities
- Sami deities
- Slavic deities
Oceania
- Australian Aboriginal deities
- Polynesian deities
- Hawaiian deities
- Māori deities of New Zealand.
- Rapa Nui deities of Easter Island.
References
- Jell-Bahlsen 1997, p. 105
- Chesi 1997, p. 255)
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