This MedLibrary.org supplementary page on List of deities is provided directly from the open source Wikipedia as a service to our readers. Please see the note below on authorship of this content, as well as the Wikipedia usage guidelines. To search for other content from our encyclopedia supplement, please use the form below:
Related Sponsors
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 fictional deities (that is, deities whose cult is fictional) see List of fictional deities.
Contents |
By type
Lists of deities by type:
Celestial, Cosmological
Chthonic
Human sphere
Demigods, Deified Heroes
By region
Africa
Americas
- North America
- Mesoamerica
- South America
- Afro-American religion
Asia
- Ancient Near East / Caucasus
- Mesopotamian deities
- Semitic gods
- Ancient Egyptian deities
- Yazata (Persian, see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion)
- Anatolia
- Caucasus
- Central / Northern Asia
- East Asia
- India / South Asia
- Southeast Asia
Australia
Europe
- Baltic deities
- Celtic deities
- Paleo-Balkanic deities (Thracian/Dacian/Illyrian)
- Etruscan deities
- Finnic deities
- Germanic deities
- Greek pantheon (see also List of Greek mythological figures, Twelve Olympians, Greek hero cult, Family tree of the Greek gods)
- Hungarian deities
- Lusitani deities
- Roman deities, List of Roman deities
- Slavic deities
Oceania
See also
- Names of God
- List of fictional deities
- 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)
External links
- Godchecker - searchable encyclopedia of approx 3,000 gods and goddesses from all cultures of the world.
- Encyclopedia Mythica - award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion. Over 7,000 articles currently available.
|
|||||||||||
Wikipedia content modification information:
- This page was last modified on 6 August 2008, at 22:07.
Wikipedia Authorship and Review
Wikipedia content provided here is not reviewed directly by MedLibrary.org. Wikipedia content is authored by an open community of volunteers and is not produced by or in any way affiliated with MedLibrary.org.
Wikipedia Usage Guidelines
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on "List of deities".
The URL for this specific entry is:
All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details). Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.