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Aegir and RanLord and Lady of the SeaAegir brews ale for the gods in a hall lit by gold; Ran drags the drowned down in her net. Together they are the Norse sea, hospitable and lethal.Deity · Norse Aengus (Oengus, Angus Og)God of Love and YouthThe young god of Brú na Bóinne — conceived in a stolen day, owner of a house won by a pun, and the lover who followed a dream into a lake of swans.Deity · Celtic AeolusKeeper of the WindsKeeper of the winds on the floating island of Aiolia. He gave Odysseus a leather bag holding every gale but one — and the crew opened it.Deity · Greek AmaterasuGoddess of the SunThe sun goddess who shines in heaven — ruler of the Plain of High Heaven, ancestor of Japan's imperial line, and the kami enshrined at Ise.Deity · Japanese AnuFather of the GodsFather of the gods — the Mesopotamian sky, whose written sign meant "god" itself; the source of all authority, and almost never the one who uses it.Deity · Mesopotamian AnubisGuardian of the DeadGuardian of the dead — the black jackal god who embalmed Osiris, watched over the necropolis, and weighed the heart against the feather of truth.Deity · Egyptian AphroditeGoddess of Love and BeautyBorn from sea foam or fathered by Zeus — the goddess of desire, whose power over gods and mortals starts wars as easily as marriages.Deity · Greek ApolloGod of Prophecy, Music and the BowTwin of Artemis, lord of Delphi. God of prophecy, music, healing and plague — the far-shooter whose arrows bring both the cure and the sickness.Deity · Greek Apollo in Roman ReligionThe God Rome Kept GreekThe one great Greek god Rome adopted without renaming him — plague-healer, oracle-giver, and the personal patron Augustus built into the imperial order.Deity · Roman AresGod of WarThe Greek god of war as slaughter rather than strategy — hated by his own father, beaten by Athena, and worshipped anyway on the edges of the Greek world.Deity · Greek ArtemisGoddess of the Hunt and the WildVirgin huntress, mistress of animals, twin of Apollo. Protector of the young and the wild — and a goddess whose arrows kill without warning.Deity · Greek AthenaGoddess of Wisdom and WarGoddess of wisdom, strategy and craft, born fully armed from the head of Zeus. Patron of Athens, of heroes, and of Odysseus above all.Deity · Greek

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BaldrGod of LightGod of Light. The most beloved of the Aesir, made immune to all harm but one plant — and killed by it, which set the world's ending in motion.Deity · Norse Bastet (Bast)Cat Goddess of BubastisEgypt's cat goddess — a lioness of the Eye of Ra who softened into the guardian of the home, honoured at Bubastis with the loudest festival in Egypt.Deity · Egyptian BragiGod of Poetry and SkaldshipNorse god of poetry and eloquence, husband of Idunn, who greets fallen kings at Valhalla's door and may have begun as a real ninth-century skald.Deity · Norse BrahmaThe CreatorThe four-faced creator from whom the worlds issue at the dawn of each cosmic day — immensely powerful in myth, and almost never worshipped in temples.Deity · Hindu Brigid (Brigit, Brighid)Goddess of Poetry, Smithcraft and HealingGoddess of poetry, smithcraft and healing — a triple Brigit in the glossaries, a saint at Kildare, and the figure Imbolc still belongs to.Deity · Celtic

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CalypsoNymph of OgygiaImmortal nymph of the hidden island of Ogygia. She kept Odysseus for seven years and offered him deathlessness; he chose a mortal wife and a rocky island.Deity · Greek CernunnosThe Horned GodThe horned one — an antlered Gaulish god known from images alone, whose name survives on exactly one damaged stone and who has no surviving myth at all.Deity · Celtic ChaacGod of Rain and LightningThe rain god who splits the clouds with a lightning axe — one god and four, the most frequently depicted deity in the surviving Maya books.Deity · Mayan Chang'eGoddess of the MoonThe moon goddess who swallowed the elixir of immortality and rose beyond reach — honoured each Mid-Autumn Festival with mooncakes and lanterns.Deity · Chinese CirceEnchantress of AiaiaGoddess-enchantress of the island of Aiaia. She turned Odysseus' crew into swine, then became the one guide who told him how to reach the dead.Deity · Greek CoatlicueShe of the Serpent SkirtShe of the Serpent Skirt — the Mexica earth mother who conceived Huitzilopochtli from a ball of feathers, and the colossal monolith that carries her name.Deity · Aztec CoyolxauhquiShe Painted with BellsThe dismembered sister of Huitzilopochtli, often read as the moon — and the carved disc whose discovery in 1978 uncovered the Templo Mayor itself.Deity · Aztec

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The DagdaThe Good GodThe good god — not morally good but good at everything: the club-bearing, cauldron-owning father figure of the Tuatha De Danann, and their crudest comedian.Deity · Celtic DanuMother of the Tuatha De DanannThe mother goddess of the Tuatha De Danann — and the most famous Irish deity who may never have existed under that name.Deity · Celtic DemeterGoddess of the Grain and the HarvestGoddess of grain and the mother who stopped the world's harvest to get her daughter back. Founder of the Eleusinian Mysteries.Deity · Greek DianaGoddess of the Hunt and the MoonRoman goddess of the hunt, wild places and the moon, whose oldest sanctuary at Lake Nemi was guarded by a priest who held office by killing his predecessor.Deity · Roman DionysusGod of Wine, Ecstasy and the TheatreTwice-born god of wine, madness and the mask. He dissolves the boundary between god and beast, and destroys the cities that refuse him.Deity · Greek DurgaThe Invincible GoddessThe warrior goddess assembled from the massed light of all the gods, lion-mounted slayer of the buffalo demon Mahishasura.Deity · Hindu

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EnkiGod of WisdomGod of wisdom and the sweet water under the ground — the craftsman-trickster who made humankind, taught the crafts, and warned one man about the Flood.Deity · Mesopotamian EnlilLord of the WindLord of the moving air — the Sumerian executive of the gods, whose word carried out destinies, who split heaven from earth and sent the Flood.Deity · Mesopotamian EreshkigalQueen of the UnderworldLady of the Great Earth — the Mesopotamian queen of the dead, elder sister of Inanna, who rules the land of no return by rules even the gods obey.Deity · Mesopotamian Erlang ShenThe Three-Eyed Warrior GodThe three-eyed god of Guankou who tamed the floods and was the only celestial general able to beat the Monkey King in a fair fight.Deity · Chinese

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Freyja (Freya)Lady of the VanirLady of the Vanir. Goddess of love, war, gold and seidr magic — often spelled Freya — who claims half of the battle-slain for her own hall.Deity · Norse Freyr (Frey)Lord of Harvest, Peace and PlentyVanir god of harvest, peace and kingship. Owner of the golden boar Gullinbursti, he traded away his sword for love and pays for it at Ragnarok.Deity · Norse

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Ganesha (Ganesh)Remover of ObstaclesThe elephant-headed son of Shiva and Parvati, lord of beginnings and remover (and placer) of obstacles, invoked before every undertaking.Deity · Hindu GuanyinBodhisattva of CompassionThe bodhisattva who hears the cries of the world — an Indian Buddhist figure who became, in China, the most beloved of all female deities.Deity · Chinese

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HachimanGod of War and ArcheryKami of war, archery and the bow, patron of the samurai and the first kami titled a bodhisattva, worshipped at tens of thousands of shrines.Deity · Japanese HadesLord of the UnderworldLord of the underworld and of the wealth beneath the earth. Not a devil — a grim, lawful king whose only rule is that no one leaves.Deity · Greek HanumanThe Monkey GodSon of the wind, greatest of the vanaras, and Rama's perfect servant — the leaper of oceans who became one of India's most worshipped gods.Deity · Hindu HathorGoddess of Love, Music and the SkyCow-horned goddess of love, music and joy — Hathor is the sky that carries the sun, the mother of kings, and the one who meets the dead in the west.Deity · Egyptian Heimdall (Heimdallr)Watchman of the GodsWatchman of the Gods. Born of nine mothers, he guards the rainbow bridge, hears wool grow on sheep, and will sound the horn that begins the end.Deity · Norse HeraQueen of the GodsQueen of the gods. Zeus's sister, wife and most dangerous opponent — goddess of marriage in cult, and in Homer the one Olympian he is genuinely wary of.Deity · Greek HermesMessenger of the GodsMessenger of the gods and guide of the dead. Patron of travellers, traders, heralds and thieves, and the only Olympian who crosses every boundary at will.Deity · Greek HorusThe Sky FalconThe sky falcon — god of kingship whose torn-out eye became the symbol of healing, and who won Egypt's throne from Set after eighty years of litigation.Deity · Egyptian HuitzilopochtliHummingbird of the LeftHummingbird of the Left — the Mexica sun-and-war god, born fully armed on Serpent Mountain and enthroned atop the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan.Deity · Aztec Hunab KuThe One God"The one god" of Yucatec Maya colonial texts — a name most scholars now read as a missionary translation for the Christian God, not an ancient Maya deity.Deity · Mayan

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Idunn (Idun)Keeper of the Apples of YouthNorse goddess who guards the apples that keep the gods young. Her abduction by the giant Thjazi ages the whole pantheon and forces Loki to fetch her back.Deity · Norse InannaQueen of HeavenQueen of Heaven — Sumerian goddess of love, war, and the planet Venus, who walked into the land of the dead and was the only one to walk back out.Deity · Mesopotamian Inari (Inari Okami)Kami of Rice, Foxes and ProsperityKami of rice, sake and worldly prosperity, served by white foxes and worshipped at roughly a third of all Japanese shrines.Deity · Japanese IndraKing of the DevasKing of the gods and lord of storm and war — wielder of the thunderbolt, slayer of the serpent Vritra, and the deity Hinduism gradually demoted.Deity · Hindu IsisGoddess of MagicGoddess of magic — the widow whose spells restored Osiris, the mother who hid Horus in the marshes, and the one Egyptian deity Rome adopted whole.Deity · Egyptian ItzamnaThe Aged CreatorThe aged creator — supreme sky god of the Maya, patron of writing, healing and divination, and the old man scholars know as God D.Deity · Mayan Ix Chel (Ixchel)Rainbow Lady"Rainbow Lady" — the Maya goddess of childbirth, weaving, medicine and divination, and the two distinct goddesses tangled together behind her name.Deity · Mayan Izanagi and IzanamiThe Creator PairThe creator pair of Japanese myth: they stirred the first island out of the sea, bore the land itself, and were parted forever by death.Deity · Japanese

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Jade EmperorRuler of HeavenSovereign of Heaven and head of the celestial bureaucracy — the emperor of the gods, who governs the cosmos the way a dynasty governs a realm.Deity · Chinese JanusGod of Doorways and BeginningsThe two-faced Roman god of doors, beginnings and endings, named first in every prayer, whose gates in the Forum stood open only while Rome was at war.Deity · Roman JunoQueen of the GodsQueen of the gods — Rome's guardian of women, childbirth and the state, whose sacred geese warned the Capitol and whose temple gave us the word money.Deity · Roman JupiterKing of the GodsKing of the gods and of the Roman state — lord of the bright sky, hurler of the lightning bolt, and the guarantor behind every oath and treaty.Deity · Roman