All Deities in the Codex

Gods and goddesses from every tradition in the Codex, from the Norse Aesir to the Aztec pantheon.

Know what you want? Search. Just browsing? Narrow by tradition or kind below.

Traditions

200 entries

A

Adad (Ishkur, Mesopotamian Storm God)Lord of AbundanceThe Mesopotamian storm god who could drown the land in flood or bless it with rain, worshipped as Ishkur in Sumer and Adad across Babylonia and Assyria.Deity · Mesopotamian 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 Agni (Hindu Fire God)The Sacrificial Fire, Messenger of the GodsThe fire god who opens the Rigveda — household priest among men and messenger among the gods, carrying every offering from the altar to the deities themselves.Deity · Hindu Ah Puch (Maya Death God)God ASchellhas's God A, the skeletal Maya death deity behind the name Ah Puch — a label colonial and modern sources actually apply in different ways.Deity · Mayan 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 Ame-no-UzumeGoddess of Dawn, Mirth, and DanceThe kami whose bawdy trance dance drew the sun goddess out of hiding, and whose fearless meeting with a road-god gave Japan its oldest ritual dance.Deity · Japanese Amun (Amun-Ra)The Hidden OneThe imperial god of the New Kingdom — a once-minor Theban god whose name means "hidden," fused with Ra until Akhenaten tried to erase him from Egypt.Deity · Egyptian 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

B

The Bacabs (Sky-Bearers of the Four Directions)The Four PauahtunsThe four brothers who hold up the sky at the world's corners, tied to colours and directions in Landa's account of Maya cosmology and calendar.Deity · Mayan Bacchus (Liber)God of Wine and the BacchanaliaRome's own wine and fertility god Liber, so thoroughly merged with Greek Bacchus that the Senate outlawed his mystery cult across Italy in 186 BC.Deity · Roman 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 Bellona (Roman War Goddess)Goddess of WarRome's own war goddess — named straight from the Latin word for war, whose temple hosted the Senate's dealings with generals and enemies alike.Deity · Roman Bes (Egyptian Household Protector)Protector of the HomeThe grinning dwarf god who guarded bedrooms rather than temples — a fierce, funny protector of mothers and infants, armed with noise and a terrifying face.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

C

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 Centeotl (Aztec Maize God)Maize Ear GodThe Aztec maize god, born of two rival colonial traditions and honored at both the spring planting and the harvest festival that bracket his short green life.Deity · Aztec Ceres (Roman Goddess of Grain)Goddess of the GrainRome's grain goddess, patron of the plebeian order, whose search for her stolen daughter gave the city its most solemn public festival.Deity · Roman CeridwenKeeper of the Cauldron of InspirationThe Welsh enchantress who brewed a year-long potion of pure knowledge, chased the boy who stole it through a chain of animal shapes, and swallowed him whole.Deity · Celtic 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 Chalchiuhtlicue (Aztec Water Goddess)She of the Jade SkirtTlaloc's consort and goddess of lakes and rivers, who ruled the Fourth Sun that ended in flood, and whom midwives invoked to bathe every newborn child.Deity · Aztec 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 Chernobog and Belobog (Black God and White God)The Black God and the White GodA genuinely attested "black god" of the Baltic Slavs, paired since the 1600s with a "white god" no medieval source actually names.Deity · Slavic Cihuacoatl (Snake Woman)Snake WomanThe Aztec goddess of childbirth and earth who helped shape humanity, lent her name to Tenochtitlan's second-in-command, and wept an omen before the conquest.Deity · Aztec 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 Cupid (Amor)God of DesireThe winged god of desire, son of Venus — best known through Apuleius's tale of his secret marriage to the mortal Psyche and the trials Venus set her.Deity · Roman

D

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 Dazhbog (Slavic Sun God)The Giving GodSun god of the Kyivan pantheon and, in the Tale of Igor's Campaign, the mythical ancestor of the Rus' people themselves.Deity · Slavic 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 The Dragon Kings (Longwang)Lords of Rain and the Four SeasFour bureaucrat-dragons who rule the seas from undersea palaces, command rain and flood, and get bullied by mortal heroes in China's best-loved novels.Deity · Chinese Dumuzi (Tammuz)The ShepherdInanna's shepherd husband, handed to the underworld in her place and mourned every summer across three thousand years of Near Eastern religion.Deity · Mesopotamian DurgaThe Invincible GoddessThe warrior goddess assembled from the massed light of all the gods, lion-mounted slayer of the buffalo demon Mahishasura.Deity · Hindu

E

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 Epona (Celtic Horse Goddess)Goddess of Horses and CavalryThe Gaulish horse goddess whose cult rode with Rome's cavalry — the only Celtic deity ever given a day on the Roman religious calendar.Deity · Celtic 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

F

FaunusGod of the Wild and Rustic ProphecyRome's rustic god of forest and flock, an oracle who spoke through dreams and whose name the Romans linked to the Lupercalia and to Greek Pan and the satyrs.Deity · Roman Fortuna (Roman Goddess of Luck)Goddess of Luck and FateRome's goddess of luck, worshipped under dozens of specific titles and consulted through a wooden-lot oracle at Praeneste that Cicero called a fraud.Deity · Roman 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 FriggQueen of AsgardOdin's wife and the highest-ranking goddess of the Aesir — keeper of foreknowledge she will not speak, and the mother whose oaths could not save Baldr.Deity · Norse Fujin (Japanese Wind God)God of WindJapan's wind kami — a demon-bodied figure who races across temple screens with a bag of winds over his shoulders, paired with but distinct from Raijin.Deity · Japanese