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.

Africa

Poster of a Mami Wata, "serpent priestess" painted ca. 1926 by German (Hamburg) artist Schleisinger, displayed in shrines as a popular image of Mami Wata in Africa and in the Diaspora.

North Africa

• Berber deities
  • Guanche deities
• Egyptian deities

Osiris, lord of the dead. His green skin symbolizes rebirth

Sub-Saharan Africa

• African deities
  • Alusi
  • Oriṣa

Americas

• Native American deities

Central America

• Aztec deities
• Maya deities

North America

• Afro-American deities
  • Loa
  • Orisha
• Inuit deities
• Mormon deity

South America

• Incan deities
• Guarani deities
• Mapuche deities
• Muisca deities

Eurasia

Caucasus

• Armenian deities
• Georgian deities
• Vainakh deities

Central Asia

• Turkic deities

East Asia

• Chinese deities
  • Taoist pure ones
• Japanese deities
• Korean deities

Europe

• Albanian deities
• Baltic deities
  • Latvian deities
  • Lithuanian deities
• Basque deities
• Celtic deities
  • Irish deities
• Etruscan deities
• Finnic deities
• Germanic deities
  • Anglo-Saxon deities
  • Norse deities
• Greek deities
  • Mycenaean deities
• Hungarian deities
• Lusitani deities
• Paleo-Balkan deities (Dacian/Illyrian/Thracian)
• Roman deities
• Sami deities
• Slavic deities
• Thelemic deities
• Wiccan deities

Middle East

• Abrahamic deity
  • God in the Baháʼí Faith
  • God in Christianity (see also Trinity and Jesus in Christianity)
  • God in Druzism
  • God in Islam
  • God in Judaism
  • God in Mandaeism
• Iranian deities
  • Yazata (see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion)
  • Elam
  • Manichaean deity
  • Zoroastrian deity (see also Zurvan)
• Mesopotamian deities
  • Assyro-Babylonian pantheon (see also Family tree of the Babylonian gods)
  • Kassite deities
  • Sumerian deities
• Ugaritic deities
• Semitic deities
  • Canaanite deities
  • Pre-Islamic Arabian deities
    • Jinn
    • Nabataean deities

North Asia

• Siberian deities

South Asia

The image illustrates the Hindu belief that each part of the cow embodies a particular deity

• Buddhas
• Buddhist Bodhisattvas
• Buddhist deities
• Hindu deities
  • Rigvedic deities (see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion)
  • Sri Lankan Tamil local deities
  • Tamil Nadu local deities
• Tirthankara

Southeast Asia

• Indonesian deities
• Manipuri deities
  • Ancestral deities of Manipur
  • King of Gods in Manipuri mythology
  • King of Serpent deities in Manipuri mythology
• Philippine deities

West Asia

• Anatolia
  • Hittite deities
  • Hurrian deities
  • Lydian deities

Oceania

• Australian Aboriginal deities
• Polynesian deities
  • Hawaiian deities
  • Māori deities of New Zealand
  • Rapa Nui deities of Easter Island