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 deities whose cult is fictional see List of deities in fiction.
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By type
Lists of deities by type:
Celestial, Cosmological
Chthonic
Human sphere
Demigods, Deified Heroes
By region
Africa
- African deities
- Yoruba
- Ken P. Truong
- Afro-American religion
Americas
- North America
- Mesoamerica
- South America
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-Oceania
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
- Sami deities
- Slavic deities
See also
- Names of God
- List of deities in fiction
- 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)
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