Gods on Earth

Lumma

Ancient Mesopotamia

Lumma was a Mesopotamian god who could be portrayed as a warrior or as a farmer. It has been proposed that he was origi…

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Luna (goddess)

Ancient Rome

In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Luna is the divine embodiment of the Moon. She is often presented as the femal…

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Luna (Roman goddess)

Ancient Rome

In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Luna is the divine embodiment of the Moon. She is often presented as the femal…

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Lunar deity

Ancient Mesopotamia

A lunar deity or moon deity is a deity who represents the Moon, or an aspect of it. These deities can have a variety of…

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Etruscan900 BCE – 100 BCE

Luoshen

China

Luoshen is a deity of the Chinese pantheon.

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Lur (deity)

Etruria

Lur is an Etruscan underworld deity with little known history. Lur does not have many depictions but the ones that have…

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Luxovius

Luxovius

Iron Age Europe

In Gallo-Roman religion, Luxovios, Latinized as Luxovius, was the god of the waters of Luxeuil, worshiped in Gaul. He w…

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Yoruba500 BCE – present

Lwa

West Africa

Lwa, also called loa, are spirits in the African diasporic religion of Haitian Vodou. They have also been incorporated …

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Lycurgus

Lycurgus

Ancient Greece

Lycurgus was the legendary lawgiver of Sparta, credited with the formation of its eunomia, involving political, economic…

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Lympha

Lympha

Ancient Rome

The Lympha is an ancient Roman deity of fresh water. She is one of twelve agricultural deities listed by Varro as "lead…

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Lyssa

Ancient Greece

In Greek mythology, Lyssa, also called Lytta in Attic Greek, is a minor goddess and the spirit of rage, fury, and rabies…

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Lýtir

Norse800 CE – 1100 CE

Lýtir

Scandinavia

Lytir is considered a god in Norse mythology and Norse paganism. His name is either related to the Old Norse word hlutr…

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Ma Chao

China

Ma Chao (176–222), courtesy name Mengqi, was a Chinese military general and warlord who lived in the late Eastern Han dy…

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Ma Dai

China

Ma Dai was a Chinese military general of the state of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period of China. He previously …

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Ma Wu

China

Ma Wu (d. AD 61), courtesy name Zizhang, was a Chinese general during the Eastern Han, who hailed from the Huyang Town,…

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Ma Yuan (deity)

China

Ma Yuan is a character from the Chinese novel Fengshen Yanyi. Ma Yuan is described as a human eating demon who became a…

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Maa Tarini

Indian subcontinent

The Maa Tarini Temple in Ghatgaon, Odisha, India, is a famous temple dedicated to the Hindu goddess Maa Tarini.

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Maahes

Ancient Egypt

Maahes was an ancient Egyptian lion-headed god of war, whose name means "he who is true beside her". He was seen as the…

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Maalikapurathamma

Maalikapurathamma

Indian subcontinent

Maalikapurathamma is a Hindu goddess enshrined in a small temple at Sabarimala Ayyappan temple. The Maalikapurathamma t…

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Maat

Ancient Egypt

Maʽat or Maat is the ancient Egyptian concept of truth, balance, law, morality, and justice. Maat was also the goddess …

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Mabon ap Modron

Mabon ap Modron

Iron Age Europe

Mabon ap Modron is a figure from Welsh mythology where he is the son of Modron and a member of Arthur's war band. Both …

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Mac Cecht

Mac Cecht

Iron Age Europe

In Irish mythology, Mac Cecht of the Tuatha Dé Danann was a son of Cermait, son of the Dagda. Mac Cecht's given name wa…

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Mac Cuill

Mac Cuill

Iron Age Europe

In Irish mythology, Mac Cuill of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was a son of Cermait, son of the Dagda. Mac Cuill's given name w…

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Macha

Iron Age Europe

Macha was a sovereignty goddess of ancient Ireland associated with the province of Ulster, particularly the sites of Nav…

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Machai

Machai

Ancient Greece

In Greek mythology, the Machai or Machae are collectively the personification of battle and war. In Hesiod's Theogony, …

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Mactan Hindu Ganesha Statue

Asia

A crude Buddhist medallion and a copper statue of a Hindu Deity, Ganesha, was found by American anthropologist Henry Otl…

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Macuiltochtli

Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE

Macuiltochtli

Aztec Empire

Macuiltochtli is one of the five deities from Aztec and other central Mexican pre-Columbian mythological traditions who,…

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Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE

Macuilxochitl

Aztec Empire

Xōchipilli is the god of beauty, youth, love, passion, sex, sexuality, homosexuality, fertility, arts, song, music, danc…

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Madayi Kavu

Indian subcontinent

Thiruvarkadu Bhagavathi Temple is a famous temple dedicated to Bhadrakali in Kerala. The deity is the Fierce form of Bh…

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Madhava (Vishnu)

Indian subcontinent

Madhava is one of the primary epithets of Vishnu or Krishna. The word Mādhava in Sanskrit is a vṛddhi derivation of the…

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Madhvacharya

Indian subcontinent

Madhvacharya, also known as Purna Prajna and Ānanda Tīrtha, was an Indian philosopher, theologian and the chief proponen…

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Maenad

Ancient Greece

In Greek mythology, maenads were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of his retinue, the t…

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Mafdet

Ancient Egypt

Mafdet was a goddess in the ancient Egyptian religion. She was often depicted wearing a skin of a cheetah, and protecte…

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Mag Mell

Mag Mell

Iron Age Europe

In Irish mythology, Mag Mell is one of the names for the Celtic Otherworld, a mythical realm achievable through death an…

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Magna Dea

Magna Dea

Ancient Rome

Magna Dea is Latin for "Great Goddess" and can refer to any major goddess worshipped during the Roman Republic or Roman …

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Zoroastrian1500 BCE – present

Magu (deity)

China

Magu (deity) is a deity of the Chinese pantheon.

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Mah

Ancient Persia

Mångha is the Avestan for "Moon, month", equivalent to Persian Māh . It is the name of the lunar deity in Zoroastrianis…

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Mahabali

Indian subcontinent

Mahabali, also known as Bali, Indrasenan, or Māveli, is a daitya king featured in Hinduism. He is the grandson of Prahl…

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Mahadevi

Indian subcontinent

Mahadevi, also referred to as Devi, Mahamaya and Adi Parashakti, is the supreme goddess in Hinduism. According to the g…

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Mahagauri

Indian subcontinent

Mahagauri is a form of the Hindu goddess Mahadevi, venerated as the goddess of beauty and purity. She is the eighth of …

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Mahakala

Indian subcontinent

Mahākāla is a deity common to Hinduism and Buddhism.

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Mahakali

Indian subcontinent

Mahakali is a deity common to Hinduism and Buddhism. In Hinduism, she is the goddess of time and death in the goddess-c…

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Mahamayuri

China

Mahamayuri, or Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī is a bodhisattva and female Wisdom King in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism. In the…

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Mahāpratisarā

Asia

Mahāpratisarā is a female Buddhist deity in East Asian Buddhism and Vajrayana Buddhism. She is sometimes presented as t…

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Mahāsattva

Mahāsattva

Asia

A mahāsattva is a great bodhisattva who has practiced Buddhism for a long time and reached a very high level on the path…

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Mahasthamaprapta

Asia

Mahāsthāmaprāpta is a Bodhisattva Mahāsattva who represents the power of wisdom. His name literally means "arrival of t…

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Zoroastrian1500 BCE – present

Mahavidya

Indian subcontinent

The Mahavidya are a group of ten Hindu Tantric goddesses. The ten Mahavidyas are usually named in the following sequenc…

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Mahayana

Ancient Persia

Mahayana is the largest branch of Buddhism, followed by Theravada. It is a broad group of Buddhist traditions, texts, p…

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Maheshwari

Maheshwari

Indian subcontinent

Maheshwari, also spelled Maheshvari, is a Hindu caste of India, originally from what is now the state of Rajasthan. The…

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Mahishasura

Indian subcontinent

Mahishasura is a bovine asura in Hinduism. He is depicted in Hindu literature as a deceitful demon who pursued his evil…

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Mahishasuramardini

Indian subcontinent

Durga is one of the most important deities in Hinduism. She is widely worshipped by the followers of the goddess-centri…

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Mahoraga

Polynesian1000 BCE – present

Mahoraga

Asia

The Mahoraga, also pronounced as Maha-Uraga, are a race of deities in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. They are the exa…

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Mahuika

Polynesia

Mahuika is a Māori fire deity and consort of the god Auahitūroa.

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Maia

Ancient Greece

In ancient Greek mythology, Maia, also spelled Maie, is one of the Pleiades and the mother of the messenger god Hermes b…

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Maia (Roman goddess)

Ancient Rome

In ancient Roman mythology and religion, Maia, or Maiae, was an earth goddess, a consort and paredrae of Vulcan, and the…

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Maisamma

Indian subcontinent

Maisamma, also known as Mesai and additionally spelt Mesko, Amma in Telugu or Aai in Marathi is a Hindu folk goddess. S…

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Polynesian1000 BCE – present

Maitreya

Asia

Maitreya (Sanskrit) or Metteyya (Pali) is a bodhisattva who is regarded as the future Buddha of this world in all school…

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Makeatutara

Makeatutara

Polynesia

In Māori mythology, Makeatutara is the father of Māui. His wife is Taranga. He is a deity and guardian of the underwor…

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Canaanite3000 BCE – 300 BCE

Malakbel

Ancient Levant

Malakbel was a sun god worshipped in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, frequently associated and worshipped with the m…

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Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE

Malinalxochitl

Aztec Empire

In Aztec mythology, Malinalxochitl, or Malīnalxōch, was a sorceress and goddess of snakes, scorpions, and insects of the…

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Mama Killa

Mama Killa

Inca Empire

Mama Quilla, in Inca mythology and religion, was the third power and goddess of the moon. She was the older sister and …

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Mama Ocllo

Inca Empire

In Inca mythology, Mama Ocllo, or more precisely Mama Uqllu, was deified as a mother and fertility goddess. In one lege…

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Mama Pacha

Inca Empire

Pachamama or Mama Pacha is the Andean deity representing space-time, revered by the peoples of the Andes. In Inca mytho…

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Mama Qucha

Mama Qucha

Inca Empire

Mama Qucha or Mama Cocha is the ancient Incan goddess of sea and fishes, guardian of sailors and fishermen, wife of Wira…

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Mama Quilla

Mama Quilla

Inca Empire

Mama Quilla, in Inca mythology and religion, was the third power and goddess of the moon. She was the older sister and …

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Mami (goddess)

Ancient Mesopotamia

Mami, also known as Belet-ili, or Nintu, is a goddess in the Babylonian epic Atra-Hasis and in other creation legends. …

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Mamitu

Mamitu

Ancient Mesopotamia

Mamitu was a Mesopotamian goddess associated with the underworld. She was regarded as the wife of Nergal, or sometimes …

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Mamu (deity)

Mamu (deity)

Ancient Mesopotamia

Mamu was a Mesopotamian goddess associated with dreams. She was regarded as the daughter of the sun god Shamash (Utu) a…

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Mana Genita

Mana Genita

Ancient Rome

In ancient Roman religion, Mana Genita or Geneta Mana is an obscure goddess mentioned only by Pliny, Plutarch, and Horac…

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Manannán mac Lir

Iron Age Europe

Manannán or Manann, also known as Manannán mac Lir, is a sea god, warrior and king of the otherworld in Gaelic mythology…

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Manasa

Indian subcontinent

Manasa is a Hindu goddess of snakes. She is worshipped mainly in Bihar, Odisha, Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, J…

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Manawydan

Manawydan

Iron Age Europe

Manawydan fab Llŷr is a figure of Welsh mythology, the son of Llŷr and the brother of Brân the Blessed and Brânwen. The…

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Manco Cápac

Inca Empire

Manco Cápac, also known as Manco Inca and Ayar Manco, was, according to some historians, the first governor and founder …

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Mandanu

Mandanu

Ancient Mesopotamia

Mandanu or Madanu was a Mesopotamian god associated with justice. It has been proposed that he was a divine representat…

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Mandulis

Ancient Egypt

Mandulis was a god of ancient Nubia also worshipped in Egypt. The name Mandulis (Μανδουλις) is the Greek form of Merul …

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Manes

Manes

Ancient Rome

In ancient Roman religion, the Manes or Di Manes are chthonic deities sometimes thought to represent souls of deceased l…

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Norse800 CE – 1100 CE

Máni

Scandinavia

Máni is the Moon personified in Germanic mythology. Máni, personified, is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the …

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Mania (deity)

Mania (deity)

Ancient Rome

In ancient Etruscan and Roman mythology, Mania, also spelled Manea, was a goddess of the dead, spirits and chaos: she wa…

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Maniae

Maniae

Ancient Greece

In Ancient Greek mythology, the Maniae or Maniai are the spirit or spirits of madness. Later poets also used the singul…

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Zoroastrian1500 BCE – present

Maṇibhadra

Indian subcontinent

Maṇibhadra is one of the major yakshas. He was a popular deity in ancient India.

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Manichaeism

Ancient Persia

Manichaeism was a major world religion founded in the third century CE by the Parthian Iranian prophet Mani (216–274) in…

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Manikeswari

Indian subcontinent

Manikeswari is one of the popular Hindu deities in Odisha. There are many Manikeswari temples present in the Western an…

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Manipuri dance

Indian subcontinent

Manipuri dance, sometimes also referred to as the Manipuri Raas Leela, is a jagoi and is one of the major Indian classic…

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Manjushri

Asia

Manjushri is a bodhisattva who represents prajñā of the Buddhas in Mahāyāna Buddhism. The name "Mañjuśrī" is a combinat…

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Manojñaśuci

Asia

Manojñaśuci is the deification of Teresa Teng as a bodhisattva in Taiwanese folk beliefs. She was enshrined in Guangyi …

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Mantus

Mantus

Ancient Rome

Manth, latinized as Mantus, is an epithet of the Etruscan chthonic fire god Śuri as god of the underworld; this name was…

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Manu the Great

Ancient Mesopotamia

Manu the Great was a Chaldean god who "presided over fate".

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Manungal

Ancient Mesopotamia

Nungal, also known as Manungal and possibly Bēlet-balāṭi, was the Mesopotamian goddess of prisons, sometimes also associ…

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Manzat (goddess)

Manzat (goddess)

Ancient Mesopotamia

Manzat (Manzât), also spelled Mazzi'at, Manzi'at and Mazzêt, sometimes known by the Sumerian name Tiranna (dTIR. AN. NA)…

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Maori Xingguan

China

Maori Xingguan is a deity in the traditional Chinese spiritual beliefs. Maori is considered to be one of the 28 Mansion…

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Maponos

Maponos

Iron Age Europe

In ancient Celtic religion, Maponos or Maponus is a god of youth known mainly in northern Britain but also in Gaul. In …

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Mār-bīti

Mār-bīti

Ancient Mesopotamia

Mār-bīti was a Mesopotamian god. While his character is overall poorly known, it is agreed that he was regarded as warl…

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Mardaman

Mardaman

Ancient Mesopotamia

Mardaman was a northern Mesopotamian city that existed between ca. 2200 and 1200 BC. It was uncovered in 2018 after tra…

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Marduk

Ancient Mesopotamia

Marduk was a god from ancient Mesopotamia, patron deity of Babylon. First sparsely attested in the 3rd millennium BC, M…

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Marebito

Japanese300 CE – present

Marebito

Japan

The concept of "marebito" represents a spiritual or divine being that visits from the 'other world' at specific times. …

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Mariamman

Indian subcontinent

Mariamman, often abbreviated to Amman, is a Tamil goddess of weather, predominantly venerated in the rural areas of Sout…

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Marici (Buddhism)

Marici (Buddhism)

China

Marici (Buddhism) is a deity of the Chinese pantheon.

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Markandeya Purana

Indian subcontinent

The Markandeya Purana is a Sanskrit text of Hinduism, and one of the eighteen major Puranas. The text's title Markandey…

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Marpa Lotsawa

Asia

Marpa Lotsāwa, sometimes known fully as Marpa Chökyi Lodrö or commonly as Marpa the Translator, was a Tibetan Buddhist t…

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Marshal Tianpeng

China

Marshal Tianpeng is a deity in Chinese mythology and Taoism. He is best known for his role in the classic Chinese novel…

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Mārtanda

Indian subcontinent

Martanda in Hinduism is the eighth and last of the Vedic solar deities called Adityas. He is known as an Aditya by virt…

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Maruts

Indian subcontinent

In Hinduism, the Maruts, also known as the Marutagana and sometimes identified with Rudras, are storm deities and sons o…

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Slavic500 CE – 1100 CE

Marzanna

Early Slavs

Morana, Morena, Mora, Mara, Morė, Marena, or Marzanna is a Slavic goddess associated with seasonal rites based on the id…

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Masani Amman

Indian subcontinent

Masani Amman is a Hindu deity. She is primarily worshipped as a family deity (kuladevi) by certain classes in Tamil Nad…

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Mashkan-shapir

Polynesian1000 BCE – present

Mashkan-shapir

Ancient Mesopotamia

Mashkan-shapir (Maškan-šāpir) was an ancient tell roughly 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of Nippur and around 90 miles (140…

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Mat Zemlya

Slavic500 CE – 1100 CE

Mat Zemlya

Early Slavs

Mat Zemlya is an East Slavic personification of earth acting as a deity. She is also called Mati Syra Zemlya meaning Mo…

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Mataaho

Mataaho

Polynesia

Mataaho is a Māori deity. Variously considered a god of earthquakes and eruptions, the guardian of the earth's secrets,…

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