Japanese300 CE – present
Tenjin (kami)
Japan
In the Shinto religion of Japan, Tenjin (天神), also called Tenman Daijizai Tenjin (天満大自在天神), is the patron kami (deity) o…
Read →
Research Index
Gods on Earth
An archive of 3,493 gods, deified rulers, and mythological figures across civilizations — from living gods of Egypt to the dying gods of antiquity.
Inca1200 CE – 1533 CE
Tenrikyo
Inca Empire
Tenrikyo is a Japanese new religion which is neither strictly monotheistic nor pantheistic, originating from the teachin…
Read →
Tepeu
Maya2000 BCE – 1500 CE
Tepeu
Maya civilization
Tepeu is a word of the Kʼicheʼ Maya language meaning "sovereign". The title is associated with the god Qʼuqʼumatz of th…
Read →
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tepēyōllōtl
Aztec Empire
In Aztec mythology, Tepēyōllōtl was the god of darkened caves, earthquakes, echoes and jaguars. He is the god of the Ei…
Read →
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tepoztecatl
Aztec Empire
In Aztec mythology, Tepoztēcatl or Tēzcatzontēcatl was the god of pulque, of drunkenness and fertility. The deity was a…
Read →
Roman750 BCE – 400 CE
Terminus (god)
Ancient Rome
In Roman religion, Terminus was the god who protected boundary markers; his name was the Latin word for such a marker. …
Read →
Greek800 BCE – 400 CE
Terpsichore
Ancient Greece
In Greek mythology, Terpsichore is one of the nine Muses and goddess of dance and chorus. She lends her name to the wor…
Read →
Roman750 BCE – 400 CE
Terra Mater
Ancient Rome
In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Tellus or Terra is the personification of the Earth. Although Tellus and Terra…
Read →
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Teteoinnan
Aztec Empire
Coatlicue, wife of Mixcōhuātl, also known as Tēteoh īnnān is the Aztec goddess who gave birth to the moon, stars, and Hu…
Read →
Tethra
Celtic800 BCE – 500 CE
Tethra
Iron Age Europe
In Irish mythology, Tethra of the Fomorians ruled Mag Mell after dying in the Second Battle of Mag Tuiredh. After the b…
Read →
Celtic800 BCE – 500 CE
Teutates
Iron Age Europe
Teutates is a Celtic god attested in literary and epigraphic sources. His name, which is derived from a proto-Celtic wo…
Read →
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tezcatlipoca
Aztec Empire
Tezcatlipoca or Tezcatl Ipoca was a central deity in Aztec religion. He is associated with a variety of concepts, inclu…
Read →
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tezcatzoncatl
Aztec Empire
In Aztec mythology, Tepoztēcatl or Tēzcatzontēcatl was the god of pulque, of drunkenness and fertility. The deity was a…
Read →
Greek800 BCE – 400 CE
Thalassa
Ancient Greece
In Greek mythology, Thalassa is a divine female personification of the sea. Her name may have been of Pre-Greek origin …
Read →
Greek800 BCE – 400 CE
Thalia (Muse)
Ancient Greece
In Greek mythology, Thalia, also spelled Thaleia, was one of the Muses, the goddess who presided over comedy and idyllic…
Read →
Thalna
Etruscan900 BCE – 100 BCE
Thalna
Etruria
In Etruscan religion and myth, Thalna was a divine figure usually regarded as a goddess of childbirth. Determinate gend…
Read →
Greek800 BCE – 400 CE
Thanatos
Ancient Greece
In Greek mythology, Thanatos was the personification of death. He was a minor figure in Greek mythology, often referred…
Read →
Buddhist500 BCE – present
Thang Tong Gyalpo
Asia
Thangtong Gyalpo, is also known as Chakzampa, the "Iron Bridge Maker", Tsöndrü Zangpo "Excellent Persistence", and the K…
Read →
Greek800 BCE – 400 CE
Thaumas
Ancient Greece
In Greek mythology, Thaumas or Thaumant was a sea god, son of Pontus and Gaia, and the full brother of Nereus, Phorcys, …
Read →
Hindu1500 BCE – present
The Buddha in Hinduism
Indian subcontinent
The Buddha is considered the ninth avatar among the ten major avatars of the god Vishnu, according to the Vaishnava trad…
Read →
The Dagda
Celtic800 BCE – 500 CE
The Dagda
Iron Age Europe
The Dagda is considered the great god of Irish mythology. He is the chief god of the Tuatha Dé Danann, with the Dagda p…
Read →
The Four Winds (Mesopotamian)
Mesopotamian3500 BCE – 500 BCE
The Four Winds (Mesopotamian)
Ancient Mesopotamia
The Four Winds are a group of mythical figures in Mesopotamian mythology whose names and functions correspond to four ca…
Read →
Norse800 CE – 1100 CE
The Fourteen Infallibles
Scandinavia
The Fourteen Infallibles in Twelver Shia Islam are the Islamic prophet Muhammad, his daughter Fatima Zahra, and the Twel…
Read →
Celtic800 BCE – 500 CE
The Morrígan
Iron Age Europe
The Morrígan or Mórrígan, also known as Morrígu, is a figure from Irish mythology. The name is Mór-ríoghan in modern Ir…
Read →
Egyptian3100 BCE – 400 CE
The Search for God in Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt
The Search for God in Ancient Egypt is a 1984 book by the German egyptologist Jan Assmann. It is a study of ancient Egy…
Read →
Theandrios
Greek800 BCE – 400 CE
Theandrios
Ancient Greece
In Greek religion and mythology, Theandrios or Theandrates (Θεανδράτης) is a deity that was worshipped in towns and vill…
Read →
Egyptian3100 BCE – 400 CE
Theban Triad
Ancient Egypt
The Theban Triad is a triad of Egyptian gods most popular in the area of Thebes, Egypt.
Read →
Greek800 BCE – 400 CE
Theia
Ancient Greece
In Greek mythology, Theia also called Thea, Thia, Euryphaessa, Aethra or Basileia, was one of the Titans, the children o…
Read →
Inca1200 CE – 1533 CE
Theism
Inca Empire
Theism is broadly defined as the belief in the existence of at least one deity. In common parlance, or when contrasted …
Read →
Egyptian3100 BCE – 400 CE
Thelema
Ancient Egypt
Thelema is a Western esoteric and occult social and spiritual philosophy, and a new religious movement. It was founded …
Read →
Greek800 BCE – 400 CE
Themis
Ancient Greece
In Greek mythology and religion, Themis is the goddess and personification of justice, divine order, law, and custom. S…
Read →
Theocracy
Inca1200 CE – 1533 CE
Theocracy
Inca Empire
Theocracy or ethiocracy is a form of autocracy or oligarchy in which one or more deities are recognized as supreme rulin…
Read →
Egyptian3100 BCE – 400 CE
Theodicies
Ancient Egypt
A theodicy, meaning 'vindication of God', is an argument in the philosophy of religion that attempts to resolve the prob…
Read →
Theology
Native AmericanPre-Columbian – present
Theology
North America
Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity and the h…
Read →
Theophoric name
Egyptian3100 BCE – 400 CE
Theophoric name
Ancient Egypt
A theophoric name embeds the word equivalent of 'god' or a god's name in a person's name, reflecting something about the…
Read →
Theravada
Inca1200 CE – 1533 CE
Theravada
Inca Empire
Theravāda is Buddhism's oldest existing school. The school's adherents, termed Theravādins, have preserved their versio…
Read →
Greek800 BCE – 400 CE
Thetis
Ancient Greece
Thetis is a figure from Greek mythology with varying mythological roles. She mainly appears as a sea nymph, a goddess o…
Read →
Buddhist500 BCE – present
Thirteen Buddhas
Asia
The Thirteen Buddhas is a Japanese grouping of Buddhist deities, particularly in the Shingon and Tendai sects of Buddhis…
Read →
Hindu1500 BCE – present
Thirty-three gods
Indian subcontinent
The Thirty-three gods, or Trayastrimshaddevas, is a pantheon of Rigvedic deities of the current manvantara. The Samhita…
Read →
Thoosa
Greek800 BCE – 400 CE
Thoosa
Ancient Greece
In Greek mythology, Thoosa, also spelled Thoösa, was, according to Homer, the sea nymph daughter of the primordial sea g…
Read →
Norse800 CE – 1100 CE
Thor
Scandinavia
Thor is a prominent god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, …
Read →
Native AmericanPre-Columbian – present
Thoth
North America
Thoth is an ancient Egyptian deity. In art, he was often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon, animal…
Read →
Thrasos
Greek800 BCE – 400 CE
Thrasos
Ancient Greece
In Greek mythology, Thrasos is the personified concept of boldness.
Read →
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Three Great Emperor-Officials
China
The Three Great Emperor-Officials, Sanguan, or the Three Officials are three of the highest shen in some branches of rel…
Read →
Three Noble Children
Japanese300 CE – present
Three Noble Children
Japan
Three Noble Children are three gods in Japanese mythology who were created when Izanagi, having returned from Yomi, wash…
Read →
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Three Pure Ones
China
The Three Pure Ones, also translated as the Three Pure Pellucid Ones, the Three Purities, the Three Pristine Ones, the T…
Read →
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Thunder Ancestor
China
Thunder Ancestor (雷祖) is a Taoist deity in charge of thunder and the thirty-six heavens. His full name is Ninth Heaven …
Read →
Greek800 BCE – 400 CE
Thyrsus
Ancient Greece
In Ancient Greece a thyrsus or thyrsos was a wand or staff of giant fennel covered with ivy vines and leaves, sometimes …
Read →
Mesopotamian3500 BCE – 500 BCE
Tiamat
Ancient Mesopotamia
In ancient Mesopotamian religion, Tiamat is the cosmic ocean that mates with Abzû, the groundwater, to produce the Bably…
Read →
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Tian
China
Tian (天) is one of the oldest Chinese terms for heaven or the cosmos and is a central concept in Chinese mythology, phil…
Read →
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Tianhuang Emperor
China
The Great Emperor of the Curved Array, also called the Gouchen Emperor and Tianhuang Emperor, is one of the highest sky …
Read →
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Tianlong
China
Tianlong is a flying dragon in Chinese mythology, a star in Chinese astrology, and a proper name.
Read →
Roman750 BCE – 400 CE
Tiberinus (god)
Ancient Rome
Tiberinus is a figure in Roman mythology. He was the god of the Tiber River. He was added to the 3,000 rivers, as the …
Read →
Tilafaiga
Polynesian1000 BCE – present
Tilafaiga
Polynesia
According to a legend in Samoan mythology Tilafaiga was one of the twin sisters who brought the art of tatau to Samoa fr…
Read →
Buddhist500 BCE – present
Tilopa
Asia
Tilopa was a Buddhist tantric mahasiddha who lived in northeast India around the 10th century -- perhaps from 988 to 106…
Read →
Time and fate deities
Mesopotamian3500 BCE – 500 BCE
Time and fate deities
Ancient Mesopotamia
Time and fate deities are personifications of time, often in the sense of human lifetime and human fate, in polytheistic…
Read →
Etruscan900 BCE – 100 BCE
Tinia
Etruria
Tinia was the sky god and the highest deity in Etruscan religion, equivalent to the Roman Jupiter and the Greek Zeus.
Read →
Tiphupa
Buddhist500 BCE – present
Tiphupa
Asia
Tiphupa was an Indian Buddhist teacher from the 11th and 12th century who was considered to be the rebirth of Darma Dode…
Read →
Tishpak
Mesopotamian3500 BCE – 500 BCE
Tishpak
Ancient Mesopotamia
Tishpak (Tišpak) was a Mesopotamian god associated with the ancient city Eshnunna and its sphere of influence, located i…
Read →
Zoroastrian1500 BCE – present
Tishtrya
Ancient Persia
Tishtrya is the Avestan name of a Zoroastrian benevolent divinity associated with life-bringing rainfall and fertility. …
Read →
Greek800 BCE – 400 CE
Titans
Ancient Greece
In Greek mythology, the Titans were the deities who preceded the Olympians. According to the Theogony of Hesiod, they w…
Read →
Greek800 BCE – 400 CE
Tithonus
Ancient Greece
In Greek mythology, Tithonus was the lover of Eos, Goddess of the Dawn. He was a prince of Troy, the son of King Laomed…
Read →
Titiksha
Hindu1500 BCE – present
Titiksha
Indian subcontinent
Tiksha or titikṣā is defined by the Uddhava Gita as the "patient endurance of suffering. " In Vedanta philosophy it is t…
Read →
Egyptian3100 BCE – 400 CE
Tjenenyet
Ancient Egypt
Tjenenyet, alternatively Tenenet, Tjenenet, Zenenet, Tanenet, Tenenit, Manuel de Codage transliteration Tnn. t, was an a…
Read →
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tlacotzontli
Aztec Empire
Tlacotzontli is an Aztec god of roads. He was also the protector of roads to the native Mexicans.
Read →
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tlāhuizcalpantecuhtli
Aztec Empire
Tlāhuizcalpantēcuhtli is a principal member of the pantheon of gods within the Aztec religion, representing the Morning …
Read →
Tlālchitōnatiuh
Maya2000 BCE – 1500 CE
Tlālchitōnatiuh
Maya civilization
Tlalchitonatiuh was a Mesoamerican deity associated with the setting sun, when the stars start to appear in the night sk…
Read →
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tlalcihuatl
Aztec Empire
Tlaltecuhtli is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican deity worshipped primarily by the Mexica (Aztec) people. Sometimes referre…
Read →
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tláloc
Aztec Empire
Tláloc is the god of rain in Aztec religion. He was also a deity of earthly fertility and water, and worshipped as a gi…
Read →
Maya2000 BCE – 1500 CE
Tlalocan
Maya civilization
Tlālōcān is described in several Aztec codices as a paradise, ruled over by the rain deity Tlāloc and his consort Chalch…
Read →
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tlālōcān
Aztec Empire
Tlālōcān is described in several Aztec codices as a paradise, ruled over by the rain deity Tlāloc and his consort Chalch…
Read →
Tlalocayotl
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tlalocayotl
Aztec Empire
In Aztec mythology, Tlalocayotl is the god of the East wind. His brothers are Cihuatecayotl, Mictlanpachecatl, and Huit…
Read →
Maya2000 BCE – 1500 CE
Tlaloque
Maya civilization
Tláloc is the god of rain in Aztec religion. He was also a deity of earthly fertility and water, and worshipped as a gi…
Read →
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tlaltecuhtli
Aztec Empire
Tlaltecuhtli is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican deity worshipped primarily by the Mexica (Aztec) people. Sometimes referre…
Read →
Tlatlauhca-Cinteotl
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tlatlauhca-Cinteotl
Aztec Empire
In Aztec mythology, the Cintēteo are the four gods of maize. They are sons of the goddess Centeōtl and the god Cinteōtl…
Read →
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tlazōlteōtl
Aztec Empire
In Aztec mythology, Tlahzolteōtl is a deity of sex, sexuality, lust, carnality, sin, vice, impurity, temptation, fertili…
Read →
Tlilhua
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tlilhua
Aztec Empire
In Aztec mythology, Tlīlhua is one of the Centzontotochtin, the gods of pulque.
Read →
Tlillan-Tlapallan
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tlillan-Tlapallan
Aztec Empire
Tlapallan From Aztec mythology: a legendary place on the coast of Mexico. When the divine lord Quetzalcoatl was afflict…
Read →
Tloquenahuaque
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tloquenahuaque
Aztec Empire
In Aztec mythology, Tloquenahuaque, Tloque Nahuaque or Tloque Naoaque was one of the epithets of Tezcatlipoca. Miguel L…
Read →
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Toci
Aztec Empire
Toci is a prominent deity in the religion and mythology of the pre-Columbian Aztec civilization of Mesoamerica.
Read →
Tohil
Maya2000 BCE – 1500 CE
Tohil
Maya civilization
Tohil is the Maya god of fire. He is a deity of the Kʼicheʼ Maya in the Late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica.
Read →
Etruscan900 BCE – 100 BCE
Tomb of Orcus
Etruria
The Tomb of Orcus, sometimes called the Tomb of Murina, is a 4th-century BC Etruscan hypogeum in Tarquinia, Italy. Disc…
Read →
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tōnacācihuātl
Aztec Empire
In Aztec mythology, Tōnacācihuātl was a creator and goddess of fertility, worshiped for peopling the earth and making it…
Read →
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tōnacātēcuhtli
Aztec Empire
In Aztec mythology, Tonacatecuhtli was a creator and fertility god, worshipped for populating the earth and making it fr…
Read →
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tonantzin
Aztec Empire
Tonantzin is a Nahuatl title composed of to- "our" + nān "mother" + -tzin "(honorific suffix)". When addressing Tonantz…
Read →
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Tōnatiuh
Aztec Empire
In Mesoamerican culture, Tonatiuh is an Aztec sun deity of the daytime sky who rules the cardinal direction of east. Ac…
Read →
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Tongtian Jiaozhu
China
Tongtian Jiaozhu (通天教主) or sometimes translated as Grandmaster of Heaven is the third disciple of Hongjun Laozu and youn…
Read →
Maya2000 BCE – 1500 CE
Tonsured Maize God
Maya civilization
Like other Mesoamerican peoples, the Maya peoples recognize in their staple crop, maize, a vital force with which they s…
Read →
Japanese300 CE – present
Toshigami
Japan
Toshigami , also known as Ōtoshi-no-kami , is a Japanese kami and a part of the Shinto pantheon.
Read →
Inca1200 CE – 1533 CE
Totem
Inca Empire
A totem is a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, cla…
Read →
Japanese300 CE – present
Toyotama-hime
Japan
Toyotama-hime is a goddess in Japanese mythology who appears in Kojiki and Nihon Shoki. She is the daughter of the sea …
Read →
Japanese300 CE – present
Toyouke-hime
Japan
Toyouke-hime is the deity (kami) of food and grain in Japan. Originally enshrined in the Tanba Province, it is said she…
Read →
Trāṇamukta
Buddhist500 BCE – present
Trāṇamukta
Asia
Trāṇamukta is a Bodhisattva that appears toward the end of the Bhaiṣajyaguruvaiḍūryaprabharāja Sūtra, the Mahāyāna text …
Read →
Roman750 BCE – 400 CE
Tranquillitas
Ancient Rome
In Roman mythology, Tranquillitas was one of the Imperial virtues and the personification of tranquility. She began to …
Read →
Transcendentalism
Polynesian1000 BCE – present
Transcendentalism
Polynesia
Transcendentalism is a philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the…
Read →
Buddhist500 BCE – present
Transfer of merit
Asia
Transfer of merit is a standard part of Buddhist spiritual discipline where the practitioner's merit, resulting from goo…
Read →
Mesopotamian3500 BCE – 500 BCE
Trial by ordeal
Ancient Mesopotamia
Trial by ordeal was an ancient judicial practice by which the guilt or innocence of the accused was determined by subjec…
Read →
Native AmericanPre-Columbian – present
Trickster
North America
In mythology and the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story who exhibits a great degree o…
Read →
Hindu1500 BCE – present
Tridasha
Indian subcontinent
The Thirty-three gods, or Trayastrimshaddevas, is a pantheon of Rigvedic deities of the current manvantara. The Samhita…
Read →
Greek800 BCE – 400 CE
Trident of Poseidon
Ancient Greece
The trident of Poseidon and his Roman equivalent, Neptune, has been their traditional divine attribute in many ancient d…
Read →
Hindu1500 BCE – present
Trideva
Indian subcontinent
The Trimurti is the triple deity of supreme divinity in Hinduism, in which the cosmic functions of creation, preservatio…
Read →
Hindu1500 BCE – present
Tridevi
Indian subcontinent
The Tridevi form a trinity of supreme divinity in Hinduism, combining a triad of eminent goddesses either as a feminine …
Read →
Hindu1500 BCE – present
Trijata
Indian subcontinent
Trijata is a rakshasi (demoness) in the Hindu epic Ramayana who is assigned the duty of guarding goddess Sita who was ki…
Read →
Hindu1500 BCE – present
Trimurti
Indian subcontinent
The Trimurti is the triple deity of supreme divinity in Hinduism, in which the cosmic functions of creation, preservatio…
Read →
Inca1200 CE – 1533 CE
Trinidad Orisha
Inca Empire
Trinidad Orisha, also known as Orisha religion and Shango, is a syncretic religion in Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribb…
Read →
Hindu1500 BCE – present
Tripura Sundari
Indian subcontinent
Tripura Sundari, also known as Lalita, Shodashi, Kamakshi, and Rajarajeshvari, is a Hindu goddess revered primarily with…
Read →
Hindu1500 BCE – present
Tripurantaka
Indian subcontinent
Tripurantaka or Tripurari is a manifestation of the Hindu god Shiva. This form of the deity is written in a Purana lite…
Read →
Triteia
Greek800 BCE – 400 CE
Triteia
Ancient Greece
Triteia was, in Greek mythology, the daughter of the sea god Triton and the nymph Tritonis as well as the mother, by Are…
Read →