Chinese1600 BCE – present
White Emperor
China
Chinese: 白帝; pinyin: Báidì; trans. "White Emperor" or "White Deity" or Báishén, also known as the Xīdì or Xīyuèdàdì is …
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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.
Norse800 CE – 1100 CE
Wight
Scandinavia
A wight is a being or thing. This general meaning of the term is shared by its cognates in other Germanic languages, bu…
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Willka Raymi
Inca1200 CE – 1533 CE
Willka Raymi
Inca Empire
Willka Raymi is a feast celebrated in the Cusco Region in Peru. It is the representation of the traditional offering ce…
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Egyptian3100 BCE – 400 CE
Winged sun
Ancient Egypt
The winged sun is a solar symbol associated with divinity, royalty, and power in the Ancient Near East. The Illyrian Su…
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Greek800 BCE – 400 CE
Winged Victory of Samothrace
Ancient Greece
The Winged Victory of Samothrace, or the Nike of Samothrace, is a votive monument originally discovered on the island of…
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Wisdom King
China
A wisdom king is a type of wrathful deity in East Asian Buddhism.
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Norse800 CE – 1100 CE
Wōden
Scandinavia
Odin is a widely revered god in Norse mythology and Germanic paganism. Most surviving information on Odin comes from No…
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Inca1200 CE – 1533 CE
World egg
Inca Empire
The cosmic egg, world egg or mundane egg is a mythological motif found in the cosmogonies of many cultures and civilizat…
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Worship
Inca1200 CE – 1533 CE
Worship
Inca Empire
Worship is an act of religious devotion usually directed towards a deity or God. For many, worship is not about an emot…
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Hindu1500 BCE – present
Worship in Hinduism
Indian subcontinent
Worship in Hinduism is an act of religious devotion usually directed to one or more Hindu deities, invoking a sense of B…
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Inca1200 CE – 1533 CE
Worship of heavenly bodies
Inca Empire
The worship of heavenly bodies is the veneration of stars, the planets, or other astronomical objects as deities, or the…
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Egyptian3100 BCE – 400 CE
Wosret
Ancient Egypt
Wosret, Waset, or Wosyet meaning "the powerful female one" was an Egyptian goddess whose cult was centered on Thebes in …
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Wu Zixu
China
Wu Yun, better known by his courtesy name Zixu, was a Chinese military general and politician of the Wu kingdom in the S…
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Wudao Jiangjun
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Wudao Jiangjun
China
Wudao Jiangjun are underworld deities in Chinese folk religion and Taoism. They are responsible for escorting spirits o…
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Wufang Guidi
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Wufang Guidi
China
Wufang Guidi are underworld deities in Chinese folk religion and Taoism. They are associated with death, ghosts, and th…
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Wutong Shen
China
Wutong Shen (五通神) or Wulang Shen (五郎神) are a group of five sinister deities from the southern region of China. Their cu…
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Xbaquiyalo
Maya2000 BCE – 1500 CE
Xbaquiyalo
Maya civilization
Xbaquiyalo is a Mayan deity. She was the wife of Hun-Hunahpú, and mother to the Monkey Twins, Hun Batz and Hun Chouén.
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Buddhist500 BCE – present
Xian (Taoism)
Asia
A xian is any manner of immortal or mythical being within the Taoist pantheon or Chinese folklore. Xian has often been …
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Xiangshuishen
China
Xiangshuishen is a deity of the Chinese pantheon.
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Xianhe Tongzi
China
Xianhe Tongzi, also known as Baihe Tongzi, is a Chinese deity who is worshipped in temples and shrines as a spiritual po…
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Xiantiandao
Inca1200 CE – 1533 CE
Xiantiandao
Inca Empire
The Xiantiandao, or known as Blue/Green Lotus sect (青蓮教), also simply Tiandao, is one of the most productive currents of…
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Xiaoziye
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Xiaoziye
China
Xiaoziye is a deity venerated in certain regional folk traditions, typically representing a mortal who was deified due t…
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Xihe (deity)
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Xihe (deity)
China
Xihe (deity) is a deity of the Chinese pantheon.
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Xingtian
China
Xingtian is a Chinese deity who fights against the Supreme Divinity, not giving up even after he was decapitated. Losin…
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Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Xipe Totec
Aztec Empire
In Aztec mythology, Xipe Totec or Xipetotec was a life-death-rebirth deity, god of agriculture, vegetation, the east, sp…
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Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Xiuhcōātl
Aztec Empire
In Aztec religion, Xiuhcōātl was a mythological serpent, regarded as the spirit form of Xiuhtecuhtli, the Aztec fire dei…
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Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Xiuhtecuhtli
Aztec Empire
In Aztec mythology, Xiuhtēcuhtli, was the god of fire, day and heat. In historical sources he is called by many names, …
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Xiuhtotontli
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Xiuhtotontli
Aztec Empire
Xiuhtotontli is an Aztec group of gods that are forms of Xiuhtecuhtli.
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Xiyue Dadi
China
Emperor Xiyue is a Taoist deity of the sacred mountain Mount Hua and one of the Great Emperors of the Five Sacred Mounta…
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Xiyuedadi
China
Chinese gods and immortals are beings in various Chinese religions seen in a variety of ways and mythological contexts.
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Xmucane and Xpiacoc
Maya2000 BCE – 1500 CE
Xmucane and Xpiacoc
Maya civilization
Xmucane and Xpiacoc, alternatively Xumucane and Ixpiyacoc (Xpiyacoc), are the names of the divine grandparents of Maya m…
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Xmulzencab
Maya2000 BCE – 1500 CE
Xmulzencab
Maya civilization
Xmulzencab are a group of Maya bee deities.
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Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Xōchipilli
Aztec Empire
Xōchipilli is the god of beauty, youth, love, passion, sex, sexuality, homosexuality, fertility, arts, song, music, danc…
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Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Xōchiquetzal
Aztec Empire
In Aztec mythology, Xochiquetzal, also called Ichpochtli, was a goddess associated with fertility, beauty, and love, ser…
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Xochitlicue
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Xochitlicue
Aztec Empire
Xochitlicue is the Aztec goddess of fertility, patroness of life and death, guide of rebirth, younger sister of Coatlicu…
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Xocotl (Aztec god)
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Xocotl (Aztec god)
Aztec Empire
Xocotl is the Aztec god of the planet Venus and of fire. He is probably related to Xolotl, the god of lightning and dea…
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Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Xolotl
Aztec Empire
In Aztec mythology, Xolotl was a god of fire and lightning. He was commonly depicted as a dog-headed man and was a psyc…
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Maya2000 BCE – 1500 CE
Xquic
Maya civilization
Xquic is a mythological figure in the myth of the Hero Twins known from the stelae of Izapa, Mexico and the 16th century…
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Xtabay
Maya2000 BCE – 1500 CE
Xtabay
Maya civilization
La Xtabay is a Yucatec Maya folklore tale about a demonic femme fatale who preys upon men in the Yucatán Peninsula. She…
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Xu Shilin (character)
China
Xu Shilin, known as Xu Mengjiao (许梦蛟) in some versions, is a Chinese mythological figure, son of the white snake spirit …
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Xuanwu (god)
China
Xuanwu or Xuandi, also known as Zhenwu or Zhenwu Dadi, is a deity in Chinese religion and one of the higher-ranking deit…
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Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Yacatecuhtli
Aztec Empire
In Aztec mythology, Yacatecuhtli was a patron god of commerce and travelers, especially business travelers. His symbol …
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Mesopotamian3500 BCE – 500 BCE
Yahweh
Ancient Mesopotamia
Yahweh was an ancient Semitic deity in the southeastern ancient Levant that became the national god of the Iron Age king…
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Hindu1500 BCE – present
Yajna (avatar)
Indian subcontinent
Yajna or Yajñeśvara is mentioned as an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu in Hindu literature. As Yajna, Vishnu is the embo…
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Yakrub-El
Mesopotamian3500 BCE – 500 BCE
Yakrub-El
Ancient Mesopotamia
Yakrub-El or Ikrub-El was a Mesopotamian god worshiped in Terqa in the kingdom of Mari in the early Old Babylonian perio…
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Hindu1500 BCE – present
Yaksha
Indian subcontinent
The Yakshas are a broad class of nature spirits in Hindu mythology which are associated with water, trees, forests, wild…
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Hindu1500 BCE – present
Yakshini
Indian subcontinent
Yakshinis or Yakshis are a class of female nature spirits in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain religious mythologies. Yakshinis…
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Yakusanoikazuchi
Japanese300 CE – present
Yakusanoikazuchi
Japan
Yakusanoikazuchi or ikazuchi is a collective name for the eight kami of thunder in Japanese mythology. Each one represe…
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Yam (god)
Egyptian3100 BCE – 400 CE
Yam (god)
Ancient Egypt
Yam was a god representing the sea and other sources of water worshiped in various locations on the eastern Mediterranea…
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Hindu1500 BCE – present
Yama
Indian subcontinent
Yama, also known as Kāla and Dharmarāja, is the Hindu god of death and justice, responsible for the dispensation of law …
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Japanese300 CE – present
Yamato Okunitama
Japan
Yamato Okunitama is a kami, the okunitama or tutelary deity of Yamato Province.
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Japanese300 CE – present
Yamato Takeru
Japan
Yamato Takeru , originally Prince Ousu , was a Japanese folk hero and semi-legendary prince of the imperial dynasty, son…
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Japanese300 CE – present
Yamatohime-no-mikoto
Japan
Yamatohime-no-mikoto is a Japanese figure who is said to have established Ise Shrine, where the goddess of the sun, Amat…
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Hindu1500 BCE – present
Yamuna in Hinduism
Indian subcontinent
Yamuna is a sacred river in Hinduism and the main tributary of the Ganges River. The river is also worshipped as a Hind…
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Yang Asha
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yang Asha
China
Yang Asha is a deity of the Chinese pantheon.
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yang Ren
China
Yang Ren is a character from the classic Chinese novel Fengshen Yanyi. He is worshipped as the deity of the year in Chi…
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Yanguang Niangniang
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yanguang Niangniang
China
Yanguang Niangniang is a deity of the Chinese pantheon.
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yanluo Wang
China
In Chinese culture and religion, Yanluo Wang is the god of death and the ruler of Diyu, overseeing the "Ten Kings of Hel…
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Hindu1500 BCE – present
Yantra
Indian subcontinent
Yantra is a geometrical diagram, mainly from the Tantric traditions of the Indian religions. Yantras are used for the w…
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Yaoji
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yaoji
China
Yaoji is a deity of the Chinese pantheon.
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Canaanite3000 BCE – 300 BCE
Yarhibol
Ancient Levant
Yarhibol or Iarhibol is an Aramean god who was worshiped mainly in ancient Palmyra, a city in central Syria. He was dep…
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Yarikh
Mesopotamian3500 BCE – 500 BCE
Yarikh
Ancient Mesopotamia
Yarikh, or Yaraḫum, was a moon god worshiped in the Ancient Near East. He is best attested in sources from the Amorite …
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Slavic500 CE – 1100 CE
Yarilo
Early Slavs
Jarylo, alternatively Yaryla, Yarilo, Iarilo, Juraj, Jurij, or Gerovit, is an alleged East and South Slavic god of veget…
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Slavic500 CE – 1100 CE
Yarovit
Early Slavs
Yarovit, Iarovit is a Polabian god of war, worshipped in Vologošč (Circipanians) and Hobolin. Sources give only a brief…
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Japanese300 CE – present
Yasakatome
Japan
Yasakatome (八坂刀売神) is a kami in Shinto. She is worshipped in the Suwa Taisha network of shrines. She is the wife of Ta…
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Yashimajinumi
Japanese300 CE – present
Yashimajinumi
Japan
Yashimajinumi (八島士奴美神) is a Japanese god.
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Hindu1500 BCE – present
Yatra
Indian subcontinent
Yatra, in Indian-origin religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, generally means a pilgrimage to holy places …
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Yayauhca-Cinteotl
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Yayauhca-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…
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Zoroastrian1500 BCE – present
Yazata
Ancient Persia
Yazata is the Avestan word for a Zoroastrian concept with a wide range of meanings but generally signifying a divinity. …
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Norse800 CE – 1100 CE
Ýdalir
Scandinavia
In Norse mythology, Ýdalir ("yew-dales") is a location containing a dwelling owned by the god Ullr. Ýdalir is solely at…
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yellow Emperor
China
The Yellow Emperor, also known as the Yellow Thearch or Huangdi, was a legendary Chinese sovereign and culture hero incl…
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Yoruba500 BCE – present
Yemoja
West Africa
Yemọja is a major water deity in the Yoruba religion. She is an oriṣa, and the patron spirit of rivers, particularly th…
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Yoruba500 BCE – present
Yemowo
West Africa
In Yoruba religion, Yemowo is an oriṣa of water, maternity and creation, and her consort is Ọbatala.
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Yewa
Yoruba500 BCE – present
Yewa
West Africa
The Ẹgbado, now Yewa, are a subgroup of the Yoruba people and mostly inhabit Ogun West Senatorial District, Ogun State, …
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Yidi (god)
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yidi (god)
China
Yidi is the goddess of wine and alcohol in Chinese mythology (Daoism). She was the brewer credited with the invention o…
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Yincha
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yincha
China
Yincha are servants of the underworld, Diyu, often tasked with escorting souls to the afterlife or carrying out the decr…
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Ying Bu
China
Ying Bu was a Chinese military general, monarch, politician, and warlord who lived during the early Han dynasty. He was…
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yinyanggong
China
Yinyanggong, also known as Yinyangsi, is a Taoist deity and the personification of the union of yin and yang. He often …
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Norse800 CE – 1100 CE
Ymir
Scandinavia
In Norse mythology, Ymir, also called Aurgelmir, Brimir, or Bláinn, is the ancestor of all jötnar. Ymir is attested in …
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Norse800 CE – 1100 CE
Yngvi
Scandinavia
Old Norse Yngvi, Old High German Ing/Ingwi and Old English Ing are names that relate to a theonym which appears to have …
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Hindu1500 BCE – present
Yogamaya
Indian subcontinent
Yogamaya is a Hindu goddess who serves as the personification of Vishnu's powers of illusion. In Vaishnava tradition, s…
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Hindu1500 BCE – present
Yogeshvari
Indian subcontinent
Yogeshvari, also rendered Jogeshvari, is an epithet of the Hindu goddess Durga, a contraction of Yoga-īśvarī, meaning "g…
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Hindu1500 BCE – present
Yogini
Indian subcontinent
A yogini is a female master practitioner of tantra and yoga, as well as a formal term of respect for female Hindu or Bud…
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Yohaulticetl
Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Yohaulticetl
Aztec Empire
In Aztec mythology, Yohualticetl, the "Lady of the Night", was a moon goddess and guardian of infants.
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yŏn Kaesomun
China
Yŏn Kaesomun was a powerful military dictator in the waning days of the Goguryeo kingdom, one of the Three Kingdoms of a…
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Hindu1500 BCE – present
Yoni
Indian subcontinent
Yoni, sometimes called pindika, is an abstract or aniconic representation of the Hindu goddess Shakti. It is usually sh…
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Maya2000 BCE – 1500 CE
Yopaat
Maya civilization
Yopaat was an important Maya storm god in the southern Maya area that included the cities of Copán and Quiriguá during t…
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Yu Shi
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yu Shi
China
Yu Shi is a Chinese spirit or god of rain, also known as or conflated with Red Pine, among other names. Translations of…
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Yu Shiqie
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yu Shiqie
China
Yu Shiqie is a deity of the Chinese pantheon.
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yuanshi Tianzun
China
Yuanshi Tianzun, the Celestial Venerable of the Primordial Beginning or the Primeval Lord of Heaven, is one of the highe…
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yuding Zhenren
China
Yuding Zhenren is a Taoist deity and character in the classic Chinese novel Fengshen Yanyi. He is one of the Twelve Gol…
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yue Fei
China
Yue Fei, courtesy name Pengju (鵬舉), was a Chinese military general of the Song dynasty and is remembered as a patriotic …
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Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yue Lao
China
Yue Lao is a god of marriage and love in Chinese mythology. He appears as an old man under the moon. Yue Lao appears a…
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Yum Kaax
Maya2000 BCE – 1500 CE
Yum Kaax
Maya civilization
Yum Kaax, also known as Yumká is a Yukatek Maya name for the god of the wild vegetation and guardian of its animals.
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Yunhua
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yunhua
China
Yunhua is a deity of the Chinese pantheon.
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Yunü
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yunü
China
Yunü is a deity of the Chinese pantheon.
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Yunxiao Niangniang
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yunxiao Niangniang
China
Yunxiao Niangniang is a deity of the Chinese pantheon.
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Yuqiang
Chinese1600 BCE – present
Yuqiang
China
Yuqiang, in Chinese mythology is one of the descendants of Huang Di, the "Yellow Emperor". Yuqiang was also the god of …
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Zababa
Mesopotamian3500 BCE – 500 BCE
Zababa
Ancient Mesopotamia
Zababa was a Mesopotamian god. He was the tutelary deity of the city of Kish and was regarded as a god of war. He was …
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Mesopotamian3500 BCE – 500 BCE
Zabalam
Ancient Mesopotamia
Zabala, also Zabalam was a city of ancient Sumer in Mesopotamia, located in what is now the Dhi Qar governorate in Iraq.…
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Aztec1300 CE – 1521 CE
Zacatzontli
Aztec Empire
Zacatzontli, in Aztec mythology, is the god of the road during the day.
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Zagar (god)
Mesopotamian3500 BCE – 500 BCE
Zagar (god)
Ancient Mesopotamia
Zagar was a Mesopotamian god associated with dreams. He shared this role with other deities, such as Mamu and Sisig. L…
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Greek800 BCE – 400 CE
Zagreus
Ancient Greece
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Zagreus was a god sometimes identified with an Orphic Dionysus who was dismembe…
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Zalmoxianism
Inca1200 CE – 1533 CE
Zalmoxianism
Inca Empire
Zalmoxianism or Zamolxianism is a Neopagan movement in Romania which promotes the rebuilding of an ethnic religion and s…
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Zoroastrian1500 BCE – present
Zam
Ancient Persia
Zam is the Avestan language term for the Zoroastrian concept of "earth", in both the sense of land and soil and in the s…
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Japanese300 CE – present
Zamagami
Japan
Ikasuri Shrine is a major Shinto shrine located in central Osaka, Japan. Its annual festival is on April 22. In the fo…
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Zarik
Zoroastrian1500 BCE – present
Zarik
Ancient Persia
In Persian mythology, Zarik is a Daeva in the service of Ahriman.
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Zelus
Greek800 BCE – 400 CE
Zelus
Ancient Greece
In Greek mythology, Zelus or Zelos was the daimon that personifies dedication, emulation, eager rivalry, envy, jealousy,…
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