Less Prominent Gods

Gods and Goddesses in Mythology

Hindu Gods - It is believed that there are as many as 330 million gods in the Hindu Dharma. Here are some of the very popular gods.

Brahma God of Gods Created universe, supreme being, first god of the trinity
Shiva Part of the Trinity Considered as the destroyer of the world
Vishnu Chief God The preserver.
Hannumen Symbol of devotion and dedication. Provider of courage, hope, knowledge, intellect and devotion. Head of a Monkey.
Juggernaut God of Destruction The word is a corruption of the Sanscrit jagannatha
Ganesha God of beginnings, knowledge, wisdom, intellect and eradicator of obstacles Most extensively worshipped god. Head of an Elephant.
Krishna Eighth avatar of Lord Vishnu Embodiment of love and divine ecstasy that destroys all pain and offense
Surya Sun God Said to drive through the heaven in his triumphal chariot harnessed by seven horses or one horse with seven heads.
Rama Symbol of courtesy and virtue, a man of values and morals. 7th incarnation of Vishnu.
     

 

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Agriculture

Demeter

Parents - Cronus and Rhea
Children -
Persephone, Zagreus, Despoina, Arion, Plutus, Philomelus
Ceres Parents - Saturn and Ops
Children - Proserpina
King or Chief of the Gods Zeus Parents - Cronus and Rhea
Children - Ares, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Dionysus, Hebe, Hermes, Heracles, Helen, Hephaestus, Perseus, Minos
Jupiter Son of Saturn, Brother to Neptune and Pluto brother/husband of Ceres
Dawn Eos Parents - Hyperion & Theia
Brother Helios
, Children - Memnon & Emathion
Opened the gates of heaven for Apollo
Aurora  
Domestic Life (The Hearth) Hestia   Vesta  
Fire Hephaestus   Vulcan  
Flowers     Flora  
Hunting and the Moon Artemis   Diana  
Love Eros   Cupid  
Love (Goddess) Aphrodite   Venus  
Marriage Hymen   Hymen  
Peace (Goddess) Irene   Pax  
Poetry & Music Apollo      
Sea (Goddess) Amphitrite      
Sea Posiedon   Neptune  
Sleep Hypnos   Somnus  
Spring Persephone   Proserpina  
Sun Helios   Sol  
Underworld Pluto   Tartarus  
Victory Nike   Victoria  
War Ares   Mars  
Wine Dionysus   Bacchus  
Wisdom (Goddess) Athene   Minerva  
Witchcraft & Magic Hecate      
Woods & Fields Pan   Faunus  
Youth Hebe      
Greek and Roman Gods
Norse Mythology
Egyptian Gods
  • Amon - the hidden one, a creator deity married to Mut

  • Anubis -jackal god of embalming and tomb-caretaker who watches over the dead

  • Apep (Apophis) - evil serpent of the Underworld, enemy of Ra and formed from a length of Neith's spit during her creation of the world

  • The Aten - the sun disk or globe worshipped primarily during the Amarna Period in the Twelfth Dynasty when representing a monotheistic deity advanced by Amenhotep IV, who took the name Akhenaten

  • Atum - a creator deity, and the setting sun

  • Bast, goddess, protector of the pharaoh and a solar deity where the sun could be seen shining in her eyes at night, a lioness, house cat, cat-bodied or cat-headed woman, also known as Bastet

  • Bes - dwarfed semigod - associated with protection of the household, particularly childbirth, and entertainment

  • The four sons of Horus- personifications of the containers for the organs of the deceased pharaohs - Imsety in human form, contained the liver and was protected by Isis; Hapi in baboon form, contained the lungs and was protected by Nephthys; Duamutef in jackal form, contained the stomach and was protected by Neith; Qebehsenuef in hawk form, contained the large intestines and was protected by Serket

  • Geb - god of the Earth and first ruler of Egypt

  • Hapy - god embodied by the Nile, and who represents life and fertility

  • Hathor - among the oldest of Egyptian deities - often depicted as the cow, a solar deity who was the mother to the pharaoh, the "golden 'calf'" of the bible, and later goddess of Love and Music

  • Heget - goddess of childbirth and fertility, represented as a frog or a frog-headed woman

  • Horus - the falcon-headed god, son of Isis, god of pharaohs and Upper Egypt

  • Imhotep - god of wisdom, medicine, and magic

  • Isis - goddess of magical power and healing, "She of the Throne" who was represented as the throne, also the wife of Osiris and goddess of the underworld - symbolized by tiet or tyet, meaning welfare or life, resembles an ankh, except that its arms curve down, to represent the idea of eternal life or resurrection; an early deity whose cults persisted into the Sixth Century A.D.

  • Iusaaset - the "shadow" of Atum or Atum-Ra, a goddess who was seen as the mother and grandmother of the gods, referred to as the great one who comes forth

  • Khepry - the scarab beetle, the embodiment of the dawn

  • Khnum - a creator deity, god of the inundation

  • Maahes - a god of war

  • Ma'at - a goddess who personified concept of truth, balance, justice, and order - represented as a woman, sitting or standing, holding a sceptre in one hand and an ankh in the other - thought to have created order out of the primal chaos and was responsible for maintaining the order of the universe and all of its inhabitants, to prevent a return to chaos

  • Menhit - goddess of war - depicted as a lioness-goddess and therefore becoming associated with Sekhmet

  • Meretseger - goddess of the valley of the kings, a cobra-goddess, sometimes triple-headed, dweller on the top of or the personification of the pyramid-shaped mountain which overlooked the tombs of the pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings

  • Menthu - an ancient god of war - nomad - represented strength, virility, and victory

  • Mut (also spelled Mout), mother, was originally a title of the primordial waters of the cosmos, the mother from which the cosmos emerged, as was Naunet in the Ogdoad cosmogony, however, the distinction between motherhood and cosmic water lead to the separation of these identities and Mut gained aspects of a creator goddess.

  • Naunet - a goddess, the primal waters from which all arose, similar to Mut and later closely related to Nu

  • Neith - goddess of war, then great mother goddess - a name of the primal waters, the goddess of creation and weaving, said to weave all of the world on her loom

  • Nekhbet - goddess depicted as a white vulture - protector of Egypt, royalty, and the pharaohwith her extended wings - referred to as Mother of Mothers, who hath existed from the Beginning, and Creatrix of the World (related to Wadjet); always seen on the front of pharaoh’s double crown with Wadjet

  • Nephthys - goddess of death, holder of the rattle,the Sistrum - sister to Isis and the nursing mother of Horus and the pharaohs represented as the mistress of the temple

  • Nut - goddess of heaven and the sky - mother of many deities as well as the sun, the moon, and the stars

  • Osiris - god of the underworld after Hathor and Anubis, fertility, and agriculture - the oldest son of the sky goddess, Nut, and the Earth god, Geb, and being brother and later, the husband of Isis - and early deity of Upper Egypt whose cult persisted into the Sixth Century A.D.

  • Ptah - a creator deity, also god of craft

  • Ra - the sun, also a creator deity - whose chief cult centre was based in Heliopolis meaning "city of the sun"

  • Ra-Horakhty - god of both sky and Sun, a combination of Ra and Horus - thought to be god of the Rising Sun

  • Reshep - war god who was originally from Syria

  • Sekhmet - goddess of destruction and war, the lioness - also personified as an aspect of Ra, fierce protector of the pharaoh, a solar deity, and later as an aspect of Hathor

  • Seker- god of death

  • Selket- scorpion goddess, protectress, goddess of magic

  • Sobek - crocodile god of the Nile

  • Set - god of storms, later became god of evil, desert, also Lower Egypt

  • Seshat - goddess of writing, astronomy, astrology, architecture, and mathematics depicted as a scribe

  • Shu - embodiment of wind or air

  • Taweret - goddess of pregnant women and protector at childbirth

  • Tefnut - goddess, embodiment of rain, dew, clouds, and wet weather

  • Thoth - god of the moon, drawing, writing, geometry,wisdom, medicine, music, astronomy, magic; usually depicted as ibis-headed, or as a goose; cult centered in Khemennu

  • Wadjet - snake goddess of lower Egypt, depicted as a cobra, protector of unified Egypt and the pharaoh, always shown on crown of the pharaohs; later joined by the image of Nekhbet after north and south united

  • Wadj-wer - fertility god and personification of the Mediterranean sea or lakes of the Nile delta

  • Wepwawet - jackal god of upper Egypt

  • Wosret - a localised guardian goddess, protector of the young god Horus, an early consort of Amun, who was later superseded by Mut

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