
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. |
GOD OF |
GREEK |
ROMAN | ||
| 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 |
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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