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Abeguwo
Abeguwo is a goddess of Melanesian mythology in the area of Melanesia and New Guinea.
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Achamán
Achamán is the supreme god of the Guanches on the island of Tenerife; he is the father god and creator.
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Achuhucanac
Achuhucanac is the rain god in Guanche religion in Tenerife, identified with the Supreme God (Achamán).
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Aditi
In the Vedas, Aditi (Sanskrit: अदिति "limitless") is mother of the gods (devamata) and all twelve zodiacal spirits from whose cosmic matrix, the heavenly bodies were born.
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Aether (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Aether (Αἰθήρ Aither) was one of the primordial deities.
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Akan people
The Akan are a meta-ethnicity predominantly speaking Central Tano languages and residing in the southern regions of the former Gold Coast region in what is today the nation of Ghana.
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Amai-te-rangi
In the mythology of Mangaia in the Cook Islands, Amai-te-rangi is a sky demon.
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Amenominakanushi
Amenominakanushi (天御中主 or 天之御中主神 "Heavenly Ancestral God of the Originating Heart of the Universe") is, according to the Kojiki, the first kami, and the source of the universe according to Shinto.
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Amun
Amun (also Amon, Ammon, Amen; Greek Ἄμμων Ámmōn, Ἅμμων Hámmōn) was a major ancient Egyptian deity who appears as a member of the Hermopolitan ogdoad.
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Ancient Semitic religion
Ancient Semitic religion encompasses the polytheistic religions of the Semitic peoples from the ancient Near East and Northeast Africa.
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Anguta
Anguta is the father of the sea goddess Sedna in Inuit mythology.
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Anhur
In early Egyptian mythology, Anhur (also spelled Onuris, Onouris, An-Her, Anhuret, Han-Her, Inhert) was originally a god of war who was worshipped in the Egyptian area of Abydos, and particularly in Thinis.
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Anshar
In the Babylonian creation myth Enuma Elish, Anshar (also spelled Anšar), which means "whole heaven", is a primordial god.
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Anu
Anu (𒀭𒀭, Anu‹m› or Ilu) or An (𒀭, from 𒀭 an "Sky, Heaven") is the divine personification of the sky, supreme God, and ancestor of all the deities in ancient Mesopotamian religion.
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Ao (mythology)
In Māori mythology, Ao ("daylight") is one of the primal deities who are the unborn forces of nature.
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Arrernte people
The Arrernte people, sometimes referred to as the Aranda, Arunta, or Arrarnta are an Aboriginal Australian people who live in the Arrernte lands, at Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and surrounding areas of the Central Australia region of the Northern Territory. Some Aranda live in other areas far from their homeland, including the major Australian cities and overseas. Aranda mythology and spirituality focuses on the landscape and the Dreamtime. Altjira is the creator being of the Inapertwa that became all living creatures. Tjurunga are objects of religious significance. The Arrernte Council is the representative and administrative body for the Aranda Lands and is part of the Central Land Council. Tourism is important to the economy of Alice Springs and surrounding communities.
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Asherah
Asherah in ancient Semitic religion, is a mother goddess who appears in a number of ancient sources.
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Atahensic
Atahensic (also called Ataensic) is an Iroquois sky goddess that fell to the earth at the time of creation.
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Ataksak
Ataksak is a goddess in Inuit mythology.
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Atua I Kafika
In Polynesian mythology (specifically Tikopia), Atua I Kafika is the supreme sky god.
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Ülgen
Bai-Ülgen or Ülgen (Old Turkic: Bey Ülgen; also spelled Bai-Ulgen, Bai-Ülgen, Bay-Ulgan, Bay-Ulgen, or Bay-Ülgen; Khakas: Ӱлген, Russian: Ульгень or Ульге́нь, Ottoman: اولگن) is a Turkic and Mongolian creator-deity, usually distinct from Tengri but sometimes identified with him in the same manner as Helios and Apollo.
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Baalshamin
Baalshamin or Ba'al Šamem (Aramaic: ܒܥܠ ܫܡܝܢ), lit.
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Badessy
Bedessy is a minor loa who holds the domain of the sky in Vodou, and particularly in Haiti.
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Baiame
In Australian Aboriginal mythology Baiame (Baayami or Baayama or Byamee) was the Creator God and Sky Father in the dreaming of several language groups (e.g. Wonnarua, Kamilaroi, Eora, Darkinjung, and Wiradjuri), of Indigenous Australians of south-east Australia.
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Barsamin
Barsamin (Barshamin) was a weather or sky god among the pre-Christian Armenians.
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Binbeal
In Australian aboriginal mythology, Binbeal is the god of rainbows.
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Brigid
Brigit, Brigid or Bríg (meaning 'exalted one')Campbell, Mike See also Xavier Delamarre, brigantion / brigant-, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise (Éditions Errance, 2003) pp.
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Bunjil
In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Bunjil is a creator deity, culture hero and ancestral being, often depicted as a wedge-tailed eagle (or eaglehawk).
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Cabaguil
Cabaguil is one of the seven Maya gods who created the world.
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Caelus
Caelus or Coelus was a primal god of the sky in Roman myth and theology, iconography, and literature (compare caelum, the Latin word for "sky" or "the heavens", hence English "celestial").
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Centzonhuitznahua
In Aztec mythology, the Centzonuitznahua (or, in plural, Centzon Huitznauhtin) were the gods of the southern stars.
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Centzonmimixcoa
In Aztec mythology, the Centzonmimixcoa (or Centzon Mimixcoa, the "Four Hundred alike Mixcoatl") are the gods of the northern stars.
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Cipactonal
Cipactonal is the Aztec god of astrology and calendars.
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Coyolxauhqui
In Aztec mythology, Coyolxauhqui (kojoɬˈʃaːʍki, "Face painted with Bells") was a daughter of Coatlicue and Mixcoatl and is the leader of the Centzon Huitznahuas, the southern star gods.
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Deities of Slavic religion
Deities of Slavic religion, arranged in cosmological and functional groups, are inherited through mythology and folklore.
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Deity
A deity is a supernatural being considered divine or sacred.
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Denka
Deng, also known as Denka, is a sky, rain, and fertility god in Dinka mythology for the Dinka people of Sudan and South Sudan.
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Devil
A devil (from Greek: διάβολος diábolos "slanderer, accuser") is the personification and archetype of evil in various cultures.
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Dinka people
The Dinka people (Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ) are a community, composed of many ethnic groups, inhabiting the East and West Banks of River Nile, from Mangalla to Renk, regions of Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile (former two of three Southern Provinces in Sudan) and Abyei Area of the Angok Dinka in South Khordofan of Sudan.
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Dreaming (Australian Aboriginal art)
In Australian Aboriginal art, a Dreaming is a totemistic design or artwork, which can be owned by a tribal group or individual.
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Dyaus (deity)
(द्यौष्पितृ /, literally "Sky Father") is the "Father Heaven" deity of the Vedic pantheon, who appears in hymns with Prithvi Mata "Mother Earth" in the ancient scriptures of Hinduism.
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Dyeus
Dyēus (also *Dyḗus Ph2tḗr, alternatively spelled dyēws) is believed to have been the chief deity in the religious traditions of the prehistoric Proto-Indo-European societies.
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El (deity)
(or ’Il, written aleph-lamed, e.g. 𐎛𐎍; 𐤀𐤋; אל; ܐܠ; إل or rtl; cognate to ilu) is a Northwest Semitic word meaning "god" or "deity", or referring (as a proper name) to any one of multiple major Ancient Near East deities.
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Enlil
Enlil, later known as Elil, was the ancient Mesopotamian god of wind, air, earth, and storms.
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Eototo
Eototo is a Wuya, one of the major kachina deities of the Hopi people and the personification of nature.
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Etruscan mythology
Etruscan mythology comprises a set of stories, beliefs, and religious practices of the Etruscan civilization, originating in the 7th century BC from the preceding Iron Age Villanovan culture, with its influences in the mythology of ancient Greece and Phoenicia, and sharing similarities with concurrent Roman mythology.
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Fire worship
Worship or deification of fire (also pyrodulia, pyrolatry or pyrolatria) is known from various religions.
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God in Judaism
In Judaism, God has been conceived in a variety of ways.
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Guanches
Guanches were the aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands.
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Hadad
Hadad (𐎅𐎄), Adad, Haddad (Akkadian) or Iškur (Sumerian) was the storm and rain god in the Northwest Semitic and ancient Mesopotamian religions.
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Hades
Hades (ᾍδης Háidēs) was the ancient Greek chthonic god of the underworld, which eventually took his name.
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Haitian Vodou
Haitian Vodou (also written as Vaudou; known commonly as Voodoo, sometimes as Vodun, Vodoun, Vodu, or Vaudoux) is a syncretic religion practiced chiefly in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora.
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Hathor
Hathor (or; Egyptian:; in Ἅθωρ, meaning "mansion of Horus")Hathor and Thoth: two key figures of the ancient Egyptian religion, Claas Jouco Bleeker, pp.
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Hepit
Hepit is the Hurrian goddess of the sky.
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Hera
Hera (Ἥρᾱ, Hērā; Ἥρη, Hērē in Ionic and Homeric Greek) is the goddess of women, marriage, family, and childbirth in Ancient Greek religion and myth, one of the Twelve Olympians and the sister-wife of Zeus.
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Hopi
The Hopi are a Native American tribe, who primarily live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona.
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Horagalles
In Sami shamanism, Horagalles, also written Hora Galles and Thora Galles and often equated with Tiermes or Aijeke (i.e. "grandfather or great grandfather"), is the thunder god.
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Horus
Horus is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities.
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Hunab Ku
Hunab Ku is a Colonial period Yucatec Maya reducido term meaning "The One God".
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Ilmarinen
Ilmarinen, the Eternal Hammerer, blacksmith and inventor in the Kalevala, is a god and an archetypal artificer from Finnish mythology.
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Ilmatar
In the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, Ilmatar was a virgin spirit of the air.
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Indra
(Sanskrit: इन्द्र), also known as Devendra, is a Vedic deity in Hinduism, a guardian deity in Buddhism, and the king of the highest heaven called Saudharmakalpa in Jainism.
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Ira (mythology)
In Polynesian mythology, Ira is the sky goddess and mother of the stars.
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Iris (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Iris (Ἶρις) is the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods.
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Iroquois
The Iroquois or Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse) are a historically powerful northeast Native American confederacy.
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Izanagi
is a deity born of the seven divine generations in Japanese mythology and Shinto, and his name in the Kojiki is roughly translated to as "he-who-invites" or Izanagi-no-mikoto.
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Jade Emperor
The Jade Emperor (or 玉帝) in Chinese culture, traditional religions and myth is one of the representations of the first god (太帝). In Daoist theology he is the assistant of Yuanshi Tianzun, who is one of the Three Pure Ones, the three primordial emanations of the Tao.
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Josiah
Josiah or Yoshiyahu was a seventh-century BCE king of Judah (c. 649–609) who, according to the Hebrew Bible, instituted major religious reforms.
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Jupiter (mythology)
Jupiter (from Iūpiter or Iuppiter, *djous “day, sky” + *patēr “father," thus "heavenly father"), also known as Jove gen.
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Kachina
A kachina (also katchina, katcina, or katsina; Hopi: katsina, plural katsinim) is a spirit being in the religious beliefs of the Pueblo people, Native American cultures located in the southwestern part of the United States.
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Kayra
Kayra or Kaira, (Altai: Кайракан; Кайра; Kayra Han; Kayra Xan; كايرا) is creator god in Turkic mythology.
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Khoikhoi
The Khoikhoi (updated orthography Khoekhoe, from Khoekhoegowab Khoekhoen; formerly also Hottentots"Hottentot, n. and adj." OED Online, Oxford University Press, March 2018, www.oed.com/view/Entry/88829. Accessed 13 May 2018. Citing G. S. Nienaber, 'The origin of the name “Hottentot” ', African Studies, 22:2 (1963), 65-90,. See also.) are the traditionally nomadic pastoralist non-Bantu indigenous population of southwestern Africa.
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Khonvoum
Khonvoum is the supreme god and creator of the Bambuti Pygmy people in central Africa.
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King of the Gods
In polytheistic systems there is a tendency for one deity, usually male, to achieve pre-eminence as King of the gods.
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Komi peoples
The Komi are a Uralic ethnic group whose homeland is in the north-east of European Russia around the basins of the Vychegda, Pechora and Kama rivers.
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Kulin
The Kulin nation is an alliance of five Indigenous Australian tribes in south central Victoria, Australia.
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Latobius
Latobius was a sky and mountain Celtic god worshipped by the people of Noricum (modern Austria and Slovenia).
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Laufakana'a
In the Polynesian mythology of Tonga, Laufakanaa (speak to silence; i.e.: command to calm down) was a primordial creator god.
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List of death deities
Deities associated with death take many different forms, depending on the specific culture and religion being referenced.
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List of lunar deities
In mythology, a lunar deity is a god or goddess associated with, or symbolic of the moon.
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List of night deities
A night deity is a goddess or god in mythology associated with night, the night sky, or darkness.
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List of thunder gods
Polytheistic peoples of many cultures have postulated a thunder god, the personification or source of the forces of thunder and lightning; a lightning god does not have a typical depiction, and will vary based on the culture.
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List of war deities
A war deity is a god or goddess in mythology associated with war, combat, or bloodshed.
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List of water deities
A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.
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Mangaia
Mangaia (traditionally known as A'ua'u Enua, which means terraced) is the most southerly of the Cook Islands and the second largest, after Rarotonga.
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Marici (Buddhism)
In Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism, Marici is a deva or bodhisattva associated with light and the sun.
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Marquess
A marquess (marquis) is a nobleman of hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies.
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Máni
Máni (Old Norse "moon"Orchard (1997:109).) is the personification of the moon in Norse mythology.
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Mbuti people
Mbuti or Bambuti are one of several indigenous pygmy groups in the Congo region of Africa.
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Mehet-Weret
Mehet-Weret (mḥ.t-wr.t) is a goddess of the sky in Ancient Egyptian religion.
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Melanesia
Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania extending from New Guinea island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji.
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Mesha Stele
The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a stele (inscribed stone) set up around 840 BCE by King Mesha of Moab (a kingdom located in modern Jordan).
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Metztli
In Aztec mythology, Metztli (Meztli, Metzi) was a god or goddess of the moon, the night, and farmers.
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Mokshas
The Mokshas (also Mokshans, Moksha people, in) are a Mordvinian ethnic group belonging to the Volgaic branch of the Finno-Ugric peoples who live in the Russian Federation, mostly near the Volga and Moksha rivers, a tributary of the Oka River.
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Monotheism
Monotheism has been defined as the belief in the existence of only one god that created the world, is all-powerful and intervenes in the world.
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Mordvins
The Mordvins, also Mordva, Mordvinians, Mordovians (эрзят/erzät, мокшет/mokšet, мордва/mordva), are the members of a people who speak a Mordvinic language of the Uralic language family and live mainly in the Republic of Mordovia and other parts of the middle Volga River region of Russia.
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Mother goddess
A mother goddess is a goddess who represents, or is a personification of nature, motherhood, fertility, creation, destruction or who embodies the bounty of the Earth.
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Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus (Όλυμπος Olympos, for Modern Greek also transliterated Olimbos, or) is the highest mountain in Greece.
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Mulungu
Mulungu (also spelled Murungu, Mlungu, and in other variantsFrankl (1990)) is a common name of the creator deity in a number of Bantu languages and cultures over East and Central Africa.
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Nature worship
Nature worship is any of a variety of religious, spiritual and devotional practices that focus on the worship of the nature spirits considered to be behind the natural phenomena visible throughout nature.
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Negafook
In Inuit mythology, Negafook (or Negagfok) represents "the North Wind or, more eloquently, the spirit that likes cold and stormy weather." A mask representing Negafok is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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Nephele
In Greek mythology, Nephele (Νεφέλη, from νέφος nephos "cloud"; Latinized to Nubes) was a cloud nymph who figured prominently in the story of Phrixus and Helle.
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Nuada Airgetlám
In Irish mythology, Nuada or Nuadu (modern spelling: Nuadha), known by the epithet Airgetlám (modern spelling: Airgeadlámh, meaning "silver hand/arm"), was the first king of the Tuatha Dé Danann.
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Num-Torum
Num-Torum (Numi-Torem or Numi-Turum) is the supreme god or father god of the Ob-Ugrian peoples.
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Numakulla
In Australian aboriginal mythology, the Numakulla (or Numbakulla) were two sky gods who created all life on Earth, including humans, from the Inapertwa.
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Nut (goddess)
Nut (Nwt), also known by various other transcriptions, is the goddess of the sky in the Ennead of ancient Egyptian religion.
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Nyame
Nyame (or Nyankopon) is the God of the Akan people of Ashanteland.
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Nyamwezi people
The Nyamwezi, or Wanyamwezi, are one of the Bantu groups of Southeast Africa and the second-largest of over 120 ethnic groups in Tanzania.
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Ob-Ugric languages
The Ob-Ugric languages are a hypothetical branch of the Uralic languages, specifically referring to the Khanty (Ostyak) and Mansi (Vogul) languages.
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Oeselians
The Oeselians, Osilians, Esths, or Ests were a historical subdivision of Estonians inhabiting Saaremaa (Oesel or Osilia), an Estonian island in the Baltic Sea.
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Olorun
Olorun (Yoruba: Ọlọrun or Ọlọhun), literally the ruler of (or in) the Heavens, is the name given to one of the three manifestations of the Supreme God in the Yoruba pantheon.
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Oxomoco
Oxomoco also known as Oxomo is an Aztec deity, the goddess of the night, the astrology and the calendar.
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Pantheon (religion)
A pantheon (from Greek πάνθεον pantheon, literally "(a temple) of all gods", "of or common to all gods" from πᾶν pan- "all" and θεός theos "god") is the particular set of all gods of any polytheistic religion, mythology, or tradition.
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Patriarch
The highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Catholic Church (above major archbishop and primate), and the Church of the East are termed patriarchs (and in certain cases also popes).
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Perkele
Perkele means devil in modern Finnish and is a popular profanity.
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Persephone
In Greek mythology, Persephone (Περσεφόνη), also called Kore ("the maiden"), is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter and is the queen of the underworld.
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Pleiades
The Pleiades (also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45), are an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus.
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Polynesia
Polynesia (from πολύς polys "many" and νῆσος nēsos "island") is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.
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Polytheism
Polytheism (from Greek πολυθεϊσμός, polytheismos) is the worship of or belief in multiple deities, which are usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with their own religions and rituals.
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Protagonist
A protagonist In modern usage, a protagonist is the main character of any story (in any medium, including prose, poetry, film, opera and so on).
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Proto-Indo-European religion
Proto-Indo-European religion is the belief system adhered to by the Proto-Indo-Europeans.
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Pygmy peoples
In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short.
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Queen of heaven (antiquity)
Queen of Heaven was a title given to a number of ancient sky goddesses worshipped throughout the ancient Mediterranean and Near East during ancient times.
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Rangi and Papa
In Māori mythology the primal couple Rangi and Papa (or Ranginui and Papatūānuku) appear in a creation myth explaining the origin of the world (though there are many different versions).
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Ratri
Ratri, often also called Ratridevi, is the goddess of night in the Vedas and the mythology of India and Hinduism.
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Sabazios
Sabazios (translit, Savázios) is the horseman and sky father god of the Phrygians and Thracians.
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Saranyu
Sandhya, Saranya, or Saraniya (also known as Sanjana, Sangya, Randal, Ravi Randal) is the wife of Surya, the twin of Trisiras, and the goddess of clouds in Hindu mythology, the mother of Revant and the twin Asvins (the Indian Dioscuri).
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Sól (sun)
Sól (Old Norse "Sun")Orchard (1997:152).
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Shangdi
Shangdi, also written simply, "Emperor", is the Chinese term for "Supreme Deity" or "Highest Deity" in the theology of the classical texts, especially deriving from Shang theology and finding an equivalent in the later Tian ("Heaven" or "Great Whole") of Zhou theology.
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Shango
Ṣàngó (Yoruba language: Ṣàngó, also known as Changó or Xangô in Latin America; and also known as Jakuta or Badé) (from '.
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Shu (Egyptian god)
Shu (Egyptian for "emptiness" and "he who rises up") was one of the primordial Egyptian gods, a personification of air, spouse and counterpart to goddess Tefnut and one of the nine deities of the Ennead of the Heliopolis cosmogony.
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Sky
The sky (or celestial dome) is everything that lies above the surface of the Earth, including the atmosphere and outer space.
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Sky father
In comparative mythology, sky father is a term for a recurring concept of a sky god who is addressed as a "father", often the father of a pantheon.
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Solar deity
A solar deity (also sun god or sun goddess) is a sky deity who represents the Sun, or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived power and strength.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Stith Thompson
Stith Thompson (March 7, 1885 – January 10, 1976) was an American scholar of folklore.
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Taíno
The Taíno people are one of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean.
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Tanakh
The Tanakh (or; also Tenakh, Tenak, Tanach), also called the Mikra or Hebrew Bible, is the canonical collection of Jewish texts, which is also a textual source for the Christian Old Testament.
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Tane-rore
In Maori mythology, Tane-Rore is the personification of shimmering air as he performs a haka for his mother Hine-raumati.
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Tangaloa (Tongan mythology)
Tangaloa was an important family of gods in Tongan mythology.
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Taranis
In Celtic mythology Taranis was the god of thunder worshipped primarily in Gaul, Gallaecia, the British Isles, but also in the Rhineland and Danube regions, amongst others.
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Týr
Týr (Old Norse: Týr short.
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Tāwhirimātea
In Māori mythology, Tāwhirimātea (or Tāwhiri) is the god of weather, including thunder and lightning, wind, clouds and storms.
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Tempestas
In ancient Roman religion, Tempestas (Latin tempestas: "season, weather; bad weather; storm, tempest") is a goddess of storms or sudden weather.
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Tengri
Tengri (𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃; Тангра; Modern Turkish: Tanrı; Proto-Turkic *teŋri / *taŋrɨ; Mongolian script:, Tngri; Modern Mongolian: Тэнгэр, Tenger), is one of the names for the primary chief deity used by the early Turkic (Xiongnu, Hunnic, Bulgar) and Mongolic (Xianbei) peoples.
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Teshub
Teshub (also written Teshup or Tešup; cuneiform; hieroglyphic Luwian, read as TarhunzasAnnick Payne (2014), Hieroglyphic Luwian: An Introduction with Original Texts, 3rd revised edition, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, p. 159.) was the Hurrian god of sky and storm.
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Thai royal and noble titles
Thai royal and noble titles are the royal and noble styles indicating relationship to the king which were introduced by King Trailokanat (reigned 1448–1488).
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Tharapita
Taara (variations of the name include Tooru, Tharapita and Tarapitha) is a prominent god in Estonian mythology.
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The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl
The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is a Chinese folk tale.
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The Hebrew Goddess
The Hebrew Goddess is a 1967 book by Jewish historian and anthropologist Raphael Patai, in which the author argues that historically, the Jewish religion had elements of polytheism, especially the worship of goddesses and a cult of the mother goddess.
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Thor
In Norse mythology, Thor (from Þórr) is the hammer-wielding god of thunder, lightning, storms, oak trees, strength, the protection of mankind, in addition to hallowing, and fertility.
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Tianquiztli
Tianquiztli ("Marketplace") was the Aztec's name for the Pleiades.
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Tinia
Tinia (also Tin, Tinh, Tins or Tina) was the god of the sky and the highest god in Etruscan mythology, equivalent to the Roman Jupiter and the Greek Zeus.
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Tonatiuh
In Aztec mythology, Tonatiuh (Nahuatl: Ōllin Tōnatiuh "Movement of the Sun") was the sun god.
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Tonga
Tonga (Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited.
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Torngarsuk
In Inuit mythology, Torngarsuk (or Torngasak) is a very powerful sky god, one of the more important deities in the Inuit pantheon.
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Triglav (mythology)
Triglav (Bosnian, Croatian, Slovenian and Serbian Latin: Triglav; Ukrainian, Russian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Bosnian and Serbian Cyrillic: Триглав; Czech and Trihlav; Trygław, Trzygłów; Трыглаў) (meaning 'three headed'), also sometimes called Troglav, is a deity in Slavic theology.
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Tzacol
In Maya mythology, Tzacol or Tzakol was a sky god and one of the creator deities who participated in the last two attempts at creating humanity.
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Udmurt people
The Udmurts (Удмуртъёс, Udmurt’jos) are a people who speak the Udmurt language.
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Uenuku
In Māori mythology, Uenuku is the god of rainbows.
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Ukko
Ukko, or Äijä or Äijö (Finnish: male grandparent, grandfather, old man), parallel to Uku in Estonian mythology, is the god of the sky, weather, harvest and thunder in Finnish mythology.
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Umvelinqangi
UMvelinqangi is an IsiZulu word which translates to the Most High or Divine Consciousness; that is considered the source of all that has been, that is and all that ever will be.
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Underworld
The underworld is the world of the dead in various religious traditions, located below the world of the living.
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Upper World (Greek)
In the Greek mythology, Upper World, in contrast to the Greek underworld referring to the land of the dead, refers to the world where people live.
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Uranus (mythology)
Uranus (Ancient Greek Οὐρανός, Ouranos meaning "sky" or "heaven") was the primal Greek god personifying the sky and one of the Greek primordial deities.
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Ushas
Ushas (उषस्) is a Vedic goddess of dawn in Hinduism.
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Utixo
Utixo or Tiqua was a god of the Khoi (the native pastoralist people of southwestern Africa), a benevolent deity who lived in the sky, sending rain for the crops, and speaking with thunder.
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Viracocha
Viracocha is the great creator deity in the pre-Inca and Inca mythology in the Andes region of South America.
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Xamaba
Xamaba is the supreme being of the Heikum of South Africa.
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Yahweh
Yahweh (or often in English; יַהְוֶה) was the national god of the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel (Samaria) and Judah.
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Yoruba religion
The Yoruba religion comprises the traditional religious and spiritual concepts and practices of the Yoruba people.
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Zeus
Zeus (Ζεύς, Zeús) is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods of Mount Olympus.
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Zulu people
The Zulu (amaZulu) are a Bantu ethnic group of Southern Africa and the largest ethnic group in South Africa, with an estimated 10–12 million people living mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_deity
