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List of deitiesRedirected from Deity
See also definitions of the words God, Goddess, mythology, religion, scripture.
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The Abrahamic religionsJews, Christians, and Muslims believe in the same God, but Muslims, and to some degree Jews (see below), visualize God in strictly monotheistic terms, whereas most Christians believe that God exists as a Trinity.JudaismYahweh is the Biblical name for God used by ancient Jews. Adonai, Eloheynu and Hashem are some of the names of God used in modern day Judaism. The Hebrew word "elohim" is also used to refer to God in the Torah (and the Old Testament), and this refers to a plural nature of God. However, Jews hold to a slightly more monotheistic view of God than Christians. They reject Jesus Christ as a false messiah, and do not assign any deity to him.ChristianityHistorically, Christianity has professed belief in one deity, three divine persons (the Trinity), that make up one deity or Godhead, known as "God". (See Athanasian Creed.) Thus, most Christians are trinitarian monotheists, although there have been dissenters; see the articles Arianism, Unitarianism (History), Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Jehovah's Witnesses for examples. Most of these unitarian groups believe or believed that only God the Father is a deity; Latter-day Saints believe that the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ) and the Holy Spirit are three distinct deities.IslamAllah is the most traditional Muslim name for God. Islamic tradition also speaks of 99 Names of God.OtherTwo smaller faiths that don't neatly fit into any of the categories of Abrahamic religions. Rastafarianism worships Jah and the Baha'i Faith also worships the same God as Jews, Christians and Muslims.Akamba mythologyAkan mythologyAshanti mythologyAustralian Aborigine mythology
Aztec deities
Bushongo mythologyCeltic pre-Christian Deities
Chinese mythologyChippewa mythologyCreek mythologyDacian[?] DeitiesDahomey mythology
Dinka mythologyEfik mythologyEgyptian DeitiesEgyptian deities often have physical forms that incorporate animal forms. For example, Anubis has the body of a human, but the head of a canine.
See http://touregypt.net/godsofegypt/ for the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism's extensive information on Egyptian Deities. Etruscan DeitiesFinnish pre-Christian deitiesThere are very few written documents about old Finnish religions; also the names of deities and practices of worship changed from place to place. The following is a summary of the most important and most widely worshipped deities.
Ancient Greek pre-Christian Deities
See also Demigods[?], the Dryads, the Fates, the Erinyes, the Graces, the Horae, the Muses, the Nymphs, the Pleiades, the Titans Guarani mythologyHaida mythologyHinduism
Hopi mythologySee also kachina Huron mythologyIbo mythologyIncan mythologyInuit mythologyIroquois mythologyIsoko mythologyKhoikhoi mythologyKitchen GodsIn addition to the gods listed above, there are several minor Gods spoken of in current western culture and may be taken more or less seriously. These are commonly called Kitchen Gods.
Kwakiutl mythologyLakota mythologyLotuko mythologyLatvian mythologyLugbara mythologyMayan deities
Mesopotamian gods
Navaho mythology
Norse pre-Christian DeitiesPawnee mythologyPolynesian mythologysee also Menehune Prussian Baltic Pre-Christian DeitiesPygmy mythologyRoman pre-Christian Deities
Salish mythologySardinian DeitiesSardinian deities, mainly referred to in the age of Nuragici people, are partly derived from Phoenician ones.
Seneca mythologyShinto deities
see also Kami Sumerian DeitiesSee also Annuna Tumbuka mythologyWinnebago mythologyYoruba mythology
Zulu mythologyZuni mythology
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