Mythology · Greek, Egyptian, Norse and Hindu

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Greek mythology (28)

Zeus god

King of the Olympian gods, lord of sky and thunder — who overthrew the Titans and rules from Olympos.

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Gaia goddess

The primordial Earth, born near the beginning out of Chaos — mother of the sky (Ouranos), the Titans and much of creation.

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Kronos god

Leader of the Titans who castrated his father Ouranos and devoured his own children — until Zeus overthrew him, ending the Golden Age.

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Apollo god

God of prophecy, music, healing, light and archery — voice of the Delphic oracle and one of the most Greek of the gods.

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Athena goddess

Goddess of wisdom, strategic war and craft, born fully armed from the head of Zeus — patron of Athens and of the cunning Odysseus.

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Aphrodite goddess

Goddess of love, beauty and desire, born from the sea-foam where Ouranos fell — whose gift of Helen set off the Trojan War.

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Ares god

God of war in its raw, bloody and chaotic form — disliked even by the other Olympians, consort of Aphrodite.

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Poseidon god

God of the sea, earthquakes and horses — brother of Zeus, and the relentless enemy who keeps Odysseus from home.

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Hermes god

God of travelers, traders, thieves, boundaries and messages — guide of the dead, and the Greek face later fused with Egyptian Thoth as Herme

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Demeter goddess

Goddess of grain, agriculture and the harvest — whose grief for her stolen daughter Persephone gives the world its winter, and whose mysteri

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Persephone goddess

Daughter of Demeter, carried off by Hades to be queen of the dead — her annual return brings spring; her descent, winter. Central to the Ele

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Dionysos god

God of wine, ecstasy, theatre and ritual madness — twice-born, dismembered and reborn in Orphic myth, and the center of its mysteries.

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Hekate goddess

Goddess of crossroads, the moon, ghosts and magic — torch-bearing guide between worlds, invoked above all others in the Greek magical papyri

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Helios god

The Titan-god who drives the sun-chariot across the sky and sees all — frequently invoked in ritual magic.

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Prometheus god

The Titan who stole fire for humanity and was chained to a rock for it — culture-bringer and rebel against Zeus.

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Circe goddess

The sorceress-goddess who turns Odysseus's men to swine and then becomes his ally — daughter of Helios, mistress of transformation.

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Hera goddess

Queen of the Olympian gods and goddess of marriage, women and the family — wife and sister of Zeus, fierce persecutor of his lovers and of H

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Artemis goddess

Virgin goddess of the hunt, wild animals, the wilderness, childbirth and young girls — twin sister of Apollo and daughter of Zeus and Leto.

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Hades god

King of the underworld and the dead, eldest son of Kronos, who carried off Persephone to be his queen — stern and just rather than evil.

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Hephaestus god

God of the forge, fire, metalwork and craftsmanship — the lame smith of Olympus who made the armour of Achilles and the thrones of the gods.

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Hestia goddess

Virgin goddess of the hearth, home and sacrificial flame, who receives the first and last offering at every sacrifice.

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Nike goddess

Winged goddess of victory, companion of Zeus and Athena, who crowns victors in war and in the games.

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Eros god

God of love and desire — in Hesiod a primordial power born at the dawn of creation, later the son and companion of Aphrodite.

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Pan god

Rustic god of shepherds, flocks, wild mountains and panic, player of the syrinx, worshipped in the caves of Arcadia.

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Selene goddess

Titan goddess of the moon, sister of Helios and Eos, who drives her chariot across the night sky and loved the sleeping shepherd Endymion.

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Eos goddess

Titan goddess of the dawn who opens the gates of heaven for the Sun each morning; lover of mortal youths such as Tithonus and Kephalos.

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Heracles hero

The greatest of Greek heroes, son of Zeus and Alcmene, who performed the Twelve Labours under Hera's persecution and was deified on Olympus.

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Perseus hero

Hero son of Zeus and Danaë who beheaded the Gorgon Medusa with gifts from the gods and rescued Andromeda from the sea-monster.

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Egyptian mythology (25)

Ra god

The Egyptian sun-god and creator, who sails the sky by day and battles the serpent Apophis through the underworld each night.

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Osiris god

God of the dead, the afterlife and resurrection — murdered by his brother Set, reassembled by Isis, and enthroned as judge of souls.

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Isis goddess

Great goddess of magic, motherhood and healing — who gathered the scattered Osiris, conceived Horus, and became the most widely worshipped d

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Horus god

Sky-god and divine kingship made flesh — son of Osiris and Isis, who avenges his father against Set; every living pharaoh was a Horus.

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Set god

God of storms, chaos, the desert and foreigners — slayer of Osiris and eternal rival of Horus, yet also the defender of Ra against Apophis.

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Anubis god

Jackal-headed god of embalming and the dead, who guides souls and oversees the weighing of the heart against the feather of Maat.

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Thoth god

God of writing, magic, wisdom and the moon — scribe of the gods, recorder at the judgment, and, fused with Hermes, the patron of the entire

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Maʿat goddess

Goddess and principle of truth, justice, balance and cosmic order — the heart of the dead is weighed against her feather. Both a person and

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Nut goddess

The sky-goddess arched over the earth, swallowing the sun each evening and giving birth to it at dawn — mother of Osiris, Isis, Set and Neph

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Shu god

God of air and light who separates the sky (Nut) from the earth (Geb) — first of the gods created by the self-made Atum-Ra.

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Hathor goddess

Goddess of love, music, joy, motherhood and the sky — nurse of kings, lady of the dead in the West, and a face of the divine feminine. (On t

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Bastet goddess

Goddess of the home, cats, fertility, childbirth and protection against disease and evil spirits — originally a fierce lioness, later the ge

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Sekhmet goddess

Lion-headed goddess of war, plague and healing — the burning Eye of Ra sent to destroy rebellious humanity, pacified with red-dyed beer.

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Ptah god

Creator-god of Memphis who made the world by thought and speech, patron of craftsmen and builders, husband of Sekhmet.

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Amun god

The hidden creator-god of Thebes who, fused with Ra as Amun-Ra, became king of the gods of the New Kingdom; later identified by the Greeks w

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Khepri god

God of the rising sun and self-creation, imagined as a scarab beetle rolling the sun disk across the sky as a beetle rolls its ball of dung.

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Sobek god

Crocodile god of the Nile, fertility, pharaonic power and military strength, protector against the river's dangers, worshipped at Crocodilop

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Neith goddess

Ancient goddess of Sais, of war, hunting and weaving — a creator who reweaves the world daily on her loom; called mother of Ra and of Sobek.

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Nephthys goddess

Funerary goddess, sister of Isis and consort of Set, who mourned and protected Osiris and guards the dead alongside Isis.

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Hapi god

God of the annual Nile flood, bringer of fertile silt and abundance, often shown in pairs binding together Upper and Lower Egypt.

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Bes god

Popular household protector of mothers, children and childbirth, who frightened away evil spirits with his fierce grin and dancing.

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Taweret goddess

Protective goddess of childbirth and fertility, a fearsome hippopotamus who guards mothers and infants.

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Seshat goddess

Goddess of writing, measurement, record-keeping and architecture, who "stretches the cord" to lay out temple foundations and records the yea

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Khonsu god

Youthful moon-god of Thebes, son of Amun and Mut, a healer and protector who crosses the night sky.

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Mut goddess

Great mother-goddess of Thebes, consort of Amun and mother of Khonsu, embodying queenship and the protective vulture.

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Norse mythology (16)

Odin god

Chief of the Norse gods — god of war, wisdom, poetry and death, who hung on the world-tree to win the runes and gathers the slain to Valhall

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Thor god

The hammer-wielding thunder-god, defender of gods and humans against the giants — the most popular deity of the Norse world.

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Loki god

The shape-shifting trickster of Norse myth — sometimes ally, finally enemy of the gods, whose offspring and treachery bring about Ragnarök.

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Freyja goddess

Norse goddess of love, beauty, fertility, war and magic (seiðr) — who takes half the battle-slain to her hall.

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Frigg goddess

Wife of Odin and queen of the Æsir, who sits with him on Hliðskjálf, knows all fates but tells none, and bound all things to spare her son B

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Baldr god

Son of Odin and Frigg, the most beloved and radiant of the gods, slain by a mistletoe dart thrown by his blind brother Höðr at Loki's contri

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Týr god

God of war, law and oaths who placed his right hand in the wolf Fenrir's mouth as a pledge, and lost it when the gods bound the wolf.

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Heimdall god

Watchman of the gods who guards Bifröst from his hall Himinbjörg and will sound the Gjallarhorn at the onset of Ragnarök; foretold to slay a

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Hel goddess

Ruler of the realm of the dead who died of sickness or old age, daughter of Loki and Angrboða, set over Niflheim by Odin.

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Njörðr god

Vanir god of the sea, seafaring, wind, fishing and wealth, father of Freyr and Freyja, whose unhappy marriage to Skaði split between shore a

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Freyr god

Vanir god of kingship, peace, fertility, sunshine and good harvests, brother of Freyja, who gave away his self-fighting sword for love of Ge

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Skaði goddess

Jötunn goddess of winter, mountains, skiing and bowhunting, daughter of Þjazi, who wed Njörðr and fastened the serpent above the bound Loki.

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Iðunn goddess

Goddess who keeps the apples the gods eat to stay young, wife of Bragi, once lured away by Loki to the giant Þjazi.

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Bragi god

God of poetry and eloquence, husband of Iðunn, who welcomes the fallen to Valhalla — possibly the deified 9th-century skald Bragi Boddason.

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Sif goddess

Golden-haired goddess, wife of Thor, whose hair Loki shaved off and who received new hair of true gold forged by the dwarves.

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Víðarr god

Silent son of Odin, nearly as strong as Thor, who will avenge his father at Ragnarök by tearing apart the jaws of the wolf Fenrir.

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Hindu mythology (22)

Indra god

The Vedic warrior-king of the gods, wielder of the thunderbolt who slays the drought-serpent Vritra to release the waters.

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Agni god

The Vedic god of fire and sacrifice — the priest of the gods who carries offerings to heaven; the most-invoked deity of the Rig Veda after I

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Soma god

Both the sacred, possibly entheogenic ritual drink of the Vedas and the god personifying it — later identified with the moon.

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Varuna god

The Vedic god of the cosmic order (ṛta), the waters and the moral law — the all-seeing sovereign who binds the wicked.

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Krishna god

An avatar of Vishnu and the divine teacher of the Bhagavad Gita, who reveals the paths of devotion, knowledge and action to the warrior Arju

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Vishnu god

One of the supreme Hindu deities — the preserver of the cosmos, who descends as avatars (Rama, Krishna and others) to restore dharma.

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Arjuna hero

The great warrior of the Mahabharata whose crisis of conscience on the battlefield prompts Krishna's teaching in the Bhagavad Gita.

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Hanuman god

The mighty monkey-god of the Ramayana — embodiment of devotion, strength and service, who leaps to Lanka to find the captive Sita.

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Shiva god

The Supreme Lord of Shaivism — ascetic yogi, cosmic dancer and destroyer-transformer of the Trimurti, husband of Parvati and father of Ganes

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Parvati goddess

Goddess of love, devotion, fertility and power — gentle form of the Devi, consort of Shiva and mother of Ganesha and Kartikeya.

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Ganesha god

Elephant-headed god of beginnings, wisdom and the removal of obstacles, son of Shiva and Parvati, invoked first in every rite.

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Kartikeya god

Youthful god of war and victory, commander of the divine army, son of Shiva and Parvati — beloved in Tamil tradition as Murugan.

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Lakshmi goddess

Goddess of wealth, fortune, beauty and prosperity, consort of Vishnu, who rose from the churning of the ocean of milk.

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Saraswati goddess

Goddess of knowledge, speech, music, arts and learning — once the great Vedic river — consort of Brahma.

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Durga goddess

Warrior form of the Great Goddess, created from the combined power of the gods to slay the buffalo-demon Mahishasura.

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Kali goddess

Fierce goddess of time, death and liberation who sprang from Durga's brow in battle — terrifying protector and, in Bengal devotion, the lovi

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Brahma god

Creator-god of the Trimurti, born from the lotus of Vishnu's navel, from whose four mouths the four Vedas came forth; consort of Saraswati.

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Rama god

Prince of Ayodhya and seventh avatar of Vishnu, hero of the Ramayana, who rescued Sita from Ravana — the model of dharma.

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Sita goddess

Heroine of the Ramayana, earth-born wife of Rama and incarnation of Lakshmi, revered for devotion, courage and purity.

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Surya god

The sun-god, source of light and life, eye of the world and father of Yama, who crosses the sky in a chariot of seven horses.

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Yama god

God of death and justice, first mortal to die and ruler of the dead, son of Surya — the teacher of Nachiketas in the Katha Upanishad.

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Kama god

God of love and desire, burned to ashes by Shiva's third eye for disturbing his meditation, husband of Rati.

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