God of destiny in Benin (Dahomey).
Roman god of infants. According to Varro, it was Fabulinus who taught children to speak their first word.
Pyrenean tree-god.
Alias for Papa, Polynesian earth goddess.
Roman personification of popular rumour. Also a goddess of fame. Her Greek counterpart was Pheme. She was largely a literary conceit rather than a true goddess of Roman religion.
God of fertility of Guinea.
Wife of the Irish sea god Manannan.
Chinese god of butchers.
Son of the Micronesian sea god.
Sky and water god of Bambara of West Africa.
Hesiod gives the Greek Moirae as Atropos, Clotho and Lachesis. Their Roman counterparts were Decima, Nona (goddesses of birth) and Morta (goddess of death).
Society Island personification of the moon. Son of Roua and Taonoui.
Albanian female deities of destiny.
Roman goddess of nature and fertility. Her husband was Faunus. Her festival was on December 4.
Roman god of crops, herds and fertility. An oracular deity as well as a woodland deity. He was the son of Picus and the husband of Fauna. The Romans regarded him as a counterpart of the Greek Pan.
The Roman god of the west wind. Equivalent to the Greek Zephyros.
Roman goddess of fever.
Etruscan underworld god and more generally an Italian god of purification. He gave his name to February, which was his sacred month.
Roman personification of fertility.
See Aitu.
Chinese god of the wind. In human form he is known as Feng Po.
Roman goddess of good luck and happiness.
Hungarian demon.
Chinese "Earl of the Wind". The human form of Fei Lien, the Chinese god of the wind.
Chinese "Madame Wind", goddess of the winds.
China: chief town of the land of the dead.
Norse giantesses.
Etruscan fire and fertility goddess.
Roman goddess of orchards and woodland.
Roman goddess of good faith, honesty and oaths. Her festival day was October 1.
Creator god of Bena Lulua in Zaire.
Philippine creator god.
Early gods of Ireland.
North Germanic goddess, mother of Thor.
Nordic father of Frigg.
Roman goddess of fruitfulness and flowers. Her husband was Favonus (Zephyrus), the god of the west wind. Her festival was the Floralia, noted for its sexual license, observed from April 28 to May 1.
Chinese name for Buddha (q.v.).
Irish goddess who was part of a trinity of goddesses said to have ruled Ireland at the coming of the first Gaels to the island.
An Irish race of gods, adversaries of the Tuatha de Danann. The fourth dynasty of Ireland, they succeeded the Firbolgs and were in turn overthrown by the Tuatha De Danann. The Tuatha finally defeated them at the Battle of Magh Tuiredh (Moytura).
Roman god of springs. Son of Janus and Juturna. His festival was observed on October 13.
Roman goddess of bread-making. Her festival was observed on February 17.
Norse primeval giant, father of the elements.
Nordic god of justice. Son of Balder and Nanna.
Roman goddess of fate and chance, earlier of prosperity. She was an equivalent of the Greek goddess Tyche. Her symbol was the wheel of fortune. Other attributes include a globe, rudder and a cornucopia. Her festival was observed on June 24.
Irish goddess.
Roman goddess; the personification of treachery.
Ancient Persian guardian angels. In Zoroastrianism they became the guardian ancestor spirits of the believers.
Norse goddess of love (sex) and fertility. Wife of Odin (later replaced by Frigg) and mother of Hnossa. In early Germanic religion she appears to have been a moon goddess.
Norse fertility god. Son of Njord and Skadi, brother of Freyja. He owned the ship Skidbladnir and a chariot drawn by two supernatural boars, Gullinbursti and Slidrugtanni.
Norse goddess of fertility, wife of Odin (apparently usurping the place of Freyja). She was the mother of Balder.
Norse virgin goddess.
Norse primordial beings.
Fire goddess of the Ainu people of Japan. Fuji-Yama, the famous Japanese volcano, takes its name from Fuchi.
Japanese Buddhist god of wisdom.
Etruscan god of gaiety and vitality.
Chinese Heavenly Emperor. A serpent deity who taught humans the arts of fishing, animal husbandry and the raising of silkworms.
Chinese god of Happiness.
Japanese Shinto god of the wind.
Japanese god of wisdom and longevity. One of the seven Gods of Luck (Shichi Fukujin).
Roman goddess of lightning.
Norse goddess, sister of Frigg, and servant of Freyja.
Roman goddesses of vengeance, equivalent to the Greek Erinyes.
Roman goddess of thieves.
Chinese god of happiness.
Chinese collective designation for Fu Hsing, Shou Hsing and Lu Hsing.
Japanese god of fire and lightning.
1st of 3 Chinese cultural heroes.
Norse protective spirits.