List Of Deities
This is an index of lists of deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world. * List of deities by classification * Lists of deities by cultural sphere * List of fictional deities * Names of God There are various names of God, many of which enumerate the various qualities of a Supreme Being. The English word ''god'' (and its equivalent in other languages) is used by multiple religions as a noun to refer to different deities, or speci ... (epithets of gods of monotheistic religions) {{DEFAULTSORT:Deities ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Deity
A deity or god is a supernatural being who is considered divine or sacred. The ''Oxford Dictionary of English'' defines deity as a god or goddess, or anything revered as divine. C. Scott Littleton defines a deity as "a being with powers greater than those of ordinary humans, but who interacts with humans, positively or negatively, in ways that carry humans to new levels of consciousness, beyond the grounded preoccupations of ordinary life". Religions can be categorized by how many deities they worship. Monotheistic religions accept only one deity (predominantly referred to as "God"), whereas polytheistic religions accept multiple deities. Henotheistic religions accept one supreme deity without denying other deities, considering them as aspects of the same divine principle. Nontheistic religions deny any supreme eternal creator deity, but may accept a pantheon of deities which live, die and may be reborn like any other being. Although most monotheistic religions traditionall ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Deities By Classification
This is an index to deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world, listed by type of deity. Motif-index A basic classification of the types of gods as based on the ''Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, by Stith Thompson:'' *A0 Creator (not a god) *A100—A199. The gods in general **A101. Supreme God **A104. The Making of the Gods **A107. Gods of Darkness and Light (darkness thought of as evil and light as good). **A109.1. Triple deity **A116. Triplet gods **A111.1. Mother of the gods **A111.2. Father of the Gods **A117.5. Gods as spirits of the deified dead **A131. Gods with animal features ***A132.3. Equine god / goddess ***A132.5. Bear god / goddess ***A132.9. Cattle god / goddess **A161.2. King of the Gods **A177.1. Gods as Dupe or Tricksters **A192. Death or departure of the gods **A193. Gods of Dying-and-rising *A200—A299. Gods of the Upper World **A210. Gods of the Sky **A220. Gods of the Sun **A240. Gods of the Moon **A250. Gods of the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lists Of Deities By Cultural Sphere
This is an index to deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world, listed by region or culture. Africa North Africa *Berber mythology *Egyptian deities *Guanche deities Sub-Saharan Africa * African deities **Alusi **Yoruba deities *Afro-American religion **Loa **Orisha Asia Caucasus *Armenian deities * Georgian deities * Vainakh deities Central Asia *Turkic deities East Asia *Chinese deities ** Taoist pure ones *Japanese deities *Korean deities North Asia *Siberian deities South Asia *Hindu deities **Rigvedic deities (see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion) ** Sri Lankan Tamil local deities ** Tamil Nadu local deities * Buddhas * Buddhist Bodhisattvas *Tirthankara Southeast Asia * Indonesian deities * Manipuri deities ** King of Gods in Manipuri mythology ** King of Serpent deities in Manipuri mythology ** Ancestral deities of Manipur * Philippine deities West Asia *Anatolia **Hittite deities **Hurrian deities ** Lydian deities *Middle East ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Fictional Deities
This is a navigational list of deities exclusively for fictional works, organized primarily by media type then by title of the fiction work, series, franchise or author. This list does not include deities worshiped by humans in real life that appear in fictional works unless they are distinct enough to be mentioned in a Wikipedia article separate from the articles for the entities they are based on. Literature '' The Chronicles of Narnia'' * * Tash – A demon god of Calormen '' Dune'' series * H. P. Lovecraft works * Azathoth – The Blind Idiot God * * * J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium * Eru Ilúvatar – Creator deity of Tolkien's World * * Melkor also known as Morgoth Bauglir – An evil fallen deity Comics DC Universe * Ares – The Greek god of war * Darkseid – Apokoliptian god of evil *Lords of Chaos and Order – Opposed groups of divine energy beings locked in eternal struggle * * Rao – The personification of the red sun of Krypton * Dragon Ball ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Names Of God
There are various names of God, many of which enumerate the various qualities of a Supreme Being. The English word ''god'' (and its equivalent in other languages) is used by multiple religions as a noun to refer to different deities, or specifically to the Supreme Being, as denoted in English by the capitalized and uncapitalized terms ''God'' and ''god''. Ancient cognate equivalents for the biblical Hebrew '' Elohim'', one of the most common names of God in the Bible, include proto-Semitic '' El'', biblical Aramaic '' Elah'', and Arabic '' 'ilah''. The personal or proper name for God in many of these languages may either be distinguished from such attributes, or homonymic. For example, in Judaism the tetragrammaton is sometimes related to the ancient Hebrew ''Names of God in Judaism#Ehyeh asher ehyeh, ehyeh'' ("I Am that I Am, I will be"). In the Hebrew Bible (), Yahweh, YHWH, the personal name of God, is Theophany#Judaism, revealed directly to Moses. Correlation between vario ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |