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fire worship Worship or deification of fire (also pyrodulia, pyrolatry or pyrolatria) is known from various religions. Fire has been an important part of human culture since the Lower Paleolithic. Religious or animist notions connected to fire are assumed ...

African mythology

Yoruba mythology

Ogun Ogun or Ogoun (Yoruba: Ògún, Portuguese: Ogum, Gu; also spelled Oggun or Ogou; known as Ogún or Ogum in Latin America) is a spirit that appears in several African religions. He attempted to seize the throne after the demise of Obatala, who ...

, fire god and patron of blacksmiths, iron, warfare, metal tools * Ọya, goddess of fire, wind, transforms into buffalo, fertility *

Shango Shango (Yoruba language: Ṣàngó, also known as Changó or Xangô in Latin America; and as Jakuta or Badé) is an Orisha, a deity in Yoruba religion. Genealogically speaking, Shango is a royal ancestor of the Yoruba as he was the third Alaafi ...

, god of thunder and fire, considered the storm-god * Aggayu, god of volcanoes, magma, sunlight, and heat

Egyptian mythology

* Ra, fire god of the sun, light, warmth, and growth *

Sekhmet In Egyptian mythology, Sekhmet ( or Sachmis (), also spelled Sakhmet, Sekhet, Sakhet among other spellings, cop, Ⲥⲁⲭⲙⲓ, Sakhmi), is a warrior goddess as well as goddess of healing. She is depicted as a lioness. Sekhmet is a solar de ...

, protective lioness goddess of war, along with some elements of disease and curing of disease. Sometimes referenced in relation to the sun and its power, so possibly had to do with upkeep of the sun at times and fire *

Wadjet Wadjet (; egy, wꜢḏyt "Green One"), known to the Greek world as Uto (; grc-koi, Οὐτώ) or Buto (; ) among other renderings including Wedjat, Uadjet, and Udjo, was originally the ancient local goddess of the city of Dep. It became part ...

, the protective serpent goddess who sends fire to burn her enemies

Asian mythology

Ainu mythology

Kamuy-huci Kamuy-huci (カムイフチ, ''Kamui Fuchi'') is the Ainu ''kamuy'' (''goddess'') of the hearth. Her full name is Apemerukoyan-mat Unamerukoyan-mat (''Rising Fire Sparks Woman/ Rising Cinder Sparks Woman''), and she is also known as Iresu Kamuy ('' ...

, goddess of the fire

Chinese mythology

Zhurong Zhurong (), also known as Chongli (), is an important personage in Chinese mythology and Chinese folk religion. According to the '' Huainanzi'' and the philosophical texts of Mozi and his followers, Zhurong is a god of fire and of the south. Th ...

(Huoshen, God of Fire) * Huilu (Huoshen, Goddess of Fire) * Yandi (Huozhu, Accident of Fire) *

Shennong Shennong (), variously translated as "Divine Farmer" or "Divine Husbandman", born Jiang Shinian (), was a mythological Chinese ruler known as the first Yan Emperor who has become a deity in Chinese and Vietnamese folk religion. He is vene ...

(Huozhu, Accident of Fire) * Hua Guang Da Di * Ebo (Huozheng, Primary Fire) * Yùyōu (Huoqi, Energy of Fire) * Bǐngdīngwèi Sīhuǒ Dàshén * Yǐwǔwèi Sīhuǒ Dàdì * Nánfāng Chìjīng Dìjūn

Filipino mythology

*Rirryaw Añitu: Ivatan place spirit Añitus who played music and sang inside a cave in Sabtang, while lighting up fire; believed to have change residences after they were disturbed by a man *

Bathala In the indigenous religion of the ancient Tagalogs, Bathala Maykapal was the transcendent Supreme Being, the originator and ruler of the universe. He is commonly known and referred to in the modern era as Bathala, a term or title which, in ea ...

: the Tagalog supreme god and creator deity, also known as Bathala Maykapal, Lumilikha, and Abba; an enormous being with control over thunder, lightning, flood, fire, thunder, and earthquakes; presides over lesser deities and uses spirits to intercede between divinities and mortals *Mangkukulam: a Tagalog divinity who pretends to be a doctor and emits fire *Gugurang: the Bicolano supreme god; causes the pit of Mayon volcano to rumble when he is displeased; cut Mt. Malinao in hald with a thunderbolt; the god of good *Unnamed God: a Bicolano sun god who fell in love with the mortal, Rosa; refused to light the world until his father consented to their marriage; he afterwards visited Rosa, but forgetting to remove his powers over fire, he accidentally burned Rosa's whole village until nothing but hot springs remained *Makilum-sa-bagidan: the Bisaya god of fire *Lalahon: the Bisaya goddess of fire, volcanoes, and the harvest; also referred as Laon *Gunung: a Bisaya deity of volcanoes *Taliyakud: the chief Tagbanwa god of the underworld who tends a fire between two tree trunks; asks the souls of the dead questions, where the soul's louse acts as the conscience that answers the questions truthfully; if the soul is wicked, it is pitched and burned, but if it is good, it passes on to a happier place with abundant food *Diwata: general term for Tagbanwa deities; they created the first man made from earth and gave him the elements of fire, the flint-like stones, iron, and tinder, as well as rice and most importantly, rice-wine, which humans could use to call the deities and the spirits of their dead *Unnamed Gods: the Bagobo gods whose fires create smoke that becomes the white clouds, while the sun creates yellow clouds that make the colors of the rainbow *Cumucul: the T'boli son of the supreme deities; has a cohort of fire, a sword and shield; married to Boi’Kafil *Segoyong: the Teduray guardians of the classes of natural phenomena; punishes humans to do not show respect and steal their wards; many of them specialize in a class, which can be water, trees, grasses, caves behind waterfalls, land caves, snakes, fire, nunuk trees, deers, and pigs

Hindu mythology

* Agneya, daughter of Agni and guardian of the south-east *

Agni Agni (English: , sa, अग्नि, translit=Agni) is a Sanskrit word meaning fire and connotes the Vedic fire deity of Hinduism. He is also the guardian deity of the southeast direction and is typically found in southeast corners of Hi ...

, god of fire, messengers, and purification * Ilā, goddess of speech and nourishment invoked during the agni-hotra ceremony *

Makara Jyothi Makara ( sa, मकर) is the name of a zodiac sign in Indian languages known as Capricorn in English. "Jyoti" means "light" in Sanskrit. Thus "Makara Jyoti" (also spelt as Jyothi) means "Light of Capricorn". The Sun appears to move from one ...

, a star revered on a festival *

Mātariśvan ' ("growing in the mother", from the locative of "mother", ', and a root ' "to grow, swell") in the Rigveda is a name of Agni (the sacrificial fire, the "mother" in which it grows being the fire-stick), or of a divine being closely associated wit ...

, god of fire associated with Agni

Khanty mythology

* Ney-Aki - goddess of fire.

Korean mythology

Jowangsin Jowangshin (in Hangul, ''조왕신'', in hanja, 竈王神) is the goddess of fire and the hearth in Korean shamanism. As the goddess of the hearth, the rituals dedicated to her were generally kept alive by housewives. She is no longer the subject o ...

, goddess of the hearth fires

Japanese mythology

Amaterasu Amaterasu, also known as Amaterasu Ōmikami () or Ōhirume no Muchi no Kami (), is the goddess of the sun in Japanese mythology. One of the major deities (''kami'') of Shinto, she is also portrayed in Japan's earliest literary texts, the '' K ...

, goddess of the sun *

Kagu-tsuchi Kagutsuchi (カグツチ; Old Japanese: ''Kagututi''), also known as Hi-no-Kagutsuchi or Homusubi among other names, is the kami of fire in classical Japanese mythology. Mythology Kagutsuchi's birth burned his mother Izanami, causing her deat ...

(kami), blacksmith god of fire whose birth burned his mother

Izanami , formally known as , is the creator deity of both creation and death in Japanese mythology, as well as the Shinto mother goddess. She and her brother-husband Izanagi are the last of the seven generations of primordial deities that manifested ...

to death *

Kōjin Kōjin, also known as , is the Japanese ''kami'' (''god'') of fire, the hearth and the kitchen. He is sometimes called Kamado-gami ( 竃神), literally ''the god of the stove''. He represents violent forces that are turned toward the betterment ...

, god of fire, hearth, and the kitchen *

Konohanasakuya-hime Konohanasakuya-hime is the goddess of Mount Fuji and all volcanoes in Japanese mythology; she is also the blossom-princess and symbol of delicate earthly life. She is often considered an avatar of Japanese life, especially since her symbol is ...

, goddess of volcanoes

Mongolian mythology

* Arshi Tenger, god of fire associated with shamanic rituals *

Odqan Odqan is a fire spirit in the shamanistic Shamanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with what they believe to be a spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance. The goal of t ...

, red god of fire who rides on a brown goat * Yal-un Eke, mother goddess of fire who is Odqan's counterpart

Nivkhi mythology

* Turgmam, goddess of fire

Taiwanese mythology

* Komod Pazik, Sakizaya god of fire * Icep Kanasaw, Sakizaya goddess of fire

Turkic mythology

Alaz Alaz ( Turkish: ''Alaz'', Azerbaijani: ''Alaz'') is the god of fire in Turkic mythology. Also known as Alas-BatyrEski Tanrı ve Tanrıça İsimlerAlas-Batır or sometimes Alaz Khan. He is an important deity in folk beliefs and son of Kayra. Des ...

, god of fire *

Od Iyesi Od iyesi (Tatar: ''Ут Иясе'' or ''Ut İyäse''; Chuvash: ''Вут Ийӗ''; Sakha: ''Уот Иччи'') is the Turkic and Mongolian spirit or deity of fire. In Turkic languages, Od (or Ot) means fire, and iye is the familiar spirit of a ...

, familiar spirits who protect fires * Ut, Siberian goddess of the hearth * Vut-Ami, Chuvash goddess of fires.

Vietnamese mythology

* Bà Hỏa, goddess of fire * Quang Hoa Mã Nguyên Súy, god of preventing fire-related accidents * Nam Phương Xích Đế, fire god

European mythology

Albanian mythology

* En/ Enji, god of fire *

Nëna e Vatrës Nëna e Vatrës or Nana e Votrës ("The Mother of the Hearth") is the goddess of the fire hearth (''hyjnia e zjarrit të vatrës'') in Albanian mythology and folklore, associated with fire worship, the cult of the ancestor and the cult of the wo ...

, hearth goddess *

Verbt Verbt ( sq-definite, Verbti) is a fire, water and wind god in Albanian pagan mythology. He controls fire, water as the opposite element to fire, and the northern wind which fans the flames of fire. Also known as ''Shën Verbti'' or ''Rmoria'', he ...

, storm god who controls fire, water and wind

Basque mythology

Eate Eate was a storm god worshipped by the ancient Basques. In some sources he is also the god of fire and ice Ice is water frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 degrees Celsius or Depending on the presence ...

, god of fire and storms

Caucasian mythology

* Alpan,

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ian) goddess of fire * Kamar, Georgian fire goddess who was kidnapped by

Amirani Amirani or Amiran ( ka, ამირანი) is the name of a culture hero of a Georgian epic who resembles the Classical Prometheus. Various versions of the myth reveal a process through which the myth was transformed over time, but the legend ...

* Uorsar, Adyghe goddess of the hearth * Wine Gwasche, Circassian goddess who protects the hearth

Celtic mythology

Brigit Brigid ( , ; meaning 'exalted one' from Old Irish),Campbell, MikBehind the Name.See also Xavier Delamarre, ''brigantion / brigant-'', in ''Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise'' (Éditions Errance, 2003) pp. 87–88: "Le nom de la sainte irlandais ...

, Irish goddess of fire, poetry, arts, and crafts * Aed, Irish god whose name means "fire" *

Grannus Grannus (also ''Granus'', '' Mogounus,'' and ''Amarcolitanus'') was a Celtic deity of classical antiquity. He was regularly identified with Apollo as Apollo Grannus and frequently worshipped in conjunction with Sirona, and sometimes with Mars and ...

, god of fire, health, water springs, and the sun *

Nantosuelta In Celtic mythology, Nantosuelta is the goddess of nature, the earth, fire, and fertility. Pseudo-historical texts explain how there is an uncanny resemblance between Nantosuelta and what we know of the Irish goddess The Morrígan, who was associa ...

, goddess of fire, nature, fertility, rivers and the earth

Etruscan mythology

Sethlans In Etruscan mythology, Sethlans was the god of fire, the forge, metalworking, and by extension craftsmanship in general, the equivalent, though their names share no etymology, to Greek Hephaestus, Egyptian Ptah and the Roman Vulcan. Sethlans is on ...

, fire god of smithing and crafts

Greek mythology

Hephaestus Hephaestus (; eight spellings; grc-gre, Ἥφαιστος, Hḗphaistos) is the Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire (compare, however, with Hestia), and volcanoes.Walter B ...

, god of blacksmiths, crafting, fire, and volcanoes, Roman form Vulcan *

Hestia In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Hestia (; grc-gre, Ἑστία, meaning "hearth" or "fireside") is the virgin goddess of the hearth, the right ordering of domesticity, the family, the home, and the state. In myth, she is the firstborn ...

, goddess of the hearth and its fires *

Prometheus In Greek mythology, Prometheus (; , , possibly meaning " forethought")Smith"Prometheus". is a Titan god of fire. Prometheus is best known for defying the gods by stealing fire from them and giving it to humanity in the form of technology, kn ...

, god of fire, is credited with the creation of humanity from clay, and who defies the gods by stealing fire and giving it to humanity as civilization

Lithuanian mythology

* Dimstipatis, protector of the house, housewives, and the hearth against fire outbreaks *

Gabija Gabija (also known as Gabieta, Gabeta) is the spirit of the fire in Lithuanian mythology. She is the protector of home and family. Her name is derived from ''gaubti'' (to cover, to protect) or from St. Agatha (russian: Гафия, Gafiya). Gabija ...

, protective goddess of the hearth and the household *

Jagaubis The list of Lithuanian gods is reconstructed based on scarce written sources and late folklore. Lithuania converted to Christianity in 1387, but elements of Lithuanian mythology survived into the 19th century. The earliest written sources, author ...

, household spirit of fire and the furnace * Moterų Gabija, goddess of bakeries and bread * Pelenų Gabija, goddess of fireplaces * Praurimė, goddess of the sacred fire served by her priestesses, the vaidilutės * Trotytojas Kibirkščių, deity of sparks and fires

Norse mythology

* Glöð, jotunn who is the wife of Logi and who rules with him * Logi, jotunn who personifies fire

Ossetian mythology

* Safa, god of the hearth chain * Mariel, Fire goddess

Roman mythology

* Caca, goddess who was Vulcan's daughter and who might have been worshipped before Vesta *

Cacus In Roman mythology, Cacus ( grc, Κάκος, derived from κακός, meaning bad) was a fire-breathing giant and the son of Vulcan (Plutarch called him son of Hephaestus). He was killed by Hercules after terrorizing the Aventine Hill before the ...

, god who was the fire-breathing giant son of Vulcan, and who might have been worshipped in ancient times *

Fornax Fornax () is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere, partly ringed by the celestial river Eridanus. Its name is Latin for furnace. It was named by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1756. Fornax is one of the 88 modern ...

, goddess of the furnace * Stata Mater, goddess who stops fires * Vesta, goddess of the hearth and its fire, Roman form of

. * Vulcan, god of crafting and fire, Roman form of

Sicilian mythology

* Adranus, god formerly worshipped in Adranus, near

Mount Etna Mount Etna, or simply Etna ( it, Etna or ; scn, Muncibbeḍḍu or ; la, Aetna; grc, Αἴτνα and ), is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Catania, between the cities of Messina ...

Slavic mythology

Dazhbog Dazhbog (russian: Дажьбо́г, Дажбог), alternatively Daždźbok ( be, Даждзьбог), Dažbog, Dazhdbog, Dajbog, Daybog, Dabog, Dazibogu, or Dadzbóg, was one of the major gods of Slavic mythology, most likely a solar deity and ...

, the regenerating god of the solar fire who rides in the sky * Kresnik, golden fire god who became a hero of Slovenia *

Ognyena Maria {{More citations needed, date=November 2022 In Slavic mythology, Ognyena Maria (literally "Fiery Mary") is a fire goddess who is the sister and assistant of the thunder god, Perun. Ognyena Maria originates as a conflation of the figures of Margaret ...

, fire goddess who assists Perun * Peklenc, god of fire who rules the underworld and its wealth and who judges and punishes the wicked through earthquakes *

Svarog Svarog is a Slavic god of fire and blacksmithing, who was once interpreted as a sky god on the basis of an etymology rejected by modern scholarship. He is mentioned in only one source, the ''Primary Chronicle'', which is problematic in interpret ...

, the bright god of fire, smithing, and the sun, and is sometimes considered as the creator *

Svarožič Svarozhits (Latin: Zuarasiz, Zuarasici, Old East Slavic: Сварожиць, Russian: Сварожиц), Svarozhich (Old East Slavic: Сварожичь, Russian: Сварожич) is a Slavic god of fire, son of Svarog. One of the few Pan-Slavi ...

, the god of the earthly fire

Middle Eastern mythology

Canaanite mythology

* Ishat, Phoenician fire and drought goddess slain by

Anat Anat (, ), Anatu, classically Anath (; uga, 𐎓𐎐𐎚 ''ʿnt''; he, עֲנָת ''ʿĂnāṯ''; ; el, Αναθ, translit=Anath; Egyptian: '' ꜥntjt'') was a goddess associated with warfare and hunting, best known from the Ugaritic text ...

Shapash Shapash (Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎔𐎌 ''špš'', "sun"), alternatively written as Shapshu or Shapsh, was a Canaanite sun goddess. She also served as the royal messenger of the high god El, her probable father. Her most common epithets in the Ugaritic ...

, goddess of the sun

Hittite mythology

* Arinitti, sun goddess of the city of

Arinna Arinna was the major cult center of the Hittite sun-goddess known as dUTU URU''Arinna'' or " Sun-Goddess of Arinna", who is also sometimes identified as ''Arinniti'' or as ''Wuru(n)šemu''. Arinna was located near Hattusa, the Hittite capital. ...

, and the goddess of hearth fires, temple flames, and chthonic fires in later times.HITTITE MYTHOLOGY: THE TOP DEITIES
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Mesopotamian mythology

* Gerra, god of fire in Akkadian and Babylonian records *

Gibil Gibil () in Sumerian mythology is the god of fire, variously of the son of An and Ki, An and Shala or of Ishkur Hadad ( uga, ), Haddad, Adad (Akkadian: 𒀭𒅎 '' DIM'', pronounced as ''Adād''), or Iškur ( Sumerian) was the storm and ...

, skilled god of fire and smithing in Sumerian records *

Ishum Ishum (Išum; possibly the masculine form of Akkadian ''išātum'', "fire") was a Mesopotamian god of Akkadian origin. He is best attested as a divine night watchman, tasked with protecting houses at night, but he was also associated with variou ...

, god of fire who was the brother of the sun god

Shamash Utu (dUD " Sun"), also known under the Akkadian name Shamash, ''šmš'', syc, ܫܡܫܐ ''šemša'', he, שֶׁמֶשׁ ''šemeš'', ar, شمس ''šams'', Ashurian Aramaic: 𐣴𐣬𐣴 ''š'meš(ā)'' was the ancient Mesopotamian sun god ...

, and an attendant of Erra *

Nusku Nuska or Nusku, possibly also known as Našuḫ, was a Mesopotamian god best attested as the sukkal (divine vizier) of Enlil. He was also associated with fire and light, and could be invoked as a protective deity against various demons, such as La ...

, god of heavenly and earthly fire and light, and patron of the arts

Native American mythology

Aztec mythology

Chantico In Aztec religion, Chantico ("she who dwells in the house") is the deity reigning over the fires in the family hearth. She broke a fast by eating paprika with roasted fish, and was turned into a dog by Tonacatecuhtli as punishment. She was asso ...

, goddess of the hearth fires and volcanoes *

Mixcoatl Mixcoatl ( nah, Mixcōhuātl}, from mixtli "cloud" and cōātl "serpent"), or Camaxtle or Camaxtli, was the god of the hunt and identified with the Milky Way, the stars, and the heavens in several Mesoamerican cultures. He was the patron deity ...

, hunting god who introduced fire to humanity *

Xiuhtecuhtli In Aztec mythology, Xiuhtecuhtli ("Turquoise Lord" or "Lord of Fire"), was the god of fire, day and heat. In historical sources he is called by many names, which reflect his varied aspects and dwellings in the three parts of the cosmos. He was t ...

, god of fire, day, heat, volcanoes, food in famine, the year, turquoise, the Aztec emperors, and the afterlife

Huichol mythology

* Tatewari, fire god of shamans

Mayan mythology

Huracán Huracan (; es, Huracán; myn, Hunraqan, "one legged"), often referred to as ''U Kʼux Kaj'', the "Heart of Sky", is a Kʼicheʼ Maya god of wind, storm, fire and one of the creator deities who participated in all three attempts at creating hu ...

, fire god of storms and wind who created and destroyed humanity *

Jacawitz Jacawitz () (also spelt Jakawitz, Jakawits, Qʼaqʼawits and Hacavitz) was a mountain god of the Postclassic Kʼicheʼ Maya of highland Guatemala. He was the patron of the Ajaw Kʼicheʼ lineage and was a companion of the sun god Tohil. It is ...

, fire god who was a companion of the sun god

Tohil Tohil (, also spelled Tojil) was a deity of the Kʼicheʼ Maya in the Late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica. At the time of the Spanish Conquest, Tohil was the patron god of the Kʼicheʼ. Tohil's principal function was that of a fire deity a ...

Navajo mythology

* Black God, frail stellar fire god who introduced the fire drill to humanity

Purépecha mythology

* Curicaueri, the primordial fire that originates the sun. Main deity of the purépecha people of central Mexico.

Quechua mythology

* Manqu Qhapaq, fire and sun god who founded the Inca civilization and introduced technology to humanity * Mama Nina, Her name means "Mother of fire" in quechua, she's the goddess of fire, light and volcanoes

Oceanian mythology

Fijian mythology

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, fire and fertility god who taught humanity to use fire

Hawaiian mythology

* Pele, goddess of fire, wind, and volcanoes

Māori mythology

Auahitūroa Auahitūroa is a male Māori deity, personification of comets, and the origin of fire. His consort is Mahuika, the goddess of fire. See also *Māori mythology Māori mythology and Māori traditions are two major categories into which the r ...

, god of fire and comets and husband of Mahuika * Mahuea, goddess of fire *

Mahuika Mahuika is a Māori fire deity. Generally, Mahuika is female and wife of the god Auahitūroa. Myths In some versions, she is the younger sister of Hine-nui-te-pō, goddess of death. It was from her that Māui (in some versions he is her grands ...

, goddess of fire who was tricked into revealing to her grandson Māui the knowledge of fire *

Ngā Mānawa Ngā Mānawa, in a tradition of the Ngāti Awa, a Māori tribe of the eastern Bay of Plenty in New Zealand's North Island, was the collective name for the Fire Children, the five sons of Mahuika and Auahitūroa. The names of the Fire Children a ...

, five fire gods who are sons of Auahitūroa and Mahuika

Samoan mythology

* Ti'iti'i, god of fire that brought fire to people of Samoa after a battle with the earthquake god, Mafui'e.

Putarsim mythology

* Emharti, goddess of fire, water, and opposition. One of the 3 firstborns of Saulis and Menesla

References

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