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Gods of Darkness

3 deities from 3 traditions whose entries in this atlas list darkness among their domains, grouped by tradition.

Mesopotamian

1 deity

Ereshkigal

underworld · death · darkness

Queen of the Underworld and sister of Inanna. Ereshkigal rules the land of no return with absolute authority, from which no one, god or mortal, escapes unchanged.

Norse

1 deity

Höðr

darkness · winter (by later association with his brother Baldr's death)

A blind son of Odin who, in Snorri Sturluson's telling, unknowingly kills his brother Baldr with a mistletoe dart at Loki's instigation. Saxo Grammaticus preserves a very different, non-mythological account of the same figure as a rival human prince.

Persian

1 deity

Angra Mainyu

destruction · the lie (druj) · death

The Hostile Spirit of Zoroastrianism, source of death, lies, and every plague, who in the Vendidad 'counter-creates' an evil against each good land Ahura Mazda makes, and who will be defeated at the end of time.

Quick answers

Who is the Mesopotamian god of darkness?
In the Mythos Atlas catalog, the Mesopotamian deity whose domains include darkness is Ereshkigal.
Who is the Norse god of darkness?
In the Mythos Atlas catalog, the Norse deity whose domains include darkness is Höðr.
Who is the Persian god of darkness?
In the Mythos Atlas catalog, the Persian deity whose domains include darkness is Angra Mainyu.

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