Ra
The supreme solar deity and creator god. Ra travels across the sky each day in his solar barque and through the underworld each night, battling the serpent Apophis.
Divine domains
Gods of Kingship
23 deities from 11 traditions whose entries in this atlas list kingship among their domains, grouped by tradition.
Egyptian
Amun
Originally a primordial member of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad, Amun rose to become the state god of Thebes and, fused with the sun god Ra as Amun-Ra, the supreme deity of Egypt's New Kingdom empire, worshipped at the vast Karnak temple complex.
Horus
Sky god whose eyes are the sun and moon. Son of Osiris and Isis, he avenged his father by defeating Set in battle, becoming the rightful king.
Geb
God of the earth, son of Shu, consort of Nut, and father of Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys. Geb is depicted reclining beneath the arched figure of Nut, and stands within the Ennead's line of divine kingship passed down from Atum through Shu to Osiris.
Korean
Jumong
The egg-born son of Heaven and of the River Earl's daughter, a peerless archer who flees East Buyeo when fish and turtles rise to bridge a river for him, founds Goguryeo at Jolbon, and in the earliest account ascends to heaven on a yellow dragon.
Bak Hyeokgeose
The egg-born founder of Silla, found by the six village chiefs beside the Najeong well where a white horse knelt and then rose into heaven; crowned at thirteen with his queen Aryeong, born from a dragon at another well.
Haemosu
The Son of Heaven who descends in a five-dragon chariot, seduces Yuhwa, daughter of the River Earl, by the Amnok (Yalu) River, and becomes the father of Jumong, founder of Goguryeo.
Mesopotamian
Anu
King of the gods and lord of the heavens. Anu is the supreme deity of the Mesopotamian pantheon, father of the gods, and source of all royal authority.
Marduk
Chief god of Babylon and slayer of Tiamat. Marduk rose from a minor deity to supreme god of the Babylonian pantheon after defeating the primordial chaos dragon and creating the world from her body.
Gilgamesh
The legendary king of Uruk, two-thirds divine and one-third mortal. Gilgamesh is the protagonist of humanity's oldest epic and a deified hero who became a judge of the underworld.
Celtic
Lugh
The master of all skills and arts. A youthful warrior king who led the Tuatha Dé Danann to victory against the Fomorians.
Nuada Airgetlám
The first king of the Tuatha Dé Danann, who lost his arm in battle and his throne with it—until Dian Cécht forged him a working hand of silver.
Hittite
Sun-goddess of Arinna
The Hattian sun-goddess of the holy city of Arinna, queen of the land of Hatti and, with the Storm-god, the highest deity of the Hittite state cult; Queen Puduhepa's prayer equates her with the Hurrian goddess Hebat.
Tarhunna (the Storm-god of Hatti)
The chief god of the Hittite state: a storm-god of rain and thunder who gives the land its fertility, fights the serpent Illuyanka, and, under his Hurrian name Teššub, wins kingship in heaven in the Kumarbi cycle.
Inca and Andean
Inti
The Sun, divine ancestor of the Inca kings and center of the state cult, worshipped in the gold-sheathed Coricancha of Cusco and at the June solstice festival of Inti Raymi.
Manco Cápac
The first Inca, founder of Cusco, presented by Garcilaso as a son of the Sun sent to Lake Titicaca with his sister-wife Mama Ocllo, and by Betanzos and Sarmiento as the leader of four brothers and four sisters who emerged from a cave at Pacaritambo.
Persian
Ahura Mazda
The Wise Lord, uncreated creator of the good world in Zoroastrianism, addressed by Zarathushtra in the Gathas and credited by the Achaemenid kings with their rule; opposed by the Hostile Spirit, Angra Mainyu.
Yima
The first king, son of Vivahvant, under whose rule there was neither cold nor heat, age nor death; in the Vendidad he builds an enclosure to preserve life from devastating winters, and in the Shahnameh, as Jamshid, he loses the royal Glory through pride.
Yoruba
Aztec
Xiuhtecuhtli
The god of fire, time, and the calendar. Xiuhtecuhtli was the oldest deity, dwelling at the center of the universe in the hearth fire that connected all realms. He presided over the New Fire ceremony every 52 years.
Mesoamerican
Kinich Ahau
The Maya sun god with large square eyes and jaguar features. Kinich Ahau rules the daytime sky and transforms into the Jaguar God when traveling through the underworld at night.
Roman
Jupiter
King of the gods and god of sky, lightning, and thunder. Supreme deity of the Roman state religion, protector of Rome and source of divine authority for Roman emperors.
Parallels across traditions
Editorial comparisons recorded on these entries; a shared role does not establish a shared origin.
Ra (Egyptian) and Anu (Mesopotamian)
Anu already lists Ra; both are the foundational sky/sun god of their pantheon's cosmic order
Compare Ra and AnuKinich Ahau (Mesoamerican) and Ra (Egyptian)
Both are sun gods who journey through the underworld at night
Compare Kinich Ahau and Ra
Quick answers
- Who is the Egyptian god of kingship?
- In the Mythos Atlas catalog, the Egyptian deities whose domains include kingship are Ra, Amun, Horus and Geb.
- Who is the Korean god of kingship?
- In the Mythos Atlas catalog, the Korean deities whose domains include kingship are Jumong, Bak Hyeokgeose and Haemosu.
- Who is the Mesopotamian god of kingship?
- In the Mythos Atlas catalog, the Mesopotamian deities whose domains include kingship are Anu, Marduk and Gilgamesh.
- Who is the Celtic god of kingship?
- In the Mythos Atlas catalog, the Celtic deities whose domains include kingship are Lugh and Nuada Airgetlám.
- Who is the Hittite god of kingship?
- In the Mythos Atlas catalog, the Hittite deities whose domains include kingship are Sun-goddess of Arinna and Tarhunna (the Storm-god of Hatti).
- Who is the Inca and Andean god of kingship?
- In the Mythos Atlas catalog, the Inca and Andean deities whose domains include kingship are Inti and Manco Cápac.
Related domains
Built from each deity's catalog entry. See every domain side by side on Divine Domains, or browse every cross-pantheon parallel.