Mediterranean
Greek Pantheon
The Greek pantheon encompasses the gods and goddesses of ancient Greek mythology, centered on Mount Olympus and featuring the twelve Olympians who ruled after the Titanomachy.
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Scandinavia
Norse Pantheon
The Norse pantheon includes the Aesir and Vanir gods of Scandinavian mythology, centered in Asgard and featuring stories of creation, heroism, and the prophesied end of the world known as Ragnarok.
Nile River Valley
Egyptian Pantheon
The Egyptian pantheon encompasses the gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt, featuring creation deities, solar worship, the afterlife, and the eternal struggle between order (Ma'at) and chaos (Isfet).
Italian Peninsula and Mediterranean
Roman Pantheon
The Roman pantheon adapted Greek mythology while emphasizing duty, piety, and state religion. Romans identified their gods with Greek counterparts but maintained distinct rituals, festivals, and a practical approach to divine favor.
Indian Subcontinent
Hindu Pantheon
Hindu mythology encompasses thousands of years of religious and philosophical tradition from the Indian subcontinent. Centered on the Trimurti (Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and Shiva the Destroyer) and featuring countless gods, goddesses, and avatars.
Japanese Archipelago
Japanese Pantheon
Shinto (Way of the Kami) is the indigenous spirituality of Japan, featuring countless kami (divine spirits or gods) associated with natural phenomena, ancestors, and sacred places.
Western Europe
Celtic Pantheon
The deities of the Celtic peoples, associated with nature, magic, war, and sovereignty. Known for the Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish mythology.
Central Mexico
Aztec Pantheon
A complex pantheon centered on duality, sacrifice, and the sun, demanding blood sacrifice to sustain the cosmos.
China
Chinese Pantheon
A vast bureaucracy of gods, spirits, and immortals reflecting the imperial government on earth, blending Taoism, Buddhism, and folk religion.
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian Pantheon
The gods of ancient Sumer, Akkad, and Babylon - humanity's oldest recorded mythology. These deities shaped the earliest written literature and influenced all subsequent Near Eastern religions.
Africa and the African diaspora
African Traditions
A regional collection, not a pantheon: beings from African traditions that do not yet have their own entry on this site. Yoruba orisha and Akan figures such as Nyame and Anansi now have their own pages.
Pacific Ocean
Polynesian Pantheon
The gods and spirits of Polynesian mythology span the vast Pacific Ocean, from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Featuring powerful creator gods, the trickster demigod Maui, and deep connections to the sea, navigation, and volcanic forces.
Central America and Mexico
Mesoamerican Pantheon
Mesoamerican mythology encompasses Aztec, Maya, Olmec, and other pre-Columbian traditions. Featuring feathered serpent deities, cosmic cycles of creation and destruction, underworld journeys, and the belief that sacrifice sustains the universe.
Eastern & Central Europe
Slavic Pantheon
The gods of the pre-Christian Slavic peoples, known almost entirely through hostile outside witnesses, a handful of chronicle entries, and the outlines that survived Christianization inside later folklore.
Northeastern Woodlands
Haudenosaunee Tradition
A living tradition of the sovereign Haudenosaunee nations: Sky Woman's fall to Turtle Island, the twins Sapling and Flint, and the Peacemaker's founding of the Great Law of Peace, told today by the people who tell it.
Pacific Northwest Coast
Tlingit and Haida Tradition
A living Northwest Coast tradition of the Tlingit and Haida nations, centered on Raven: stealing daylight from a wealthy old man's boxes, and freeing the first people from a clamshell on the beach at Haida Gwaii.
West Africa and the Americas
Yoruba Tradition
The orisha of Yoruba religion, a living tradition centred on Ile-Ife: Olodumare above, Obatala and Oduduwa at the making of the land, Orunmila and Ifa divination, and orisha such as Ogun, Shango, Oshun, and Yemoja who crossed the Atlantic into Santería, Candomblé, and related faiths.
Ghana and eastern Côte d’Ivoire
Akan Tradition
The sky god Nyame and the earth Asase Yaa, the river abosom such as Tano, and Kwaku Ananse the spider, who bought the world's stories from Nyame: the religious and storytelling tradition of the Akan peoples of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
Anatolia and northern Syria
Hittite Pantheon
The "thousand gods of Hatti": the layered pantheon of the Hittite kingdom, where a native storm-god and sun-goddess stood beside Hattian local deities and Hurrian gods whose myths, the Song of Kumarbi and the Song of Ullikummi, were translated into Hittite at the capital Hattusa.
The Levant
Canaanite Pantheon (Ugarit)
The gods of the Late Bronze Age Levant as the clay tablets of Ugarit preserve them: aged El and Lady Athirat at the head of the divine family, and the storm-god Baal, who defeats the Sea, builds his palace on Mount Zaphon, and is swallowed by Death before he returns.
The Arctic, from northern Alaska across Canada to Greenland
Inuit Tradition
A living Arctic tradition whose powers go by different names from region to region: the Sea Woman who keeps the sea animals (Sedna, Nuliajuk, Takannaaluk, Sassuma Arnaa), the Moon Man and Sun Woman, and Sila, the breath of the world, told by Inuit from Alaska to Greenland.
Australia
Aboriginal Australian Traditions
Not one mythology but the living laws and stories of hundreds of Aboriginal nations, often called the Dreaming in English. This entry is a respectful introduction limited to stories that their custodians have chosen to share publicly, each attributed to its people and Country.
Diné Bikéyah
Diné (Navajo) Tradition
The living tradition of the Diné, the People, whose Holy People (Diyin Dineʼé) include Changing Woman, the Hero Twins Monster Slayer and Born for Water, First Man and First Woman, Spider Woman, and Coyote; told here only at summary level, with seasonal and ceremonial restrictions respected.
Andes
Inca and Andean Tradition
The religion of the Inca state and the older Andean shrines it absorbed: Viracocha the maker rising from Lake Titicaca, Inti the Sun as ancestor of the Inca kings, and the mountain and coastal huacas of the Huarochirí Manuscript, all known through writers of the colonial era.
Iranian plateau and Central Asia
Persian (Iranian) Tradition
The divine beings and heroes of ancient Iran in two distinct layers: the Zoroastrian scripture of the Avesta, with Ahura Mazda, Angra Mainyu, Mithra, and Anahita, and Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, which a thousand years later retold Iran's primeval kings and heroes as epic.
Finland and Karelia
Finnish Tradition (Kalevala)
The gods and heroes of Finnish and Karelian runo-song, known from Mikael Agricola's list of 1551, from thousands of folk poems collected in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and above all from Elias Lönnrot's national epic, the Kalevala.
Korean Peninsula and Manchuria
Korean Tradition
The founders and gods of Korean tradition: Dangun, born of the Lord of Heaven's son and a bear who became a woman; the egg-born kings Jumong and Bak Hyeokgeose; and the goddesses and creators of shamanic song, such as Princess Bari, guide of the dead, and Mireuk, who separated heaven from earth.
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How to use the pantheon guide
Each pantheon page is a fast orientation layer before you dive into individual gods, stories, creatures, and places. Prefer a study route? Try the Greek gods study guide, the Norse mythology guide, or comparative mythology.