Gods and Goddess

Norse

Aesir Principal race of gods in Norse mythology.

Andhrimnir The cook of the Aesir.

Angrboda Goddess and wife of Loki

Astrild Goddess of love.

Atla Water goddess.

Audhumla The primeval cow, formed from the melting ice.

Balder Fairest of the gods

Beyla The servant of Freyr.

Borghild Goddess of the evening mist or moon, she slays the sun each evening.

Bragi God of poets and the patron of all skaldi (poets) in Norse culture.

Brono The son of Balder. He is the god of daylight.

Bylgia Water goddess.

Dagur The personification of day, he drives the day chariot across the sky.

Disen A group of goddess in old Norse mythology. Called the ''Dis of the Vanir''.

Eir Goddess of healing and shamanic healers, companion of the goddess Frigg

Elli Goddess of old age.

Fenrir Also known as Fenris. The great wolf, child of Loki and Angrboda

Forseti God of justice who settles court disputes in his gilded hall.

Freya Goddess of love, beauty and sensuality.

Freyr God of fertility, sun and rain.

Frigg Wife of Odin and the goddess of marriage and fertility.

Gefion Goddess of agriculture and the plough.

Gerd The wife of Freyr and a goddess of fertility. She is the personification of the fertile soil.

Heimdall God of light and protection.

Hel The goddess of death and ruler of the realm of the dead.

Hermod The messenger of the gods. Often equated to the Greek god Hermes.

Hod Blind god of darkness and winter.

Holler God of disease and destruction.

Idun Goddess of the spring, eternal youth and the keeper of the golden apples

Jord Goddess of the primitive and unpopulated earth.

Jormungand The Midgard Serpent

Kari Leader of the storm giants.

Kvasir The wisest of the Vanir gods.

Laga Goddess of wells and springs.

Lofn Goddess of forbidden love, who blesses all illicit love affairs.

Loki Trickster god of the Norse, concerned with thievery, magic and fire.

Magni Son of Thor and god of brute strength.

Mani God of the moon and brother of the sun goddess Sol.

Miming Minor forest god.

Mimir Wisest god of the Aesir, sent in a hostage trade to the rival Vanir gods.

Modi God of battle wrath, he was the leader of the berserkers.

Njord God of the sea, wind and fire. He bestows good fortune to those on the sea.

Norns The triple goddesses of fate and destiny.

Nott Goddess of night who mans the night-charion in it's track through the sky.

Odin The chief god of the Aesir and most important of the Norse deities.

Ran Goddess of storms and the drowned dead.

Saga Goddess of poetry and history.

Sif Wife of Thor, and possibly an ancient fertility goddess.

Sjofn Goddess of love, passion and marital harmony.

Skadi A frost giant and goddess of winter.

Sleipnir The eight-legged horse of Odin

Sol Goddess of the sun, who guides the sun-chariot through the sky.

Syn Goddess of watchfulness and truth.

Thor Thunder-god and the protector of men and gods.

Tyr The original god of war in the Germanic culture

Ull God of justice and duelling, archery and skiing.

Vali Son of Odin, and the god born to avenge the death of Balder.

Valkyries The battle-maidens, who choose the best warriors

Vanir A group of fertility and nature gods

Var Goddess of contracts and marriage agreements

Vidar Son of Odin and the god of silence and vengeance.

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Roman

Jupiter - King of the Gods
Juno - Queen of the Gods
Neptune - God of the Sea
Pluto - God of Death
Apollo - God of the Sun
Diana - Goddess of the Moon
Mars - God of War
Venus - Goddess of Love
Cupid - God of Love
Mercury - Messenger of the Gods
Minerva - Goddess of Wisdom
Ceres - The Earth Goddess
Proserpine - Goddess of the Underworld
Vulcan - The Smith God
Bacchus - God of Wine
Saturn - God of Time
Vesta - Goddess of the Home
Janus - God of Doors
Uranus and Gaia - Parents of Saturn
Maia - Goddess of Growth
Flora - Goddess of Flowers
Plutus - God of Wealth

Celtic

Abarta
Location: Ireland.
Description: A God of the Tuatha De Danann. ''Performer of feats.''
Rules Over: Understanding the destructive nature of jealousy, teamwork.

Accasbel
Location: Ireland.
Description: A Partholan who is credited with making the first tavern (pub) in Ireland. Most likely was an early God of wine or meade.
Rules Over: Mabon vine harvest, Beltane's blessing of the meade.

Achtland
Description: Goddess queen who no mortal man could sexually satisfy, so she took a giant from the faery realm as her mate.
Rules Over: Sex magick.

Addanc
Other Names: Affanc.
Location: Wales.
Description: Primordial Giant/God who created and rode the crest of the flood near his home on the Lake of Waves. Was once a deity worshipped by the people of the lake region but who is now reduced to faery or evil demi-god. In modern times the word Addanc is used to describe any evil fresh water-dwelling faery of Wales.
Rules Over: Erasing an event/person/etc from your mind, erasing unwanted thoughts so you can have a fresh start.

Adsullata
Location: Britain.
Description: Goddess of hot springs who came to Brittany from Celtic Gaul. A minor sun Goddess in her own right before the time when the Cels relegated the majority of their sun images to male deities and their moon images to female ones.
Rules Over: Purification, solar magick.

Aerten
Other Names: Aerfen, Aeron.
Location: Wales, Cornish.
Description: Goddess of Fate who presided over the outcome of war between several Celtic clans. She had a shrine at Glyndyfrdwy on the banks of the River Dee, where legend has it that three human sacrifices had to be made every three years to ensure success in future battles. Her symbol was the double-bladed axe.
Rules Over: Peace, overcoming enemies.

Aesun
Location: Ireland.
Description: Early Irish God whose name means ''to be.'' Most likely part of a lost creation myth. Aesun was also known by the Persians and Umbria and Scandinavia.

Aeval
Other Names: Aebhel.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess who in popular legend is a faery, who held a midnight court to hear the debate on whether the men of her province were keeping their women sexually satisfied or not. She commanded that the men bow to the women's sexual wishes.
Rules Over: Lust, sex magick, wisdom in making judgements.

Agrona
Location: Wales.
Description: Slaughter goddess often equated with the Morrigu.
Rules Over: War, slaughter.

Aibell
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of Munster whose legends were almost lost until she was 'demoted' to a faery queen. She had in her possession a magickal harp which did her bidding, but which human ears could not hear or else the eavesdropper would soon die. She was associated with stones and leaves.
Rules Over: Protection, music, earth magick, ecological magick.

Aibheaog
Location: Ireland.
Description: Fire goddess who had a magick well that contained mighty healing powers, especially effective against toothache so long as the petitioner left a small white stone at the well to represent the decayed tooth. She is associated with wells and the number 5.
Rules Over: Healing, Midsummer well rituals.

Aife
Other Names: Aoife.
Location: Ireland, Scotland.
Description: Goddess and queen of the Isle of Shadow. She ran a school for warriors, but her school was less successful than her sister, Scathach's, school. Aife was not vulnerable to magick, and commanded a legion of fierce horsewomen. She stole an alphabet of knowledge from the deities to give to humankind. For that infraction, she was transformed into a crane by the elder deities. Supposedly, she was accidently killed by hunters but yet others say she still haunts the countryside in this form today. She is associated with the three fold law and the crane.
Rules Over: Protection, general knowledge, teaching, pathworking, lessons of the threefold law.

Aimend
Location: Ireland, Scotland.
Description: Minor Sun Goddess who is thought to be the daughter of the king of the region known as Corco Loidhe.

Aine of Knockaine
Location: Ireland.
Description: Moon Goddess who was connected with the Summer Solstice.
Rules Over: Crops and cattle.

Airmid
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of medicine and all healing arts to the Tuatha De Danann. She was looked upon as a magician and herbalist of great reputation. She was also a craftswoman who, with her brother, helped create the famed silver hand of Nuada.
Rules Over: Magick, healing, learning, herbalism, understanding family loyalty, inspiration to craftspeople.

Albion
Description: Son of a forgotten Sea God who may have been part of a lost creation myth. Was once said to rule the Celtic world. His name became the poetic name for Britain.

Alisanos
Description: Gaulish God of stones about whom very little is known. Probably a deity of the standing stones of Brittany.
Rules Over: Fertility.

Almha
Location: Ireland.
Description: Basically all her myths are lost to us today. What is known about her is that she was a Goddess of the Tuatha De Danann and that a hill in southern Ireland was named for her.

Ambisagrus
Other Names: Bussumarus.
Location: Britain.
Description: Originally from Gaul, where his Celtic identity was lost during the Roman takeover where he took all the characteristics of the Roman God Jupiter. Weather deity who controlled the rain, wind, hail and fog.
Rules Over: Weather magick, leadership.

Ancasta
Description: A Goddess who survives only in her name through an inscription on a stone in Hampshire. It is a possibility she is related to Andraste.

Andraste
Location: Britain.
Description: War Goddess who was evoked on the eve of the battle to bring favor, and possibly ritual sacrifices were given to her. Queen Boadicea of the Iceni offered sacrifieces to Andraste in a sacred grove before fighting the Romans on her many compaigns against them.
Rules Over: Overcoming enemies.

Angus Mac Og
Other Names: Angus of the Brugh, Oengus of the Bruig, Angus Mac Oc, Aengus MacOg.
Location: Ireland.
Description: One of the Tuatha De Dannan who had a golden harp that could create incredibly sweet music. He had a brugh (fairy palace) on the banks of the Boyne.
Rules Over: Youth, love, music magick, protection of lovers, dream work, creativity and beauty.

Anu
Other Names: Anann, Dana, Dana-Ana, Catana.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Mother Earth, Great Goddess, Greatest of all Goddesses. Another aspect of the Morrigu. The fertility Goddess, sometimes she formed a trinity with Badb and Macha. Her priestesses comforted and taught the dying. Fires were lit for her on Midsummer. Guardian of cattle and health.
Rules Over: Fertility, prosperity, comfort, health, cattle.

Arawn
Other Names: Arawyn, Arrawn, Arawen.
Location: Wales.
Description: King of Hell, God of Annwn. Ruled the underground kingdom of the dead.
Rules Over: Revenge, terror, war, spirit contact, picking magickal names, strengthening friendships, reincarnation.

Ard Greimme
Location: Ireland, Scotland.
Description: Father of the famed warrioress sister Aife and Scathach. Once a Sun God.
Rules Over: Fire magick.

Ardwinna
Other Names: Dea Arduinna.
Location: Britain.
Description: Woodland and animal Goddess who haunted the forests of Ardennes riding a wild boar. She commanded a fine for any animal killed on her land, yet asked for animal sacrifices on her feast day.
Rules over: Animals, familiars, woodlands.

Ariadne
Description: The only Greek Goddess known to have been worshipped in Celtic Gaul. Her name is derived from the word arachnid. Ariadne spun the universe from the primordial darkness like a spider spins her web, a theme with echoes in the creation myths of many other cultures. She is thought to be very 'unceltic' and to have been brought with the Celts on their long journey across the European continent. She is associated with spider web, sulphur, thread, yarn.
Rules Over: Protection, magick, manifestation, time.

Arianrhod
Location: Wales.
Description: Keeper of the circling Silver Wheel of Stars, a symbol of time and karma. Mother aspect of the Triple Goddess. Honored at the Full Moon.
Rules Over: Beauty, fertility, reincarnation.

Arnamentia
Description: Goddess of spring waters who was once a minor solar deity.
Rules Over: Healing and purification.

Artaius
Description: God of sheep and cattle herders from Celtic Gaul. Later, the Romans identified him with Mercury.
Rules Over: Sheep, cattle.

King Arthur
Location: Wales, Cornwall.
Description: Most likely based on a seventh-century king named Artorius who led the fight to drive the Saxons from Britain, and later his legend was merged with that of a now-forgotten father/sacrificial God. Because of the strength of his legends, some consider him a God (even if only archtypically), father figure, warrior, leader, sacrificial king, protector and defender of justice and mercy. Son of King Uther Pendragon and Igraine, the Duchess of Cornwall. Taught and protected by the magician/Druid Merlin, married Guinevere, and was mortally wounded in battle by his son Modred (Morgan LeFay's child). Arthur's body was carried to Avalon to sleep and await the time when he is needed. He is a sacrificial God/king in the purest sense. The oldest legends surrounding him are found in The Black Book of Caermarthen.
Rules Over: Nearly anything is said to be able to be helped by King Arthur.

Artio
Description: Bear Goddess whose shrine once stood in what is now Berne, Switzerland. She is usually depicted as being surrounded by full baskets and animals. Goddess of fertility and wildlife. She is associated with the bear, claws and teeth, geode stones.
Rules Over: Fertility, animals, strenght, courage.

Badb
Other Names: Badhbh, Badb Catha, Bellona, Cauth Bodva.
Location: Ireland.
Description: The cauldron of ever-producing life. War Goddess and wife of Net. Mother aspect of Triple Goddess. Associated with the cauldron, crows and ravens.
Rules Over: Life, wisdom, inspiration, enlightenment.

Baile of the Honeyed Speech
Location: Ireland.
Description: God of Blarney, the speech valued in Irish culture.
Rules Over: Quick and clear thinking, speeches, ideas, impressing someone, mental activity, speaking, love magick, protection for lovers, blessing magickal wands.

Ban-Chuideachaidh Moire
Location: Ireland.
Description: Old Goddess who appears in modern Irish legends as the midwife who assisted the Christian Virgin Mary with her birth, and was also a title applied to St. Bridget (very obviously referring to the goddess Brigit). A once forgotten goddess of childbirth.
Rules Over: Childbirth.

Banba
Location: Ireland.
Description: Part of a triad with Fotia and Eriu. They used magick to repel invaders.
Rules Over: Repulsion of invaders.

Barinthus
Location: Wales.
Description: Charioteer to the residents of the Otherworld who was most likely once a Sea or Sun God.

Bechoil
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess whose legends have been lost. Perhaps an early version of Dana.

Becuma
Location: Ireland.
Description: Tuatha Goddess who ruled over magickal boats and had a weakness for sleeping with High Kings at Tara. At that time, kings ruled by permission of their consorts and thus the act of her sleeping with them gave these human men permission to rule over the divine Tuatha De Danann. Becuma was an outcast among her own people because of her behavior and eventually the Milesians took over Ireland, supplanting the Tuatha altogether. She was also banished to the human world for having a torrid romance with Gaiar, a son of Manann. She married Conn of the Hundred Battles. She was fiercely jealous of his pride in his son, Art, and sought to banish him from Conn's kingdom but her plans failed and she left. She now resides in the Otherworld.
Rules Over: Overcoming jealousy.

Bel
Other Names: Belenus, Belinos, Beli Mawr, Beli, Bile, Beltene.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Closely connected with the Druids. His name was seen in festivals of Beltane/Beltain. Cattles were also driven through the bonfires for purification and fertility.
Rules Over: Science, healing, hot springs, fire, success, prosperity, purification, crops vegetation, fertility, cattle.

Belisama
Description: Goddess of the Mersey River.

Berecyntia
Description: An Earth Goddess, perhaps a Gaulish version of Brid.
Rules Over: Elemental earth magick, fertility.

Bladud
Location: Wales.
Description: Sun God who is associated with the sacred English hot spring known as Aquae Sulis. Depicted as a very virile male figure with flaming hair.
Rules Over: Protection, employment, any endeavors governed by the Sun.

Blai
Location: Ireland.
Description: A Faery Queen with a burgh of her own Drumberg. Represents a personal or mascot deity to Ossian.
Rules Over: Faery contact.

Blathnat
Location: Ireland.
Description: Probably a form of the more popular Welsh Goddess, Blodeuwedd. She traveled the island with three cows tied to her cauldron and commanded that warriors perform feats of superhuman proportions for her amusement. Associated with Roses, cauldron and cow trinities.
Rules Over: Abundance, fertility.

Blodeuwedd
Other Names: Wlodwin, Blancheflor.
Location: Wales.
Description: Lily maid of Celtic initiation ceremonies. Known as the Ninefold Goddess of the Western Isles of Paradise. Created by Math and Gwydion as a wife for Lleu. The Maiden form of the Triple Goddess, her symbol was the owl.
Rules Over: Flowers, wisdom, lunar mysteries, initiations.

Bo Dhu
Location: Ireland.
Description: Black cow Goddess who helped bring fertility to barren Ireland.
Rules Over: Fertility, anti-hunger, prosperity.

Bo Find
Location: Ireland.
Description: ''White cow.'' This is how she manifested long long ago on the barren and fruitless mass that would become green Ireland. She came from the Western Sea with her sisters, the Red Cow Goddess (Bo Ruadh), and the black cow Goddess (Bo Dhu). These colors are also those of the Celtic Triple Goddess, which they obviously represent. The black cow went to the south of Ireland and the red traveled to the north while Bo Find came to the center. When Bo Find came to the site which is thought to be near modern-day Tara, she gave birth to twin calves, a male and female who would feed her people forever and ever. Then she and her sisters returned to the sea. They are honored at Mabon.
Rules Over: Fertility, anti-hunger, prosperity.

Bo Ruadh
Location: Ireland.
Description: Red cow Goddess who helped bring fertility to barren Ireland.
Rules Over: Fertility, anti-hunger, prosperity.

Boann
Other Names: Boannan, Boyne.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of the river Boyne.
Rules Over: Healing, fertility, water magick.

Bodua
Description: War Goddess much like the Irish Badb.
Rules Over: War.

Bormanus
Description: Thought to be one of the earliest Celtic Gods. Nothing is known about him today though he may have later surfaced as Borvo, a Breton God of hot springs. His name appears in cameo in old manuscripts and carvings.

Borvo
Location: Britain.
Description: God of hot springs who replaced his mother, Sirona, in this function when her story was patriarchalized. The spring he ruled had great healing powers.
Rules Over: Healing.

Bran The Blessed
Other Names: Benedigeidfran, Bran, Bran MacFebal.
Location: Wales.
Description: A giant associated with ravens.
Rules Over: Prophecy, the arts, leaders, war, the sun, music, writing.

Branwen
Other Names: Branwyn.
Location: Manx, Wales.
Description: Venus of the Northern Seas, of the the three matriarchs of Britain. Lady of the Lake.
Rules Over: Love, beauty.

Breasal
Location: Wales, Cornwall.
Description: High King of the entire planet who made his home in the Otherworld which is sometimes called Hy- or I-Breasal in his honor. Some believe Breasal and his mystical western island might not have been the legendary continent of Atlantis. His world is visible to humans on only one night every seven years. When Portuguese explorers reached South America they mistakenly thought they had landed on Breasal's world and named the land they discovered ''Brazil'' in his honor.
Rules Over: Namespirit contact, guidance and protection for travelers and explorers.

Bregon
Location: Ireland.
Description: Minor Celtic figure who plays a role as either the human son of Milesius or the divine father of Bile and Ith.

Brenos
Description: War God to whom the victories at Allia and Delphi were attributed.

Briant
Description: Goddess of the river which holds her name.
Rules Over: Water magick.

Brigantia
Other Names: Britannia.
Location: Britain.
Description: A Goddess of sovereignty and often thought of as the Brigit of England. In 1667 Charles I had her face placed on the coinage where it remains today, reviving an old custom, first instated by the Romans who adopted her as their own.
Rules Over: Sovereignty, self-control, leadership, protection of your land, prosperity.

Brigit
Other Names: Brid, Brig, Brigid, Brighid, Brigindo.
Location: Ireland, Wales, Spain, France.
Description: Associated with Imbolc. She had an exclusive female priesthood at Kildare and an ever-burning fire. She had 19 priestesses representing the 19-year cycle of the Celtic ''Great Year.''
Rules Over: Fire, fertility, the hearth, all feminine arts and crafts, martial arts, healing, physicians, agriculture, inspiration, learning, poetry, divination, prophecy, smithcraft, animal husbandry, love, witchcraft, occult knowledge.

Bronach
Location: Ireland.
Description: Crone Goddess linked to forgotten Samhain rituals. Reclaim this forgotten Samhain Goddess at your own seasonal rites.

Caer Ibormeith
Location: Ireland.
Description: Usually thought of as a Goddess of sleep and dreams and a less violent version of Mare. She usually took the form of a swan who lived on a lake called Dragon's Mouth and she wore a golden chain with one hundred and thirty golden balls on a silver chain worn around her neck. Aengus MacOg fell in love with her in a dream and sought her when he awoke. When he found her he, too, became a swan and they flew to Bruigh na Boinne to Aengus' megalithic site north of Tara where they sang the most beautiful song which put all of Ireland into a peaceful slumber for three days and three nights. She is connected to the horse and the moon.
Rules Over: Dreams, prophetic dreams, falling asleep, music magick.

Caillech
Other Names: Cailleach, Carlin, Mala Liath.
Location: Ireland, Scotland, Manx.
Description: Goddess in her Destroyer aspect.
Rules Over: Disease, plauge, cursing, wisdom, seasonal rites, weather magick.

Caireen
Location: Ireland.
Description: Once a protective Mother Goddess, a defender of you and patron of children. Associated with holly leaves.
Rules Over: Children, protection.

Cally Berry
Location: Ireland.
Description: Often equated with the Caillech Bheur of Scotland althought in northern Irish legends she appears as a maiden Goddess, representation of spring, the hunt and guardian of animals. It is thought that she might be a derivative of Artemis/Diana and that the crone images were later slapped onto her at a later date when the churchmen were attempting to purge her image. She sometimes took the form of a crane to fly about and predict storms. She is credited with being the creatrix of the Irish mountains, traditionally seen as the crone's earthly home.
Rules Over: Weather forecasting, animal magick, ecological magick.

Campestres
Description: Campestres is the Roman name of a lost Goddess of fields that was probably a fertility or harvest Goddess in Celtic Gaul.
Rules Over: Fertility.

Camulos
Description: War God from the region of Colchester which was once called by the Latin name Camulodunum in his honor.
Rules Over: War.

Canola
Location: Ireland.
Description: Believed to be one of the oldest of the Irish deities, Canola was the inventor of Ireland's long loved symbol, the harp. Lore has it that she fell asleep outdoors one day while listening to beautiful music and that upon waking she realized the music was being made by the wind beating upon the sinews of a gutted whale. She was then inspired to craft the instrument and recreate that wonderous sound.
Rules Over: Music magick, dream work, inspiration.

Caolainn
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess who was the guardian/queen of a magickal well in County Roscommon in western Ireland. She helped grant wishes, usually ones which taught the wishers that they didn't really want what they thought they did. Her myth is the origin of the well known 'wishing well' which is an image taken from the birth canal of the great mother earth from which all existence is created. She is associated with wishing wells and falling stars.
Rules Over: Wisdom, healing, fertility.

Carman
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of County Wexford and source name for Loch Garman, who was once honored at Lughnasadh. It is believed she has roots in the Greek grain Goddess, Demeter. Modern legend portrays her as a Goddess of black magick, one who can destroy anything by thrice chanting a spell. This is also the way that the Morrigu, particularly Badb, can destroy. However, this is not a manifestation of evil intent, but an end of the world prophecy common to many cultures.
Rules Over: Banishing magick.

Carne
Location: Britain, Cornwall.
Description: Most likely another version of Herne. See Cernunnos.

Carravogue
Other Names: Garbhog, Gheareagain.
Location: Ireland, Britain.
Description: Local Crone Goddess from County Meath who was transformed into a huge snake for eating forbidden berries. Her original purpose is basically lost in modern times because her stories became so absorbed by Christian legends which attempt to make her a Celtic Eve. It is believed St. Patrick tampered with her legends, which show that St. Patrick killed her with holy water that melted her, but from which she will arise from again. One of the many legends St. Patrick tampered with was that she was originally a virgin Goddess of spring who banished each year the crone she would eventually become in order to further his own aims. She is associated with the number 9.
Rules Over: Self-responsibility, reincarnation, earth magick.

Cathubodia
Description: Occasionally seen as a a Breton version of the Irish earth Goddess Banbha, most likely with origins in Gaul. Thought to be a war Goddess who shares Badb's energies.
Rules Over: War, earth magick.

Cebhfhionn
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of inspiration who was usually found next to the legendary Well of Knowledge from which she filled an endless vessel. She kept this sacred water from humans, feeling they could not handle its power. To merely taste of the waters meant to instantly possess great knowledge, wisdom and divine inspiration.
Rules Over: healing, mental powers, knowledge.

Cernunnos
Other Names: Cernowain, Cernenus, Herne The Hunter, Hu Gadarn, Belatucadros, Vitiris.
Location: Known to all the Celtic areas in one form or another.
Description: The Horned God, God of Nature, God of the Underworld. The Druids knew him as Hu Gadarn, the Horned God of Fertility. Usually depicted as sitting in a lotus position with horns/antlers on his head, a beard, naked except for a neck torque and sometimes holding a shield and spear. His symbols included the stag, ram, bull and horned serpent.
Rules Over: Virility, fertility, animals, physical love, Nature, woodlands, reincarnation, crossroads, wealth, commerce, warriors, hunt, magick, sacrifice.

Cerridwen
Other Names: Caridwen, Ceridwen.
Location: Wales, Scotland.
Description: Moon Goddess, Grain Goddess. Welsh Bards called themselves Cerddorion (sons of Cerridwen). The Bard, Taliesin, founder of their craft was said to be born of Cerridwen and to have tasted a potent from her magick cauldron of inspiration. In her magickal cauldron, she made a potion called greal (from which the word Grail most likely came from). The potion was made from six plants for inspiration and knowledge. Her symbol was a white sow.
Rules Over: Death, fertility, regeneration, inspiration, magick, astrology, herbs, science, poetry, spells, knowledge, wisdom, past lives, divination.

Cessair
Location: Ireland.
Description: Of the race known as the Partholans who were among the first to occupy Ireland, she is the first ruler of Ireland. Well known pre-Celtic Mother Goddess figure much like Dana. She led a journey of Partholans to the ''western edge of the world'' forty days before the great flood. Among her were her husband and one hundred and fifty mothers of the world. This legend shows how Pagans saw the Mother Goddess as a source of regeneration and life renewel. Cessair's ''I was here first'' image was so strong among Irish Pagans that when the Christians could not eliminate her, they made her the granddaughter of their flood savior, Noah. Because the native myths say Ireland was spared by the ravages of the great flood, Cessair perhaps was once seen as a water deity who had the power to save Ireland from the flood. She is associated with the rising sun and the cauldron.
Rules Over: Strength, perseverance, leadership, foresight, water magick, new beginnings.

Cethlion
Other Names: Cetnenn.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of the Formorians who was called ''crooked teeth.'' She prophesied the fall of her people to the Tuatha De Danann.
Rules Over: Prophecy, divination.

Chlaus Haistic
Location: Ireland.
Description: Ancient Goddess of unknown function who came down to earth as a powerful witch. Probably a crone Goddess.
Rules Over: Magick, druids.

Cian
Location: Ireland.
Description: God of medicine who went to retrieve a cow which had been stolen by Balor. Father of Lugh. Son of Diancecht. Husband of Ethne.
Rules Over: Love magick.

Cliodna
Other Names: Cleena, Cliodhna, Cliodna of the Fair Hair.
Location: Ireland, Scotland.
Description: Tuatha De Danann Sea and Otherworld Goddess who usually took the form of a sea bird and therefore symbolized the Celtic afterlife. As a Goddess of the waves, she was believed to be embodied in every ninth wave that broke on the shore. This wave was believed to break higher and stronger than any other.
Rules Over: Spirit contact, appreciation, beauty, water magick.

Clota
Other Names: Clud, Cludoita, Clwyd.
Location: Scotland, England, Wales.
Description: Well known Goddess and namesake of the River Clyde. The waters in which she governed were believed to be especially useful in controlling seizures.
Rules Over: Water magick.

Coinchend
Description: A semi-divine warrioress whose home was in the Otherworld.
Rules Over: Spirit contact.

Condatis
Description: God of confluence whose sacred places were wherever two rivers or bodies of water met.
Rules Over: Water magick.

Condwiramur
Location: Wales.
Description: Goddess of sovereignty who appears shortly in the Grail legends as the wife of Sir Percival in which she is wedded and then bedded by Percival who then immediately sets off for the Grail castle to which he is finally admitted.
Rules Over: Discovering your own feminine power, help in discovering the ancient grail mysteries, sovereignty.

Corchen
Location: Ireland, Manx.
Description: Ancient snake Goddess in which very little is known. She was probably once a regional mother earth Goddess, or Goddess of rebirth. Others conceive that her lost legends were once part of forgotten creation legends.
Rules Over: Past lives, earth magick, reincarnation.

Corra
Location: Scotland.
Description: Prophecy Goddess who regularly appeared in the form of a crane. She symbolizes transcendent knowledge and transitions to the Otherworld.
Rules Over: Divination, prophecy.

Coventina
Location: Scotland.
Description: One of the most potent of the Celtic river Goddesses. Most likely Roman in origin. She was also the Goddess of featherless flying creatures which may have symbolized some type of blockage to passing into the Otherworld. There is evidence she was worshipped in Celtic Gaul where reliefs have been found showing her reclining on a floating leaf.
Rules Over: Time, new beginnings, life cycles, wishes, protection of birds, divination, inspiration of self.

Cred
Other Names: Creide.
Location: Ireland, Scotland.
Description: Faery Queen Goddess who is associated with Dana's mountains, the Paps of Anu. She vowed never to sleep until she found a man who could create for her the most majestic poem ever penned. It not only had to be perfectly crafted, but describe in vivid detail her home and all its contents. The catch 22 was that no man was allowed within her dwelling's guarded walls (possibly a reference to one of the Otherworld realms known as The Land of Women). Coll, a warrior of the Fianna, succeeded and Cred married him. She is associated with Yew, rose oil, the color pink.
Rules Over: Love magick, searching for the perfect mate, keeping secrets, spirit contact.

Credne
Location: Ireland.
Description: God of metallurgy and smithing who worked in bronze. He created all the Tuatha's weapons with the goldsmith Goibniu and the woodworker Luchtain.
Rules Over: Self-defense, inspiration of artistic endeavors, blessing tools.

Creiddylad
Other Names: Creudylad, Cordelia.
Location: Wales.
Description: Connected with Beltane and often called the May Queen. Goddess of summer flowers.
Rules Over: Love, courage, strength of will and flowers.

Crobh Dearg
Other Names: Crove Dairg.
Location: Ireland.
Description: ''the red claw.'' War Goddess who is pos

Japan

Ama no Uzume
Description: Fertility goddess who performed teh lewd dance to draw Amaterasu out of the cave.
Rules Over: Good crops.

Amaterasu
Description: Guardian of the Japanese people, ruler of all deities. One of her tasks was to weave sacred robes for the gods, a habit kept alive today by modern Shinto priestesses.
Rules Over: Warmth, harvest, love, fertility, goodness, wisdom, peace, light, compassion.

Ama-Tsu-Kami
Description: Name given to the Gods of Heaven to distinguish them from the gods of the Earth (who are called the Kuni-Tsu-Kami).

Amida-nyorai
Other Names: Amida.
Description: A form of the Buddha.
Rules Over: Protection, forgiveness.

Benten
Other Names: Benzaiten.
Description: Only goddess of good luck.
Rules Over: Protection from earthquakes, inspiration and talent, wealth and romance.

Chimati no Kami
Descriptoin: God of crossroads and footpaths.
Rules Over: Fertility.

Emma-hoo
Other Names: Emma-o.
Description: Male Ruler of the Underworld.
Rules Over: Death, revenge, destruction.

Fugen Bosatsu
Description: A God.
Rules Over: Enlightening wisdom, intelligence, understanding, intuition, long life.

Hachiman
Description: Diefied historical figure after his death.
Rules Over: War, battle, bravery, honor, success in personal matters.

Haya-ji
Other Names: Haya-tsu-mujo no Kami.
Description: God of the winds.
Rules Over: Winds, whirlwinds.

Ida-ten
Description: Guardian of the Law.
Rules Over: Justice, law, victory, purity.

Inari
Description: Goddess, sometimes a god, of rice.
Rules Over: Shopkeepers, merchants, business, prosperity, smithing, sword blades.

Ishikore-dome
Description: Stone-Coagulating Old Woman who was a smith-goddess who created the first mirror from copper stones out of the Isuzu River.
Rules Over: Smithing, creativity, creation.

Izanagi
Description: Creator God, earth God, Male Principle.
Rules Over: Magick.

Izanami
Description: Divine Mother, Earth Goddess, Female Principle.
Rules Over: Magick.

Jizo Bosatsu
Description: Protector of Mankind. Rescues souls from hell.
Rules Over: Children, the dead, comfort, rescue, counsel for the dead, protection from evil.

Kannon Bosatsu
Other Names: Kannon, Kwannon.
Description: Male form of the Chinese Kuan Yin.
Rules Over: Mercy, compassion.

Kaya nu Hima
Description: Goddess of herbs.
Rules Over: Herbs.

Kishi-Mojin
Other Names: Kishimo-Hin.
Description: Protectress of children, Universal Mother.
Rules Over: Compassion, childbirth, life, balance, fertility.

Kono-hana-sakuya-hime
Description: Goddess of the cherry tree.
Rules Over: Cherry trees.

Nai no Kami
Description: God of earthquakes.
Rules Over: Earthquakes.

Naru-Kami
Other Names: Kami-Naru.
Description: Goddess of thunder.
Rules Over: Thunder, protection, treese, artisans.

O-kuni-nushi
Other Names: Okuninushi.
Description: Earth God.
Rules Over: Medicine, sorcery, cunning, self-realization.

O-Ryu
Description: Goddess of the willow tree.
Rules Over: Willow Trees.

O-wata-tsumi
Other Names: Shio-zuchi.
Description: Most important sea deities.
Rules Over: The ocean tides and sea creatures.

O-Yama-tsu-mi
Description: First and most important of eight mountain gods.
Rules Over: All mountains and volcanoes.

Rafu-sen
Description: Goddess of the plum blossoms.
Rules Over: Plum blossoms.

Sae no Kami
Description: Name for the guardian gods of the roads.
Rules Over: Protection from misfortune.

Sakyamuni
Other Names: Shaka-nyorai.
Description: Japanese name for the Buddha.
Rules Over: Virtue, enlightenment, self-realization.

Shichi Fukujin
Other Names: Shichi-Kukujin.
Description: The Seven Gods of Happiness.
Their Names: Ebisu (patron of work), Daikoku (prosperity), Benzaiten (love), Bishamonten (happiness and war), Fukurokuju (happiness and long life), Juojin (happiness and long life), Hotei Osho (good fortune).

Susanoo
Other Names: Susanowo.
Description: Mischief making god of storm and thunder.
Rules Over: Agriculture, earthquakes, rain, storms, snakes, bravery, the seas, trees.

Toyota Mahime
Description: Sea Goddess.

Uso-Dori
Description: Goddess of singing who appears in the shape of a bullfinch.

Aztec

Centzon Totochtin
Other Names: ''Four hundred rabbits.''
Description: Moon Gods. Depicted with black and white faces and moon-shaped nose ornaments.

Chalchihuitlicue
Other Names: ''Precious green lady'', ''Precious jewel lady'', ''Precious jade skirt.''
Description: Special colors are blue and white. She loves flowers. Flowers were offered to her and cotton headdresses made in her honor. Unpredictable temper. Rules Over: Storms, youthful beauty, whirlpools, spring growth, love, flowers, spirits, streams.

Chantico
Description: Goddess of Fire. She symbolizes pleasure and pain together. Her symbols are a red serpent and cactus spikes.
Rules Over: Fire, wealth and precious stones within the Earth.

Chicomecoatl
Description: Popular Maize Goddess as maize was considered the giver of life. She wore a large four-sided headdress and carried a double maize cob.
Rules Over: Maize.

Cihuacoatl
Other Names: ''Woman snake.''
Rules Over: Childbirth.

Cinteotl
Description: Corn God which also had female forms. During April festivals done in his honor, reeds were smeared with blood and put at the house doors and an offering.
Rules Over: Earthly food.

Coatlicue
Other Names: ''Snake Skirt'', ''Serpent Lady.''
Description: Earth Goddess, Great Mother. She was both positive and negative, could bless or harm. She had claws and a skirt of snakes.
Rules Over: All Life, famines and earthquakes.

Coyolxauhqui
Other Names: ''Golden Bells''
Description: Moon Goddess. Wore golden bells on her cheeks.

Huehuecoyotl
Other Names: Ueuecoyotl, ''Old, old Coyote.''
Description: Mischievious deity who was an uncontrolled and trickster God.
Rules Over: Gaiety, physical sex, irrational fun.

Huitzilopochtli
Other Names: ''Hummingbird on the Left (South)'', ''Left-Handed Humming Bird''
Description: National god of the Aztecs. His festival was one of 25 days of a blood orgy with hearts and blood of prisoners dumped on his altar.
Rules Over: Sun, death, war, young men, warriors, storms, guide for journeys.

Ilamatecuhtli
Description: Terrible aspect of the mother goddess. During her winter festival, a female's heart was cut out and her chopped off head carried during a parade.

Itzcoliuhqui
Other Names: ''Twisted obsidian one'', ''Curved obsidian knife.''
Description: An aspect of the god Tezcatlipoca.
Rules Over: Darkness, terrible cold, volcanic eruptions, disaster.

Itzpaplotl
Other Names: ''Obsidian knife butterfly.''
Description: A very beautiful female goddess with death symbols scrawled on her face. A mixture of sensuality and death.
Rules Over: Fate, stars, agriculture.

Mayauel
Description: She is depicted naked, holding up a bowl of pulque and seated on a throne of a tortoise and snake. Night was her sacred time and she carried a cord that she used to aid women in child birth. She is the Goddess who discovered and introduced the Gods to pulque.
Rules Over: Pulque, Childbirth.

Meztli
Other Names: Tecciziecatl.
Description: Represented as an old man with a white shell on his back and sometimes with butterfly wings. The physical Moon at its height.

Mictlantecuhtli
Other Names: ''Lord of the land of the dead.''
Description: God of the Underworld and North. Depicted as a skeleton with red bones.
Rules Over: The Dead.

Mixcoatl
Other Names: ''Cloud serpent.''
Description: National god of the Chichimecs, god of the pole star. Victims to be sacrificed to him were painted white or red. It was thought that they turned into stars which were considered food for the Sun.
Rules Over: Hunting, weapons that strike from a distance (spears, javelins).

Quetzalcoatl
Other Names: ''Most precious twin'', ''Feathered serpent'', ''plumed serpent'', ''Morning Star.''
Description: Great priest, Master of Life. God of the wind, sea breeze and life-breath. A creator god who identified with the planet Venus. He is a 'good' god as he required only one human sacrifice a year.
Rules Over: Civilization, the arts, metallurgy, fate.

Tezcatlipoca
Other Names: ''Mirror that smokes'', ''The Shadow'', ''He who is at the shoulder.''
Description: One of two most known about gods of Mexico, he was a local deity of the Toltecs who was later adopted by the Aztecs. The dark aspect of Quetzalcoatl, his symbol was the jaguar. Evil God of warriors, magicians and sorcerers.
Rules Over: Divination (especially black mirrors), drought, harvest, dancing, music, warriors, magick, cold, north, night.

Tialoc
Other Names: ''The One who mankes things sproud'', ''Lord of the sources of water'', ''Lord of the waters.''
Description: An ancient Nature and fertility god who required constant human sacrifice. Shown holding four pitchers from which he pours the rain.
Rules Over: Thunder, mountains, rains, hail, fertility, water, clouds, thunder, lightning.

Tlauixcalpantecuhtli
Other Names: ''Lord of the house of dawn.''
Description: The morning star Venus. An aspect of Quetzalcoatl.
Rules Over: Dawn.

Tlazolteotl
Other Names: ''Goddess of Filth'', ''Dirt Goddess'', ''Earth Goddess'', ''Lady of Witches.''
Description: Goddess of the cresented moon. Terrible aspect of the Goddess. She rode naked on a broom holding a red snake and blood-smeared rope.
Rules Over: Physical love, fertility, death.

Tonatiuh
Other Names: Pilzintecutli, ''Royal Lord.''
Description: Sun God who received daily sacrifices of human hearts and blood.
Rules Over: Fate, warriors who die in battle, women who die in childbirth.

Tozi
Other Names: Teteoinnan, ''Our grandmother.''
Description: Mother of the Gods, personification of all the aspects of Nature. She had a festival; in August which honored midwives and women healers.
Rules Over: Healing, sweat baths.

Xipe Totec
Other Names: ''The flayed one.''
Description: The Aztecs celebrated his festival on February 22 by skinning prisoners alive to help the growing corn.
Rules Over: Agriculture, west, goldsmiths, self-torture to give penance.

Xochiquetzal
Other Names: ''Flower Plume'', ''Flower Feather.''
Description: Mother of the maize god. Goddess of the underworld and flowers.
Rules Over: Underworld, flowers (especially marigolds which are laid on graves), sexual love, twins, children, craftsmen.

Xolotl
Other Names: ''The Animal'', Lord of the Evening Star, Lord of the Underworld.
Description: A monster animal with its feet on reversed. The evil form of Venus and adversary of the Sun. He did bring humankind and fire from the underworld, though.
Rules Over: Fire, Bad luck.

Yacatecuhtli
Other Names: ''Lord Nose'', ''He who goes before.''
Rules Over: Merchants and traders.

Egypt

Aabit
Description: A singing Goddess.
Rules Over: Music, song, voice, arts.

Aah
Description: A moon God.

Aker
Description: Earth god.
Rules Over: Earth, fields, poisons, anecdotes, weaving.

Amaunet
Other Names: Wife of Amen.
Description: Goddess of Heaven.

Amen
Other Names: Amoun, Amun, Amon, Ammon. ''Hidden God''; ''Great Father.''
Descriptoin: Phallic deity sometimes pictured with the head of a ram and other times pictured as a man with a crown with two tall straight plumes.
Rules Over: Reproduction, fertility, generation, wind, air, prophecy, agriculture.

Ament
Other Names: Amenti, ''The Westerner,'' ''hidden goddess.''
Description: Goddess of the Underworld. Consort of Amen.
Rules Over: She greeted all dead people to the land of the dead with bread and water. If they ate and drank, they could not return to the land of the living.

Ami
Description: Fire God.
Rules Over: Fire.

Ami Neter
Description: A singing god.
Rules Over: Winds, song.

Ami Pi
Description: A lion god.

Amutnen
Description: Goddess of Milk Cows.

Amu
Description: Dawn God.

Anhur
Other Names: Anher, Anhert.
Description: Official God of the nome Abt and its capital.
Rules Over: War, Sun and the sky.

Anubis
Other Names: Anpu, Sekhem Em Pet.
Description: Messenger from the gods to humans. Pictured with the head of a jackal or dog, or as a dark colored jackal. He, with Maat, weighed human souls for truth.
Rules Over: Wisdom, intelligence, death, embalming, endings, truth, justice, surgery, hospital stays, finding lost things, anesthetics, medicine, journeys, protection, boats, diplomacy, astral travel, cemeteries.

Anqet
Other Names: Anuket, Anukis, ''The Clasper.''
Description: Water Goddess of the Nile Cataracts. Her symbal was the cowrie shell. Pictured as a woman donning a tall plumed crown. Also has been depicted as having four arms.
Rules Over: Producer and giver of life, water.

Apep
Other Names: Apophis.
Description: Demon enemy of the Sun. Pictured as a snake.
Rules Over: Darkness, storm, night, the Underworld, death, eclipses.

Apit
Description: Mother Goddess, nursing mother.

Apuat
Other Names: Upuat.
Rules Over: Pictured as Anubis is except he is white or gray instead of black. He guides souls to their place of rest after their hearts are weighed against the feather.

Aput
Description: Messenger God.

Asbit
Description: Fire Goddess.
Rules Over: Fire.

Aseb
Description: Fire God.
Rules Over: Fire.

Ashkit
Description: Goddess of the Winds.

Ashu
Description: Water God.

Aua
Description: God of Gifts.

Auf
Other Names: Euf Ra.
Description: Aspect of the Sun god Ra. Shown as a ram-headed man wearing the solar disk.
Rules Over: Peace, rest, sleep, courage.

Auit
Description: Goddess of Nurses and Children.

Bait
Description: Goddess of the Soul.

Baket
Description: A Hawk Goddess.

Ba-neb-Tetet
Other Names: Banebdedet, Banaded.
Description: A ram-god.
Rules Over: Discussion, arbitration, peace.

Bast
Other Names: Bastet, Pasht (Dark aspect).
Description: Cat headed-goddess, mother of all cats, wife of Ptah. Bast held a sistrum in her right hand and a basket in her left. Usually shown wearing green.
Rules Over: Cats, animals, Fire, the Moon, childbirth, fertility, pleasure, benevolence, joy, jokes, sexual rites, music, dance, protection against disease and evil spirits, warmth, intuition, healing, generosity, marriage.

Bata
Description: God of War and the Chase.

Bekhkhit
Description: Goddess of Dawn's Light.

Bes
Other Names: ''Lord of the land of Punt.''
Description: A guardian God. He was pictured as a leapard skin-clad dwarf with a huge head, prominent eyes and cheeks, a curly beard and an open mouth with his tongue sticking out. Sometimes he was depicted playing the harp or tambourine.
Rules Over: Luck, marriage, music, dance, childbirth, cosmetics, female adornments, humor, happiness, protection.

Buto
Other Names: Uajyt, Uatchet, Utchat, Per Uadjit, Uazit, Uto, Uraeus.
Description: Cobra Goddess and ancient protector of Lower Egypt and the Delta town of Uadjit. Shown as a cobra (sometimes winged) sometimes and at other times as a woman wearing a vulture headdress and the red crown of the North. She held papyrus scepter twined with a long snake.
Rules Over: Protection, hiding from evil.

Hapi
Description: Very fat man with pendulous breasts, dressed like a boatman with a narrow belt around his huge belly.
Rules Over: The Nile, crops, fertility, water, prosperity.

Hathor
Other Names: Athor, Athyr, Het-Hert, Hat-Hor, Het-Heret.
Description: Cowheaded goddess or a human-headed woman with horns, cow's ears and heavy tresses.
Rules Over: Joy, love, pleasure, flowers, the sky, moon, tombs, motherhood, beauty, marriage, cosmetics, singers and dancers, merry-makers, beautiful women, artists, artistic works, vine and wine, ale and beer, happiness, music, song, the dance, weaving garlands, good times in general, Nature, physical comforts, protection, astrology, prosperity, jewelry, strength, the arts, family.

Heh
Other Names: Neheb.
Description: Shown as a squatting man wearing a curved reed on his head. God of Infinity.
Rules Over: Eternity, longevity, happiness.

Henkheses
Description: God of the East Wind.

Heqet
Other Names: Heqtit, Heket, Hekat.
Description: Frog-headed goddess.
Rules Over: Creation, childbirth, fertility, corn, resurrection, protection.

Hesa
Description: A Singing God.

Horus
Other Names: Heru Sa Aset.
Description: Falcon-headed Sun and sky god. Pictured as fair skin, blue eyes.
Rules Over: Prophecy, war, revenge, justice, success, problem solving, the Sun, music, the arts, beauty, weapons, family, home.

Hu
Description: God of Taste.

Hutchai
Description: God of the West Wind.

Imhotep
Other Names: I-Em-Hetep.
Description: Deified human hero who later became a god. Son of Ptah.
Rules Over: Study, knowledge, learning, medicine, healing, embalming, physicians, sleep to heal suffering and pain, magick, compassion, drugs, herbs.

Isis
Other Names: As, Aset, Eset, Tait.
Description: Supreme Egyptian Goddess. Pictured with dark hair, blue eyes, fair skin.
Rules Over: Marriage, domestic life, theMoon, motherhood, fertility, magick, purification, initiation, reincarnation, success, womanhood, healing, spinning, weaving, advice, divination, civilization, agriculture, the arts, protection, advice, patroness of priestesses.

Kekui
Other Names: Keku.
Description: God of the hour before dawn. Bringer-in of the light.

Kekuit
Description: Goddess of the hour after sunset. Bringer-in of the night.

Khensu
Other Names: Khons, Khonsu.
Description: Wore a skullcap topped by a disk in a crescent Moon. His head was bald except for a scalp-lock tress of a royal child. His body was swathed tightly and he held a crook and flail.
Rules Over: Exorcism, healing.

Khepera
Other Names: Khepra, Khepri, Khephera.
Description: Scarab beetle god of creative energy and eternal life.
Rules Over: Moon, exorcism, healing, new beginnings, gentleness, literary abilities, miracles, compassion.

Khnemu
Other Names: Khnum.
Description: Ram God pictured with a ram's head and long wavy horns holding a scepter and ankh.
Rules Over: Arts and crafts, fertility and creation, gentleness.

Khurab
Description: A Bird Goddess.

Maa
Description: God of sight.

Maat
Other Names: Maa, Maut, Mayet.
Description: Depicted wearing an ostrich feather on her head while standing/sitting on her heels holding a scepter and ankh.
Rules Over: Truth, right, justice, law, final judgement of human souls, order, divine order, reincarnation.

Mafdet
Description: A Lynx Goddess.

Mahes
Description: A Lion God.

Mathit
Description: Helps the deceased climb into heaven.

Mehueret
Other Names: Mehurt.
Description: Universal Mother Goddess.
Rules Over: Night.

Menthi
Other Names: Menthu-Ra, Mentu, Mont.
Description: Sun god pictured with a bull head. Wore a solar disk and two tall straight plumes on his head and carried a khepesh. Husband of Rat-Taui.
Rules Over: Protection, war, vengeance.

Merseger
Description: Cobra Goddess.

Mesen
Description: A Blacksmith God.

Meshkent
Other Names: Meskhenet.
Description: Images of her were sometimes depicted on two bricks on which egyptian women crouched during child birth. Shown as a woman wearing two long palm shoots which were curved at the ends.
Rules Over: Childbirth, rebirth.

Min
Other Names: Minu, Menu.
Description: Wore a crown with two tall straight plumes and held a flail in his right hand behind his head.
Rules Over: Fertility, crops, sex, harvests, roads, journeys, patron of the desert and travelers.

Montu
Other Names: Monthu, Menthu.
Description: Falcon-headed war God also represented by a griffin.

Mut
Other Names: Sky goddess who wore a vulture headdress. Sometimes winged.
Rules Over: Marriage, creation.

Nehebkau
Description: Serpent god of the Underworld.
Rules Over: Death, cursing, vengeance.

Neith
Other Names: Neit, Net, Nit.
Description: Usually shown aside Selqet, as mummy guardian and protectress of marriage. She wore the red crown of Lower Egypt and in her hands held a bow and two arrows.
Rules Over: Herbs, magick, healing, mystical knowledge, rituals, meditation, weaving.

Nekhebet
Description: Guardian goddess shown in vulture form hovering over PHaraoh, holding the flywhisk and the seal. As a woman, she was depicted wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt or a vulture headdress. She carried a scepter with a serpent twined around it.
Rules Over: Motherhood, childbirth, protection.

Neper
Description: God of grain and prosperity of the barley and emmer wheat crops.

Nephthys
Other Names: Nebt-Het, Nebthet, Nebhet.
Description: Underworld Goddess who represented life and death. Wife of Set. Mother of Anubis. Pictured as fair skinned with green eyes. Shown as a woman with long winged arms stretched in protection; sometimes carrying a basket on her head.
Rules Over: Death, dark magick, guardian of hidden things, mystical things, protection, invisibility or anonymity, intuition, dreams, peace.

Nerit
Description: Goddess of Strength.

Nu
Description: The primal water.

Nun
Description: God of the primal ocean.

Nut
Other Names: Nu.
Description: Sky goddess, personification of the heavens, sky, clouds and stars.
Rules Over: Reincarnation, weather.

Osiris
Description: Tanned complexion and fair hair. Sometimes shown standings, sometimes seated on his throne, tightly wrapped in mummy garb, his freed hands on his breast holding the crook and flail. Sometimes his face was shown as green. On his head he wore a high white miter flanked by two ostrich feathers.
Rules Over: Fertility, harvests, commerce, success, initiation, death and reincarnation, water, judgment, justice, agriculture, crafts, corn and vegetation, grains, religion, architecture, weaving, ceremonial music, civilization, composing rituals, codes of law, religion, power, order, discipline, growth, stability.

Pakhit
Description: A cat goddess.

Papait
Description: A goddess of birth.

Pestit
Description: Goddess of Sunrise.

Pestu
Description: God of Light.

Ptah
Other Names: Ptah-Neb-Ankh.
Description: Skull wrapped in a headband and his body enclosed in mummy cloth. His hands were free and held a scepter, ankh, and tet.
Rules Over: Life, regeneration, crafts, builders, designers, metal workers, stone workers, engraving, carving, sculpting, all handcrafts, architects, masons, gentleness, miracles, science, manual skills, the arts.

Ra
Other Names: Re, Phra.
Description: Had many forms: Royal child sitting on lotus; as a man head topped with the solar disk surrounded by the sacred asp; as a man with a ram's head; as a man with a falcons head.
Rules Over: Agriculture, Sun, Magick, prosperity, spells, rituals, destiny, right, truth.

Rat
Other Names: Tat-Taiut, Rait, Rate.
Description: Woman wearing a disk with horns and a uraeus.
Rules Over: Wisdom, knoweldge.

Rekhit
Description: Goddess of Knowledge.

Remi
Description: A Fish God.

Remnit
Description: A Cow Goddess.

Renenet
Other Names: Renenutet, Ernutet.
Description: Woman with serpents head or serpent wearing the solar disk. Sometimes shown as a lion headed woman or wearing the plumes of Maat.
Rules Over: Children, luck, justice.

Renpet
Description: Wore a long palm shoot above her head.
Rules Over: Youth, springtime, the year, general idea of time.

Renpiti
Description: God of time.

Renenutet
Description: Goddess of the Harvest, shown as a cobra. Present during childbirth and also decides how long the child will live.
Rules over: Harvest, childbrith, life.

Saa
Description: God of touch.

Sati
Other Names: Satet.
Description: Shown as teh Archer, holding a bow and arrows.
Rules Over: Fertility, the hunt, planting, water.

Seb
Other Names: Geb, Keb.
Description: Fertility Earth God.
Rules Over: Fertility, new beginnings, creations, crops.

Sebek
Other Names: Sobk, Suchos, Sobek.
Description: Lord of Death. Crocodile God.
Rules Over: Cursing, dark magick.

Seker
Other Names: Sokar, Socharis.
Description: Guardian god of the door to the Underworld. Pictured as a greenish hawk-headed mummy.

Sekhet
Description: Wore red garments.
Rules Over: Strength, might, violence, cultivated lands and fields.

Sekhmet
Other Names: Sakhmet.
Description: Lioness-headed Goddess. She represented the destroying power of the sunlight and was crowned with a disk and coiled cobra.
Rules Over: War/battle, physicians and bone-setters.

Selqet
Other Names: Selket, Selquet, Selchis, Serqet.
Description: Shown as a woman with a scorpion on her head, often with raised winged arms.
Rules Over: Marriage, happiness, sexual love.

Seshat
Other Names: Sesheta.
Description: Pictured as a woman wearing a star on her head, reversed crescent and two long straight plumes. Later on the crescent was replaced with two long down-turned horns. Record keeper of the gods and keeper of the inventory of the pharaoh's enemy loot.
Rules Over: Writing, letters, archives, measurement, calculation, record-keeping, hieroglyphics, time, stars, sky, history, books, learning, inventions.

Set
Other Names: Seth, Seti, Sutekh, Suti.
Description: Reddish-white skin and bright red hair.
Rules Over: Hunger, thirst, thunder, storm, suffering, revenge, cursing, death, dark magick, darkness, evil, destruction, chaos, foreigners.

Setem
Description: God of hearing.

Shai (male)
Other Names: Shait (female).
Description: Sometimes a goddess, sometimes a god. Role similar to guardian angel, presiding over destiny and fate. One was born with each person and at death gave a true account of that persons life and deeds/misdeeds.

Shesmu
Description: God of wine.

Shu
Description: Air god. In human form with ostrich feather on his head.
Rules Over: Heat, drynes, air, winds.

Sia
Description: God of the Perceptive Mind.

Tait
Description: Goddess of Weaving.

Tanent
Description: Primal earth mother, more like grandmother of grandmother.. the earths core, continents, etc. She is distant and understands the cycles of life and death fully.
Rules Over: Life, death, stability, order, strength.

Ta-Urt
Other Names: Tauret, Apet, Opet, Taueret, Taurt, Thoueris, Rertrertu, Taweret.
Description: Hippopotamus goddess. Pictured as a female hippo with hanging breasts, standing upright and holding a plait of rolled papyrus.
Rules Over: Childbirth, maternity, nursing mothers, revenge, protection.

Tefnut
Other Names: Tefenet.
Description: Lives at the bottom of the Underworld, who was fed by a group of Underworld Gods.
Rules Over: Moisture, dew, rain, mist.

Temu
Other Names: Tem, Atem, Atum.
Description: Personification of God in human form and of the setting Sun. He was the father of the human race and he helped the dead. In one of his forms he was worshipped as a huge serpent. Considered complete within himself, he was the sum of everything that existed.
Rules Over: Peace, help, rest.

Thoth
Other Names: Tehuti, Thout, Djehuti, Zehuti.
Description: Invented hieroglyphics and numbers. First and greatest of magicians. Inventor of the 4 laws of magick. His two wives were Seshat and Nehmauit. He had powers greater then Osiris and Ra.
Rules Over: Magick, writing, inventions, the arts, divination, commerce, healing, initiation, music, prophecy, tarot, success, wisdom, medicine, astronomy, geometry, surveying, drawing, sciences, measurement of time, all calculations and inventories, archives, judgment, oracles, predictions, rituals, the law, astrology, alphabet, mathematics, speech, grammar, arbitration, balance, mental powers, the Moon, botany, theology, hymns and prayers, reading, oratory, arbitration, peace, advice, learning, books, truth, akashic records, the moon, fate, arbitration, advice.

Uadjet
Description: Cobra Goddess of North Egypt, ''Green One.''

Un
Desciption: God of Existence.

Unit
Description: A star goddess.

Unta
Other names: Unti.
Description: God of Light.

Untabi
Description: Goddess of the 27th day of the month.

Ur-Henu
Description: Water God.

Utchait
Description: Goddess of the Moon.

Utekh
Description: God of Embalming.

Utet-Tefef
Description: God of the 29th day of the month.

Wepwawet
Other Names: Upuaut, Ophis.
Description: God of the Underworld, pictured as wolf-headed. Often dressed as a soldier.
Rules Over: War, protection, defense, martial arts, journeys.

Incan

Chasca
Other Names: ''The long-haired Star (Venus).''
Description: Goddess who cared for princesses, girls and flowers.

Illapa
Description: Storm and weather god, shown as a man with war club and sling.
Rules Over: Thunder and lightning.

Inti
Other Names: Apu Punchaur.
Description: Sun God. Represented by a great golden disk with a face, but in the Incan mind he was thought to have a human form. His annual festival was to celebrate the harvest of maize. Chanting lasted from sunrise to sunset with continual animal sacrifices.
Rules Over: Fertility, crops.

Mama Cocha
Other Names: ''Mother Sea.''
Description: Worshipped especially on the Peruvian coast.
Rules Over: Fishing.

Mama Quilla
Other Names: ''Mother Moon.''
Description: Moon Goddess. She was depicted as a silverdisk with a human face. Wife of Inti. She was not worshipped by many, and was connected with the calendar and festivals.
Rules Over: Protectress of women, the calendar, religious festivals.

Manco Capac
Description: Sun god. Youngest son of the Sun. Founder of Cuzco.
Rules Over: Magick.

Pachacamac
Other Names: ''Lord of the Earth.''
Description: Pictured as a tall white man who worked miracles, also said to create earthquakes. Sacrifices of animals and humans were performed every year to him.
Rules Over: The arts, occupations and oracles.

Supai
Description: God of the Underworld and death. One-hundred children were sacrificed every year to him. He was considered a greedy god, always wanting to increase the number of his followers.
Rules Over: Death.

Urcaguary
Description: God of underground treasures. Represented as a snake with a deers head and a tail decorated with gold chains.
Rules Over: Treasure.

Viracocha
Other Names: Huiracocha.
Description: Great God without beginning or end. Inca legend said he lived in heaven and maintained the world, however, they also believed he left many futions of the universe and humankind to the lesser gods. He was thought of in human form. Giver of the arts of civilization.
Rules Over: Sun, storm, lightning, oracles, languages, moral codes, rain, water, fertility.