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Mictlantecuhtli (Aztec mythology), the chief death god; lord of the Underworld [29] Tlaloc (Aztec mythology), water god and minor death god; ruler of Tlalocan, a separate underworld for those who died from drowning; Xipe Totec (Aztec mythology), hero god, death god; inventor of warfare and master of plagues
Pages in category "Underworld gods" The following 99 pages are in this category, out of 99 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aita; Aker (deity)
In the poem Inanna's Descent into the Underworld, Ereshkigal is described as Inanna's "older sister". [142] In the god list An = Anum she opens the section dedicated to underworld deities. [143] Gula and Ninisina, Nintinugga, Ninkarrak [144] E-gal-mah temple in Isin and other temples in Nippur, Borsippa, Assur, [144] Sippar, [145] Umma [146]
He is the king of the gods, [162] and the most powerful deity. [163] He is the son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea , and the husband of Hera . [ 164 ] He is the only Greek god who is unquestionably Indo-European in origin, [ 165 ] and he is attested already in Mycenaean Greece . [ 166 ]
Īxpoztequeh, god who lived in one of nine layers of the underworld. Iixpuzteque was Nexoxochi's husband. Tzontēmōc, god who lived in one of nine layers of the underworld. Tzontemoc was Chalmeccacihuatl's husband. Xolotl, god of death who is associated with Venus and the Evening Star. He is the twin god and a double of Quetzalcoatl.
Hesiod's Theogony, (c. 700 BC) which could be considered the "standard" creation myth of Greek mythology, [1] tells the story of the genesis of the gods. After invoking the Muses (II.1–116), Hesiod says the world began with the spontaneous generation of four beings: first arose Chaos (Chasm); then came Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all"; "dim" Tartarus (the Underworld), in ...
The Horus of the night deities – Twelve goddesses of each hour of the night, wearing a five-pointed star on their heads Neb-t tehen and Neb-t heru, god and goddess of the first hour of night, Apis or Hep (in reference) and Sarit-neb-s, god and goddess of the second hour of night, M'k-neb-set, goddess of the third hour of night, Aa-t-shefit or ...
Hades ruled the underworld and was therefore most often associated with death and feared by men, but he was not Death itself — it is Thanatos, son of Nyx and Erebus, who is the actual personification of death, although Euripides's play "Alkestis" states fairly clearly that Thanatos and Hades were one and the same deity, and gives an ...