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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Following is a list of pantheons of deities in specific spiritual practices: African pantheons ...
This is an index of lists of deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world.. List of deities by classification; Lists of deities by cultural sphere
Balaw is a god worshipped in the kingdom of Awsan alongside Wadd. Attested: Basamum: Basamum is a god worshipped in South Arabia whose name may be derived from Arabic basam, or balsam, a medicinal plant, indicating that he may be associated with healing or health. [14] [15] One ancient text relates how Basamum cured two wild goats/ibexes. [14 ...
Required sacrifices on his behalf which led to execution for those who refused, mostly non-pagans. Diocletian, emperor noted for his piety and pagan views. Persecuted and executed Manicheans and Christians in an effort to support the Roman state religion. Galerius, emperor who strongly supported Roman paganism. Thought to have been the primary ...
A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905). In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses.
Paganism has broadly connoted the "religion of the peasantry". [1] [5] During and after the Middle Ages, the term paganism was applied to any non-Christian religion, and the term presumed a belief in "false gods". [6] [7] The origin of the application of the term "pagan" to polytheism is debated. [8]
Ancient Egyptian deities were an integral part of ancient Egyptian religion and were worshiped for millennia. Many of them ruled over natural and social phenomena , as well as abstract concepts [ 1 ] These gods and goddesses appear in virtually every aspect of ancient Egyptian civilization, and more than 1,500 of them are known by name.
Ukko is the chief deity in Baltic Finnic paganism, he is the god of the sky, weather (mostly thunder, rain and clouds), a god of harvest and fertility. [10] [11] He is also given the epithet Ylijumala ('Supreme God' or 'Highest God' [note 2] [12]) in at least the Finnish, Karelian and Ingrian regional variants of the pagan faith. [13]