# List of Mycenaean deities

Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.

## Deities
### Pantheon

| Name | Name | Name | Notes | Notes |
| English | Linear B | Transliteration | Comments | Footnotes |
| Pantes Theoi | 𐀞𐀯𐀳𐀃𐀂 | pa-si-te-o-i | "To All the Gods"; a special invocation, irrespective of sex, etc.; recurrently attested at Knossos | |

### Gods

| Name | Name | Name | Notes | Notes |
| English | Linear B | Transliteration | Comments | Footnotes |
| Anemoi | 𐀀𐀚𐀗𐀂𐀋𐀩𐀊 / 𐀀𐀚𐀗𐄀𐀂𐀋𐀩𐀊 | a-ne-mo-i-je-re-ja / a-ne-mo,i-je-re-ja | attested through *Anemohiereia or *Anemon Hiereia, "Priestess of the Winds" | |
| Apollo(?) | 𐀟𐁊 | pe-rjo-, reconstructed a-pe-rjo-ne | perhaps attested through, though doubted, the lacunose perio | |
| Ares | 𐀀𐀩 | a-re | | |
| Despotas | 𐀈𐀡𐀲 | do-po-ta | unclear, perhaps house deity, euphemism for Hades meaning master(?) | |
| Dionysus | 𐀇𐀺𐀝𐀰 | di-wo-nu-so | son of Zeus, unknown if wine god from early on | |
| Dipsioi | 𐀇𐀠𐀯𐀍𐀂 | di-pi-si-jo-i | meaning obscure: perhaps "The Thirsty and hence the Dead Ones" possibly referring to ancestor worship or slain gods possibly the Titans; perhaps related to Thessalian month Dipsos | |
| Drimios | 𐀇𐀪𐀖𐀍 | di-ri-mi-jo | unknown, in later times, son of Zeus, perhaps a precursor of Apollo(?) or most likely an entirely separate deity | |
| Enesidaon | 𐀁𐀚𐀯𐀅𐀃𐀚 | e-ne-si-da-o-ne | possibly a theonym; possibly an epithet of Poseidon, assumed to mean "Earthshaker" or something similar | |
| Enyalius | 𐀁𐀝𐀷𐀪𐀍 | e-nu-wa-ri-jo | a later epithet of Ares, or his son with Enyo, maybe a title for his father Zeus. | |
| Hephaestus | 𐀀𐀞𐀂𐀴𐀍 | a-pa-i-ti-jo | regarded as indirectly attested by the name *Haphaistios or *Haphaistion, presumed to be a theophoric name | |
| Hermes | 𐀁𐀔𐁀 | e-ma-*25 or e-ma-ha | | |
| Areias | 𐀀𐀩𐀊 | a-re-ja | epithet (Hermes as war god) | |
| Hyperion | 𐀟𐁊 | pe-rjo-, reconstructed u-pe-rjo-ne | perhaps attested through the lacunose perio | |
| Marineus(?) | 𐀔𐀪𐀚 / 𐀔𐀪𐀚𐀸 / 𐀔𐀪𐀚𐀺 | ma-ri-ne(-u?) / ma-ri-ne-we / ma-ri-ne-wo | unknown deity, perhaps "God of the Woolens", meaning obscure, perhaps Pan. | |
| Pade(?) | 𐀞𐀆 / 𐀞𐀆𐀂 | pa-de / pa-de-i | possibly unknown god, thought to be Cretan, Minoan in origin, or maybe Zagreus as the divine child. | |
| Paean | 𐀞𐀊𐀺𐀚 | pa-ja-wo-ne | a medical epithet of Apollo | |
| Poseidon | 𐀡𐀮𐀅𐀃 / 𐀡𐀮𐀅𐀺𐀚 | po-se-da-o / po-se-da-wo-ne | chief deity | |
| Trisheros | 𐀴𐀪𐀮𐀫𐀁 | ti-ri-se-ro-e | theonym, "Thrice-Hero"; thought to attest, and pertain to, the veneration of the dead or the Tritopatores | |
| Wanax | 𐀷𐀙𐀏𐀳 | wa-na-ka-te | "The King"; in this case, it is considered to be a theonym in the dative case, perhaps as an epithet of Poseidon and Zeus | |
| Zeus | 𐀇𐀸 / 𐀇𐀺 | di-we / di-wo | God of the sky | |
| Diktaios | 𐀇𐀏𐀲𐀍 𐀇𐀸 | di-ka-ta-jo di-we | local epithet of Zeus on Crete | |

### Goddesses

| Name | Name | Name | Notes | Notes |
| English | Linear B | Transliteration | Comments | Footnotes |
| Artemis | 𐀀𐀳𐀖𐀵 / 𐀀𐀴𐀖𐀳 | a-te-mi-to / a-ti-mi-te | | |
| Diwia | 𐀇𐀄𐀊 / 𐀇𐀹𐀊 | di-u-ja / di-wi-ja | possibly the female counterpart of Zeus, possibly Dione in later Greek | |
| Demeter | Damate in Linear A and B |
| Doqeia(?) | 𐀈𐀤𐀊 | do-qe-ja | possibly an unknown goddess but could be only a feminine adjective | |
| Eileithyia | 𐀁𐀩𐀄𐀴𐀊 | e-re-u-ti-ja | attested in the Cretan Eleuthia form; perhaps Minoan in origin(?) | |
| Selene | 𐀕𐀙 | me-na | perhaps attested through Mene, an epithet for Selene. |
| Eos | 𐀀𐀺𐀂𐀍 | a-wo-i-jo | perhaps attested through a personal name Ἀϝohιος related to the word for dawn, or dative form Āwōiōi | |
| Iris | 𐀂𐀪 | i-ri | perhaps attested at Pylos through îris |
| Minthe | 𐀖𐀲 | mi-ta | possible early wife of Hades(?) |
| Erinyes | 𐀁𐀪𐀝 / 𐀁𐀪𐀝𐀸 | e-ri-nu / e-ri-nu-we | both forms of the theonym are considered to be in the singular, Erinys, in the Arcadian myth refers to Demeter and also used as an epithet for Demeter by Pausanias | |
| Hera | 𐀁𐀨 | e-ra | possibly wife of Zeus from early on | |
| Iphemedeia | 𐀂𐀟𐀕𐀆𐀊 | i-pe-me-de-ja | theonym; probably variant form of Iphimedia, name of a mythological person found in Homer's Odyssey | |
| Komawenteia(?) | 𐀒𐀔𐀸𐀳𐀊 | ko-ma-we-te-ja | possibly unknown deity, possibly meaning "long-haired goddess" | |
| Leto | 𐀨𐀴𐀍 / 𐀨𐀵 | ra-ti-jo / ra-to | perhaps attested through the forms Latios and Lato | |
| Manasa | 𐀔𐀙𐀭 | ma-na-sa | unknown goddess | |
| Mater Theia | 𐀔𐀳𐀩𐄀𐀳𐀂𐀊 | ma-te-re,te-i-ja | possibly "Mother of the Gods" (Rhea or Gaia?) or Mother Theia, probably mother of Helios, Selene and Eos from early on(?) | |
| Pipituna | 𐀠𐀠𐀶𐀙 | pi-pi-tu-na | Reconstructed as *Πίπτυννα (Píptynna); unknown deity, considered to be Pre-Greek or Minoan | |
| Posidaeia | 𐀡𐀯𐀅𐀁𐀊 | po-si-da-e-ja | probably the female counterpart to Poseidon, most likely early name for Amphitrite | |
| Potnia | 𐀡𐀴𐀛𐀊 | po-ti-ni-ja | "Mistress" or "Lady"; may be used as an epithet for many deities, but also shows up as a single deity | |
| Potnia Athena | 𐀀𐀲𐀙𐀡𐀴𐀛𐀊 | a-ta-na-po-ti-ni-ja | Potnia At(h)ana, early variant name of Athena | |
| Potnia Hippeia | 𐀡𐀴𐀛𐀊𐄀𐀂𐀤𐀊 | po-ti-ni-ja,i-qe-ja | Mistress of the Horses; later epithet of Demeter and Athena | |
| Potnia of Sitos | 𐀯𐀵𐀡𐀴𐀛𐀊 | si-to-po-ti-ni-ja | Mistress of Grain; Bronze Age reference to Demeter | |
| Potnia of the Labyrinth | 𐀅𐁆𐀪𐀵𐀍𐄀𐀡𐀴𐀛𐀊 | da-pu$_2$-ri-to-jo,po-ti-ni-ja | | |
| Potnia, at Thebes | 𐀡𐀴𐀛𐀊𐄀𐀺𐀒𐀆 | po-ti-ni-ja,wo-ko-de | of no attested name or title, other than that offers are made to her house, her premises likely the Sphinx | |
| Potnia, of unidentified Pylos sanctuary | 𐀡𐀴𐀛𐀊 | po-ti-ni-ja | unknown local(?) goddess of pa-ki-ja-ne (*Sphagianes?) sanctuary at Pylos | |
| Potnia, of uncertain A place or epithet | 𐀡𐀴𐀛𐀊𐄀𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊 | po-ti-ni-ja,a-si-wi-ja | Maybe Aphrodite as/or Astarte when she was introduced into Greece/Aphrodite identified with Astarte(?) | |
| Potnia, of unknown E place or epithet | 𐀁𐀩𐀹𐀍𐀡𐀴𐀛𐀊 | e-re-wi-jo-po-ti-ni-ja | another name for Hera(?), or maybe an early reference to Eris | |
| Potnia, of unknown N place or epithet | 𐀚𐀺𐀟𐀃𐄀𐀡𐀴𐀛𐀊 | ne-wo-pe-o,po-ti-ni-ja | Perhaps Nike or Nyx(?) | |
| Potnia, of unknown U place or epithet | 𐀄𐀡𐀍𐀡𐀴𐀛𐀊 | u-po-jo-po-ti-ni-ja | Perhpas Euphrosyne(?) | |
| Potnia, of unknown ? place or epithet | 𐀀𐀐𐀯𐄀𐀡𐀴𐀛𐀊 | (?)-a-ke-si,po-ti-ni-ja | Perhaps Hecate(?) | |
| Preswa(?) | 𐀟𐀩𐁚 | pe-re-*82 or pe-re-swa | generally interpreted as an early name of Persephone | |
| Qerasia(?) | 𐀤𐀨𐀯𐀊 | qe-ra-si-ja | unknown goddess, perhaps Minoan in origin or possibly connected with thēr | |
| Qowia(?) | 𐀦𐀹𐀊 | qo-wi-ja | epithet for Hera, possibly meaning "She of the Cow(s)" or "cow eyed" | |
| Wanasso(?) | 𐀷𐀙𐀰𐀂 | wa-na-so-i | "The Two Queens", possibly Demeter and Persephone; *wanassojin(?) regarded as a dative dual form | |
| Possible goddesses |||||
| (?) | (?) | (?) | A possible sun goddess, predecessor to Helios(?), and possibly related to Helen(?). No unambiguous attestations of words for "sun" have yet been found, though the Mycenaean word for "sun" is reconstructed as *hāwélios. | |

## Heroes, mortals and other entities or concepts

| Name | Name | Name | Notes | Notes |
| English | Linear B | Transliteration | Comments | Footnotes |
| Proteus | 𐀡𐀫𐀳𐀄 | po-ro-te-u | could be the theonym of the sea-god Proteus, but probably just the anthroponym of a nobleman(?) | |