Talk:Lists of deities

message: I have revised my previous post to better explain my concern with this section.  As defined by Wiktionary, a deity is "a powerful entity that possesses numerous miraculous powers."  This is open to interpretation but I would posit that just because an idea has been anthropomorphized does not make it an entity.  Therefore, many entries in the Modern Western mythology section are not deities.  Children, in their ignorance, may believe in a Santa Claus or a Tooth Fairy who visits them in the night, but no one actually believes in a deity who removes semicolons from working computer code.  These "deities" may belong in another page but do not need to grace this list that includes Shiva, Bast, and Zeus.  I have taken the liberty of moving some of the kitchen gods to an examples list on the Kitchen Gods page.
Fruitofwisdom 14:26, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Kitchen Gods

message: I am conderned about the christian category, as the only deity is God, Jesus was the son and many other are Angles and not classified as having a divine power or seperate worshipers like the many other religions. Enlil Ninlil 04:21, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Remember that there's many, many children of deities via in many other religions. Note that they're not on the list.  Heracles, one of the more well-known ones, for instance.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.34.98.82 (talk) 08:00, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Christian

message: If notable deities such as the Invisible Pink Unicorn and the Flying Spaghetti Monster can merit mention on this list, why not a few from Lovecraft's pantheon? Cthulhu in particular has definately entered himself into popular culture, despite his lesser status in Lovecraft's work.
Lovecraftian deities probably are more justified for inclusion than IPY and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.  I hear there are some people who practice "Lovecraftian occultism".  (Don't ask me why.  I don't know.)  Hiergargo 20:50, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cthulhu fhtagn! 

message: I attempted to follow the link on the article page to www.godchecker.com, and have not been able to locate it. Trying to find a godchecker.org doesn't work, either. Does anyone know the fate of this website? I Googled & Dogpiled it, and found many references talking about how great the site was, but the site itself is nowhere to be found. :-(
Ali
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It works now. -- MicahDCochran 14:34, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Godchecker.com? 

message: there is another deity in the religion called Ahriman he is the dark sided of the two entities
205.204.242.22 20:24, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  zoroastrianism 

message: What happened to Buddhism? I realize that the boddhisattvas and Buddha himself are not necessarily "deities" in the Abrahamic sense, but.. LordAmeth 11:12, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm afraid I do not see any "relation with humanity" section. I apologize, maybe I'm just missing it. Where are you looking? LordAmeth 15:22, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buddhism? 

message: There are way too many different African sub-cultures and deities to be grouped into one category. It should be something similar to the list for N. America.Signor Pastrini 17:36, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed - the Wikipedia guidelines on 'list articles' indicates the orgnaization must be clear and consistant. Having a section for 'African' dieties and seperate sections for say 'Ashanti' is not acceptable per Wikipedia policy. Perhaps an organization based on 'Continent of original worship' and subdivide by culture from there.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.69.137.40 (talk) 02:26, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  African Sub-categories 

message: I created a page called the List of Monsters, and when going over that page, I began to think about what or what isn't a monster, and whether certain gods or goddesses should be included in the list.  When I suggested a List of Deities, it came up as not yet created, and no one pointed me out to List of deities as already existing.
So now I've created the one list, and am wondering whether it should be deleted or renamed and made into a list that includes ALL deities, fictional or otherwise.
As active contributors or readers of this list, what is your opinion on the matter.
Note, I just created the List of Deities today and it didn't take me long before I found this one, so there isn't much to it yet.
However, if allowed to move further, I would like to at least get the blessing, if you will, of the proprietors of this list before doing anything more.
Thank you.
OtakuMan 20:32, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind.  I went ahead and wiped the other page, replacing it with a Redirect to here.  I figured that would clear things up.  OtakuMan 14:44, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Deities vs. List of deities OR List of Deities and List of deities 

message: This should be sorted at least by continent if not by region. It is patently silly to list "Baltic" under B and the closely related Slavic under S. Also, Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian deities are near identical and should be listed under "Mesopotamian", not under A, B and S. Alphabetical order isn't helpful, after all, people can just use their browser search function (ctrl-f) and if what they are looking for is on the page, they will immediately be able to spot it. dab (𒁳) 17:51, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Geographical order

message: Last time I checked Egypt was in Africa. --Ceezmad (talk) 19:01, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Egypt 

message: So I came here to find a list of deities - a list of ALL of them.  Instead, I get a list of links to other lists.  As a result... doesn't that make this page kind of pointless?  It'd be nice to have those if I knew what exactly I was looking for, but honest, I've no clue which I'm looking for.  Perhaps create a new section with an actual list of deities?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.34.98.82 (talk) 07:58, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe this page is misnamed. It should be Lists of deities or List of lists of deities. Pburka (talk) 18:02, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  I have yet to see a list. 

message: "This is not a list of names or epithets of gods in modern monotheistic religions"
Was this the compromise to not offend religious people? just asking. Ceezmad (talk) 18:00, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: no, the reason is that we have an entire page dedicated to this already, at Names of God. --dab (𒁳) 20:59, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  So why were the modern religion gods removed?  

message: What on Earth--? Why is the categorization based on a single book?!
While many of the terms are correct, others are...problematic.
For example, Dawn would be more accurate as "Dawn/Twilight", Wealth as "Fortune", and Sun-god as "Solar" (which we have in the proper article. This applies to many other links in this list). 
And what's with the "A-numbers"? They probably apply to the book, but why do they belong on Wikipedia?
Furthermore, basing it on this book makes the types on here static: I had to link the "list of goddesses article on the see also of the page, when it should be somewhere on the list that lists by attributes of deities.
And if I were to create, say; a list of non-binary gender deities, or a list of rock deities, or shape-shifting deities, where would I place those?
Also, The Furies and the repetition of various deities (earth & art) is pointless.
Can we please, please, reorganize this? Artheartsoul1 (talk) 10:42, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: You will be pleased to learn that the fact that it is based "on a single book" is the result of considerable effort, improving the article from a version that was based on zero books, representing an increase of, well, infinite percent. You are very welcome to introduce additional literature. --dab (𒁳) 20:57, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: ...On a single book?

message: This is a bit of an odd article. It purports to be a list of lists, but instead includes two related lists as sections. I propose creating two new articles, List of deities by classification and Lists of deities by cultural sphere. Then this page can be shortened to a simple list which includes the new lists, along with List of people who have been considered deities, List of deities in fiction, etc. I believe this would make navigation simpler and would make this list more consistent with other lists of lists. Pburka (talk) 00:26, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It's been a week and there have been no objections, so I plan to move ahead boldly and do the reorg. Pburka (talk) 23:40, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split up