List of African deities

*Mami Wata - Goddess of beauty (one of the water spirits); Accompanied by a snake and wealth.
*Jah - A name for God (Rastafari)
== Akan ==
*Brekyirihunuade, "he who knows and sees everything."
*Kwaku Ananse, a trickster god.
== Ashanti ==
*Anansi - Depicted in numerous forms: a spider, a human or combinations thereof. Known as a trickster.
*Asase Ya - Earth goddess of fertility
*Bia - Personification of violence
*Nyame - Means "God" in the ashanti language.
== Bushmen ==
*Cagn - supreme god
==Igbo ==
*Chukwu - the supreme deity in Odinani
*Aha Njoku - goddess responsible for yams, which were an ingredient important in the Igbo diet, and the women who care for them.
*Ala - earth goddess and goddess of fertility.
*Amadioha - god of thunder and lightning
*Ikenga - god of fortune and industry
*Agwu - god of medicine men, god of divination and healing
*Anyanwu - sun goddess
*Ekwensu - trickster god
*Aro - god of judgment (also seen as the Supreme god's "Chukwu's" agent of judgment.)
*Ogbunabali - Igbo god of death
==Yoruba==
*Babalu Aye - deity of disease and illness.
*Eshu messenger between human and divine, god of crossroads
*Nana - female deity of creation, sky mother, associated with the moon.
*Obatala father of orishas and humankind
*Ogoun deity of iron, war, labour, and technology
*Olorun creator of the universe, sky father
*Orunmila - deity of wisdom, divination and foresight
*Oshun goddess of rivers, love, fertility, and art
*Oxossi hunter and the scout of the orishas
*Oya warrior goddess of wind, hurricanes, and underworld gates
*Shango warrior god of thunder, fire, sky father
*Iemanja divine mother goddess, divine goddess of the sea and Mother of mankind
*Ozain He owns the Omiero, a holy liquid consisting of many herbs, liquid through which all Saints and ceremonies have to go through. Ozain owns the herbs, is a natural healer.
*Agayu - Father of Shango he is also said to be shango's brother in other stories, Agayu is said to be the orisha of volcanoes and the desert.
* Osun - ruler of the head, Ori
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