Gods

Gods are superhuman beings or spirits worshipped as having power over nature or human fortunes, or a deity.

## Norse

### Æsir:

* **Odin**: ruler of Asgard, revered immortal
* **Frigg**: Odin's wife, paragon of beauty, love, fertility, and fate
* **Thor**: protector of humanity, god of thunder
* **Loki**: mischievious shape-shifting god
* **Balder**: epitome of radiance, beauty, kindness, and fairness; killed with mistletoe
* **Heimdall**: son of Odin who sat on top of the Bifrost; guarding Asgard against attack
* **Tyr**: god of war, treaties, and justice

### Vanir:

* **Njord**: god of the wind, sea, and the sea's riches
* **Freyr**: god of peace and fertility, rain, and sunshine
* **Freyja**: goddess of fertility, love, battle, and death

## Mayan

* **Itzamna**: creator god
* **Chaac**: rain god
* **Yum Kaax**: nature god
* **Hunab Ku**: the one god
* **Ix Chel**: goddess of medicine/childbirth
* **Kinich Ahau**: sun god
* **Ek Chauj:** merchant deity; god of cacao
* **Kukulkhan**: serpent god
* **Ah puch, Ah Cimih, Ah Cizin, Hun Ahau, Kimi,** or **Yum Kimil**: death gods

## Greek

### Titans

* **Oceanus**: Titan god of sea and water
* **Thetis**: Titan goddess of freshwater
* **Tethys**: Titan goddess of
* **Hyperion**: Titan god of light and observation
* **Theia**:Titan goddess of sun and light
* **Coeus**: Titan god of oracles, wisdom, and foresight
* **Phoebe**: Titan goddess of prophecy and intellect
* **Cronus**: Titan god of time
* **Rhea**: Titan goddess of fertility
* **Mnemosyne**: Titan goddess of memory
* **Themus**: Titan goddess of law, order, and justice
* **Crius**: Titan god of constellations
* **Iapetus**: Titan god of mortal life, death

### Olympians

* **Zeus**: god of sky, lightning, thunder, gods, men, and kings
* **Hera**: goddess of women, marriage, and childbirth
* **Poseidon**: god of the sea, waters, horses, and earthquakes
* **Hades**: god of the Underworld and Earth's riches
* **Hestia**: goddess of the hearth
* **Demeter**: goddess of the harvest, and grains
* **Apollo**: god of light, archery, medicine, divine distance, music, dance, truth, prophecy, healing, diseases, Sun, and poetry
* **Artemis**: goddess of wild animals, the Hunt, vegetation, chatisty, and childbirth
* **Hermes**: god of trade, wealth, luck, fertility, animal husbandry, sleep, languages, thieves, and travel
* **Athena**: goddess of warfare, handicraft, and practical reason
* **Hephaestus**: god of fire and the forge
* **Aphrodite**: goddess of love, fertility, and desire
* **Ares**: god of war/spirit of battle, courage, battle lust

## Egyptian

* **Ra**: god of the sun
* **Geb**: god of the earth; Nut's husband
* **Nut**: goddess of the sky; Geb's wife
* **Shu**: god of air; Nut's father
* **Osiris**: son of Geb and Nut; god of the Underworld; brother of Set and husband of Isis
* **Isis**: Osiris' wife; goddess of magic
* **Set**: god of desert, storms and evil
* **Nephthys**: goddess of the river; wife of Set and sister of Isis
* **Horus**: son of Osiris and Isis
* **Bast**: goddess of cats
* **Sobek**: god of crocodiles
* **Serqet**: goddess of scorpions
* **Anubis**: god of funerals
* **Bes**: god of dwarves, protector of households, mothers and children
* **Khonsu**: god of the moon
* **Nekhbet**: goddess of vultures
* **Babi**: god of wild baboons and alpha males
* **Tawaret**: goddess of hippos