List of Bao Deities

**Ancient Bao deities** represent natural and social phenomena, as well as abstract concepts. These gods and goddesses appear in virtually every aspect of ancient Bao civilization, and only a few of them are still remembered today.

## Deities

### Females

* **Asuiu** - The goddess of hemp, growth, and tender of the Tyao'syko.
* **Aroin** - The goddess of precognition, silence, sacred prostitution, healing, nourishment, maternal care and fate.
* **Diago** - The goddess of the moon, womanhood, marriage and family. She is also the mother of the demi-goddess Seraj Kalygo and the Piejyis.
* **Dialo** - The goddess of the sun, justice, wisdom and mercy.
* **Diaki** - The primordial goddess of the earth, harvest, agriculture, the seasons, and sacred law.
	+ Her more chaotic version **Diahio**, and is the goddess of volcanoes, deserts, fire, and violent storms.
* **Diayo** - The primordial goddess of the ocean, serpents, storms, earthquakes, vegetation, moisture, drought and fertility.
* **Elearo** - The goddess of lightning, bisexuality, wrath, and of the strange powers.
* **Huah** - The goddess of infinity, fate, wisdom, hunting, compulsion, and change. She is also known as the collector of pockets.
* **Ishaya** - The goddess of water, intimacy, beauty, jewelry, and flowers.
* **Kemi** - The goddess of liberation, wisdom, strategic warfare, games, skills, and hunting.
* **Kotai** - The goddess of healing, light, passion, warfare, and precision.
* **Kogo** - The goddess of childbirth, fertility, wisdom, and the strange powers.
* **Laiaya** - The goddess of illusions, mirrors, weaving, the strange powers, lamentation, service, and textiles.
* **Lolei** - The goddess of maternal love, warfare, pestilence and abundance. One of the Siúykalren, who measures the Rainbow Thread and protect's against sexual diseases.
* **Nana** - The goddess of childbirth, conception, the guardian of infants and ruler of *Sueriy'Ryytu*.
* **Paco** - The goddess of preservation, revelry, children, alcohol, fertility, festivity, and theatre,
* **Styri** - The goddess of widowhood, divorce, righteousness, valor, duty, prophecy, and metallurgy. One of the Siúykalren, who cuts the Rainbow Thread.
* **Tabit** - A healing goddess that can heal poison bits and other injuries via her period blood.
* **Uumi** - The goddess of first love's, animals, perfume, beauty, and sensibility. One of the Siúykalren, who spins the Rainbow Thread.
* **Usuk** - The goddess of shapeshifting, purification, reeds and marshes. Also known of the ***Mother of Change*** who can grant a new face and a life to a person if they find her sacred marsh in between the Divine Forest and the Human World that she changes every solstice.
* **Yatoshi** - The goddess of satisfaction, oneiromancy, compassion, motherhood, and mercy.
* **Yanio** - The goddess of wishes, luck, retribution, change, crossroads, mischief, and enchantment.

### Males

* **Batlaa** - The god of the wilderness, volcanoes, crafts, and storms. He is one of the sons of Diaki.
* **Dyaro** - The primordial god of the sky and creation. He murdered "*it's*" father The Void to steal its ability of creation in an attempt to woo his sister Diaki who rejected him and later had his daughter Dialo and Diago build the underworld prison in which Dyaro was then imprisoned in for a two thousand years for the murder of their father and the force impregnation of his other sister Diayo.
* **Dyagoni** - The primordial god of death, obscenities, smoking, drinking, spirits, and death.
* **Koh** - The centipede god of knowledge and was more commonly known as the ***Face Eater*** due to eating other people's faces as punishments for the arrogance.
* **Pausha** - The goat-like deity of nature, the wild, shepherds, roads, orators, thieves, diplomats, rustic music, and companion of spirits.
* **Ratian** - The god of sexuality, animals, wealth, and spontaneity.
* **Runmo** - The god of divination, fate, prophecy, wisdom and guardian of the divine forest. His "sister" is Huah.

### Unisex

* **Ezmu** - The genderless deities of ointments, the brewing of alcohol, and weaving. A friend of children and often appears as a spider, they often give advice to individuals who leave offerings of small sweets and a small toy.
* **The Void** -

### Demigods/Demigoddesses

* **Seraj Kalygo** - The demigoddess's daughter of *Diago* and the mortal *Oja*, and the goddess of shapeshifting and beauty. She was arranged to be married to *Tabayi* the brother of *Akalmi*, King of Miah after the death of her half-brother. Seraj Kalygo considered the most beautiful women in the world but *Tabayi* is a horrible husband who as a way of bragging to house guest and strangers forces his wife to walk around in front of these strangers tired of this abuse and humiliation, she begs her mother *Diago* and the Siúykalren to free her from the marriage and be with someone who truly loved her and wouldn't humiliate her. So, they sent the Prince *Oren* of (\*&\*) causing the (\*&\*) War.

## Groups

* **Y Heodakni** - Also known as the Seven Holy Stars are a group of deities consisted of Diago, Dialo, Ratian, Ishaya, Dyagoni, Runmo, and Batlaa.
* **Siúykalren** - Are a trio of goddesses that are the patrons of love, sexuality, warfare, and disease consisting of Styri, Lolei, and Uumi.
* **Piejyis** - The nine daughters of Diago and Pausha, named *Kemi*, *Elearo*, *Kotai*, *Paco*, *Kogo*, *Laiaya*, *Yatoshi*, *Aroin* and *Yanio*.

## Places

* **Sueriy'Ryytu** is ruled by Nana where children and babies who have died, abandoned, miscarried or aborted resided until it is time to be reborn again.
* **Tyao'Shyko** is ruled by Asuiu where she grows the fruit of immortally for the gods.
* **Dya'Orista** considered the "*Heaven*" of the Bao people a divine forest where all souls are created, find peace in or are punished for their past evil deeds.