List of Roman deities

The following is a list of deities from Roman mythology.

A

* **Abeona:** a goddess who helped children learn to walk.
* **Abundantia:** the goddess of abundance and prosperity.
* **Acis:** the god of the Acis River.
* **Adeona:** a goddess who helped children learn to walk.
* **Adolenda:** a goddess who was given propitiations before burning a tree.
* **Aequitas:** the personification of fairness.
* **Aescolanus:** the god of copper money.
* **Aesculapius:** the god of medicine.
* **Aeternitas:** the personification of eternity.
* **Afferenda:** the goddess of offering dowries.
* **Agenoria:** the goddess of activity who prompted children ot live active lives.
* **Aion:** the god of time and eternity.
* **Aius Locutius:** a deity who warned the Romans about an oncoming Gallic invasion.
* **Alemona:** the goddess who fed embryos and nourished growth in the womb.
* **Altor:** an obscure agricultural god.
* **Angerona:** the goddess who relieved people from pain and sorrow.
* **Angitia:** the goddess of healing, snakes, and snake charmers.
* **Anna Perenna:** the goddess of the circle of the year.
* **Annona:** the goddess of the grain supply to Rome.
* **Apollo:** the god of music, poetry, art, oracles, prophecy, archery, healing, plague, disease, medicine, the sun, light, knowledge, truth, and the protector of youth.
* **Arculus:** the god of chests and strongboxes.
* **Argentinus:** the god of silver money.
* **Ascensus:** the god of sloping terrain and hillsides.
* **Aura:** the divine personification of the breeze.
* **Aurora:** the goddess of the dawn.
* **Averruncus:** the god of averting harm.

B

* **Bacchus:** the god of wine, sensual pleasure, and truth.
* **Bellona:** the goddess of war.
* **Bona Dea:** the goddess of chastity, female fertility, healing, and the protection of the Roman state and population.
* **Bonus Eventus:** the divine personification of success.
* **Bubona:** the goddess of cattle.

C

* **Caca:** an ancient fire goddess.
* **Cacus:** an ancient god of fire who eventually became a giant.
* **Caelus:** the primal god of the sky.
* **The Camenae:** the goddesses of childbirth, wells, fountains, and prophecy.
	+ ***Antevorta:*** the goddess of the future.
	+ ***Carmenta:*** the goddess of childbirth, prophecy, technological innovation, and the protector of mothers, children and the patron goddess of midwives.
	+ ***Egeria:*** a nymph of childbirth and the giver of wisdom and prophecy.
	+ ***Postverta:*** the goddess of the past.
* **Candelifera:** the goddess who provides light for childbirth that occurs at night.
* **Canens:** the personification of song.
* **Cardea:** the goddess of door hinges.
* **The Carmentes:** goddesses of childbirth.
	+ ***Antevorta:*** a goddess of childbirth and the future.
	+ ***Postverta:*** a goddess of childbirth and the past.
* **Carna:** the goddess who protected the heart and other internal organs.
* **Catius Pater:** a god who helps children develop intellectually.
* **Ceres:** the goddess of agriculture, grains, crops, fertility, and motherly love.
* **Cinxia:** the goddess of the cingulum.
* **Clementia:** the goddess of clemency, leniency, mercy, forgiveness, penance, redemption, absolution, and salvation.
* ***Clivicola*:** name means "she who inhabits the clivus (slope or street)"
* **Cloacina:** the goddess who presided over the sewer system of Rome.
* **Coinquenda:** a goddess who was given a propitiation before knocking down a tree.
* **Collatina:** the goddess of hills.
* ***Coluber*:** an obscure god.
* **Commolenda:** a goddess who was given a propitiation before reducing a tree to chips.
* **Concordia:** the goddess of marital and societal harmony.
* **Conditor:** the god of storing grain.
* **Consevius:** the god of breeding and insemination.
* **Consus:** the god who protected grains.
* **Convector:** the god of carrying grain.
* **Cuba:** the goddess who helps children transition from cradles to beds.
* **Cunina:** the goddess who protects cradles and cribs from malevolent magic.
* **Cupid:** the god of desire, erotic love, attraction, and affection.
* **Cura:** the divine personification of care and concern.

D

* **Dea Dia:** the goddess of growth.
* **Dea Tacita:** a goddess of the dead.
* **Deferunda:** a goddess who was given a propitiation before knocking down a tree.
* **Deverra:** the goddess who presided over the broom used in a ritual to protect infants from evil influences.
* **Diana:** the goddess of hunting, the moon, childbirth, nature, wild animals, forests, and the protector of young women until they marry.
* **Dies:** the personification of the day.
* **Dis Pater:** the god of the Underworld, riches, underground mineral wealth, and fertile agricultural land.
* **Disciplina:** the goddess of discipline.
* **Discordia:** the goddess of discord and strife.
* **Dius Fidius:** the god of oaths.
* **Domiduca:** a goddess of marriage who protects children when they leave the house and the bridal procession.
* **Domiducus:** a god of marriage who protects the bridal procession.
* **Domitius:** the god who preserves the home of newlyweds.

E

* **Edesia:** the goddess of food and banquets.
* **Empanda:** a goddess who was always there for those in need.
* **Epona:** a goddess of fertility and the protector of horses, donkeys, and mules.
* **Erecura:** an obscure Underworld goddess.

F

* **Fabulinus:** the god who prompted children to speak their first words.
* ***Falacer*:** an obscure god.
* **Fama:** the goddess of fame and rumor.
* **Farinus:** the god who enabled children to speak.
* **Fascinus:** a god who protected against envy and the evil eye.
* **Fauna:** a goddess of prophecy.
* **Faunus:** the goat-footed god of the forest, plains, and fields.
* **Faustitas:** a goddess who protected herds and livestock.
* **Febris:** a goddess with the power to cause or prevent fevers and malaria.
* **Februus:** the god of purification.
* **Fecunditas:** a goddess of fertility.
* **Felicitas:** the personification of success and good luck.
* **Ferentina:** the goddess who protected the Latin commonwealth and was the patron goddess of the city of Ferentinum.
* **Feronia:** a goddess of wildlife, fertility, health, abundance, and the giver of freedom to slaves.
* **Fessona:** the goddess who relieves weariness.
* **Fides:** the goddess of trust, good faith, and loyalty.
* **Flora:** the goddess of flowers, the spring, fertility, and youth.
* **Fluonia:** the goddess who retains the blood of the womb.
* **Fontus:** the god of wells and springs.
* **Forculus:** a god who protected doors.
* **Fornax:** the divine personification of the oven.
* **Fortuna:** the goddess of fortune, chance, luck, and fate.
* **Fulgora:** the personification of lightning.
* ***Furrina*:** an obscure goddess.

G

* **Genius:** individuals spirits of each individual, place, or thing.
* **The Gratiae:** goddesses of grace and beauty.

H

* **Helernus:** a minor Underworld god and the god of beans.
* **Hercules:** the god of strength.
* **Honos:** the god of chivalry, honor, and military justice.
* **Hostilina:** the goddess who makes grain grow evenly.

I

* **Iana:** the goddess of arches and the moon.
* **Imporcitor:** the god of ploughing with a wide furrow.
* **Insitor:** the god of sowing crops.
* **Intercidona:** the goddess who presided over the axe used in a neonatal ritual.
* **Interduca:** a goddess who protects children when they leave the house.
* **Inuus:** the god of sexual intercourse, fertility, and the protector of livestock.
* **Invidia:** the goddess of envy.

J

* **Janus:** the god of beginnings, endings, gates, doorways, passages, transitions, time, duality, war, and peace.
* **Jugatinus:** a god of marriage.
* **Juno:** the Queen of the Gods and the goddess of marriage, women, childbirth, and the protector of the Roman state.
* **Jupiter:** the King of the Gods and the god of the sky, thunder, lightning, law, and order.
* **Justitia:** the goddess of justice.
* **Juturna:** the goddess of fountains, wells, and springs.
* **Juventas:** the goddess of youth and rejuvenation.

L

* **Lactans:** the god who infuses crops with sap or juice.
* **The Lares:** guardian deities.
* **Larunda:** a mute goddess.
* **Lateranus:** the god who protects hearths and brick ovens.
* **Latona:** a goddess of light.
* **Laverna:** the goddess of thieves, cheating, and the Underworld.
* **The Lemures:** spirits of the restless and malevolent dead.
* **Levana:** a goddess who presided over a childbirth ritual in which the child was connected to Terra Mater.
* **Liber:** the god of wine, male fertility, freedom, and the patron god of the plebeians.
* **Libera:** the goddess of wine, female fertility, and freedom.
* **Liberalitas:** the goddess of generosity.
* **Libertas:** the goddess of liberty.
* **Libitina:** the goddess of funerals, corpses, and burial.
* **Lima:** a goddess of thresholds.
* **Limentinus:** the god of the threshold of doors.
* **The Limones:** guardian spirits of Rome's streets.
* **Locutius:** the god who enables children to form sentences.
* **Lua:** the goddess who soldiers sacrificed captured weapons to.
* **Lucifer:** the god of the morning star.
* **Lucina:** the goddess of childbirth and protector of women in labor.
* **Luna:** the goddess of the moon.
* **Lupercus:** the god of shepherds and wolves.
* **Lympha:** the goddess of fresh water.

M

* **Mana Genita:** a goddess who determined whether a baby was born dead or alive.
* **The Manes:** spirits of the deceased.
* **Mania:** the goddess of the dead.
* **Manturna:** the goddess who causes couples to remain together.
* **Mars:** the god of war, masculinity, agriculture and protector of soldiers and farmers. He was also said to be the father of the Romans.
* **Mater Matuta:** the goddess of dawn, childbirth, and the patron goddess of mariners.
* **Meditrina:** the goddess of healing, health, longevity, and wine.
* **Mefitis:** the personification of poisonous gases and volcanic vapors.
* **Mellona:** the goddess of bees, honey, and bee-keeping.
* **Mena:** the goddess of fertility and menstruation who redirected menstrual blood to a fetus.
* **Mens:** the personification of thought, consciousness, and right-thinking.
* **Mercury:** the god of financial gain, commerce, messages, communication, travel, boundaries, luck, trickery, thievery, eloquence, poetry, divination, as well as the guide of souls to the Underworld.
* **Messia:** the goddess of reaping.
* **Messor:** the god of reaping.
* **Minerva:** the goddess of war, poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, trade, handicrafts, and the patron goddess of the arts.
* **Mithras:** a god who was worshipped by soldiers.
* **The Molae:** goddesses of the mill.
* **Moneta:** the goddess of memory.
* **Montinus:** the god of mountains.
* **Mors:** the god of death.
* **Murcia:** a goddess associated with myrtle or sloth and laziness depending on the source.
* **Mutunus Tutunus:** a god of marriage.

N

* **Nascio:** a goddess of childbirth and a protector of infants.
* **Necessitas:** the goddess of destiny.
* **Nemestrinus:** the god of groves.
* **Nenia Dea:** a funeral deity.
* **Neptune:** the god of the seas, horses, and earthquakes.
* **Nerio:** a war goddess and the personification of valor.
* **Noduterensis:** the god of threshing.
* **Nodutus:** the god who causes the "knot" or node to form.
* **Nortia:** a Roman-adopted Etruscan goddess of time, fate, destiny, and chance.
* **Nox:** the goddess of the night.
* **Numeria:** the goddess who enables children to count.
* **Numicus:** a god of the River Numicus.
* **Nundina:** a goddess who presided over the day a child was given a name.

O

* **Obarator:** the god of tracing the first ploughing.
* **Occator:** the god of harrowing.
* ***Odoria:*** an obscure goddess.
* **Ops:** the goddess of the earth and fertility.
* **Orbona:** the goddess of orphans.
* **Orcus:** the god of the Underworld and the punisher of broken oaths.
* **Ossipago:** a goddess who builds strong bones.

P

* ***Palatua*:** an obscure goddess.
* **Pales:** the god of shepherds, flocks, and livestock.
* ***Pantica:*** an obscure goddess.
* **The Parcae:** the goddesses of fate.
	+ ***Nona:*** the Parca who spun the thread of life.
	+ ***Decima:*** the Parca who measured the thread of life.
	+ ***Morta:*** the Parca who cut the thread of life.
* **Patelana:** the goddess who opens up the grain.
* **Paventia:** the goddess who averts fear from children.
* **Pax:** the goddess of peace.
* **Pellonia:** the goddess who protected people from enemies.
* **The Penates:** household deities.
* ***Peragenor:*** an obscure god.
* ***Perfica:*** an obscure goddess.
* **Pertunda:** the goddess of sexual penetration.
* **Peta*:*** the goddess who attends to a child's "first wants".
* **Picumnus:** the god of fertility, agriculture, matrimony, infants, and children.
* **Pietas:** the goddess of duty who cautioned humans to not intrude in the realm of the gods.
* **Pilumnus:** the god who ensured that children grew properly and remained healthy.
* **Pluto:** the king of the Underworld and god of the dead.
* **Poena:** the goddess of punishment.
* ***Pollentia*:** an obscure goddess.
* **Pomona:** the goddess of abundance, plenty, fruit trees, orchards, and gardens.
* **Portunus:** the god of keys, doors, livestock, ports, and the protector of grain warehouses.
* **Potina:** the goddess who enables children to drink.
* ***Praestana:*** an obscure goddess.
* ***Praestitia:*** an obscure goddess.
* **Prema:** the goddess of sex.
* **Promitor:** the god of distributing grain.
* **Proserpina:** the queen of the Underworld and goddess of the spring, crops, and the cycle of life, death, and renewal.
* **Providentia:** the personification of forethought.
* **Pudicitia:** the goddess of chastity.
* **Puta:** the goddess of pruning trees and agriculture.

Q

* **The Querquetulanae:** the nymphs of the oak.
* **Quirinus:** the god of the Roman state and a Sabine god of war.
* **Quiritis:** the goddess of motherhood and protection.

R

* **Reparator:** the god of preparing the land for crops.
* **Robigus:** the personification of agricultural disease with the power to prevent it.
* **Roma:** the personification of Rome and the Roman state.
* **Rumina:** the goddess who protected breastfeeding mothers.
* ***Rumon:*** an obscure god.
* **Runcina:** the goddess of mowing and weeding.
* **Rusina:** the goddess of the fields.
* **Rusor:** an obscure agricultural god.

S

* **Salacia:** the queen of the sea and goddess of salt water and the ocean depths.
* **Salus:** the goddess of safety, well-being, health, prosperity, and welfare.
* **Sancus:** the god of trust, honesty, and oaths.
* **Sator:** the god of sowing.
* **Saturn:** the god of the Capitol, generation, dissolution, plenty, wealth, agriculture, periodic renewal, liberation, and time.
* **Secia:** a goddess of harvesting.
* **Securitas:** the goddess of security and stability.
* **Segesta:** the goddess who promotes the growth of seedlings.
* **Seia:** the goddess who protects seeds within the earth.
* **Semonia:** the goddess of sowing.
* **Sentinus:** the god who gives the power to perception to newborns.
* ***Septimontius:*** an obscure god.
* ***Serra:*** an obscure goddess.
* **Serritor:** the god of hoeing and weeding.
* **Silvanus:** the god of woods, fields, and protector of forests and herds of cattle.
* **Sol:** the god of the sun.
* **Somnus:** the god of sleep.
* **Sors:** a god of luck.
* **Spes:** the goddess of hope.
* **Spiniensis:** the god of thorns who presided over removing thorny plants from fields.
* **Stata Mater:** a goddess who protected against fires.
* **Statina:** the goddess who gives fitness to babies.
* **Sterquilinus:** the goddess of feces and fertilizer.
* **Strenua:** the goddess of the new year, purification, and well-being.
* **Suadela:** the goddess of persuasion and seduction.
* **Subigus:** the god who causes brides to give in to their husbands.
* **Subruncinator:** the god of weeding.
* **Summanus:** the god of nocturnal thunder.

T

* **Tellumo:** a rarely mentioned god of the earth.
* **Tempestas:** a goddess of storms.
* **Terminus:** the god of boundaries.
* **Terra Mater:** the goddess of the earth.
* **Tiberinus:** the god of the Tiber River.
* **Tibertus:** the god of the River Anio.
* **Tranquillitas:** the god of tranquility, security, calmness, and peace.
* **Trivia:** the goddess of crossroads, graveyards, sorcery, and witchcraft.
* **Tutelina:** the goddess of protecting crops brought in during harvest time.

U

* **Ubertas:** a minor goddess of agriculture who personified the fruitfulness and abundance of soil and plants.
* **Unxia:** a minor goddess of marriage who presided over anointing the groom's door.

V

* **Vacuna:** an ancient Sabine goddess of rest after harvest and the protection of sheep. She later became a war goddess.
* **Vagitanus:** the goddess who opened a newborn's mouth for its first cry.
* ***Vallonia*:** an obscure goddess.
* **Vejovis:** a god of healing and medicine.
* **Venilia:** a goddess of the winds and the sea.
* **The Venti:** gods of the wind.
	+ ***Africus:*** the god of the southwest wind.
	+ ***Aquilo:*** the god of the north wind and winter.
	+ ***Auster:*** the god of the south wind, summer, and rain.
	+ ***Austroafricus:*** the god of the south-southwest wind.
	+ ***Caurus:*** the god of the northwest wind.
	+ ***Circius:*** the god of the north-northwest wind.
	+ ***Euroauster:*** the god of the south-southeast wind.
	+ ***Favionus:*** the god of the west wind, spring, plants, and flowers.
	+ ***Subsolanus:*** the god of the east wind.
	+ ***Vulturnus:*** the god of the east or southeast wind and autumn.
* **Venus:** the goddess of love, beauty, desire, sex, sexuality, gardens, fertility, prosperity, and victory. She was the mother of the Romans through her mortal son Aeneas.
* **Veritas:** the goddess of truth.
* **Verminus:** a god who protected cattle from disease.
* **Vertumnus:** the god of seasons, change, plant growth, gardens, and fruit trees.
* **Vervactor:** the god of ploughing.
* **Vesta:** the goddess of the hearth, home, and family.
* **Vica Pota:** the goddess of victory and competitions.
* ***Victa:*** an obscure goddess.
* **Victoria:** the goddess of victory, particularly associated with winning war.
* **Viduus:** the god who separated the soul from the body after death.
* **Virbius:** a forest god.
* **Viriplaca:** the goddess who soothes anger.
* **Virtus:** a deity of bravery and military strength.
* **Vitumnus:** the god who endowed the fetus with life.
* ***Voleta:*** an obscure goddess.
* **Volturnus:** the god of the Tiber River.
* **Volumnus:** the god who grants children the will to do good.
* **Voluptas:** the goddess of pleasure.
* **Volutina:** the goddess who causes leaf sheaths to form.
* **Vulcan:** the god of fire, volcanoes, metalworking, the forge, and crafts.