Wednesday, September 5, 2012

List of Wiccan Deities

Wiccan/Pagan Gods & Goddess


Feel free to let me know if I miss any of them and I will add them :) Click the names to read more about them.

Goddesses

Amaterasu - Japanese sun Goddess
Annapurna - Hindu Goddess of Food and Nourishment
Aphrodite /Venus- Greek Goddess of love and beauty
Artemis/Diana - Greek/Roman Goddess of the hunt, virginity, and childbirth, twin sister of Apollo, and an Olympian, often associated with the moon
Astarte - Greek Goddess of fertility, sexuality, and war
Athena - Greek Goddess of wisdom, defensive and strategic wars
Bast - Egyptian solar and war Goddess (in the form of a cat)
Baubo - Greek Goddess of mirth, jests, and bawdy humour
Brighid - Celtic Goddess of poetry, healing, and crafts (especially smith-work), holy wells and eternal flames
Cerridwen - Celtic Goddess of transformation, of the cauldron of inspiration, of prophecy
Cybele - Greek Earth Mother
Danu - Irish Mother Goddess
Demeter - Greek Goddess of the harvest and of grain, mother of Persephone
Durga - Hindu Great Goddess, Divine Mother
Eos - Greek Goddess of the dawn
Ereshkigal - Mesopotamian Goddess of Darkness, Death, and Gloom
Flora - Roman Goddess of flowers
Fortuna -Roman Goddess of fortune
Freya or Freyja - Norse Goddess of fertility, sexual liberty, abundance, and war
Frigg - Norse Goddess of marriage, household management, and love, Queen of Heaven, and wife of Odin
Gaia/Earth Mother - The Greek Goddess Gaia is the primordial Goddess of earth, mother and grandmother of the first generation of Titans
Hathor - Egyptian Goddess of the Milky Way, Mother Goddess, Goddess of childbirth and death.
Hecate - Greek Goddess of witchcraft and magick, crossroads, and the harvest moon
Hestia - Greek Goddess of the hearth and domestic life
Hel - Norse Goddess daughter of Loki and the giantess Angrboda, Queen of the Dead
Hera - Roman Goddess of the Hearth, of women, and of marriage
Inanna - Sumerian Goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare
Isis - Egyptian Mother Goddess, matron of nature and magick, Goddess of creativity and the underdog
Ishtar - Mesopotamian Goddess of sexual love, fertility, and war
Juno - Roman Queen of the Gods and Goddess of matrimony
Kali - Hindu Goddess of Time and Death, also Divine Mother Goddess
Kore - Greek Maiden Goddess of bountiful Earth
Kuan Yin , Kwan Yin Ma , Quan Yin - Chinese Goddess of Mercy and Compassion
Lakshmi - Hindu Goddess of Wealth and Fertility (Goddess as Mother/Sustainer)
Lalita - Hindu Goddess of Beauty
Luna Goddess - Roman Goddess of the Moon
Ma'at - Egyptian Goddess, personified concept of truth, balance, justice, and order
Mary - Mother Goddess, Queen of Heaven, Goddess of Femininity
Maya - Hindu The Goddess of Illusion and Mystery
Minerva - Roman Goddess of wisdom and war
Morrigan - Celtic war Goddess
Nut - Egyptian Goddess of heaven and the sky and all celestial bodies
Parvati - Hindu Divine Mother, the embodiment of the total energy in the universe, Goddess of Power and Might
Pele - Hawai'ian volcano Goddess, Destroyer and Creatrix
Persephone - Greek Goddess daughter of Demeter, queen of the dead, also a grain-Goddess
Radha - Hindu Divine Mother
Rhiannon - Celtic Goddess of the moon
Rosmurta - Celtic/Roman Goddess of abundance. She is also the Goddess of Business Success.
Saraswati - Hindu Goddess of Knowledge, the Arts, Mathematics, Education, and cosmic Wisdom (Creatrix)
Sedna: Inuit Goddess of the Sea and Queen of the Underworld
Selene - Greek Goddess of Moon
Shakti- Hindu primordial cosmic energy, Great Divine Mother
Shekina - Hebrew, feminine aspect of God, Shekhina represented compassion in its purest form
Sita - Hindu Goddess representing perfect womanhood
Sol - Norse Sun Goddess
Sophia - Greek Goddess of wisdom
Spider Woman - Teotihuacan Great Goddess (Creatrix)
Tara - Hindu, Mother Goddess, the absolute, unquenchable hunger that propels all life.
Tara, Green - Buddhist female Buddha, Tibetan Buddhism - compassion, liberation, success. Compassionate Buddha of enlightened activity
Tara, White - Buddhist Goddess known for compassion, long life, healing and serenity; also known as The Wish-fulfilling Wheel, or Cintachakra
Tara, Red - fierceness, magnetizing all good things
Tara, Black - power
Tara, Yellow - wealth and prosperity
Tara, Blue - transmutation of anger
Tiamat - Mesopotamian dragon Goddess, embodiment of primordial chaos (the Velvet Dark)
Uma - Hindu Goddess of power, the personification of light and beauty, embodying great beauty and divine wisdom
Vesta - Roman Goddess of the hearth
Voluptas - Roman Goddess of pleasure
Yemaya - Yoruban Mother Goddess, Goddess of the Ocean
White Buffalo Calf Woman - Lakota Goddess

Goddess Titles

~ Crone Goddess - Title used for Wiccan Goddesses of death, rebirth, and wisdom, such as Cerridwen, andHecate.
~ Earth Goddess - Title used for embodiments of the Earth, such as Greek Goddess Gaia, Demeter, Cybele.
~ Great Mother Goddess - Creatrix existing in most religions, under various names such as Demeter, Gaia, Isis, Parvati (also Great Goddess, Great Mother, Divine Mother).
~ Moon Goddess - Title used for Goddesses of the Moon, such as Luna, Selene, and Artemis.
~ Mother Goddess - Title used for the bountiful embodiment of the Earth (see Earth Goddess).
~ Maiden Goddess - Title used for Goddesses who personify the youthful energy of spring, such as Kore, Diana (also Virgin Goddess)
~ Queen of Heaven - title used for Virgin Mary, Asherah, and possibly other Great Mother Goddesses
~ Queen of the Underworld - title used for Ereshkigal, Persephone, and possibly other Death Goddesses
~ Triple Goddess : worshipped since the 7th millennium BC as the Goddess in three aspects—as a young woman, a birth-giving matron, and an old woman (Maiden-Mother-Crone). Passed down through the ages into virtually all religions:
  • Parvati-Durga-Uma (Kali) in India
  • Ana-Babd-Macha (the Morrigan), and Brighid in Ireland
  • Hebe-Hera-Hecate, the three Moerae, the three Gorgons, the three Graeae, and the three Horae in Greece
  • the Fates or Fortunae in Romans
  • the Norns to the Vikings
  • Diana Triformis to the druids

~ Virgin Goddess - Title used for Goddesses who are solitary, choosing to stand alone, without consorts.

Gods

Adonis - Greek God of rebirth and vegetation, worshipped in mystery religions for untold eons.
Apollo - Greek/Roman young solar God, God of light, truth and prophecy, God of archery, medicine and healing, God of music, poetry, and the arts
Anubis - Egyptian God of the Dead
Aten - Egyptian Supreme God, solar deity
Brahma - Hindu Creator God
Coyote - First Nations Trickster God
Cernunnos - Celtic God of the Wild Hunt, fertility and masculine energy.
Dagda - Irish Father God, somewhat comical and bawdy
Dionysus - Greek/Roman God of wine, of ritual ecstasy, God of agriculture, music, and theatre, communication between living and dead
Eros - Greek God of sexuality and fertility
Ganesh - Hindu God with elephant head, remover of obstacles, God of beginnings, patron of arts and sciences, of intelligence and wisdom
Gopala - Hindu Child God, young Krishna, playful and mischevious while always aware of divinity
Govinda - Sikh God, preserver, protective father
Great Spirit - First Nations supreme Deity, Creator, Source
Hades - Greek God of the Underworld and Death
Hephaestus - Greek God of the Forge, of technology, craftsmen, sculptors, fire and volcanoes.
Hermes - Greek God of boundaries and travelers, shepherds and cowherds, orators, writers and poets, invention, commerce, and thieves. Messenger of the Gods. Trickster God.
Herne - British God of vegetation, vine, and the wild hunt
Holly King - English God of winter (rest, withdrawal)
Horus - Egyptian Sky God, God of sun and moon, God of war and the hunt
Krishna - Hindu Supreme God, essence of all creation
Loki - Norse God, shape-shifter and gender-changer
Lugh - Celtic God of smiths and artisans, harvest god
Mercury - Roman God of commerce, messenger of the Gods, speed and travel.
Mithras - Persian God of light
Oak King - English God of summer (expansion, growth, activity)
Odin - Norse Father God , God of wisdom, wealth, inspiration, poetry, battle, hunting, magick, prophecy
Osiris - Egyptian God of the Underworld and the harvest
Pan - Greek nature God, Horned God, god of shepherds and flocks, of wild forests and fields, virility, fertility and spring
Ra - Egyptian God, solar deity
Rama - Hindu God representing the perfect human man and husband
Set/Seth - Egyptian God of chaos
Shiva - Hindu God, the destroyer of obstacles, transformer
Sunna - Norse Sun God
Tammuz - Egyptian green God
Thoth - Egyptian God of magick and wisdom
Vishnu - Hindu God, sustainer
Zeus - Father God, Sky God

God Titles

~ Child God- Title used for Gods in the form of infants, such as Gopala, Baby Jesus, Horus (also Son God).
~ Father God - Title used for Pagan patriarchs, such as Zeus, Dagda, Odin.
~ Green Man - Title used for the Earth Gods, such as Tammuz, Herne, Dionysus (also Green God).
~ Horned God - Title used for Wiccan Gods of the animals or the hunt, symbolizing virility and strength, such as Pan, Cernunnos, Herne, Pashupati.
~ Lover God - Title used for Gods who aspect as consorts of the Goddess and lover to his devotees, such as Krishna, Cernunnos, Pan.
~ Sacrificial Gods - Title used for deities whose ritual sacrifice provides life for the people, such as Osiris, Jesus, Adonis, and other Sun Gods and Green Gods
~ Sun God - Title used for Solar Gods, such as Christ, Sunna, Apollo, Ra.
~ Triple God - Title used for the godhead as a trinity, such as Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva; God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

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