List of deities
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Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe in the same God, but Muslims, and to some degree Jews (see below), visualize God in strictly monotheistic terms, whereas most Christians believe that God exists as a Trinity.
Egyptian deities often have physical forms that incorporate animal forms. For example, Anubis has the body of a human, but the head of a canine.
See http://touregypt.net/godsofegypt/ for the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism's extensive information on Egyptian Deities.
There are very few written documents about old Finnish religions; also the names of deities and practices of worship changed from place to place.
The following is a summary of the most important and most widely worshipped deities.
See also Demigods[?], the Dryads, the Fates, the Erinyes, the Graces, the Horae, the Muses, the Nymphs, the Pleiades, the Titans
See also kachina
In addition to the gods listed above, there are several minor Gods
spoken of in current western culture and may be taken more or less
seriously. These are commonly called Kitchen
Gods.
see also Menehune
see also Kami
See also Annuna
Abenaki
The Abrahamic religions Judaism
Yahweh is the Biblical name for God used by ancient Jews.
Adonai, Eloheynu and Hashem are some of the names of God used in modern day Judaism. The Hebrew word "elohim" is also used to refer to God in the Torah (and the Old Testament), and this refers to a plural nature of God. However, Jews hold to a slightly more monotheistic view of God than Christians. They reject Jesus Christ as a false messiah, and do not assign any deity to him.
Christianity
Historically, Christianity has professed belief in one deity, three divine persons (the Trinity), that make up one deity or Godhead, known as "God". (See Athanasian Creed.)
Thus, most Christians are trinitarian monotheists, although there have been dissenters; see the articles Arianism, Unitarianism (History), Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Jehovah's Witnesses for examples.
Most of these unitarian groups believe or believed that only God the Father is a deity; Latter-day Saints believe that the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ) and the Holy Spirit are three distinct deities.
Islam
Allah is the most traditional Muslim name for God. Islamic tradition also speaks of 99 Names of God.
Other
Two smaller faiths that don't neatly fit into any of the categories of Abrahamic religions. Rastafarianism worships Jah and the Baha'i Faith also worships the same God as Jews, Christians and Muslims.
Akamba mythology
Akan mythology
Ashanti mythology
Australian Aborigine mythology
Aztec deities
Bushongo mythology
Celtic pre-Christian Deities
Chinese mythology
Chippewa mythology
Creek mythology
Dacian[?] Deities
Dahomey mythology
Dinka mythology
Efik mythology
Egyptian Deities Etruscan Deities
Finnish pre-Christian deities
Ancient Greek pre-Christian Deities
Guarani mythology
Haida mythology
Hinduism
Hopi mythology
Huron mythology
Ibo mythology
Incan mythology
Inuit mythology
Iroquois mythology
Isoko mythology
Khoikhoi mythology
Kitchen Gods
Kwakiutl mythology
Lakota mythology
Lotuko mythology Latvian mythology
Lugbara mythology
Mayan deities Mesopotamian gods
Navaho mythology Norse pre-Christian Deities
Pawnee mythology
Polynesian mythology Prussian Baltic Pre-Christian Deities
Pygmy mythology Roman pre-Christian Deities
Salish mythology Sardinian Deities
Sardinian deities, mainly referred to in the age of Nuragici people, are partly derived from Phoenician ones.
Seneca mythology
Shinto deities Sumerian Deities
Tumbuka mythology
Winnebago mythology
Yoruba mythology
Zulu mythology
Zuni mythology