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Major Deities | Primordial Deities
Titans and Titanesses | Giants and Gigantes
Personified Concepts | Cthonic Deities
Sea Deities | Sky Deities | Rustic Deities
Agricultural Deities | Health Deities | Sleep Deities
Other Deities
Major Deities
Name | Description |
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Aphrodite |
Goddess of beauty, love, desire, and pleasure.
Husband: Hephaestus Children: Harmonia, Phobos, Deimos, Aeneas Symbols: girdle, myrtle, roses, scallop shell, doves, sparrows Roman Counterpart: Venus |
Apollo |
God of music, arts, knowledge, healing, plague, prophecy, poetry, manly beauty, and archery.
Parents: Zeus and Leto Sibling: Artemis Symbols: laurel wreath, bow and arrow, lyre, deer, swans, pythons Roman Counterpart: Sol |
Ares |
God of courage, war, bloodshed, and violence.
Parents: Zeus and Hera Children: Harmonia, Phobos, Deimos Symbols: vultures, venomous snakes, dogs, boars Roman Counterpart: Mars |
Artemis |
Goddess of the hunt, wilderness, animals, the Moon, and young girls.
Parents: Zeus and Leto Sibling: Apollo Symbols: hunting knives, spears, animal pelts, deer, wild animals, bow and arrow Roman Counterpart: Diana |
Athena |
Goddess of reason, wisdom, intelligence, skill, peace, warfare, strategy, and handicrafts.
Parents: Zeus Symbols: olive tree, owls Roman Counterpart: Minerva |
Demeter |
Goddess of grain, agriculture, harvest, growth, and nourishment.
Parents: Cronus and Rhea Siblings: Zeus Children: Persephone Symbols: wheat, torch, cornucopia, winged serpent, lotus, and pigs Roman Counterpart: Ceres |
Dionysus |
God of wine, fruitfulness, parties, festivals, madness, chaos, drunkenness, vegetation, ecstasy, and the theater.
Parents: Zeus and Semele Wife: Ariadne Symbols: thyrsus, drinking cup, grape vine, crown of ivy, satyrs, dolphins, serpents, tigers, donkeys Roman Counterpart: Bacchus |
Hades |
God of the underworld, the dead, and wealth.
Parents: Cronus and Rhea Wife: Persephone Symbols: drinking horn, key, sceptre, Cerberus, screech owl Roman Counterpart: Pluto |
Hephaestus |
God of fire, metalworking, and crafts.
Parents: Zeus and Hera Wife: Aphrodite Symbols: hammer, tongs, anvil, donkey, dog, crane, armor Roman Counterpart: Vulcan |
Hera |
Goddess of women, marriage, childbirth, heirs, kings, the sky, and empires.
Parents: Cronus and Rhea Husband: Zeus Symbols: lotus, veil, heifer, peacock, cuckoo Roman Counterpart: Juno |
Hermes |
God of boundaries, travel, trade, communication, language, writing, cunnng and thieves, livestock, fertility, music, luck, and deception.
Parents: Zeus and Maia Symbols: caduceus, winged sandals, traveler's cap, tortoise Roman Counterpart: Mercury |
Hestia |
Goddess of the hearth, home, domesticity, chastity, and modesty.
Parents: Cronus and Rhea Siblings: Zeus Symbols: the hearth, kettle, sacred fire Roman Counterpart: Vesta |
Poseidon |
God of the sea, rivers, floods, droughts, and earthquakes.
Parents: Cronus and Rhea Siblings: Zeus and Hades Symbols: trident, horse, dolphin Roman Counterpart: Neptune |
Zeus |
God of the sky, weather, thunder, lightning, law, order, and justice.
Parents: Cronus and Rhea Children: might as well be all of them, let's be honest. Symbols: scepter, lightning bolt, eagle, bull Roman Counterpart: Jupiter |
Primordial Deities
Name | Description |
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Achlys | Goddess of poisons. Personification of misery and sadness. |
Aether | God of light and the upper atmosphere. |
Aion | God of eternity. Personification of cyclical time. |
Ananke | Goddess and inevitability, compulsion, and necessity. |
Chaos | Personification of nothingness. |
Chronos | God of empirical time. Separate from Cronus. |
Erebus | God of darkness and shadow. Personification of the void between Earth and the Underworld. |
Eros | God of erotic love and attraction. |
Gaia | Personification of the Earth. Mother of the Titans. |
Hemera | Goddess of day. |
Hypnos | Personification of sleep. |
Nemesis | Goddess of retribution. |
the Nesoi | Goddesses of islands. |
Nyx | Goddess of night. |
the Ourea | Gods of the mountains. |
Pontus | God of the sea. Father of fish and other sea creatures. |
Tartarus | God of the deepest part of the Underworld. |
Thalassa | Personification of the sea. |
Thanatos | God of death. Brother of Hypnos and Moros. |
Uranus | God of the heavens. Father of the Titans. |
Titans and Titanesses
Name | Description |
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Asteria | Goddess of nocturnal oracles and falling stars. |
Astraeus | God of dusk, stars, planets, and Astrology. |
Atlas | God of endurance and astronomy. Son of Iapetus. |
Coeus | God of intellect and the axis of heaven. Husband of Phoebe. |
Crius | God of constellations. Father of Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses. |
Cronus | God of harvests. Personification of destructive time. Leader of the Titans. Father of Zeus and son of Uranus. Not to be confused with Chronos. |
Dione | Goddess of oracles. |
Eos | Goddess of the dawn. |
Epimetheus | God of afterthought. Father of excuses. |
Helios | God of the sun. Guardian of oaths. |
Hyperion | God of light. Father of Helios, Selene, and Eos. |
Iapetus | God of mortality. Father of Prometheus, Epimetheus, Menoetius, and Atlas. |
Leto | Goddess of motherhood. Mother of Artemis and Apollo. |
Menoetius | God of violent anger, rash action, and human mortality. |
Metis | Goddess of good counsel, advice, planning, cunning, craftiness, and wisdom. Mother of Athena. |
Mnemosyne | Goddess of memory and rememberance. Mother of the Nine Muses. |
Oceanus | God of all rivers and oceans. Creator of Earth's fresh water. |
Pallas | God of warcraft. |
Perses | God of destruction. |
Phoebe | Goddess of the "bright" intellect and prophecy. Wife of Coeus. |
Rhea | Goddess of fertility, motherhood, and the mountain wilds. Wife of Cronus. Mother of Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, and Hestia. |
Selene | Goddess of the moon. |
Styx | God of the underworld river Styx. Personification of hatred. |
Tethys | Goddess of fresh-water. Mother of rivers, springs, streams, fountains, and clouds. |
Theia | Goddess of sight and the shining light of the clear blue sky. Wife of Hyperion. Mother of Helios, Selene, and Eos. |
Themis | Goddess of divine law and order. |
Personified Concepts
Name | Description |
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Achlys | Personification of sadness, misery, and poison. |
Adephagia | Spirit of gluttony. |
Adikia | Spirit of injustice and wrongdoing. |
Aergia | Spirit of idleness, laziness, and sloth. |
Agathodaemon | Spirit of the vineyards and grainfields. |
Agon | Spirit of contest and competition. |
Aidos | Spirit of modesty, reverence, and respect. |
Aisa | Personification of fate. |
Alala | Spirit of the war cry. |
Alastor | Spirit of vengence. |
Aletheia | Spirit of truth and sincerity. |
the Algea | Spirits of pain and suffering. Achos (trouble), Ania (anguish), and Lupe (pain, grief, sadness). |
Alke | Spirit of courage. |
Amechania | Spirit of helplessness. |
the Amphilogiai | Spirits of disputes, debate, and contention. |
Anaideia | Spirit of ruthlessness, shamelessness, and unforgivingness. |
the Androktaisiai | Spirits of the fallen on the battlefield. |
Angelia | Spirit of messages, tidings, and proclemations. |
Apate | Spirit of deceit, guile, fraud, and deception. |
Apheleia | Spirit of simplicity. |
the Arae | Spirits of curses. |
Arete | Spirit of virtue, excellence, goodness, and valor. |
Ate | Spirit of delusion, infatuation, blind folly, recklessness, and ruin. |
Bia | Personification of force and raw energy. |
Caerus | Spirit of opportunity. |
Corus | Spirit of surplus and excess. |
Deimos | Spirit of fear, dread, and terror. |
Dikaiosyne | Spirit of justice and righteousness. |
Dike | Spirit of justice, fair judgement, and the rights established by custom and law. |
Dolos | Spirit of trickery, cunning deception, craftiness, and treachery. |
Dysnomia | Spirit of lawlessness. |
Dyssebeia | Spirit of sinfulness and godlessness. |
Eirene | Goddess of peace. |
Eiresione | Personification of the olive branch. |
Ekecheiria | Spirit of truce, armistice, and the ending of hostility. |
Eleos | Spirit of mercy, pity, and compassion. |
Elpis | Spirit of hope and expectation. |
Epiphron | Spirit of good judgement, thoughtfulness, carefulness, and intelligence. |
Eris | Spirit of strife, discord, contention, and rivalry. |
the Erotes |
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Eucleia | Spirit of good repute and glory. |
Eulabeia | Spirit of caution and discretion. |
Eunomia | Goddess of good order and lawful conduct. |
Eupheme | Spirit of words of good omen, acclamation, praise, applause, and shouts of triumph. |
Eupraxia | Spirit of well-being. |
Eusebeia | Spirit of piety, loyalty, duty, and respect. |
Euthenia | Spirit of prosperity, abundance, and plenty. |
Gelos | Spirit of laughter. |
Geras | Spirit of old age. |
Harmonia | Goddess of harmony and concord. |
Hedone | Spirit of enjoyment and delight. |
Heimarmene | Personification of fate and destiny. |
Homados | Spirit of battlecries. |
Homonoia | Spirit of concord, unanimity, and oneness. |
Horkos | Spirit of oaths. |
Horme | Spirit of impulse, eagerness, and starting something. |
Hybris | Spirit of outrageous behavior. |
Hypnos | God of sleep. |
the Hysminai | Spirits of fighting and combat. |
Ioke | Spirit of pursuit in battle. |
Kakia | Spirit of vice and moral evil. |
the Keres | Spirits of violent or cruel death. |
Koalemos | Spirit of stupidity and foolishness. |
Kratos | Spirit of strength, might, power, and sovereign rule. |
Kydoimos | Spirit of uproar and hubbub. |
Lethe | Spirit of forgetfulness and oblivion. |
Limos | Spirit of hunger and starvation. |
the Litae | Spirits of prayer. |
Lyssa | Spirit of rage, fury, and rabies. |
the Machai | Spirits of fighting and combat. |
Mania | Spirit of madness, insanity, and frenzy. |
the Moirai |
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Momus | Spirit of mockery, blame, censure, and criticism. |
Moros | Spirit of doom. |
the Neikea | Spirits of quarrels, feuds, and grievances. |
Nemesis | Goddess of revenge, balance, righteousness, and retribution. |
Nike | Goddess of victory. |
Nomos | Spirit of law. |
Oizys | Spirit of woe and misery. |
the Oneiroi | Personifications of dreams. |
Palioxis | Spirit of backrush, flight, and retreat from battle. |
Peitharchia | Spirit of discipline. |
Peitho | Spirit of persuasion and seduction. |
Penia | Spirit of poverty and need. |
Penthus | Spirit of grief, mourning, and lamentation. |
Pepromene | Personification of fate and destiny. |
Pheme | Spirit of rumor, report, and gossip. |
Philophrosyne | Spirit of friendliness, kindness, and welcome. |
Philotes | Spirit of friendship, affection, and sexual intercourse. |
Phobos | Spirit of panic, fear, flight response, and retreat. |
the Phonoi | Spirits of murder, killing, and slaughter. |
Phrike | Spirit of horror and trembling fear. |
Phthonus | Spirit of envy and jealousy. |
Pistis | Spirit of trust, honesty, and good faith. |
Poine | Spirit of retribution, vengence, punishment, and penalty for crimes. |
Polemos | Personification of war. |
Ponos | Spirit of hard labor and toil. |
Poros | Spirit of the means of accomplishing or providing. |
Praxidike | Spirit of exacting justice. |
Proioxis | Spirit of battlefield pursuit. |
Prophasis | Spirit of excuses and pleas. |
Ptocheia | Spirit of beggary. |
Roma | Personified version of the city of Rome. |
Soter | Male personification of safety, preservation, and deliverance from harm. |
Soteria | Female personification of safety, preservation, and deliverance from harm. |
Sophrosyne | Spirit of moderation, self-control, temperance, restraint, and discretion. |
Thanatos | Spirit of death and mortality. |
Thrasos | Spirit of boldness. |
tyche | Goddess of fortune, chance, providence, and fate. |
Zelos | Spirit of eager rivalry, emulation, envy, jealousy, and zeal. |
Cthonic Deities
Name | Description |
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Angelos | Goddess of the underworld. Daughter of Zeus and Hera. |
Charon | Ferryman of Hades. |
Erebos | God of darkness. Lives in the hallows of the Earth. |
the Erinyes |
The Furies, Goddesses of retribution.
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Hades | God of the Underworld and all things beneath the Earth. |
Hecate | Goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts, and necromancy. |
Judges of the Dead |
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Keuthonymos | An underworld spirit. Father of Menoetes. |
Lampades | Torch-bearing underworld nymphs |
Macaria | Goddess of blessed death. Daughter of Hades. |
Melinoe | Goddess of offerings to the dead, bringer of nightmares and madness. Daughter of Persephone and Zeus. |
Menoetes | Hearder of the cattle of Hades in the underworld. |
Nyx | Goddess of night. |
Persephone | Goddess of the Underworld and spring growth. Wife of Hades. |
Rivers of the Underworld |
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Tartarus | God of the dark, stormy pit of the Underworld. |
Thanatos | God of death. |
Zagreus | An underworld God. Son of Zeus and Persephone. |
Sea Deities
Name | Description |
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Aegaeon | God of violent sea storms. |
Amphitrite | Goddess of the sea. Wife of Poseidon. |
Brizo | Patron Goddess of sailors. |
Ceto | Goddess of the dangers of the ocean and of sea monsters. |
Glaucus | Patron God of fishermen, also and oracle. |
Leucothea | Goddess of the sea who aided sailors. |
Nereides |
Sea nymphs
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Nereus | God of the sea's fish. |
Oceanides |
Patronesses of bodies of fresh water |
Oceanus | God of the oceans. |
Potamoi | Gods of the rivers and streams of the Earth. |
Palaemon | God of the sea who aided sailors. |
Phorcys | God of the hidden dangers of the deep sea. |
Pontus | Primordial God of the sea. Father of the fish and other sea creatures. Son of Gaia. |
Proteus | Prophetic God of the sea. Heardsman of Poseidon's seals. |
Poseidon | King of the Seas, Lord of the Sea Gods. God of rivers, flood, drought, earthquakes, and horses. |
Tethys | Goddess of the sources of fresh water. Mother of rivers, springs, streams, fountains, and clouds. |
Thalassa | Goddess of the sea. Wife of Pontos. |
Thaumas | God of the wonders of the sea. |
Thoosa | Goddess of swift currents. |
Tritones | Fish-tailed spirits who worked with Poseidon. |
Sky Deities
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Rustic Deities
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Agricultural Deities
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Health Deities
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Sleep Deities
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Other Deities
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