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1. Agni Deities · deities

   Agni is the Vedic fire, the mouth of the gods through whom every offering is carried, and the flame in the hearth and in the belly. He is the priest of the sacrifice and the sacrifice itself, and without him nothing reaches anyone.

2. Prometheus Deities · deities

   Titan who stole fire from gods to give to humanity. Taught humans arts, technology, sacrifice. Punished by Zeus—chained to rock, eagle eating liver daily, regenerating nightly. Sacrifice for humanity's advancement. Rebellion for love.

3. Xiuhtecuhtli Deities · deities

   Xiuhtecuhtli, Lord of the Turquoise, is the Aztec fire: the oldest of the gods, the Huehueteotl whose face is the wrinkled face of the hearth, the fire at the centre of the house and of the world, the lord of the year and of turquoise. The Florentine Codex and the Codex Borbonicus show him in his brazier with the turquoise diadem, honoured in the month Izcalli. At the end of every fifty-two-year cycle the New Fire was drilled on the chest of a sacrificed captive on the Hill of the Star, Huixachtitlan, and the people waited on the roofs to see whether it caught and the world would continue.

4. Aim Angels & demons · angels_demons
5. Djin Elemental kings · elemental_kings
6. Edlprnaa Angels & demons · angels_demons
7. Haures Angels & demons · angels_demons
8. Seraphim Angels & demons · angels_demons

   Highest order of angels, six-winged beings of pure flame who surround God's throne. Constantly sing 'Holy, Holy, Holy' in divine presence. Name means 'burning ones'. Pure love and light, so close to God they burn with divine fire.

9. Saint Agatha Saints · saints

   A third-century martyr of Catania, whose legend includes the torture of her breasts and her survival of a fire. She is one of the seven women of the Roman Canon.

10. Ahura Mazda Deities · deities

    Ahura Mazda, 'the Wise Lord', is the supreme god of the Gathas of Zarathushtra (Yasna 28-53) and of the later Avesta: uncreated, the source of asha (truth and cosmic order) against druj (the lie), and the maker of the good creation. The Avesta reaches him through the Amesha Spentas, the six 'bounteous immortals' who are at once his attributes and his agents, and the Pahlavi books (Bundahishn, Denkard) develop the cosmogony around him. Zoroastrian worship is aniconic, conducted before a sacred fire, and the winged disc or winged figure of Achaemenid reliefs is often called his image although the identification is disputed.

11. Asha Vahishta Deities · deities

    Asha Vahishta ('Best Truth' or 'Best Righteousness') is the second of the Amesha Spentas, the hypostasis of asha - the truth, order and rightness of things that the Gathas set against druj, the lie. His creation in the later tradition is fire, and he is bound to the sacred fire of the Zoroastrian altar; the Pahlavi texts make him the opponent of the demon Indar. Asha is the Avestan continuation of the Indo-Iranian order that the Vedic hymns call rita.

12. Saint Barbara Saints · saints

    A third-century martyr of Heliopolis, according to a legend that is historically thin. Her association with lightning and fire comes from the legend of her father's death by lightning, and it made her the patron of miners and artillerymen.

13. Brigid Deities · deities

    Celtic triple goddess of fire, poetry, healing, smithcraft. Tended perpetual sacred flame at Kildare. Associated with sacred wells and springs. Patroness of poets, healers, smiths. Later Christianized as St. Brigid but retained goddess attributes. Represents creative fire, inspiration, transformation through craft.

14. Brynhildr Deities · deities

    Brynhildr is the valkyrie of the Völsung cycle: Völsunga saga and the Eddic poems (Sigrdrífumál, Brot af Sigurðarkviðu, Guðrúnarkviða I, Helreið Brynhildar) tell how she is woken by Sigurðr from a ring of fire, how he wins her and then, under a spell, wins her for Gunnarr instead, and how the deception ends with Sigurðr's death and Brynhildr's own on his pyre. In Sigrdrífumál the awakened valkyrie is named Sigrdrífa, and identifying the two is an old but not certain scholarly equation. The Nibelungenlied's Prünhilt is the German branch of the same tradition.

15. Elijah Deities · deities

    Elijah is the prophet of the fire that falls on Carmel, of the drought and the rain that ends it, and of the still small voice after the wind and the earthquake. He is taken up in a chariot of fire and does not die; his mantle passes to Elisha. Jewish tradition keeps a cup for him at the Passover table and expects him as the forerunner.

16. Gabija Deities · deities

    Gabija is the Lithuanian spirit of the hearth fire, protector of home and family, named in Jan Łasicki's 1615 list of Lithuanian gods and richly documented in folklore: she is fed bread and salt, given a bowl of clean water to wash in, and laid to rest each night by covering the coals with ashes so the fire does not 'go walking'. She can appear as a woman in red or as a cat, stork or rooster, and offences against her - spitting, stamping, urinating on the fire - bring fire and ruin. She is a household spirit, not a temple deity, and the mother of the household is her keeper.

17. Hephaestus Deities · deities

    Greek god of forge, fire, craftsmanship. Cast from Olympus for being lame, twice. Created incredible works—Achilles' armor, Pandora, automatons, palaces. Married to Aphrodite (unfaithfully). Represents beauty created through labor, power found through rejection, that the rejected can create wonders. Forge as sacred space.

18. Hestia Deities · deities

    Hestia is the Greek goddess of the hearth, the first-born of the Olympians who gave up her throne to Dionysus and kept the centre of the house instead. She has almost no myths: her cult is a fire, a meal and the continuity of a household.

19. Izanami Deities · deities

    Izanami is the first woman and the co-creator of the islands with Izanagi; she dies giving birth to the fire kami Kagutsuchi and goes to Yomi, the land of the dead, where Izanagi follows her. The Kojiki has her warn him not to look at her; when he lights a torch and sees her decay, she is shamed and enraged, sets the hags of Yomi on him, and at the pass of Yomotsu Hirasaka vows to kill a thousand people a day, to which he answers that fifteen hundred will be born. She remains there as Yomotsu Okami, the ruler of the dead.

20. Mangala Deities · deities

    Mangala is Mars in the Hindu sky, born in some tellings from Shiva's sweat, the red planet and the lord of Tuesday, war and the owning of land. He is the fire that makes a claim and the effort of holding it.

21. Maui Deities · deities

    Maui is the Polynesian culture hero and demigod who snares the sun to lengthen the day, fishes the islands up from the sea with his hook Manaiakalani, steals fire from Mahuika, and dies trying to win immortality from Hine-nui-te-po; the versions differ between Hawai'i, Aotearoa and the Cook Islands. In Hawai'i the island of Maui is named for him, and he is a kupua, a demigod, not an akua to be worshipped. The Disney film Moana is a modern retelling and not a source. Grey's Polynesian Mythology (1855) and Beckwith's Hawaiian Mythology (1940) are among the usual written sources.

22. Mixcoatl Deities · deities

    Mixcoatl, Cloud Serpent, is the Aztec and Chichimec god of the hunt, of the fire drill and of the Milky Way, called Camaxtli in Tlaxcala and Huejotzingo where he was the chief god. The Leyenda de los Soles in the Codex Chimalpopoca makes him the one who drills the first fire and who, with his brothers, ambushes and kills the four hundred Mimixcoa; it also makes him the father of Quetzalcoatl on Chimalma, and then the victim of his own brothers Apanecatl, Zolton and Cuilton, whom Quetzalcoatl kills in turn. His veintena is Quecholli, the hunt month.

23. Nebro Deities · deities

    Nebro is the name the Gospel of Judas (Codex Tchacos, 2nd century) gives the demiurge: when the twelve angels are made to rule over chaos and the underworld, an angel appears in the cloud with a face blazing like fire and a figure stained with blood, 'whose name was Nebro, which is translated apostate; others called him Yaldabaoth'. Nebro creates six angels and Saklas six more, and from them come the twelve angels who receive each a portion of the heavens and the rulers set over the chaos below. The name is usually derived from Nebruel or from Nimrod (Genesis 10:8-12), the 'mighty hunter before the Lord' whom the gnostics turned into an insult for the creator - a scholarly proposal, not something the text states.

24. Perkūnas Deities · deities

    Perkūnas (Latvian Pērkons, Prussian Perkūns) is the common Baltic thunder god, second only to Dievas: god of sky, thunder, lightning, storms, rain, fire, war, law, order, fertility, mountains and the oak. He strikes the devil (velnias) who hides under stones, in hollow trees and in the water, and the oaks split by lightning are his; his weapons are the axe and the hammer, and Thursday is his day. The sources are the 16th-17th century accounts (Łasicki, Praetorius) and the immense daina corpus rather than any temple text.

25. Sekhmet Deities · deities

    Egyptian lioness goddess, Eye of Ra sent to destroy rebellious humanity. Ra flooded the ground with beer dyed red with ochre so that it looked like blood; she drank it, became drunk and forgot the slaughter, and was pacified as Hathor. Both destroyer and healer. Plague-bringer and plague-curer. Solar fire incarnate.

26. Spes Deities · deities

    Spes is the Roman personification of hope, and her temple in the Forum Holitorium was built by Aulus Atilius Calatinus in the First Punic War, restored in 232 BCE, rebuilt after the fire of 213 BCE and restored again by Germanicus in 17 CE (Livy 24.47 and 25.7; six of its columns still stand in the church of San Nicola in Carcere). She is a civic personification rather than a mythic person: her business is expectation, including the expectation of an heir, and Spes Augusta put that expectation at the service of the imperial house. The Greek equivalent is Elpis, who in Hesiod's Works and Days alone remained in Pandora's jar (96-99).

27. Surtr Deities · deities

    Surtr is the fire giant who stands at the edge of Muspelheim. At Ragnarok he comes from the south with a flaming sword that is brighter than the sun, meets Freyr - who has given his own sword away and so fights unarmed - and sets the world alight. The earth sinks into the sea and rises again green. Snorri names him first among the giants in Gylfaginning; Voluspa has the fire come from the south with the suns of the destroyer.

28. Svarog Deities · deities

    Svarog is named in a single source, the Primary Chronicle's 1114 entry (following the Slavonic Malalas), where he is presented as the Slavic equivalent of Hephaestus and where tongs are said to have fallen from heaven in his reign so that men learned to forge weapons; the same passage makes Dazhbog his son. His name is bound up with fire, but the older reading of him as a sky-father rests on an etymology that modern linguistics rejects. Some scholars argue he was extrapolated from Svarozhits, the fire god of the Baltic Slavs, and never existed as an independent cult.

29. Takemikazuchi Deities · deities

    Takemikazuchi was born from the blood that fell on the rocks when Izanagi cut the fire kami Kagutsuchi apart. With Futsunushi he was sent down to subdue the earthly kami and settle the land, and the sword he carries is the one that stills the earthquake namazu at Kashima. He is the kami of thunder, of swords, and of the martial arts that train with them.

30. Tripura Sundari Deities · deities

    Tripura Sundari - Lalita, Shodashi - is the third Mahavidya and the goddess at the centre of Sri Vidya. The Lalitopakhyana of the Brahmanda Purana tells how she arises from the fire of consciousness (Chidagni) to defeat the asura Bhandasura, and the Lalita Sahasranama is the thousand-name hymn of her tradition, with the Saundarya Lahari as its great devotional poem. She is the beauty of the three cities, the three states and the three worlds, and her diagram is the Sri Yantra.

31. Verethragna Deities · deities

    Verethragna (later Bahram) is the yazata of victory, whose hymn is Yasht 14 of the Avesta: he comes to the worshipper in ten successive forms - wind, bull, white horse, camel, boar, a youth of fifteen, raven, ram, buck and man - and in each he is the power that breaks the lie. He is the patron of the righteous fighter rather than of war as such, and the highest grade of Zoroastrian temple fire, the Atash Bahram, is named for him. His day is Bahram, the twentieth day of the Zoroastrian month.

32. Vesta Deities · deities

    Vesta is the Roman goddess of the hearth, whose flame in the Forum was tended by six virgin priestesses and never allowed to go out. She has almost no mythology and almost no image: her cult is a fire, a duty and a continuity, and her presence is the household itself.

33. Vulcan Deities · deities

    Vulcanus is the Roman god of fire - the fire of the hearth and the smithy, the fire under the earth, and the fire that gets out of hand - and his festival, the Volcanalia of 23 August, was kept at the height of the dry season, when the city's fires were most likely. His oldest shrine, the Volcanal, stood in the Comitium, and at the Volcanalia living creatures were thrown into the fire in place of human lives. The forge, the hammer, the lame smith and the marriage to Venus are Greek stories about Hephaestus, who was identified with him.

34. Ymir Deities · deities

    Ymir is the first being of Norse cosmogony, formed in the meeting of the ice of Niflheim and the fire of Muspelheim. The cow Audhumla licks Buri free of the ice, and Buri's descendants - Odin, Vili and Ve - kill Ymir. His blood drowns all but one pair of giants; his flesh becomes the earth, his blood the sea, his bones the mountains, his skull the sky, his brains the clouds, and his eyebrows the wall of Midgard.

35. Zhuque Deities · deities

    Zhuque is the Vermilion Bird of the South, one of the four celestial animals: south its quarter, summer its season, fire its phase, red its colour. Its mansion group is the southern twenty-eight of the lunar mansions, and in Daoist cosmology it is Ling Guang, one of the four directional guardians. It is not the fenghuang, the virtuous phoenix of imperial and Confucian imagery — a conflation common in modern retellings and wrong in the classical sources.

36. Abaddon Deities · deities

    Hebrew term meaning 'place of destruction'—later personified as Angel of the Abyss in Revelation. Guards bottomless pit, commands plague of locusts. Represents necessary destruction, apocalyptic unmaking, the destroyer who serves divine will. Teaches that some things must be completely unmade, that destruction can be sacred duty, that the abyss holds purpose.

37. Abraham Deities · deities

    Abraham is the one who leaves Ur at the call, is promised a land and a people, receives the covenant of circumcision, and is stopped from sacrificing his son on Moriah. He is remembered for hospitality - the three visitors at Mamre - and for the argument over Sodom, in which he bargains with God for the lives of strangers.

38. Abraxas Deities · deities

    Abraxas (Abrasax) is the name at the centre of the Basilidian system reported by Irenaeus (Against Heresies 1.24): the Greek letters of Abrasax sum to 365, the number of the days of the year and of the heavens in that system, so that the name is the name of the whole year and of the power that governs it. From the second century the name crowds the Graeco-Egyptian magical gems, engraved on amulets beside a cock-headed, serpent-legged figure with a whip and shield and invoked with IAO and Sabaoth as a protective name of power. Carl Jung took Abraxas up in the Seven Sermons to the Dead (1916) as the god beyond good and evil, and through Hermann Hesse's Demian the figure entered modern occultism.

39. Aganju Deities · deities

    Aganju is the deified warrior king of Shaki in Oyo State, and the massive monoliths of Shaki are his physical manifestation. In the oral traditions he is linked to Shango as Shango's nephew and the son of Ajaka, and both are deified Alaafin who once ruled Oyo; Cuban tradition instead makes him Shango's father. In Cuba he is Aggayu Sola, a volcano deity syncretised with Saint Christopher, and in Candomble he is a quality of Xango (Xango Aganju). The volcano is a diaspora development: there are no active volcanoes in Yorubaland.

40. Aglaea Deities · deities

    Aglaea, splendour, is one of the Charites - the Graces - and Hesiod makes the three daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, an Oceanid, naming them Aglaea, Euphrosyne and Thalia (Theogony 907-911). In the same poem she is the youngest of the three and the wife of Hephaestus (945-946). Homer knows the Charites only as a group attending Aphrodite, and in Iliad 14 he gives Pasithea as one of them, so both names and number moved before Hesiod fixed them. Their great cult was at Orchomenus in Boeotia, for which Pindar wrote the fourteenth Olympian.

41. Ahriman Deities · deities

    Zoroastrian spirit of destruction and chaos—opponent of Ahura Mazda (good principle). Represents necessary darkness, destructive principle, the lie as opposed to truth. In dualistic Zoroastrianism, represents evil principle. In Left Hand Path interpretation, represents necessary opposition, darkness that enables light to be recognized, destruction that allows creation. Teaches that opposition serves evolution, that darkness has place, that destruction is part of cycle.

42. Aine Deities · deities

    Aine is the Irish goddess of the midsummer sun and of Knockainey hill, who is pursued by a mortal king and takes her revenge, and who is also the queen of the local sidhe. She is sovereignty in its double form: given, taken, and answered.

43. Alecto Deities · deities

    The Erinyes are born, in Hesiod's Theogony, from the blood of Ouranos that fell on Gaia when Kronos castrated him, together with the Giants and the Meliai (183-187); the same poem also makes them daughters of Nyx. Alecto's name means unceasing, and Vergil names her at Aeneid 7.323 ff.; the poem names Tisiphone earlier, so she is not the first of the triad to appear. The Iliad already invokes the Erinyes as the powers who take vengeance on anyone who swears a false oath (19.259-260).

44. Alloces Angels & demons · angels_demons
45. Amaterasu Deities · deities

    Amaterasu is the Japanese sun goddess, ancestress of the imperial line, who withdraws into a cave when her brother ravages her weaving hall and is drawn out by music and a mirror. She is the light that can be lost by offence and returned by laughter.

46. Ame-no-Uzume Deities · deities

    When Amaterasu withdrew into a cave and the world went dark, Ame-no-Uzume turned a tub upside down, danced on it, and made the assembled gods laugh so loudly that Amaterasu looked out to see what was happening - and was shown her own reflection in a mirror, and came out. She is the kami of dawn and mirth, and the dance is the first kagura.

47. Amitabha Deities · deities

    Amitabha, the Buddha of Infinite Light, is the central figure of the Pure Land sutras: as the bodhisattva Dharmakara he made a series of vows (forty-eight in the Longer Sukhavati-vyuha Sutra) to establish a land in which any being who calls on his name may be reborn and awaken there. That land is Sukhavati, the Land of Bliss, in the west; he is flanked by Avalokiteshvara and Mahasthamaprapta, and in Tibetan practice he also appears as Amitayus, the red Buddha of long life, who is a distinct figure with his own ritual. Devotion to him is the basis of the East Asian Pure Land schools and of much Tibetan practice, and his image sits in the crown of Guanyin's statue.

48. Amon Angels & demons · angels_demons
49. Amun Deities · deities

    Amun is the hidden god of Thebes who becomes king of the Egyptian gods and is fused with the sun as Amun-Ra. His name means the hidden one, he has no visible image, and the tradition insists that he hears the petitions of the poor, which is why he was loved rather than merely obeyed.

50. Amy Angels & demons · angels_demons
51. Anat Deities · deities

    Anat is the Canaanite warrior goddess, sister of Baal, who kills Mot and wades in blood to bring her brother back, and who is also the goddess of love and the hunt. She is devotion with a weapon in its hand.

52. Andras Angels & demons · angels_demons
53. Angrboda Deities · deities

    Angrboda, the one who brings grief, is the giantess whom Gylfaginning 34 makes Loki's mate in Jotunheim and the mother of three: Fenrir, Jormungandr and Hel. Hyndluljod names her once as the mother of Fenrir by Loki; she has no myth of her own and no cult.

54. The Animus (Masculine Soul) Archetypes · archetypes

    The Animus (Masculine Soul) is an archetype of inner masculine, logic and action. Its light aspect is logic, action and structure, and its shadow is aggression, rigidity and domination.

55. Apep Deities · deities

    Apep is the great serpent of chaos who attacks the solar barque each night and is defeated by Ra with the help of Set and the other defenders; his movements were said to cause earthquakes and his battles storms. He is the enemy of Ma'at rather than a god with a cult, and the Egyptians fought him by ritual: the Books of Overthrowing Apep give instructions for making a wax model or a drawing of the serpent, spitting on it, mutilating it and burning it while the spells are recited.

56. Apollo Deities · deities

    Greek god of light, son of Zeus and Leto, twin of Artemis. Slayer of the Python at Delphi, establishing his oracle. God of rational thought, healing arts, music, and prophecy. Embodies civilized order, artistic excellence, and healing power. Accessible and benevolent solar deity who brings light, health, and inspiration to humanity.

57. Ares Deities · deities

    Ares is the Greek god of war in its blood, noise and madness rather than its strategy — Athena's opposite number. He is the father of Fear and Terror, loved by Aphrodite, and disliked by nearly everyone else on Olympus, which is itself the point about how war was regarded.

58. Arthur Deities · deities

    Arthur begins as a war-leader, not a king: the Historia Brittonum (ninth century) credits him with twelve victories including Mount Badon and calls him dux bellorum, and the Annales Cambriae record his last battle at Camlann in 537 where he and Medraut fell. Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136) turns him into a king who conquers Europe and is carried to Avalon, and the Welsh Culhwch and Olwen already puts him at the head of a named warband. Chretien de Troyes adds the court and the Grail, and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (1485) fixes the Round Table, Excalibur, and the once and future king.

59. Asmoday Angels & demons · angels_demons
60. Asmodeus Deities · deities

    Demon king in Judeo-Christian tradition, originally from Zoroastrian Aeshma Daeva. Associated with lust, wrath, vengeance. In Book of Tobit, kills seven husbands of Sarah before being bound. Represents desire and rage as sovereign forces, not sins. Left Hand Path ally for those reclaiming appetite and anger as sacred, not shameful.

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