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Here's a list of the gods and goddesses from around the world, with a brief description of each. The information on the deities pages was taken from Wicca A-Z by Gerina Dunwich, which contains more details on each of the deities.Abnoba - A Roman-Celtic goddess who presided over forests and rivers.
Abundantia - A Roman goddess of fertility and the personification of abundanceAditi - An Archaic Hindu mother goddess who was believed by some to take on the appearance of a cow.
Ahurani - A Persian (Zorastrian) goddess of fertility who was also the mistress of Ahura Mazda, the god of light.
Aje - A goddess of wealth who was worshipped throughout Nigeria.
Akonadi - A Ghanaian oracular goddess who was worshipped by many West Africans.
Ala - A Nigerian goddess of fertility.
Alcyone - A Greek goddess who was changed into a kingfisher by the gods after she thre herself into the sea upon finding the body of her drowned husband Ceyx washed up on the shore.
Alpan - Also known as Alpanu, she was the Etruscan goddess of the art of sexual love, as well as a deity who ruled over the Underworld.Amaterasu - The Japanese goddess of the golden sun.
Amaunet - A goddess of fetility who was worshipped in ancient times throughout the region of Upper Egyp.
Ammavaru - A Hindu-Dravidian primordial mother goddess.
Ammut - An Egyptian Underworld goddess who pocessed the head of a lion and a body that was part lion and part hippopotamus.
Anaitis - A Persian goddess of fertility.
Anat - A Canaanite and Phoenician goddess of fertility who was also regarded as an aggressive goddess of battle.Anna Perenna - A Roman goddess of protection who, according to ancient Roman mythology, saved the plebeians from famine.
Antu - A Mesopotamian creator goddess.
Anukis - An Egyptian goddess of birth and midwifery who was believed to have dwelled in the cataracts of the Lower Nile.
Aphrodite - The ancient Greek goddess of love and beauty, and a deity who presided over human love, marriage ceremonies, and married life.
Arachne - A ROman goddess who presided over the craft of weaving, and whose name is the Greek word for "spider".
Aradia - An ancient Italian goddess, considered to be the "Messiah of Witches".
Arawa - An East African goddess of the moon, and daughter of Tororut (the creator god) and his consort.
Arduinna - A Roman-Celtic goddess of forests and also of the art of hunting.
Ariadne - A Greek vegitarian goddess and, according to Homer and Hesoid, a daughter of the bull god Minos.
Arrianrhod - A Celtic Earth goddess and the daughter of Beli
Artemis - The Greek goddess of the moon, hunting, and wild beasts.
Artio of Muri - A Roman-Celtic goddess of fertility, prosperity and harvest.
Asase Yaa - Also known as the Asase Efua, she is a major West African goddess who presides over fertility, truth, and the dead.
Aserah - A goddess of love of the Semitic Amorities, and the great mother goddess of Canaan.
Astarte - The ancient Pheonician goddess of love and fruitfulness, and the supreme female deity of the Pheonician nations.
Astoreth - A Palestinian and Philistine horned goddess of love, fertility, and battle.
Astraea - The Greek goddess of innocence and purity, daughter of Themus, and a deity associated with justice.
Atargatis - A mother goddess who was worshipped in ancient times throughout northern Syria.
Atete - A goddess of fertility who was worshipped by the women of Ethiopia.
Athena - The Greek goddess of war, wisdome, and the arts.
Aurora - The Roman goddess of the dawn, and the daughter of Hyperion and Thia.
Aveta - A Romano-Celtic goddess who presided over birth and midwifery.
Aya - A Babylonian mother goddess and the consort of the sun god Shamash (or Samas).
Ayida Wedo - The Haitian-Dahomean Voodoo goddess (or loa as the deities of the Vodoun pantheon are called) envisaged as a rainbow serpent of many bright colors.
Bala - A Hindu goddess who is often depicted in works of art as a youthful looking woman seated upon a throne made of lotus blossoms, holding a book and a rosary (her sacred attributes).
Bast - An ancient fertility goddess and the daughter of Isis.
Bat - An Egyptian fertility goddess who, like Hathor, was depictod as a cow, and sometimes as a cow-headed woman.
Belili - A Sumerian deity who preceded Ishtar as the beautiful godess of love.
Bellona - A Roman mother goddess who was also a deity who presided over battle.
Benten-San - The Japanese goddess of good luck and the only female deity belonging to the group of deities knwn as the Seven Shinto Gods of Good Fortune.
Boldogasszony - A tutelary goddess worshipped in pre-Christian Hungary as the protectress of women and children.
Bona Dea - An ancient Roman goddess of fertility and chastity, also known as Damnia, Fatua, and Oma.
Brigit - A major Celtic goddess of fertility, fire, wisdom, poetry, and sacred wells.
Buk - A river goddess worshipped by the people of Sudan.