Gods, goddesses, and powers
The Deity Directory
A directory of the deities and powers gathered in the encyclopedia. Deity work is approached with care and respect; some of the powers named here belong to living traditions that ask to be honoured on their own terms.
Anubis
Anubis is the ancient Egyptian god of embalming, mummification, and the protection of the dead, depicted with the head of a jackal. He guides souls through the underworld, oversees the Weighing of the Heart ceremony, and serves as the divine guardian of cemeteries and the funerary arts.
Read the entry →Aphrodite
Aphrodite is the ancient Greek goddess of love, beauty, desire, and procreation, venerated across the Mediterranean world and later identified with the Roman Venus. She remains one of the most widely called-upon deities in contemporary devotional and love magick.
Read the entry →Apollo
Apollo is the ancient Greek god of the sun, prophecy, music, poetry, healing, and truth, and one of the most complex and widely worshipped of the Olympians. His influence on Western spiritual thought extends from the Delphic oracle through Neoplatonism and into contemporary solar and divinatory practice.
Read the entry →Artemis
Artemis is the ancient Greek goddess of the hunt, wilderness, the moon, and the protection of women and children. Twin sister of Apollo, she is a goddess of fierce autonomy and sovereign wildness, widely honored today in feminist spirituality and nature-based witchcraft.
Read the entry →Athena
Athena is the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, strategic warfare, craft, and civilization, born fully armored from the head of Zeus. She is a patron of reason, skilled labor, and the arts of both war and peace, and one of the most widely venerated of the Olympians.
Read the entry →Baphomet
Baphomet is a symbolic figure in Western occultism whose modern form was established by the artist and occultist Eliphas Levi in 1854. The figure represents the union of opposites and has since become associated with ceremonial magic, Satanism, and transgressive mysticism.
Read the entry →Baron Samedi
Baron Samedi is the Haitian Vodou lwa of death, resurrection, and the crossroads between life and death, known for his irreverent humor, his power over life and illness, and his role as the head of the Gede family of lwa. He is one of the most distinctive and beloved figures in the Vodou tradition.
Read the entry →Bastet
Bastet is the ancient Egyptian goddess of the home, cats, protection, music, and fertility, depicted as a cat or as a woman with a cat's head. Originally a lioness-goddess of fierce solar power, she became associated with the domestic cat and with the warmth and protection of the home, and she remains one of the most beloved Egyptian deities in contemporary practice.
Read the entry →Brigid
Brigid is the Celtic goddess of fire, healing, smithcraft, and poetry, one of the most beloved and enduring figures in the Irish mythological tradition. She governs the sacred flame of inspiration and the practical arts of making, and her feast day, Imbolc, marks the first breath of spring.
Read the entry →Cernunnos
Cernunnos is the antlered Celtic god of wild nature, animals, and the deep forest, one of the most visually distinctive and spiritually compelling figures in pre-Roman Celtic religion. He is the patron of wild creatures, the turning of the seasons, and the fertile abundance of the untamed world.
Read the entry →Demeter
Demeter is the ancient Greek goddess of grain, agriculture, and the harvest, and the divine mother whose grief at the loss of her daughter Persephone gave rise to the seasons. She stands at the center of the Eleusinian Mysteries, the most important initiatory rites in the ancient world.
Read the entry →Dionysus
Dionysus is the ancient Greek god of wine, ecstasy, fertility, theatre, and religious frenzy, associated with transformation, dissolution of the self, and the mysteries of death and rebirth. His cult was among the most emotionally intense in the ancient world and remains influential in contemporary ecstatic and mystery traditions.
Read the entry →Djinn
Djinn (also jinn) are a category of spiritual beings in Islamic theology and pre-Islamic Arabian tradition, understood as beings of smokeless fire who inhabit a parallel world alongside humans and who range from benevolent to malevolent in their dispositions toward humanity.
Read the entry →Ereshkigal
Ereshkigal is the Sumerian queen of the underworld, the Great Below, whose realm is the final destination of all the dead and whose encounter with her sister Inanna forms the heart of one of the oldest mythological narratives in the world. She governs death, grief, and the transformative darkness that precedes renewal.
Read the entry →Eshu
Eshu (also called Elegba, Legba, or Elegua) is the Yoruba Orisha of the crossroads, communication, and possibility, the divine trickster and messenger who must be greeted before any other Orisha in ritual. He stands at every threshold between worlds and governs the movement of all things through time and space.
Read the entry →Freyja
Freyja is the Norse goddess of love, beauty, fertility, gold, war, death, and seidr magick, and the most prominent of the Vanir gods. She is a fierce and sovereign deity who chooses half of the battle-slain for her hall Sessrumnir, taught Odin the art of seidr, and weeps tears of gold for her absent husband.
Read the entry →Freyr
Freyr is the Norse god of fertility, abundance, sunshine, and prosperity, the most prominent male Vanir deity and twin brother of Freyja. He rules the realm of Alfheim, governs the growth of crops and the pleasures of the earth, and gave up his magical sword for the sake of love, a sacrifice with consequences at Ragnarok.
Read the entry →Gabriel the Archangel
Gabriel is the archangel of divine messages, prophecy, and revelation, the heavenly herald who announced the births of John the Baptist and Jesus in Christian tradition, revealed the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic tradition, and appears as an interpreter of prophetic visions in the Hebrew scriptures.
Read the entry →Ganesha
Ganesha is the elephant-headed Hindu god of beginnings, wisdom, and the removal of obstacles, one of the most beloved and widely worshipped deities in Hinduism. He is invoked at the start of every venture, ritual, and journey as the one who clears the path and grants auspicious beginnings.
Read the entry →Gnomes
Gnomes are the earth elementals of Western occult tradition, first systematically described by Paracelsus in the sixteenth century as beings inhabiting the element of earth, governing underground processes, and associated with the physical world's stability and hidden treasures.
Read the entry →Hades
Hades is the ancient Greek god of the underworld and the ruler of the dead, eldest son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Often misunderstood as a death deity in the modern sense, he is more accurately the sovereign of the realm of the dead rather than a bringer of death, and he embodies principles of finality, hidden wealth, and impartial justice.
Read the entry →Hathor
Hathor is the ancient Egyptian goddess of love, beauty, music, motherhood, and joy, one of the most beloved and widely worshipped deities in the Egyptian pantheon. She is the celestial cow whose milk nourished the pharaohs and whose generosity extended to all living things.
Read the entry →Hecate
Hecate is the ancient Greek goddess of crossroads, witchcraft, the moon, and the liminal spaces between worlds. One of the oldest and most powerful figures in the Western esoteric tradition, she is the divine patron of witches and a guardian of thresholds between the living and the dead.
Read the entry →Hel
Hel is the Norse goddess and ruler of Helheim, the realm of the dead who did not die in battle. Daughter of Loki and the giantess Angrboda, she governs the vast majority of the Norse dead and is depicted as half living and half dead in her appearance, a figure of impartial sovereignty over the cold realm of ordinary death.
Read the entry →Hermes
Hermes is the ancient Greek god of messengers, travelers, commerce, thieves, crossroads, and magick, and the divine guide of souls to the underworld. He is one of the most widely venerated gods in Western esotericism, directly linked to the Hermetic tradition.
Read the entry →Horus
Horus is the ancient Egyptian sky god and divine king, whose falcon form embodies the span of the heavens and whose battle to reclaim his father Osiris's throne made him the mythological archetype of rightful sovereignty. Every pharaoh of Egypt was considered the living Horus.
Read the entry →Inanna and Ishtar
Inanna is the Sumerian goddess of love, war, and the planet Venus, one of the most powerful and complex deities in the ancient Near East. Her Akkadian equivalent Ishtar shares her attributes and myths, and together they constitute one of the earliest extensively documented divine feminine figures in world history.
Read the entry →Isis
Isis is the great Egyptian goddess of magic, healing, motherhood, and divine sovereignty, whose cult spread from Egypt across the Roman world to become one of the most widespread mystery religions of antiquity. She is the devoted wife who restored Osiris from death and the fierce mother who protected and raised Horus, and she remains one of the most actively venerated goddesses in contemporary practice.
Read the entry →Kali
Kali is the Hindu goddess of time, death, and liberation, a fearsome yet deeply compassionate figure in the Shakta tradition whose destruction of the ego and illusion is understood as the highest form of grace. She is worshipped extensively in Bengal and throughout the tantric traditions of India.
Read the entry →King Paimon
King Paimon is the ninth spirit listed in the Goetia, a powerful entity of knowledge, arts, and secrets who travels with a great train of attendant spirits and is among the most frequently worked-with Goetic kings in contemporary practice.
Read the entry →Kitsune
Kitsune are fox spirits in Japanese folklore and Shinto tradition, known for intelligence, shapeshifting, and magical power. They range from mischievous tricksters to divine messengers of the rice deity Inari.
Read the entry →Lakshmi
Lakshmi is the Hindu goddess of prosperity, beauty, fortune, and spiritual abundance, the consort of Vishnu and one of the central figures in the Vaishnava tradition. She represents the grace that sustains the world and the abundance that flows to those who live in righteousness and devotion.
Read the entry →Lilith
Lilith is a figure of ancient Near Eastern origin who appears across Jewish folklore, Kabbalistic mysticism, and modern occultism as a spirit of the night, a dark goddess, and a symbol of feminine autonomy and primal power.
Read the entry →Loki
Loki is the Norse trickster god, a shapeshifter and agent of chaos who is both a companion of the Aesir and the architect of their undoing. His role in Norse mythology is deeply ambivalent: he solves problems through cunning and creates far worse ones through the same faculty, and he stands as one of the most psychologically complex figures in world mythology.
Read the entry →Lucifer in Occult Tradition
Lucifer, the "light-bearer," is a figure whose identity in occult tradition is sharply distinct from the devil of Christian popular culture, understood instead as a spirit of enlightenment, intellectual illumination, and the sacred fire that awakens human consciousness.
Read the entry →Lugh
Lugh is the Irish god of skill, craftsmanship, and the sun, a master of all arts whose name may mean "shining" and whose festival Lughnasadh marks the first harvest of the year. He is among the most heroic and accomplished figures in the Irish mythological tradition.
Read the entry →Metatron
Metatron is one of the supreme angels in Jewish mysticism, identified in some traditions as the transformed prophet Enoch, serving as the celestial scribe and keeper of the divine throne.
Read the entry →Michael the Archangel
Michael is the archangel of protection, divine justice, and spiritual warfare, the commander of the heavenly armies and the champion who expelled the rebel angels from heaven. He is among the most widely invoked angelic figures across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and throughout the Western esoteric tradition.
Read the entry →Norns
The Norns are the Norse weavers of fate, three great female figures who sit at the Well of Urd beneath Yggdrasil and determine the destinies of gods and mortals. Named Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld, they represent past, present, and future, and their concept of wyrd, the woven web of fate, is one of the most significant ideas in Norse cosmology.
Read the entry →Odin
Odin is the chief of the Norse Aesir gods, the Allfather, god of wisdom, war, poetry, death, and magick. He is the divine seeker who sacrificed his eye and hung on the World Tree for nine days to gain the runes, and he governs the mysteries of fate, the dead, and the art of seidr.
Read the entry →Oshun
Oshun is the Yoruba Orisha of rivers, fresh water, love, beauty, and sweetness, one of the most beloved and powerful figures in the Yoruba religious tradition and its diaspora forms. She governs the life-giving quality of water, the force of attraction, and the abundance that flows when the world is in right relationship.
Read the entry →Osiris
Osiris is the ancient Egyptian god of the dead, resurrection, and the afterlife, and the divine king who was murdered by his brother Set, restored by the magic of Isis, and became the lord and judge of the dead. His myth of death and renewal is one of the oldest and most influential religious narratives in human history.
Read the entry →Persephone
Persephone is the ancient Greek goddess of spring growth and the underworld, daughter of Demeter and Zeus, and queen of the dead alongside her husband Hades. Her myth of descent and return is one of the central stories of ancient religion and remains a powerful template for spiritual transformation.
Read the entry →Ra
Ra is the ancient Egyptian sun god and the supreme deity of the solar disc, whose daily journey across the sky and through the underworld formed the central cosmic drama of Egyptian religion. He is the source of light, life, and royal authority.
Read the entry →Raphael the Archangel
Raphael is the archangel of healing, guidance for travelers, and the restoration of sight and wholeness, whose name means "God heals." He appears most extensively in the Book of Tobit, where he accompanies the young Tobias on a journey and heals blindness and demonic affliction, establishing his character as a kind, practical, and generous divine helper.
Read the entry →Salamanders
Salamanders are the fire elementals of Western occult tradition, described by Paracelsus as beings who inhabit flame, associated with will, transformation, passion, courage, and the consuming, purifying power of fire.
Read the entry →Santa Muerte
Santa Muerte is a Mexican folk saint of death whose veneration has grown dramatically since the late twentieth century, drawing on pre-Columbian death reverence and Catholic devotional practice to produce one of the most vital and rapidly expanding popular religious movements in the Americas.
Read the entry →Sekhmet
Sekhmet is the ancient Egyptian lioness goddess of war, fire, and healing, whose dual nature as destroyer and physician reflects the Egyptian understanding that the power to wound and the power to cure are inseparable. She is one of the most formidable deities in the Egyptian pantheon.
Read the entry →Sylphs
Sylphs are the air elementals of Western occult tradition, first named by Paracelsus as beings who inhabit the element of air, associated with thought, communication, inspiration, and the airy realms of mind and breath.
Read the entry →The Banshee
The banshee is a supernatural figure from Irish and Scottish Gaelic tradition, a female spirit whose keening announces the imminent death of a member of certain old Irish families, occupying a unique position between fairy being, ancestral spirit, and death messenger.
Read the entry →The Morrigan
The Morrigan is the Irish goddess of war, fate, and sovereignty, a shape-shifting figure who appears over battlefields in crow form and offers warriors both prophecy and challenge. She is among the most complex and powerful figures in the Celtic mythological tradition.
Read the entry →Thor
Thor is the Norse god of thunder, strength, and the protection of humanity, and the most widely worshipped of the Norse deities among ordinary people in the Viking Age. He wields the hammer Mjolnir, fights giants to protect the world, and is the patron of farmers, craftspeople, and those who do honest work.
Read the entry →Thoth
Thoth is the ancient Egyptian god of writing, wisdom, and magic, credited with inventing language and the sacred arts of the scribes. He serves as celestial record-keeper, mediator of cosmic order, and patron of all who work with words or esoteric knowledge.
Read the entry →Tyr
Tyr is the ancient Norse god of justice, law, and honorable sacrifice, whose most famous mythological act was placing his hand in the mouth of the wolf Fenrir as a guarantee of good faith, knowing it would be bitten off. He is the deity most associated with oaths, binding agreements, and the principle of upholding a commitment at personal cost.
Read the entry →Undines
Undines are the water elementals of Western occult tradition, named by Paracelsus as beings who inhabit the element of water, associated with emotion, intuition, the unconscious, and the flowing, receptive qualities of the watery realm.
Read the entry →Uriel the Archangel
Uriel is the archangel of wisdom, light, and divine fire, known across Jewish, Christian, and esoteric traditions as a guide who illuminates the mind and reveals hidden truths.
Read the entry →Valkyries
The Valkyries are divine female figures in Norse mythology who ride across battlefields choosing which warriors will die and escorting the slain to Valhalla or Freyja's hall Folkvangr. They serve Odin as both battle-maidens and cup-bearers in Valhalla, and in later poetry they appear as noble shield-maidens with distinct individual characters.
Read the entry →Yemoja
Yemoja is the Yoruba Orisha of the ocean and all waters, the great mother whose body contains and sustains all life. She is worshipped across West Africa and throughout the African diaspora as a fierce and tender deity of motherhood, the sea, and the deep unconscious.
Read the entry →Zeus
Zeus is the ancient Greek king of the gods, ruler of Olympus, and god of the sky, thunder, law, and divine order. As the supreme deity of the Greek pantheon, he governed both cosmic order and human justice, and his influence extends through Roman religion and Western thought to the present.
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