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Wen Shen (Chinese: ηη₯) is a deity or group of deities responsible for illness, plague, and disease in Chinese folk religion. In some belief systems, Wen Shen is identified as a single entity who commands wen spirits; in others, the term is used for a grouping of several distinct deities.
Resheph (also Reshef and many other variants, see below; Eblaite ππππ, Rašap, Ugaritic: πππ, ršp, Egyptian ršpw, Phoenician: π€β¬π€β¬π€β¬, ršp, Hebrew: Χ¨ΦΆΧ©ΦΆΧΧ£ RešepΜ) was a god associated with war and plague, originally worshiped in Ebla in the third millennium BCE. He was one of the main members of ...
List of death deities. Yama, the Hindu god of death and Lord of Naraka (hell). He was subsequently adopted by Buddhist, Chinese, Tibetan, Korean, and Japanese mythology as the king of hell. Maya death god "A" way as a hunter, Classic period. The mythology or religion of most cultures incorporate a god of death or, more frequently, a divine ...
Category. : Plague gods. Male deities associated with the plague. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Plague gods.
Amulet to ward off plague inscribed with a quotation from the Akkadian Erra Epic. Erra (sometimes called Irra) is an Akkadian plague god known from an 'epos' [1] of the eighth century BCE. Erra is the god of mayhem and pestilence who is responsible for periods of political confusion. He was assimilated to Nergal at some point.
Isis, Serapis and their child Harpocrates In Egyptian mythology, Horus was the child of Isis and Osiris.Osiris was the original divine pharaoh of Egypt, who had been murdered by his brother Set (by interpretatio graeca, identified with Typhon or Chaos), mummified, and thus became the god of the underworld.
Rosmerta - Gallic goddess of fertility and abundance. Sabrina - Brittonic goddess of the River Severn. Seixomniai Leuciticai - a Celtic goddess, equated with Diana [16] Senuna - a Brittonic goddess. Sequana - Gallic goddess of the River Seine. Sirona - Gallic goddess of healing. Suleviae - a triune mother goddess.
As a smithing god, Hephaestus made all the weapons of the gods in Olympus. He served as the blacksmith of the gods, and was worshipped in the manufacturing and industrial centres of Greece, particularly Athens. The cult of Hephaestus was based in Lemnos. [1] Hephaestus's symbols are a smith's hammer, anvil, and a pair of tongs.