Curated category
Killed deities
- JesusJesus was a 1st-century Jewish preacher in the Roman province of Judaea, and he is the central figure of the world's largest religion.
- OdinOdin has more than 170 recorded names, more than any other god among the Germanic peoples. The names describe his attributes, point to myths involving him…
- ThorThor, the hammer-wielding deity of Germanic paganism, is not simply a god of storms. He is a protector of farmers, a champion of fertility, a father, a…
- FreyrFreyr, whose name in Old Norse simply means "the Lord", once stood at the center of a golden temple in Uppsala, his statue carved with an enormous phallus…
- LokiLoki is a god in Norse mythology whose identity has been debated by scholars more than any other figure in the Norse pantheon.
- OsirisOsiris, the ancient Egyptian god of the dead, was depicted wrapped from the legs up like a mummy, crowned with a towering atef crown, and holding the…
- KrishnaKrishna is worshipped both as the eighth avatar of Vishnu and as the Supreme God in his own right. His skin is painted black, dark, or blue, and the name…
- TiamatTiamat is the cosmic ocean of ancient Mesopotamian religion, a primordial force so vast that when she was finally slain, her body became the world itself.
- BaldrBaldr, the Norse god whose name may mean "brave," "lord," or "the shining one," is remembered above all for a death that shook the cosmos.
- TýrTýr is a god in Germanic mythology whose name, in its oldest recoverable form, simply meant "God." That single fact contains a puzzle: how does a deity so…
- AdonisThe name Adonis comes from a Canaanite word meaning lord. This single term connects the Greek god to ancient Near Eastern traditions stretching back…