This is a list of earth deities. An Earth god or Earth goddess is a deification of the Earth associated with a figure with chthonic or terrestrial attributes. There are many different Earth gods and goddesses in many different Culture and Myth. However, Earth is usually portrayed as a goddess. Earth goddesses are often associated with the chthonic deities of the underworld.
In Greek mythology, the Earth is personified as Gaia, corresponding to Roman Terra, Indic Prithvi, etc. traced to an "Earth Mother" complementary to the "Dyeus" in Proto-Indo-European religion. Egyptian mythology have the , Nut and Hathor, with the earth gods, Osiris and Geb. Ki and Ninhursag are Mesopotamian earth goddesses.
African mythology
Akan mythology
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Asase Yaa, the goddess of the harsh earth, Truth and Mother of the Dead. An ancient religious figure worshipped by the indigenous Akan people of the Guinea Coast, Asase/Yaa is also known as Aberewa which is Akan for "Old Woman". Not only is she an Earth Goddess she also represents procreation, truth, love, fertility, peace, and the earth of the Akan people.
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Asase Afua, the Goddess of the lush earth, fertility, love, procreation and farming
Aksumite Religion
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Medr/Meder, Ethiopian, Aksumite, Earth god
Bakongo religion
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Nzambici, the God of Essence, the Earth and Sky Mother, mother of all animals
Egyptian mythology
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Geb, god of the earth, vegetation, earthquakes, and snakes; "God of Earth and Land"
Igbo mythology
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Ala, alusi of the earth, morality, fertility, and creativity
Malagasy mythology
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Ratovantany, Malagasy deity that shaped humans from clay and takes their corpses after death
Yoruba mythology
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Babalú-Ayé, orisha of the earth, healing, smallpox, respect for the elderly
American mythology
Aztec mythology
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Tlaltecuhtli, the earth deity whose body created the world
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Tezcatlipoca, Aztec deity associated with the earth, the night sky, the night winds, hurricanes, the north, obsidian, enmity, discord, rulership, divination, temptation, jaguars, sorcery, beauty, war and strife.
Haudenosaunee mythology
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Atsi tsien ke:ion (pronunciation Ageejenguyuon) meaning Mature flower - Sky woman who fell from the sky and created North America on the back of a turtle.
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Hah-nu-nah, the turtle that bears the world.
Inca mythology
Inuit mythology
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Alignak, in Inuit mythology, a lunar deity, but also god of earthquakes, as well as weather, water, tides, and eclipses
Lakota mythology
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Maka-akaŋ, the earth goddess
Lucumi
Mapuche
Southwestern
Asian mythology
Ainu mythology
Anatolian mythology
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Cybele, mother goddess of the earth
Chinese mythology
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Houtu, goddess of the earth
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Tudigong or Tu Di Gong', local god of the earth in Taoism and Chinese folk religion, "God of Earth and Land"
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dìguān dàdì (Three Great Emperor-Officials), in Taoism and Chinese folk religion, "Emperor God of Earth and Land"
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Na Tuk Kong, in Taoism and Chinese folk religion of Malaysian Chinese - Peranakans and Chinese Indonesians, "Tutelary deity of Earth and Land"
Gondi mythology
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Bhivsen or Bhimal, god of the earth
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Bhum, goddess of the earth and mother of humanity
Hittite mythology
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Sarruma, god of the mountains
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Ubelluris, mountain god who bears the world in his shoulders
Hindu mythology
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Prithvi, the Mother-goddess of the earth, featured in Vedas and Historical Vedic religion
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Bhumi, goddess of the earth, featured in Puranas
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Hinduism Vasudhara god representing the earth and the element earth
Buddhist mythology
Meitei mythology
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Sumerian mythology
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Ki, goddess of the earth
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Ninhursag, mother goddess of the earth, fertility, mountains, and rulers
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Šumugan, in Sumerian mythology, god of the river plains, given charge by the god Enki over the flat alluvial lands of southern Mesopotamia
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Nuska vizier of the chief god Enlil but later associated with Nippur ("Enlil City") as the god of the earth
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Enten, Sumerian fertility deity identified with the abundance of the earth
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Enlil (), ancient Mesopotamian god associated with wind, air, earth, and storms
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Enki (), Sumerian god, literal translation "Lord of the Earth"
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Emesh, Sumerian god created at the wish of Enlil to take responsibility on earth for woods, fields, sheepfolds, and stables
Thai mythology
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Phra Mae Thorani, goddess of the earth who stopped the demons from attacking the Buddha.
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Phra Bhum Chaiya mongkol (พระภูมิชัยมงคล - Bhummaso), "Tutelary deity of Earth and Land"
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Phra Mae Thorani and Phra Nang Bhum Chaiya (พระนางภูมิไชยา - Bhummaso), "Tutelary deity of Earth and Land" in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and myanmar
Turkic and Mongolian mythology
Vietnamese
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Ông Địa, is the earth god who governs the land
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Ông Tà, the god who governs the fields and gardens
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Diêu Trì Địa Mẫu
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Bà Thổ
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Hậu Thổ
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Mẫu Địa
European mythology
Albanian mythology
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Zonja e Dheut, Dheu: goddess of the earth, great mother earth, respectively
Baltic mythology
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Žemyna, goddess of the earth
Celtic mythology
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Danu, ancient goddess of the earth
Etruscan mythology
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Cel, goddess of the earth
Finnish mythology
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Maaemä, goddess of the earth
Georgian mythology
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Mindort-batoni, god of the mountains
Germanic mythology
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Jörð, goddess of the earth
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Nerthus, earth goddess
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Skaði, goddess of the mountains and winter
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Sif, goddess of the earth
Greek mythology
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Demeter, goddess of the harvest, sacred law, and the earth
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Gaia, primordial goddess of the earth. She was one of the earliest elemental Deity, having been created at the beginning of time. It was thought that all creation is descended from Gaia, the great mother of all things. According to Greek mythology, she was the creator of the universe and was responsible for the birth of both humanity and the first race of gods the Titans.
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Cronus, god of the harvest.
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Poseidon, one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology; god of the sea and other waters, earthquakes and horses.
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Cybele
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Persephone
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Rhea
Latvian mythology
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Zemes māte
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Māra
Lithuanian mythology
Roman mythology
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Ceres, goddess of the harvest, motherhood, and the earth
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Terra, ancient goddess of the earth
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Ops
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Proserpina
Romanian
Slavic mythology
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Mat Zemlya, ancient goddess of the earth
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Mokosh, goddess of fertility, moisture, women, the earth, and death. One of the oldest and only goddess in the slavic religion, Old Kievan pantheon of AD 980 mentions Mokosh, which survives in East Slavic folk traditions. Known as a woman who in the evening spins flax and wool, shears sheep, and has a large head and long arms.
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Troglav, deity in Slavic mythology whose three heads were believed to represent sky, earth and the underworld.
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Veles, horned god of the underworld, water, the earth, wealth, and cattle
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Volos, Slavic god of earth, waters, and the underworld.
Oceanian mythology
Hawaiian mythology
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Papahānaumoku, goddess of the earth
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haumea, goddess of the Hawaiian Islands
Maori mythology
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Papa, or Papatūānuku, goddess of the earth
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Rūaumoko, in Māori mythology, god of , and .
Western Asian mythology
Levantine mythology
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Amurru, Amorite deity, occasionally called "lord of the steppe" or "lord of the mountain"
[Beaulieu, Paul-Alain. "The God Amurru as Emblem of Ethnic and Cultural Identity". In: Ethnicity in Ancient Mesopotamia (W. van Soldt, R. Kalvelagen, and D. Katz, eds.) Papers Read at the 48th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Leiden, July 1–4, 2002. PIHANS 102. Nederlands: Instituut voor her Nabije Oosten, 2005. pp. 31-46.]
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