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The names of ancient gods from ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and other nations.

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Tlaloc Mesoamerican rain and fertility god, usually depicted wearing a fringed mouth-mask or a spectacle-shaped frame round his eyes, recognized this way in the art of the Aztec people of Teotihuacán. Under various names Tlaloc was worshipped by other of the Mexican tribes: Chac (Lowland Maya), Tajin (T...Added by archaeologs | English|God Names

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Ra The supreme god of ancient Egypt before his displacement by Amen (Amun). He was sun god and deity of the city of Heliopolis, whose cult is first attested in the name of the 2nd Dynasty ruler Raneb (c 2865 BC). Ra is depicted as a hawk-headed man with a sun disc on his head. He was especially impo...Added by archaeologs | English|God Names, Mythology

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Tammuz Consort of the Sumerian goddess Ishtar who was prominent in the fertility rituals of the Sacred Marriage. Upon death, he became a god of the underworld. The earliest known mention of Tammuz is in texts dating to the early part of the Early Dynastic III period (c 2600-2334 BC), but his cult was pr...Added by archaeologs | English|God Names

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Osiris The ancient Egyptian god of death, represented as an anthropoid figure with mummy body. He was brother and husband to Isis and the father of Horus. Through them he was linked to the vegetation cycle myth. Slain by his brother Seth in the autumn, his dismembered and scattered remains were collecte...Added by archaeologs | English|God Names

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Dionysus Dionysos (Διονυσος) veya diğer adıyla Bacchus (Bakkhos, Βακχος) Yunan mitolojisinde şarap, bağcılık, haz, cümbüş ve coşkunluk tanrısıdır. Zeus ile Thebai prensesi Semele'nin oğlu olan Dionysos, en genç, Olympos'a en son kabul edilmiş ve annesi bir ölümlü olan yegane Olympos'lu tanrıdır. Ya uzun s...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|God Names

Dionysus Dionysos (Dionysus) was the Olympian god of wine, vegetation, pleasure, festivity, madness and wild frenzy. He was depicted as either an older, bearded god or an effeminate, long-haired youth. His attributes included the thyrsos (a pine-cone tipped staff), a drinking cup and a crown of ivy. He wa...Added by archaeologs | English|God Names

Dionysus The youthful, beautiful, but effeminate god of wine. He is also called both by Greeks and Romans Bacchus (Βάκχος), that is, the noisy or riotous god, which was originally a mere epithet or surname of Dionysus, but does not occur till after the time of Herodotus. According to the common tradition...Added by archaeologs | English|God Names

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Zeus Zeus was the King of the Gods and the god of the sky, weather, law and order, destiny and fate, and kingship. He was depicted as a regal, mature man with a sturdy figure and dark beard. His usual attributes were a lightning bolt, a royal sceptre and an eagle.Added by archaeologs | English|God Names

Zeus The greatest of the Olympian gods, and the father of gods and men, was a son of Cronus and Rhea, a brother of Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, and at the same time married to his sister Hera. When Zeus and his brothers distributed among themselves the government of the world by lot, Poseid...Added by archaeologs | English|God Names

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Cronus The youngest of the Titans, son of Uranus and Gaea. He castrated and deposed his father and assumed power. Cronus and his wife Rhea ruled over the world which during that time experienced a golden age.Added by archaeologs | English|God Names

Cronus In Greek mythology, Cronus, Cronos, or Kronos (/ˈkroʊnəs/ or /ˈkroʊnɒs/, US: /-oʊs/, from Greek: Κρόνος, Krónos), was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of Uranus, the sky, and Gaia, the earth. He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythologica...Added by archaeologs | English|God Names

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