- Source: Volcano deity
A volcano deity is a deification of a volcano. Volcano deities are often associated with fire, and are often represented as fire deities as well. The following is a list of volcano deities:
Africa, Near East and Spain
Yahweh, in pre-Judaic Hebrew religion. Some scholars (for example, Martin Noth in his Exodus: A Commentary and Jack Miles in his Pulitzer Prize-winning God: A Biography) suggest that the ancient Hebrews worshipped or associated their god with a volcano.
= Santeria religion
=Aganju, in Cuba, is a volcano deity for the practitioners of the Lucumi.
= Guanche mythology
=Guayota, Guanche, malignant deity which lived inside the Teide volcano.
Asia and Europe
= Indigenous Philippine folk religions
=Lalahon, in Philippine mythology, Goddess of fire, volcanoes and harvest.
Kan-Laon, Visayan god of time associated with the volcano Kanlaon.
Gugurang, Bicolano god of fire and volcanoes who lives inside Mayon Volcano which erupts whenever he's enraged.
= Greco-Roman world
=Vulcan, in ancient Roman religion and myth, the god of fire including the fire of volcanoes, deserts, metalworking, and the forge.
Hephaestus, Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire, and volcanoes.
Americas
= Aztec religion
=Chantico, goddess of the hearth fires and volcanoes.
Xiuhtecuhtli, god of fire, day, heat, volcanoes, food in famine, the year, turquoise, the Aztec emperors, and the afterlife.
Polynesia and Pacific
= Māori mythology
=Rūaumoko, in Māori mythology, god of earthquakes, volcanoes and seasons.
= Hawaiian religion
=Pele, in the Hawaiian religion, goddess of volcanoes and fire and the creator of the Hawaiian Islands.
See also
Solar deity
Mother Earth
List of nature deities
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Volcano deity
- Pele (deity)
- List of earth deities
- Laon (deity)
- Types of volcanic eruptions
- List of nature deities
- List of fire deities
- Green Lake (Hawaii)
- Ten Ten-Vilu
- Matlalcueitl
