Many faiths consider an abundance of money a form of divine blessing. Here are 9 wealth gods and goddesses from world mythology.
In ancient Egyptian mythology, Khonsu was the god of the moon, the passage of time, and the creation of life. At his primary cult center in Thebes, Khonsu was worshiped as part of a family triad with Amun as his father and his mother. As the god of the moon and of time, Khonsu ...
Dongwanggong (东王公):The “King Father of the East” is the consort of Xiwangmu and a high-ranking guardian deity in Taoism. He originated as Dongwang Taiyi (东王太一) during the Warring States era and in this form, he was a solar god too. He represents Yang energy while Xiwangmu ...
Egyptian mythology had a variety of male and female deities associated with aspects of the moon. The personification of the moon was a male—Iah (also spelled Yah)—but the major moon deities were Khonsu (the new moon) and Thoth (the full moon), also both male. The "man in the moon"...
Chinese goddess of the moon, best known for stealing the elixir of immortality View Changxi Lunar goddess in Chinese mythology, mother of the twelve moons View Dianmu Chinese goddess of lightning, married to the thunder god Lei Gong View ...
Greek mythology is largely made up of stories about gods and goddesses, but it must not be read as a kind of Greek Bible, an account of the Greek religion. According to the most modern idea, a real myth has nothing to do with religion. It is an explanation of something in nature; ho...
Enki was a deity in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Babylonian mythology. The name Ea is of Sumerian origin and was written by means of two signs signifying "house" and "water". Enki was the deity of water, intelligence, creation, and lord of the Apsu, the watery abyss. Cre...
Zack Snyder tells IndieWire how his natural aesthetic was very close to the bizarro world of Norse mythology adapted into the Netflix animated series.
Luna- (Roman mythology) the goddess of the Moon; counterpart of Greek Selene Aurora- (Roman mythology) goddess of the dawn; counterpart of Greek Eos Tellus- (Roman mythology) goddess of the earth; protector of marriage and fertility; identified with Greek Gaea ...
Some of the Inuit gods and goddesses are:The Sun, who is believed to be a beautiful young maiden Jupiter, the mother of the Sun and an angry goddess who punished careless magicians by eating their livers Aningan, who is the moon and the Sun's brother Irdlirvirisissong, a cousin of ...