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Home › Culture › Religion › Deities › Mesoamerica and Caribbean

Mesoamerica and Caribbean

People or Tribe (location)

  • God or Goddess – Role of deity

Various (Caribbean, Central and South America)

  • Obatala – Most powerful of all gods and the only one who knows the hiding place of the Great Almighty

Various (Caribbean, Central and South America)

  • Ogun – God of warriors

Various (Central America)

  • Yiacatecuhtli – God of the travelling merchants

Various (Mexico)

  • Quetzalcoatl – God of air clouds, and wind; of medicine, and the healing arts; of fertility and wealth; of thieves; of gambling; of fishermen; of farmers; of stone-cutters and engravers; of gold and silversmiths; and 1 of 13 lords of the day
  • Tamats – God of wind and air
  • Tlalchitonatiuh – God of the rising sun
  • Tokakami – God of death
  • Xochipilli – God of flowers, of sport, of dance, of games, of beauty, of love, of youth

Akwa’ala (Western Mexico)

  • Mitipa – Creator god

Arawak (Antilles)

  • Aluberi – Remote supreme god
  • Attabeira – Earth mother
  • Guabancex – Goddess of wind and water
  • Iocauna – Supreme eternal god
  • Ybanua-Borna – Rain god

Aztec (Central Mexico)

  • Camaxtli – God of war and one of four creator gods
  • Centeotl – Corn god
  • Chalchuiuhtlicue – Goddess of the East, sea, and running water and 1 of 13 lords of the day
  • Chalmecatecuhtli – God of sacrifice and 1 of 13 lords of the day
  • Chantico – Goddess of hearth fires and volcanoes
  • Chicomecoatl – Goddess of maize
  • Cihuacoatl – Earth goddess
  • Cinteotl – Corn goddess and 1 of 13 lords of the day
  • Citlalincue – Goddess of the heavens and 1 of 13 lords of the day
  • Coatlicue – Mother and earth goddess
  • Coyolxauhqui – Goddess of the moon
  • Ehecatl – God of the wind
  • Huehuecoyotl – God of mischief-making
  • Huehueteotl – Fire god
  • Huitzilopochtli – God of war
  • Huixtocihuatl – Goddess of salt
  • Ixcuina – Goddess of carnality, prostitutes, and adulterers
  • Ixtlilton – God of healing, feasting, and games
  • Macuilxochitl – God of music and dance
  • Mayahuel – Goddess of the maguey plant
  • Metztli – Goddess of moon, love, marriage, and childbirth
  • Mictlantecuhtli – God of the dead and 1 of 13 lords of the day
  • Mixcoatl – Star god and god of the hunt
  • Nanahuatzin – Father of the sun and god of corage and bravery
  • Ometecutli – God of fire
  • Ometéotl – Supreme god
  • Patecatl – God of medicine
  • Paynal – The messenger to Huitzilopochtli
  • Tacatecutli – God of merchants and adventurers
  • Teccuciztecatl – God of the moon
  • Teoyaomqui – God of dead warriors
  • Tezcatlipoca – Supreme god; god of rulers, of the north, of cold, and of darkness; and god of pleasure and sin
  • Tlaloc – God of rain, of agriculture, of fire, and of the south; and 1 of 13 lords of the day
  • Tlaltecuhtli – 1 of 13 lords of the day
  • Tlazoltéotl – Goddess of purification and of love; and 1 of 13 lords of – Tloquenahuaque – The unknown god
  • Tochtli – God of the south
  • Toci – Mother of the gods
  • Toci – Mother goddess of the the earth and of curing
  • Tonacacihuatl – Mother of the gods
  • Tonacatecuhtli – The creator and the provider of food
  • Tonacatecuhtli – Creator and food provider
  • Tonantzin – The mother-goddess
  • Tonatiuh – God of the sun and of warriors; and 1 of 13 lords of the day
  • Ueuecoytl (Coyote) – God of fecundity
  • Uixtochihuatl – Goddess of salt
  • Xilonen – Goddess of young maize and a wife of Tezcatlipoca
  • Xiuhtecuhtli – God of fire and time; and 1 of 13 lords of the day
  • Xochiquetzal – Goddess of flowers, of fruit, and of music; and of female sexual power
  • Xoloth – God of monsters, of magicians, of twins, of double ears, of maize
  • Yacatecuhtli – God of merchant adventurers

Bribri (Costa Rica, Panama)

  • Sibu – Omnipresent and omnipotent supreme god and creator god

Carib (Antilles)

  • Chemin – Sky god

Chichimec (Mexico)

  • Yoalli Ehécatl – Omnipotent, invisible god and ruler of all things

Chimalteco (Gualtemala)

  • Kiech – Goddess of fire and the thirteenth day of the calendar
  • Naq Pu – God of fire and the ninth day of the calendar

Chorotega (Nicaragua)

  • Tipotani – Chief god

Chorti (Guatemala)

  • Ah Kin – God of knowledge and magical powers and sun god

Cueva (Costa Rica)

  • Chipiripa – Rain god

Cuma (Panama)

  • Olokupilele – Omniscient creator god and punisher of sin
  • Olosiksiskalilel – Foremost god of the first layer of heaven

Darien (Panama)

  • Chicuna – Creator and supreme god

Huichol (Mexico)

  • Takotsi Nakawe – Earth goddess
  • Tatevali – God of fire
  • Tatotsi Mara Kwari – Secondary fire god

Lacandon (Southern Mexico)

  • Ah Chembekur – God of the highest of seven heavens
  • Cacoch – Remote creator god
  • Hacha’kyum – Principal god and creator of fair-skinned and curly-haired men
  • Kaak – God of fire
  • Kai Yum – God of music, singing, dancing
  • Kianto – God of foreigners and of disease
  • Menzabac – Creator and god of rain
  • Qaq – God of fire

Maya (Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras)

  • Ab Kin Xoc – God of poetry
  • Abjit – 1 of 13 creator gods (of humans)
  • Acat – God of life and development of children in the womb and of tattooers
  • Ah Kin Xoc – God of poetry
  • Ah Kinchil – God of the sun and the jaguar god
  • Ah Puch – God of death
  • Ahau Chamahez – 1 of 2 gods of medicine
  • Ahkushtal – Goddess of childbirth
  • Ahmakiq – God of agriculture
  • Ajtzak – 1 of 13 creator gods (of humans)
  • Alom – God of the sky
  • Bacabs – 4 jaguar gods who held up the sky
  • Baklum Chaam – God of fertility of fields and animals
  • Bitol – Sun god and 1 of 7 creator gods (world and mortals)
  • Bolon Dzacab – God of ancestry
  • Cabaguil – 1 of 7 creator gods (world and mortals)
  • Camaxtli – God of fate
  • Camazotz – Bat god
  • Caprakan – God of earthquakes and mountains
  • Chac Mol – God of thunder, lightning, and rain
  • Cit Bolon Tum – God of medicine
  • Ekahau – God of travellers and merchants
  • Gukumatz – God of the sky and 1 of 7 creator gods (world and mortals)
  • Hunab Ku – Supreme god
  • Hunahpu – God of the sun and creator of magic
  • Hunahpu-Gutch – 1 of 13 creator gods (of humans)
  • Hunahpu-Utui – Role:1 of 13 creator gods (of humans)
  • Hunhau – Death god
  • Huracan – God of great storms of summer and god of terror
  • Itzamna – God of water and the supreme god
  • Ix Chel – Moon goddess
  • Ix Ch’up – Goddess of the moon
  • Ix Tub Tun – Goddess of workers in jade and amethyst
  • Ixbalanque – God of the moon and of magic
  • Ixchel – Goddess of pregnancy, midwifery, childbirth, and fertility
  • Ix-huyne – Moon goddess
  • Ixpiyacoc – 1 of 13 creator gods (of humans)
  • Ixtab – Goddess of the hanged
  • Ixzaluoh – Goddess and wife of Hunab Ku
  • Kakal Ku – God of fire
  • Kan-u-Uayeyab – The god who guarded cities
  • Kinich-Ahau – Sun god
  • Kukucan – Wind god
  • Nacon – God of war
  • Nohochacyum – God of creation and chief god
  • Qaholom – God of the sky and 1 of 7 creator gods (world and mortals)
  • Suhui Kak – Goddess of new fire and healing
  • Tepeu – God of the power in the sky and 1 of 7 creator gods (world and mortals)
  • Tlauixcalpantecuhtli – God of the dawn and 1 of 13 lords of the day
  • Tohil – God of fire and of sacrifice
  • Ts’ibatnah – Goddess of workers in jade and amethyst
  • Tzakol – God of the sky
  • Uc-zip – Underworld god
  • Voltan – God of Earth
  • Vucub Caquix – Sun god of the previous age of the universe
  • Xoc Bitum – God of song
  • Yum Caax – God of maize
  • Zotzilha Chimalman – Bat god of darkness





Michocan (Central Mexico)

  • Tucapacha – Creator god

Mixtec (Central Mexico)

  • Piyetao – Creator and sustainer of all

Niquiran (Nicaragua)

  • Chiquinau – God of the air
  • Ciaga – Water god
  • Ecalchot – Wind god
  • Masaya – Goddess of volcanoes
  • Misca – God of merchants
  • Omeyacigoat – Joint supreme god
  • Omeyateite – Joint supreme god
  • Quiateot – Rain god
  • Tamagostad – Chief god and creator
  • Vizetot – God of famine
  • Zipaltonal – Creator goddess

Panama (Panama)

  • Chicuna – Supreme god
  • Dabiaba – Water goddess

Pipil (Nicaragua)

  • Omeyacigoat – Joint supreme god
  • Omeyateite – Joint supreme god

Quiché (Guatemala)

  • Ah Raxa Tzel – Sky god
  • Ahpú – God of fire

San Blas Cuna (Western Mexico)

  • Dioslele – Creator and supreme god

Sumu (Honduras, Nicaragua)

  • Uhubaput – Supreme sun god and creator god

Taino (Haiti)

  • Agwe – God of the waters
  • Ayida – Rainbow goddess
  • Badessy – Minor sky god
  • Briggette – Goddess of the dead
  • Damballah – Serpent god
  • Dan Petro – God of farmers
  • Erzulie – Goddess of love
  • Ghede – God of the dead
  • Legba – God of the psychic crossroads where the above meets the below
  • Mait’ Carrefour – God of magicians
  • Marassa – Twin gods of voodoo
  • Marinette – Earth goddess
  • Mounanchou – Divine public relations god
  • Simbi – Voodoo patron god of the rains and of magicians
  • Yocahu Vagua Maorocoti – Remote supreme god

Talamancan (Costa Rica, Panama)

  • Sibu – Omnipresent and omnipotent supreme god and creator god

Tarascan (Mexico)

  • Curicaberis – ??
  • Taras – Supreme god
  • Tucapacha – Creator god

Tlascalan (Mexico)

  • Xochitecatl – Goddess of sensual delights

Toltec (Mexico)

  • Chalchuiuhtlicue – Goddess of the East, sea, and running water and 1 of 13 lords of the day
  • Chalmecatecuhtli – God of sacrifice and 1 of 13 lords of the day
  • Cinteotl – Corn goddess and 1 of 13 lords of the day
  • Citlalincue – Goddess of the heavens and 1 of 13 lords of the day
  • Mictlantecuhtli – God of the dead and 1 of 13 lords of the day
  • Tezcatlipoca – Supreme god; god of rulers, of the north, of cold, and of darkness; and god of pleasure and sin
  • Tlaltecuhtli – 1 of 13 lords of the day
  • Tlazoltéotl – Goddess of purification and of love; and 1 of 13 lords of the day
  • Tonatiuh – God of the sun and of warriors; and 1 of 13 lords of the day
  • Xiuhtecuhtli – God of fire and time; and 1 of 13 lords of the day

Tzeltal (Southern Mexico)

  • Menzabac – Creator and god of rain

Tzental (Southern Mexico)

  • Iztal Ix – Goddess of mind, thought, wisdom
  • Patol – Chief god

Tzotzil (Southern Mexico)

  • Totilme’il – Dual male/female creator deity

Warihio (Mexico)

  • Tata Dios – Creator god

Zapotec (Central Mexico)

  • Béeze – God of riches
  • Cocijo – God of rain
  • Itzpapalotl – Goddess of the paradise realm and of agriculture
  • Pixee Pecala – God of love
  • Piyetao – Creator and sustainer of all
  • Tepeyollotl – Earthquake god
  • Xipe Totec – God of spring, of renewal, of vegetation, and of flowers




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