European Albanian •
Djall, symbolizes the devil. (Djaj(plural)) •
Mortja, personification of death. An equivalent of
Grim Reaper.(Female)(Mortjet, plural) •
Vdekja, personification of death. (Female) •
E Bukura e Dheut, goddess of earth, underworld, afterlife
Balto-Finnic •
Tuoni (
Finnish mythology,
Estonian mythology)
Balto-Slavic •
Giltinė (
Lithuanian mythology) •
Māra (
Latvian mythology) •
Morana (
Slavic mythology) •
Peckols (
Prussian mythology) •
Peklenc •
Veles •
Chernobog (
Slavic mythology)
Basque • Herio (
Basque mythology)
Celtic •
Ankou (
Breton people) •
Arawn •
Cichol •
Crom Cruach •
Donn •
Mannanan •
The Morrigan Germanic , 1901 •
Freyja, presides over
Fólkvangr; chooses half of those who die in battle •
Gefjon, a goddess who oversees those who die as virgins •
Hel, presides over
Valhalla and gets half of those who die in battle; there they train for Ragnarök •
Rán, the sea goddess who collects the drowned in her net
Etruscan •
Aita, god of the underworld • Culga, a female underworld spirit •
Februus, god of purification, death, the underworld, and riches • Mani, spirits of the dead •
Mania, goddess of the dead •
Mantus, god of the underworld •
Orcus, god of the underworld •
Tuchulcha, an underworld spirit •
Vanth, winged spirit of the underworld
Greek or
Serapis with his dog
Cerberus •
Achlys, goddess who symbolizes the mist of death. Goddess of poisons, personification of misery and sadness. •
Apollo, god of diseases •
Atropos, one of the
moirai, who cut the thread of life. •
Charon, a
daimon who acted as ferryman of the dead. •
Erebus, the primordial god of darkness, his mists encircled the underworld and filled the hollows of the earth •
Erinyes, chthonic deities of vengeance •
Hades, king of the underworld and god of the dead •
Hecate, goddess of witchcraft, she helped Demeter in the search for Persephone and was allowed to live in the Underworld as her magic works best at night •
Hermes, the messenger god who acted as
psychopompos •
Hypnos, personification of sleep, twin of Thanatos, his Roman counterpart is Somnus •
Keres, goddesses of violent death, sisters of
Thanatos •
Lampades, torch-bearing underworld nymphs •
Limos was the goddess of starvation in ancient Greek religion. She was opposed by Demeter, goddess of grain and the harvest with whom Ovid wrote Limos could never meet, and Plutus, the god of wealth and the bounty of rich harvests.[1] •
Persephone, queen of the underworld; wife of Hades and goddess of spring growth •
Serapis, Graeco-Egyptian syncretistic deity, combining elements of
Osiris, the
Apis Bull,
Hades,
Demeter, and
Dionysus. Also, patron of the
Ptolemaic Kingdom and
Alexandria. •
Tartarus, the darkest, deepest part of the underworld, often used for imprisoning enemies of the Olympians •
Thanatos, personification of death, Roman counterpart is Mors • Gods of the seven rivers of the underworld: •
Acheron, god of the river Acheron •
Alpheus, god of the river Alpheus •
Cocytus, god of the river Cocytus •
Eridanos, god of the river Eridanos •
Lethe, goddess of the river Lethe •
Phlegethon, god of the river Phlegethon •
Styx, goddess of the river Styx, a river that formed a boundary between the living and the dead
Roman •
Dea Tacita, goddess of the dead •
Di inferi, ancient Roman deities associated with death and the Underworld •
Dis Pater, god of the underworld •
Laverna, goddess of thieves, cheats, and the underworld •
Lemures, the malevolent dead •
Libitina, goddess of funerals and burials •
Manes, spirits of the dead •
Mania, goddess of death •
Mors, personification of death, Greek equivalent is
Thanatos •
Nenia Dea, goddess of funerals •
Orcus, punisher of broken oaths; usually folded in with Pluto •
Pluto, ruler of the Underworld •
Proserpina, queen of the underworld •
Soranus, underworld
Sabine god adopted by the Romans •
Viduus, god who separated the soul and body after death
Western Asia Elamite •
Inshushinak Persian-Zoroastrian •
Angra Mainyu or Ahriman, the destructive spirit (
Persian mythology) • Asto Vidatu or Astiwihad or Asto-widhatu, death deity (
Persian mythology)
Ossetian • Aminon, gatekeeper of the underworld. •
Barastyr, ruler of the underworld. • Ishtar-Deela, lord of the underworld in
Nakh.
Uralic • Azyren (
Mari people) •
Kalma,
Finnish goddess of death and decay, her name meaning "the stench of corpses" •
Nga (Nenets) •
Tuoni (
Finnish mythology), with his wife and children. == Eastern Asia ==