Native American deities

Native American deities

Contents

Abenaki

Algonquian

Blackfeet

  • Apistotookii - Creator
  • Napi - trickster

Haida

  • Gyhldeptis
  • Lagua
  • Nankil'slas
  • Sin
  • Ta'xet
  • Tia

Ho-Chunk

Hopi

Huron

  • Airesekui
  • Heng
  • Iosheka

Inuit

  • Igaluk - lunar deity
  • Nanook - master of bears
  • Nerrivik - sea mother and food provider
  • Pinga - Goddess of the hunt, fertility, and medicine
  • Sedna - sea Goddess, ruler of the underworld
  • Torngasoak - sky god

Iroquois

  • Adekagagwaa
  • Gaol
  • Gendenwitha
  • Gohone
  • Hahgwehdaetgan
  • Hahgwehdiyu
  • Onatha

Kwakiutl

  • Kewkwaxa'we

Lakota

Mi'kmaq

  • Niskam

Navajo

  • Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé - creation deity, changing woman
  • Bikʼeh Hózhǫ́ - personification of speech
  • Haashchʼéé Oołtʼohí - deity of the hunt
  • Haashchʼééłtiʼí - the Talking God, god of the dawn and the east
  • Hashchʼéoghan - the House-God, god of evening and the west
  • Tó Neinilii - ‘water sprinkler’, rain god
  • Jóhonaaʼéí - sun
  • Yoołgai Asdzą́ą́ - ‘white-shell woman’, lunar deity

Pawnee

  • Pah
  • Shakuru
  • Tirawa

Salish

  • Amotken

Seneca

  • Eagentci
  • Hagones
  • Hawenniyo
  • Kaakwha

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