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