African God List

Abassi:  Nigerian creator God; Lord of the sky

Abuk: Garden Goddess

Achimi: Buffalo Goddess

Adro: Evil half of the god Adroa

Adroa: Creator God of heaven and earth. God of lugbara, believed to be good and evil

Age: Anonymous God

Aho-Njoku: Goddess of Yams

Ajok: Chief God of the Lutuko tribe; God of rain and resurrection

Akongo: Creator God

Ala: Earth Mother Goddess of fertility and death

Alouroua: Creator God of the Baules

Amma: Supreme Dogon God who created the sun and the moon

Anansi: Spider Trickster God

Andriamahilala: First woman who populated the earth

Andriambahomanani: First male who along with Andriamahilala populated the earth

Andumbulu: Spirit of the underworld

Anotchi: Medicine Man

Asa: Protective God

Atai: Nigerian Creator Goddess

Azra’il: God of death

Badimo: Secret Shaman Society God

Banga: God of clear waters

Bomazi: Ancestral deity of the Congo

Bumba: God of vomit

Cagn: Shape-changing god

Cghene: Supreme God

Chango: African Yoruban orisha of fire, thunder, lightning, rain and masculine fertility. He symbolises truth,courage and intelligence. He is symbol for the element of fire

Chiuta: “Great Bow of Heaven”; The Creator

Chuku: Major God of the Ibu people

Da: Great snake who coils around the earth

Deng: Sky God. He is associated with rain, birth and fertility

Domfe: God of rain/water and wind

Dongo: Thunder God

Dubiaku: Only mortal to outwit death

Dxui: Supreme Creator God

Dziva: “The Deceiver”; A goddess who is caring and compassionate however she is known for her quick turns

Ebore: Sky God

Edinkira: Tree goddess

Egungun-oya: Goddess of divination

En-Kai: Maasai Rain God

Enekpe: Goddess of fate

Eseasar: Earth Goddess

Esu: Yoruban god of watchfulness and trickster god

Fa: God of destiny and fate

Faro: God who got himself pregant by rocking the universe

Gamab: God of life, death and seasonal renewal

Gaunab: “The Evil One”; This god is responsible for all the misfortune, disease and death

Ghekre: Monkey God

Gu: God of tools

Haitse-aibeb: Nature God

Haiuri: Half a god; This god has only one ear, eye, arm and leg

Hare: Trickster rabbit

Huntin: Tree spirit

Hyel: Supreme God

Iamanjie: Mother of waters and childbirth

Imana: Creator God who tried to save men from their deaths

Itherther: Buffalo god brothers

Iyakare: God who has very long arms so as to distance himself from humanity

Jok: Rain God

Jouk: Creator God

Kaang: Creator God of the Botswana Bushmen

Kabundungulu: Heroic twin brother God

Kaka-guie: Dealing God

Kalumba: Creator God; He built the road to heaven

Kanu: Creator God of the Baga

Katonda: God of bureaucracy

Khakhabaisaywa: “The One on High”; Creator God

Khonvoum: East african God

Khuzwane: Remote God

Kintu: Husband’s of Ngai’s daughter

Kwoth: Unseen God

Legba: Trickster God of language and destiny

Leza: Weather God

Libanza: Creator God

Maori: Creator God from Zimbabwe

Massassi: The first woman who was created by Maori

Massim-biambe: God of reincarnation

Mawu-lisa: Mawu was the female moonly side and Lisa the male sunny side of a two sided god

Mbaba-mwanna-waresa: Goddess of Beer

Mbere: Creator God; Believed to be connected to mebere

Mboya: Wife of Nzame

Mebege: Creator God

Mebere: Aspect of Nzame

Minga-bengale: God of hunting

Morongo: Second woman; She was created by Moari to stop Mwuetsi complaining

Muluku: God of creation

Mulungu: Supreme being who is equated with God

Musso-koroni: Goddess of Discord and Hassle

Mwuetsi: The first man created by Moari

Nana: Earth Goddess. Mother of Omolu

Nana-buluku: Fon God

Nasilele: Wife of Nyambi:

Ndriananahary: “Life comes from me”; Supreme Creator God

Neiterogob: Earth Goddess

Ngewo-wa: African Creator God

Nimba: Baga Goddess of Fertility

Njambi: God who rules through spiritual wisdom

Nkwa: Another side of Nzame

Nommo: Mysterious multiplying god twins

Nyalitch: Dinka Supreme God; Sky and Rain god

Nyambe: This god planted the tree of life in his garden

Nzambi: Bisexual creator god. He is associated with the sky and mother earth

Nyame: Emergency substitute god

Nyankopon: African Sky God

Nyiko: Heroic Spider God

Nyokonan: Father of Nyiko who expelled him from heaven after his son had liasons with his mother

Obassi-osaw: A God who provided mankind with all things except fire

Obatala: Creator God who was commissioned to build the earth

Obumo: Thunder God. He is the creator of all things and a supreme deity

Odomankomo: Asante Creator

Oduduwa: Creator of Earth

Ogo: Trickster God of the Dogon people

Ogun: God of metalwork

Olokun: God/Goddess of the sea

Olorun: God of peace and justice

Omumborombonga: Primordial Tree

Oromila: God of divinity

Oshe: God of thunder and lightning

Oshun:Yoruban orisha of love, sexuality, beauty and diplomacy. Wife of Chango; Patroness of the Oshun river

Oshossi: Yoruban god of the forest and hunting. He is symbolised by a bow

Oya: Yoruban warrior orisha of the wind. She is symbolic of the winds of change. She symbolises transformations, power, action, life and vivacity. Wife of Chango

Pemba: Brother of Faro

Quamta: Supreme God of the Xhosa people

Rada: Leading God of Voodoo

Rugaba: Aloof God who rules through spiritual division

Ruwa: God of the Djaga Tribe

Sakarabru: God of medicine, justice and retribution

Shadipinyi: Namibian Evil God of drunken behaviour

Shakpana: God who inflicts smallpox or madness

Shango: Nigerian God of thunder and hunting

She: God of thunder and war

Soko: Supreme God of the Nupe

Somtup: God spirit; He looks after male initiations and rites of passage

Sudika-mbambi: Twin brother of Kabundungulu

Tore: God of woods, animals and hunting

Uhlanga: Goddess of the swamp

Umvelinqangi: Creator God; Primarily of the thunder and earthquake aspects

Unkulunkulu: Supreme God

Uwolowa: Sky god and creator of everything (including those of the minor gods)

Wak: Ethopian God who dwells in the clouds. Supreme and benefactor God

Were: Creator God. Giver of life and cause of death

Woyengi: Goddess who descended to earth of a bolt of lightning

Wulbari: Another God who was annoyed at human behaviour

Wuni: Creator God. Shaper of destiny

Yansan: She is the Goddess Oya, however, when things have turned quiet, she becomes Yansan, the goddess of wind

Yasigi: Goddess of dancing, beer and masks

Yeban: Spirit of the Underworld

Yemonja: One of the great african goddesses. Daughter of the sea, also known as “Mama Watta” or “mother of the waters”

Yurugu: God of chaos

Zanahary: Bisexual God of Sky and Earth