Painting in Yuan dynasty of Goddess Dimǔ Niángniáng with attendant, in Taoism and Chinese folk religion at Yongle Palace Temple (永樂宮) of Ruicheng, Shanxi Province, China
Statue of syncretic Goddess Persephone - Isis with a sistrum, Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete

This is a list of earth deities. An Earth god or Earth goddess is a deification of the Earth associated with a figure with chthonic or terrestrial attributes. There are many different Earth goddesses and gods in many different cultures mythology. However, Earth is usually portrayed as a goddess. Earth goddesses are often associated with the chthonic deities of the underworld.[1]

In Greek mythology, the Earth is personified as Gaia, corresponding to Roman Terra, Indic Prithvi/Bhūmi, etc. traced to an "Earth Mother" complementary to the "Sky Father" in Proto-Indo-European religion. Egyptian mythology have the sky goddesses, Nut and Hathor, with the earth gods, Osiris and Geb. Ki and Ninhursag are Mesopotamian earth goddesses.

African mythology

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Akan mythology

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Aksumite

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Bakongo religion

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Egyptian mythology

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Igbo mythology

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Malagasy mythology

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Yoruba mythology

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American mythology

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Aztec mythology

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Haudenosaunee mythology

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Inca mythology

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Inuit mythology

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Lakota mythology

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Lucumi

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Mapuche

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Southwestern

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Asian mythology

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Ainu mythology

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Anatolian mythology

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Chinese mythology

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Gondi mythology

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Hittite mythology

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Hindu mythology

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Buddhist mythology

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Meitei mythology

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In Meitei mythology and religion:

Sumerian mythology

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Thai mythology

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Turkic and Mongolian mythology

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Vedic religion

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In Historical Vedic religion:

Vietnamese

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European mythology

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Albanian mythology

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Baltic mythology

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Celtic mythology

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Etruscan mythology

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Finnish mythology

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Georgian mythology

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Germanic mythology

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Greek mythology

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Latvian mythology

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Lithuanian mythology

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Roman mythology

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Romanian

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Slavic mythology

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Oceanian mythology

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Hawaiian mythology

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Maori mythology

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Western Asian mythology

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Levantine mythology

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Definition of EARTH GODDESS". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  2. ^ "รู้จักกับ "พระภูมิทั้ง 9" คู่บ้าน คู่เมืองชาวสยาม! เทวดาผู้ดูแลเรือกสวนไร่นาป่าเขา บูชาตามประเพณี คุ้มครองป้องภัย พลิกร้ายกลายดี". 29 August 2017.
  3. ^ Šmits, Pēteris (1918). Latviešu Mitoloģija (PDF) (in Latvian). Latviesu rakstnieku un makslinieku biedriba. pp. 14–15. OCLC 12301101 – via dom.lndb.lv. Other editions: OCLC 12301047, 776694498, 276876979; Reprinted: ISBN 9789955591085
  4. ^ Paliepa, Jānis (2011). The origin of the Baltic and Vedic languages: Baltic mythology; Interdisciplinary treatise. Bloomington, IN, US: Author House. pp. 46, 52. ISBN 9781456729028. OCLC 1124421252, 890769223.
  5. ^ Jānis, Tupešu (Fall 1987). "The Ancient Latvian Religion — Dievturība". LITUANUS: Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences. 33 (3). Chicago, IL, US: LITUANUS Foundation. ISSN 0024-5089. OCLC 561497100.
  6. ^ Te Papa. "Ruaumoko - God of Earthquakes". Wellington, New Zealand: Earthquake Commission. Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
  7. ^ McSaveney, Eileen (2 March 2009). "Historic earthquakes - Earthquakes in Māori tradition". Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand: Manatū Taonga | Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 3 May 2012.
  8. ^ Beaulieu, Paul-Alain. "The God Amurru as Emblem of Ethnic and Cultural Identity". In: Ethnicity in Ancient Mesopotamia (W. van Soldt, R. Kalvelagen, and D. Katz, eds.) Papers Read at the 48th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Leiden, July 1–4, 2002. PIHANS 102. Nederlands: Instituut voor her Nabije Oosten, 2005. pp. 31-46.
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