gods
Immortal worship recipients
Gods are supernatural beings with power over aspects of nature or human life, worshipped in polytheistic religions: the gods of ancient Greece, the Norse gods.
In monotheistic contexts, the singular God (capitalized) denotes the supreme being.
Figuratively, gods are objects of excessive devotion: Money is his god.
The exclamation oh my god or gods expresses surprise or dismay.
Dominant powerful figures
- orishasYoruba divine spirits
- loaVodou divine spirit
- kamiShinto sacred spirits
- devasEastern celestial beings
orisha · manitou · celestials
Address to deity
- templeSacred worship structure
- altarSacred ritual table
- shrineSacred devotional place
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
sacrifice · offering · devotion · reverence · hymn · incense · pilgrimage · ceremony
Unlimited universal power
- omniscienceUnlimited knowledge state
- omnipresenceExisting everywhere at once
- immortalityExemption from death
- eternalLasting without end
almighty · divine · sacred · transcendent · creator · sovereign · benevolent · wrathful
Traditional untrue narratives
- legendsTraditional stories or icons
- epicsLong heroic narratives
- sagasExtended heroic narratives
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
cosmogony · theogony · apotheosis · hero · mortal · fate · prophecy · divine intervention
Gods' immortality-granting food
Hard-shelled seed
- pharaohAncient Egyptian ruler
- hieroglyphsAncient Egyptian picture-writing
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
- scarabBeetle held sacred anciently
titans
Dominant powerful figures
devas · orisha · manitou · celestials
prayer
Address to deity
ritual · sacrifice · offering · devotion · reverence · hymn · incense · pilgrimage · ceremony · libation
omnipotence
Unlimited universal power
- omniscienceUnlimited knowledge state
- omnipresenceExisting everywhere at once
- immortalityExemption from death
eternal · almighty · divine · sacred · transcendent · creator · sovereign · benevolent · wrathful · merciful
myths
Traditional untrue narratives
folklore · cosmogony · theogony · apotheosis · hero · mortal · fate · prophecy · divine intervention · metamorphosis
ambrosia
Gods' immortality-granting food
nut
Hard-shelled seed
- pharaohAncient Egyptian ruler
- hieroglyphsAncient Egyptian picture-writing
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
shiva
Jewish week of mourning
valkyries
Slain-warrior selectors for Valhalla
- runesOld Germanic script
- beingsbeings, being, entities, entity, creatures
- Classical AntiquityAncient Greece, Ancient Rome, Greeks, Romans, Roman Empire
- Classical MythologyZeus, Apollo, Venus, Athena, Aphrodite
- Greek mythologyZeus, Athena, Apollo, Hera, Poseidon
- mythmyth, mythos, creation myth, origin story, flood myth
- mythologyZeus, Apollo, Athena, Poseidon, Odin
godsmortals
Beings destined to expire
humans · mankind · humanity · human beings · people
- Greek godsHellenic divine beings
- false godsIllegitimate objects of worship
- Greek goddessFemale deity from Athens' pantheon
- ancient gods
- Roman godsPantheon of ancient Italy
- gift from the godsMiraculous unearned benefit
godly, goddess, ungodly, godsend, godless, godliness, goddamn, godlessness, godchild