In this portion of my Book of Shadows, I will list the most commonly used Gods and Goddesses most Wiccans worship or call to during spells, rituals and ceremonies. Each deity has a specific purpose that is recognized when the Wiccan is in need of something correlating to that god or goddess, or both. There are many, many more but I will stick to just the most common to my knowledge ones.
COMMON GODS
Adonis - Greek God of rebirth and vegetation, worshipped in mystery religions for untold eons.
Apollo - Greek/Roman young solar God, God of light, truth and prophecy, God of archery, medicine and healing, God of music, poetry, and the arts
Anubis - Egyptian God of the Dead
Aten - Egyptian Supreme God, solar deity
Cernunnos - Celtic God of the Wild Hunt, fertility and masculine energy.
Dagda - Irish Father God, somewhat comical and bawdy
Dionysus - Greek/Roman God of wine, of ritual ecstasy, God of agriculture, music, and theatre, communication between living and dead
Eros - Greek God of sexuality and fertility
Hades - Greek God of the Underworld and Death
Hephaestus - Greek God of the Forge, of technology, craftsmen, sculptors, fire and volcanoes.
Hermes - Greek God of boundaries and travelers, shepherds and cowherds, orators, writers and poets, invention, commerce, and thieves. Messenger of the Gods. Trickster God.
Holly King - English God of winter (rest, withdrawal)
Horus - Egyptian Sky God, God of sun and moon, God of war and the hunt
Loki - Norse God, shape-shifter and gender-changer
Lugh - Celtic God of smiths and artisans, harvest god
Mercury - Roman God of commerce, messenger of the Gods, speed and travel.
Oak King - English God of summer (expansion, growth, activity)
Odin - Norse Father God , God of wisdom, wealth, inspiration, poetry, battle, hunting, magick, prophecy
Osiris - Egyptian God of the Underworld and the harvest
Pan - Greek nature God, Horned God, god of shepherds and flocks, of wild forests and fields, virility, fertility and spring
Ra - Egyptian God, solar deity
Set/Seth - Egyptian God of chaos
Tammuz - Egyptian green God
Thoth - Egyptian God of magick and wisdom
Zeus - Father God, Sky God
GOD TITLES
Many times you’ll hear these used as names of Wiccan Gods, but accurately speaking they are more like titles that can be used for multiple Wiccan Gods.
Child God- Title used for Gods in the form of infants, such as Gopala, Horus (also Son God).
Father God - Title used for Wiccan patriarchs, such as Zeus, Dagda, Odin.
Green Man - Title used for the Earth Gods, such as Tammuz, Herne, Dionysus (also Green God).
Horned God - Title used for Wiccan Gods of the animals or the hunt, symbolizing virility and strength, such as Pan, Cernunnos, Herne, Pashupati.
Lover God - Title used for Gods who aspect as consorts of the Goddess and lover to his devotees, such as Cernunnos and Pan.
Sacrificial Gods - Title used for deities whose ritual sacrifice provides life for the people, such as Osiris, Adonis, and other Sun Gods and Green Gods
Sun God - Title used for Solar Gods, such as Sunna, Apollo, Ra.
Triple God - Title used for the godhead as a trinity, such as Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva; God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
COMMON GODDESSES
Aphrodite/Venus- Greek Goddess of love and beauty
Artemis/Diana - Greek/Roman Goddess of the hunt, virginity, and childbirth, twin sister of Apollo, and an Olympian, often associated with the moon
Astarte - Greek Goddess of fertility, sexuality, and war
Athena - Greek Goddess of wisdom, defensive and strategic wars
Bastet - Egyptian solar and war Goddess (in the form of a cat)
Baubo - Greek Goddess of mirth, jests, and bawdy humour
Brighid - Celtic Goddess of poetry, healing, and crafts (especially smith-work), holy wells and eternal flames
Cerridwen - Celtic Goddess of transformation, of the cauldron of inspiration, of prophecy
Cybele - Greek Earth Mother
Danu - Irish Mother Goddess
Demeter - Greek Goddess of the harvest and of grain, mother of Persephone
Eos - Greek Goddess of the dawn
Flora - Roman Goddess of flowers
Fortuna -Roman Goddess of fortune
Freya or Freyja - Norse Goddess of fertility, sexual liberty, abundance, and war
Frigg - Norse Goddess of marriage, household management, and love, Queen of Heaven, and wife of Odin
Gaia - The Greek Goddess Gaia is the primordial Goddess of earth, mother and grandmother of the first generation of Titans
Hathor - Egyptian Goddess of the Milky Way, Mother Goddess, Goddess of childbirth and death.
Hecate - Greek Goddess of witchcraft and magick, crossroads, and the harvest moon
Hestia - Greek Goddess of the hearth and domestic life
Hel - Norse Goddess daughter of Loki and the giantess Angrboda, Queen of the Dead
Hera - Roman Goddess of the Hearth, of women, and of marriage
Inanna - Sumerian Goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare
Isis - Egyptian Mother Goddess, matron of nature and magick, Goddess of creativity and the underdog
Ishtar - Mesopotamian Goddess of sexual love, fertility, and war
Juno - Roman Queen of the Gods and Goddess of matrimony
Kore - Greek Maiden Goddess of bountiful Earth
Ma'at - Egyptian Goddess, personified concept of truth, balance, justice, and order
Minerva - Roman Goddess of wisdom and war
Morrigan - Celtic war Goddess
Nut - Egyptian Goddess of heaven and the sky and all celestial bodies
Persephone - Greek Goddess daughter of Demeter, queen of the dead, also a grain-Goddess
Rhiannon - Celtic Goddess of the moon
Rosmurta - Celtic/Roman Goddess of abundance. She is also the Goddess of Business Success.
Selene - Greek Goddess of Moon
Sol - Norse Sun Goddess
Sophia - Greek Goddess of wisdom
Vesta - Roman Goddess of the hearth
GODDESS TITLES
Many times you’ll hear these used as names of Wiccan Goddesses, but accurately speaking they are more like titles that can be used for multiple Wiccan Goddesses.
Crone Goddess - Title used for Wiccan Goddesses of death, rebirth, and wisdom, such as Cerridwen, andHecate.
Earth Goddess - Title used for embodiments of the Earth, such as Greek Goddess Gaia, Demeter, Cybele.
Great Mother Goddess - Creatrix existing in most religions, under various names such as Demeter, Gaia, Isis, Parvati (also Great Goddess, Great Mother, Divine Mother).
Moon Goddess - Title used for Goddesses of the Moon, such as Luna, Selene, and Artemis.
Mother Goddess - Title used for the bountiful embodiment of the Earth (see Earth Goddess).
Maiden Goddess - Title used for Goddesses who personify the youthful energy of spring, such as Kore, Diana (also Virgin Goddess)
Queen of the Underworld - title used for Ereshkigal, Persephone, and possibly other Death Goddesses
Triple Goddess - worshipped since the 7th millennium BC as the Goddess in three aspects—as a young woman, a birth-giving matron, and an old woman (Maiden-Mother-Crone).
