Sources

Data behind the tools

Wikidata (released under CC0): names, traditions, domains, short descriptions and family relations for the deities in the tools. We keep a parent and child link only when both entries agree, and we drop entries with no English description. The home page comparison table is our own selection of the best-known match per tradition.

Primary texts our pages refer to

• Greek: Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days; Homer, Iliad and Odyssey; the Homeric Hymns; Apollodorus, Library; Ovid, Metamorphoses (Roman retellings).
• Norse: the Poetic Edda; Snorri Sturluson, Prose Edda.
• Egyptian: the Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts and Book of the Dead.
• Mesopotamian: Enuma Elish; the Epic of Gilgamesh; Inanna’s Descent.
• Irish: the Lebor Gabala Erenn and the Ulster and Fenian cycles; Welsh: the Mabinogion.
• Hindu: the Rigveda, the Mahabharata, the Ramayana and the Puranas.
• Japanese: the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki.
• Maya: the Popol Vuh; Aztec: the Florentine Codex.

Spellings follow the most common English form, with variants noted.