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Volcano deity

List of gods purported to control volcanic activity

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A volcano deity is a deification of a volcano. Volcano deities are often associated with fire, and are often represented as fire deities as well. The following is a list of volcano deities:

01Africa, Near East and Spain

  • Yahweh, in pre-Judaic Hebrew religion. Some scholars (for example, Martin Noth in his Exodus: A Commentary and Jack Miles in his Pulitzer Prize-winning God: A Biography) suggest that the ancient Hebrews worshipped or associated their god with a volcano.

Santeria religion

  • Aganju, in Cuba, is a volcano deity for the practitioners of the Lucumi.

Guanche mythology

02Asia and Europe

Indigenous Philippine folk religions

Greco-Roman world

03Americas

Aztec religion

  • Chantico, goddess of the hearth fires and volcanoes.
  • Xiuhtecuhtli, god of fire, day, heat, volcanoes, food in famine, the year, turquoise, the Aztec emperors, and the afterlife.

04Polynesia and Pacific

Māori mythology

Hawaiian religion

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