List of art deities

The following is a list of gods and goddesses associated with the arts or a particular art form, such as crafts, dancing, drawing, music, painting, poetry, pottery, sculpture, smithing, storytelling, theatre, or weaving.

Africa

• Bastet (Egyptian mythology)
• Bes (Egyptian mythology)
• Ptah (Egyptian mythology)
• Hathor (Egyptian mythology)
• Meret (Egyptian mythology)
• Seker (Egyptian mythology)

Americas

• Huehuecóyotl (Aztec mythology)
• Xochipilli (Aztec mythology)
• Erzulie (Haitian vodou)
• Maîtresse Délai (Haitian vodou)
• Kokopelli (shared among various Southwestern Native American mythologies)

Asia

• Kotar or Kothar-wa-Khasis (Canaanite mythology)
• Cao Guojiu (Chinese mythology), patron god of the theater ^[1]
• Han Xiangzi (Chinese mythology)
• Nüwa (Chinese mythology)
• Zhang Guolao (Chinese mythology), who carries a fish-drum
• Saraswati (Hindu mythology)
• Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto (Japanese mythology)
• Benzaiten(Japanese-Buddhist mythology
• Nuska (Mesopotamian mythology)
• Maria Makiling (Philippine mythology)
• Arubani (Urarte mythology)

Europe

• Brigid (Celtic & Irish mythology)
• Menrva (Etruscan mythology)
• Väinämöinen (Finnish mythology)
• Apollo (Greek mythology)
• Athena (Greek mythology)
• Dionysus (Greek mythology)
• Muses (Greek mythology)
• Pan (Greek mythology)
• Abhean (Irish mythology)
• Odin (Norse mythology)
• Minerva (Roman mythology)
• Gwydion (Welsh mythology)

Pacific islands

• Lono (Hawaiian mythology)
• Pele (Hawaiian mythology)

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