Across cultures
Storm & Sky Gods
Thunder, lightning, and the right to rule.
The storm god is the king-archetype. He carries a weapon that throws lightning (a hammer, a vajra, a thunderbolt), he is loud, he is feared, and he is usually the head of the pantheon. Indo-European comparative mythology spent the last century mapping the lineage: Zeus, Jupiter, Thor, Indra and Perun all descend from a reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *Dyeus, "shining sky father". The Semitic and Mesoamerican parallels (Baal, Tlaloc) are independent but converge on the same pattern.
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Sovereignty, time, and the daily death and rebirth of light.
Lunar Gods
Cycles, omens, and the quiet half of the sky.
Gods of War
Battle frenzy, strategy, and the dignity of the fallen.
Death & Underworld
The keepers of what is gone and the gates we all pass through.
Love & Fertility
Desire, the harvest, and the mathematics of new life.
Tricksters
The shapeshifters who break the rules and remake the world.