Norse, Egyptian & Beyond

Odin, the chief Norse god, is said to have sacrificed an eye for a drink from the well of wisdom.

Thor wields the hammer Mjölnir, which famously returns to his hand after being thrown.

Loki, Norse mythology's shapeshifting trickster, both aids and torments the other gods across the myths.

Freyja, the Norse goddess of love and war, receives half of all warriors who die in battle.

Frigg, Odin's wife and the Norse goddess of marriage, is said to know every fate but never reveal it.

Baldr's death by a mistletoe dart is said to help set in motion the events of Ragnarök.

Tyr, the Norse god of justice, sacrificed his hand while helping bind the monstrous wolf Fenrir.

Yggdrasil, the Norse World Tree, connects the nine realms with roots and branches said to reach them all.

Ragnarök, the prophesied Norse apocalypse, ends in a final battle followed by the world's destruction and rebirth.

Fenrir, the monstrous wolf son of Loki, was bound by the gods once he grew too dangerous to control.

Jörmungandr, the Midgard Serpent, grows so vast in Norse myth that it encircles the entire world.

Ra, the Egyptian sun god, was believed to sail across the sky daily in a solar barge.

Osiris, Egyptian god of the afterlife, was killed by his brother Set and later resurrected by Isis.

Isis, the Egyptian goddess of magic, used her powers to resurrect her husband Osiris.

Horus, the falcon-headed Egyptian sky god, was believed to be embodied by the living pharaoh.

Anubis, the jackal-headed god of mummification, weighed the hearts of the dead against the feather of truth.

Set, the Egyptian god of chaos, murdered his brother Osiris in one of Egypt's central myth cycles.

Thoth, the ibis-headed Egyptian god of wisdom, was credited with inventing writing itself.

Sekhmet, the lioness-headed Egyptian goddess, was believed able both to cause and to cure plague.

Bastet's association with cats helped make the animals sacred throughout ancient Egyptian culture.

Ma'at, the Egyptian goddess of truth and order, lent her feather to the judgment of the dead's hearts.

Indra, king of the Hindu gods and storm deity, appears frequently in the earliest Vedic texts.

Heimdall guards the rainbow bridge Bifröst and is said to hear even grass growing.

Amaterasu, Japan's Shinto sun goddess, is traditionally regarded as the ancestor of the imperial line.

Susanoo, the Japanese storm god and Amaterasu's brother, is famed for slaying an eight-headed serpent.

Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec feathered serpent god, was associated with wind, learning, and the planet Venus.

Tezcatlipoca, the Aztec god of night, was often depicted as a rival to the deity Quetzalcoatl.

Anansi, the West African and Caribbean trickster spider, wins out over larger foes through cleverness.

Shiva, one of Hinduism's principal deities, is linked to both destruction and transformative renewal.

Vishnu, the Hindu preserver deity, is believed to descend to earth through various avatars.

Brahma, the Hindu creator deity, forms part of a principal trio alongside Vishnu and Shiva.

The Dagda, an Irish Celtic father god, owned a magical cauldron said to never run empty.

The Morrígan, a Celtic war goddess, often appears as a crow foretelling death on the battlefield.

Pangu, the giant of Chinese creation myth, is said to have shaped the natural world with his own body.