History Main / FantasyPantheon

** In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse in addition to the various different pantheons based on real-life ones, there is also of course the Panther God that Wakanda worships and whose high priest is none other than ComicBook/BlackPanther, when Creator/StanLee and Creator/JackKirby presented the Black Panther in ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' #52, it showed that the hero and the Wakandans worshiped the Panther God, with no relation to worshiped gods in life, only with the stories of the Black Panther by writer Creator/ChristopherPriestComics in late 90s, revealed that Panther God was actually the black cat goddess Bast of the Egyptian pantheon, other authors started to find other explanations, the evil Lion God became the lioness goddess Sekmeth, Bast's sister, Sobek, the Crocodile God is another Egyptian deity from an ancient and forgotten cult in Wakanda. The gorilla god worshiped by M'Baku and the Jabari was identified as Ghekre, which is originally a Baoulé deity, recently, Creator/TaNehisiCoates created the Pantheon of Wakanda, known as Orishas (name given to spirits and deities in the Yoruba language, one of the languages spoken in Wakanda) composed of Egyptian gods as the aforementioned goddess Bast, Toth and Ptah and gods of other origins: Kokou (from Benin) and Mujaji (from South Africa), David Lapham recounted the story of Gorilla-Man (character created by Stan Lee in 1954) and the associated with the Jabari, it was revealed that before the tribe was known as Jabari, there was a cult of a gorilla deity called Ngi (originating in Cameroon). Another is a totemic spider entity that works across the multiverse that Spider-Man has interacted with from time to time.

* What better way to mess with the character's lives?

** Played with in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsOfDrakkenheim''; the Old Faith fits the general ''archetype'' of a fantasy pantheon, having twelve distinct gods with distinct portfolios, natures and ambitions, but in-universe the followers of each god don't necessarily consider their gods to be connected at all. The term "the Old Faith" is used by a rival religion that now dominates the political landscape, the Church of the Sacred Flame. Which itself worships no gods, but instead devotes itself to a SentientCosmicForce it calls the Sacred Flame, the embodiment of light, hope and good. Shadow Cults, meanwhile, devote themselves to a range of cthonic patrons, ranging from malevolent entites of death and darkness to believers that the Sacred Flame has an equally important opposite they call the [[SacredDarkness Exalted Darkness]] -- the ''term'' "Shadow Cults" is used by the Sacred Flame's worshipers to lump them all together, as they universally dismiss them as DarkIsEvil.

** Reygmadra is the [[WarGod Goddess of War]]. [[spoiler:It's implied from Literature/TheEmpressOfXytae onward that she is becoming a chaos goddess and may need to be replaced in the Ten]]

* ''Literature/TalesOfInthya'': In Rhodia, Ieflaria and Ioshara the people believe in eleven gods whom they worship. Vesolda numbers the gods as ten. Both in Rhodia and Iefliara they view the Eleventh god as the tiebreaker among the others, however they differ on which that is. Ieflarians, and people on the entire continent of Ioshara, believe that Cyre, God of Animals is the Eleventh. However, in Rhodia Nara, Goddess of the Sky, is the Eleventh. Ioshara though has Cyne as the Eleventh.

** Reygmadra is the [[WarGod Goddess of War]].

*** Cytha is the Goddess of revenge.
*** Aelia is the Goddess of caprice. [[spoiler:Eventually she becomes the Goddess of inspiration.]]

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*** The Dragonborn (of which the ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' PlayerCharacter is one), according to lore, are rare mortals blessed by Akatosh, the [[TopGod chief Aedric deity]] and draconic God of Time, with the immortal soul of an Aedric dragon. This allows them an innate knowledge of the [[MakeMeWannaShout Thu'um]], the draconic LanguageOfMagic, and the ability to [[YourSoulIsMine absorb the souls of slain dragons]], which is required to permanently kill them. Akatosh specifically created them to serve as [[HunterOfHisOwnKind natural predators]] to dragons.

* The rabbits of ''Literature/WatershipDown'' have their pantheon: Frith the creator and sun god, the Black Rabit of Inle as the god of death, and El-ahrairah, the heroic "prince of rabbits."

* ''VideoGame/KidIcarus'' has at least one god made up for the game (Palutena). The monster {{Medusa}} is a goddess in this game, and references to Zeus were made. This makes it a mix between a Fantasy Pantheon and Greek/Roman gods. Palutena may be based off of Pallas Athena. In any case, ''[[VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising Uprising]]'' introduces the goddess of Nature (Viridi) and the god of the Sun (Pyrrhon). Neither of whom resemble much of anything in Greek myth. However, Zeus's brothers, Poseidon and Hades, are also in the pantheon.

* ''Literature/VillainsByNecessity'': The gods are frequently referenced, but most don't get named or explicated (one, Mula, actually appears in a vision though).
** There's Rhinka, goddess of wisdom.

* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': Veronath, the empire which preceded Argonath, worshiped many gods. Argonathi have largely abandoned this for worship of the Goddess, though the old gods' statues are still found in isolated places. The three which the books mention are Caymo (their god of chance and wine), Asgah (WarGod god of war) and Gongo, [[GodOfTheDead ruler of the dead and hell]].

** Inthi is the God of fire, metal work and smiths. Being neutroi as well, Inthi also appears to ''de facto'' be the neutrois' deity. Most of the people who they bless with their magical gifts are neutroi.

*** Cra, goddess of [[ArcherArchetype archers and hunting]] (and the local equivalent of [[WilliamTelling apples]]),

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse, there are two equivalents of gods in the world: the [[SatanIsGood demonic]] Titans, who have all been wiped out and mostly exist as island-sized corpses making up the only land in the Boiling Isles, [[spoiler:and the angelic [[EldritchAbomination Collectors]], who travel from planet to planet trapping the beings they find in scrolls and destroying anyone who resisted. Most witches worship the Titans, but the Titan Trappers worship the Collectors as so-called "Grand Huntsmen"]].

* The ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' universe has ''a lot'' of fantastic deities, such as Shinki from ''[[VideoGame/TouhouKaikidanMysticSquare Mystic Square]]'' and Kanako Yasaka and Suwako Moriya from ''[[VideoGame/TouhouFuujinrokuMountainOfFaith Mountain of Faith]]'' (in fact, ''Mountain of Faith'' introduces 5 goddesses, though the Aki sisters and Hina Kagiyama aren't that powerful, unlike Kanako and Suwako). Also a case of GodsNeedPrayerBadly. This happens ''in addition'' to the gods already known in reality and various plot points are about the known gods and Touhou-exclusive gods interacting in some way such as Reimu having to summon 3 specific gods for space travel. Usually gods and goddesses of the series are from Shinto, but a goddess that appears in the 15th game is from ''Greek'' mythology.
** It's worth noting that most of the gods in the series are in fact expies of actual deities, although this isn't obvious to most -- especially Western -- audiences, as ZUN appears to have a preference for drawing inspiration from very obscure myths. The aforementioned Kanako is a CompositeCharacter of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeminakata Takeminakata-no-Mikoto]] and his wife Yasakatome-no-Kami, while Suwako is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreya Moreya]], a local deity from the same region where Takeminakata and Yasakatome are enshrined. [[Manga/TouhouBougetsushou The Watatsuki sisters]] are named after daughters of the sea dragon Watatsumi and ancestors of the Japanese imperial dynasty. [[DivineBirds Utsuho Reiuji]] of ''[[VideoGame/TouhouChireidenSubterraneanAnimism Subterranean Animism]]'', while herself an original creation, received her powers by eating the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-legged_crow Yatagarasu]], messenger of Amaterasu. [[VideoGame/TouhouSeirensenUndefinedFantasticObject Shou Toramaru]] is an avatar of Bishamonten, the Japanese version of the boddhisattva [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaiśravaṇa Vaiśravaṇa]] and one of the Seven Lucky Gods. From ''[[VideoGame/TouhouKanjudenLegacyOfLunaticKingdom Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]'', Sagume Kishin is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanozako Amanozako]] ([[IHaveManyNames also called Ame no Sagume]]), a [[JerkassGods wicked goddess]], daughter of Susanoo, and [[MonsterProgenitor ancestor]] of [[{{Youkai}} amanojaku]] and {{tengu}}, while Hecatia Lapislazuli is obviously [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hecate]]. [[VideoGame/TouhouTenkuushouHiddenStarInFourSeasons Okina Matara]] is apparently based on Matara-jin, an extremely obscure deity who, in Tendai Buddhism, was syncretised with several dozen more or less obscure figures from India, China, and Japan. From ''[[VideoGame/TouhouKikeijuuWilyBeastAndWeakestCreature Wily Beast and Weakest Creature]]'', Eika Ebisu is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebisu_(mythology) Ebisu]], another one of the Seven Lucky Gods, Kutaka Niwatari is the folk god Niwatari-jin, and Keiki Haniyasushin is most likely a reference to Haniyasuhime no Kami, a goddess of soil and pottery mentioned in ''Kojiki'' as one of the kami born when Izanagi cleaned himself from the filth of Yomi.