Religion:Smithing gods

Short description: Deities associated with blacksmiths

This is a list of deities associated with blacksmiths and craftspeople.

The African and Ancient Greek blacksmith dieties have been compared and contrasted in scholarly literature.

African religions

Egyptian

• Ptah, patron god of craftsmen and architects

Igbo

• Ikenga, Alusi of time, success, achievement, farming, blacksmiths, and industry

Yoruba

• Ogun, patron god of warriors, soldiers, blacksmiths, metal workers, and craftsmen

Asian religions

Arabian

• Qaynan, Sabean patron god of smiths

Hindu

• Ribhus
• Vishvakarman, architect of the gods

Japanese

• Ame-no-Mahitotsu, god of metal-working and blacksmiths
• Kagu-tsuchi, patron god of blacksmiths, ceramic workers, and fire

Meitei

• Pisatao, god of architecture and crafts

Vietnam

• Bà Kim, goddess of metal and blacksmithing
• Tổ nghề Khổng Lồ, god of bronze casting

Ugaritic

• Kothar-wa-Khasis, patron god of metalworking

European religions

Celtic

• Brigid, goddess of spring, blacksmiths, fertility, healing, and poetry
• Gobannus, Gallo-Roman deity whose name means 'the smith'
• Gofannon, Welsh god of blacksmithing, ale, architecture and building
• Goibniu, Irish god of blacksmithing, one of the Trí Dée Dána
• Lugh, god of craftsmen, games, arts, oaths, truth, and law

Circassian

• Tlepsh, god of fire, smithing, metal, weapons and virility

Finnish

• Ilmarinen, god of Blacksmithing and archetypal artificer.

Greek

• Athena, goddess of wisdom, handicraft, and warfare
• Hephaestus, god of metalworking and the forge

Hungarian

• Hadúr, god of metalworking and war

Germanic/Norse

• Wayland the Smith, legendary master blacksmith (in some sources considered as with god-like origins)

Ossetian

• Kurdalægon, god of blacksmiths

Roman

• Vulcan, god of metalworking and the forge

Slavic

• Svarog, god of the forge, fire, the sun, and creation

Baltic

• Kalvis, god of blacksmiths who creates the sun every day and makes rings so the morning star (Aušrinė) can marry the sun.

See also

• List of fire gods