The article lists gods and goddesses (*Ansewez, *Wanizaz) that may be reconstructed for Proto-Germanic or Common Germanic Migration period paganism, or which figure in both West and North Germanic mythology; See Norse deities, Anglo-Saxon deities and German deities for deities particular to one of these traditions. Look up deity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A goddess, a female deity, contrasts with male deities, known as gods. A great many cultures have their own goddesses, sometimes alone, but more often as part of a larger pantheon that includes both of the conventional genders and in some cases even hermaphroditic deities. ... Map of the Pre-Roman Iron Age culture(s) associated with Proto-Germanic, ca 500 BC-50 BC. The area south of Scandinavia is the Jastorf culture Proto-Germanic, the proto-language believed by scholars to be the common ancestor of the Germanic languages, includes among its descendants Dutch, Yiddish... Human migration denotes any movement of groups of people from one locality to another, rather than of individual wanderers. ... Germanic paganism refers to the religion and mythology of the Germanic nations preceding Christianization, including Norse, Anglo-Saxon mythology, information obtained from archaeological finds and remnants of pre-Christian beliefs in the folklore of medieval and modern Germanic peoples. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Deities of pre-Christian German and Anglo-Saxon mythology, or from accounts in High Germanic (Old High German, Old Franconian), Low Germanic (Old Saxon), Frisian and Anglo-Saxon (Ingvaeonic), East Germanic (Gothic) and Lombardic sources. ...

Deities:

• *Wōdanaz, "lord of poetic/mantic inspiration", "Germanic Mercury", Norse Odin, West Germanic Woden, Saxon Wotan.
• Frija, wife of Wodanaz, Norse Frigg
• *Þunraz, "thunder", Norse Thor, West Germanic Donar, Saxon Thunor, East Germanic Thunrs, Germanic Hercules or Jupiter".
• *Tiwaz, god of war, "Germanic Mars", Norse Tyr, West Germanic Tiw, continues Indo-European Dyeus.
• *Lohho "trickster", Norse Loki
• *Nerþuz, described by Tacitus
• *Frījō, Norse Freyja, "Germanic Venus, ="wife", c.f. Sanskrit priyā "mistress, wife"
• *Fullō goddess, or *Fullaz god of riches, plenty
• *Ermunaz, Saxon war god (speculative, based on Nennius' Armenon)
• *Wulþuz, "glorious one", possibly originally an epitheton, mentioned on the Thorsberg chape, continued in Norse Ullr
• *Wurdiz, destiny
• *Sōwilō, the Sun

Semi-gods or mythical heroes: A sculpture of the Roman god Mercury by 17th-century Flemish artist Artus Quellinus. ... For other meanings of Odin, Woden or Wotan see Odin (disambiguation), Woden (disambiguation), Wotan (disambiguation). ... A god of the Anglo-Saxon /Early English tribes brought with them from continental Europe, around the 5th and 6th centuries until conversion to Christianity in the 8th and 9th centuries CE. Woden is the carrier-off of the dead, but not necessarily with the attributes of his Norse equivalent... For other meanings of Odin and Wotan see Odin (disambiguation) Odin (Old Norse Óðinn, Swedish Oden) is usually considered the supreme god of Germanic and Norse mythology. ... Frigg spinning the clouds In Norse mythology, Frigg (Eddas) or Frigga (Gesta Danorum) was said to be foremost among the goddesses, 1 the wife of Odin, queen of the Æsir, and goddess of the sky. ... Frigg spinning the clouds In Norse mythology, Frigg (Eddas) or Frigga (Gesta Danorum) was said to be foremost among the goddesses, 1 the wife of Odin, queen of the Æsir, and goddess of the sky. ... Thor carries his hammer and wears his belt of strength (MS SÁM 66, 18th century). ... Thors battle against the giants, by MÃ¥rten Eskil Winge, 1872 Thor (Old Norse: Þórr) is the red-haired and bearded god of thunder in Norse Mythology and more generally Germanic mythology (Old English: Þunor, Old Dutch and Old High German: Donar, from Proto-Germanic *Þunraz). ... This article is about Thor, the god of Norse mythology. ... This article is about Thor, the god of Norse mythology. ... Hercules and the Nemean Lion (detail), silver plate, 6th century BC (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris). ... Jupiter et Thétis - by Jean Ingres, 1811. ... This article is about Tyr, the god. ... Mars was the Roman god of war, the son of Juno and a magical flower (or Jupiter). ... Týr, depicted here with both hands intact, is identified with Mars in this illustration from an 18th century Icelandic manuscript. ... This article is about Tyr, the god. ... *DyÄ“us is the reconstructed chief god of the Proto-Indo-European pantheon. ... This picture, from an 18th century Icelandic manuscript, shows Loki with his invention - the fishing net. ... Gaius Cornelius Tacitus Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c. ... Freyja, in an illustration to Wagners operas by Arthur Rackham. ... Venus is the Roman goddess of love, equivalent to Greek Aphrodite and Etruscan Turan. ... Nennius, or Nemnivus, is the name of two shadowy personages traditionally associated with the history of Wales. ... Irmin was the god of war of the Saxons. ... The Thorsberg chape (a metal piece belonging to a scabbard found in the Thorsberg moor) bears an Elder Futhark inscription, one of the earliest known altogether, dating to roughly AD 200. ... This picture, from an 18th century Icelandic manuscript in the care of the Árni Magnússon Institute, shows Ullr on his skis and with his bow. ...

• *Auzawandilaz, the morning star(?)
• *Gautaz, mythical ancestor of royal houses
• *Wēlanduz, mythical or elfish smith
• *Agilaz, mythical archer

Mythical races: *þurisaz (giants), *dwergaz (dwarfs), *albaz (elves), *nikwuz (water spirits). Egil is a legendary hero of the Völundarkviða and the Thidreks saga. ... This article or section needs additional references or sources. ...

Cosmology

• *Medjanagardaz inhabited world
• *erþo anþi uppahemenaz Germanic formula^{[citation needed]} for "heaven and earth", notably naming earth first (see Skarpåker Stone)
• *Haljō Underworld
• *Muþspell Disastrous world-ending (c.f. Ragnarok)

The Skarpåker Stone (Rundata Sö 154) found in Skarpåker, Nyköping, Sörmland, Sweden, dated to ca. ... Look up Ragnarok in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

See also

• Germanic paganism
• List of Norse gods
• Vanir