List of Mycenaean deities

Deities

Gods

• Anemoi - attested through *Anemohiereia or *Anemon Hiereia, "Priestess of the Winds"
• Ares
• Despotas - unclear, perhaps house deity
• Dionysus
• Dipsioi - perhaps "the Thirsty and hence the Dead Ones"; perhaps related to Thessalian month Dipsos, meaning obscure
• Drimios - unknown, in later times, son of Zeus, perhaps a predecessor of Apollo
• Enesidaon - possibly a theonym; possibly an epithet of Poseidon, assumed to mean "Earthshaker" or something similar
• Enyalius - a later epithet of Ares
• Hephaestus - regarded as indirectly attested by the name *Haphaistios or *Haphaistion, presumed to be a theophoric name
• Hermes
• * Areias - epithet
• Marineus - unknown deity, perhaps "God of the Woolens", meaning obscure
• Pade - possibly unknown god, thought to be Cretan, Minoan in origin
• Paean - a precursor of Apollo
• Poseidon - chief deity
• Trisheros - theonym, "Thrice-Hero"; thought to attest, and pertain to, the veneration of the dead
• Wanax - "the King"; in this case, it is considered to be a theonym in the dative case, perhaps as an epithet of Zeus
• Zeus - God of the sky
• * Diktaios - local epithet of Zeus on Crete

  Goddesses

• Artemis
• Diwia - possibly the female counterpart of Zeus, possibly Dione in later Greek
• Doqeia - possibly an unknown goddess but could be only a feminine adjective
• Eileithyia - attested in the Cretan Eleuthia form; perhaps Minoan in origin
• Erinyes - both forms of the theonym are considered to be in the singular, Erinys
• Hera
• Iphemedeia - theonym; probably variant form of Iphimedia, name of a mythological person found in Homer's Odyssey
• Komawenteia - possibly unknown deity, possibly meaning "long-haired goddess"
• Manasa - unknown goddess
• Mater Theia - possibly "Mother of the Gods" or mother goddess
• Pipituna - unknown deity, considered to be Pre-Greek or Minoan
• Posidaeia - probably the female counterpart to Poseidon
• Potnia - “Mistress” or “Lady”; may be used as an epithet for many deities, but also shows up as a single deity
• * Potnia Athena - or Potnia of Atana ; reference of the latter is uncertain
• * Potnia Hippeia - Mistress of the Horses; later epithet of Demeter and Athena
• * Potnia of Sitos - Mistress of Grain, Bronze Age predecessor or epithet of Demeter
• * Potnia of the Labyrinth
• * Potnia, at Thebes, of no attested name or title, other than that offers are made to her house, her premises
• * Potnia, of unidentified Pylos sanctuary - unknown local goddess of pa-ki-ja-ne sanctuary at Pylos
• * Potnia, of uncertain A place or epithet
• * Potnia, of unknown E place or epithet
• * Potnia, of unknown N place or epithet
• * Potnia, of unknown U place or epithet
• * Potnia, of unknown ? place or epithet
• Preswa - generally interpreted as a dove goddess or an early form of Persephone
• Qerasia - unknown goddess, perhaps Minoan in origin or possibly connected with thēr
• Qowia - unknown deity, possibly meaning “She of the Cow"
• Wanasso - "the Two Queens", possibly Demeter and Persephone, *wanassojin regarded as a dative dual form

  Pantheon

• Pantes Theoi - a special invocation "to All the Gods", irrespectively of sex, etc.; recurrently attested at Knossos

  Heroes, mortals and other entities or concepts

• Proteus - could be the theonym of the sea-god Proteus, but probably just the anthroponym of a nobleman

  Possible deities

• A possible sun goddess, predecessor to Helios and possibly related to Helen. No unambiguous attestations of words for "sun" have been found yet, though the Mycenaean word for "sun" is reconstructed as *hāwélios.

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  Online databases and dictionaries

• At the Perseus Project, a digital library project of Tufts University.
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