List of art deities

This is a list of global deities who are associated with the arts.

Africa and the Middle East

Afroasiatic Middle East

Canaanite

• Kotar or Kothar-wa-Khasis

Egyptian

• Bastet
• Bes
• Hathor
• Isis
• Meret
• Ptah
• Seker

Mesopotamian

• Ishtar
• Nuska

Western Eurasia

Celtic

• Abhean
• Brigid
• Gwydion

Norse-Germanic

• Bragi
• Odin

Greaco-Roman

Etruscan

• Menrva

Greek / Hellenic

• Apollo
• Athena
• Dionysus
• Muses
• Mnemosyne
• Pan

Roman

• Apollo
• Minerva

Western Asia

Anatolian - Urarte

• Arubani

Hindu-Vedic

• Saraswati

Uralic

• Väinämöinen

Asia-Pacific / Oceania

Far East Asia

Chinese

• Cao Guojiu, patron god of the theater [1]
• Han Xiangzi
• Nüwa
• Zhang Guolao, who carries a fish-drum

Japanese

• Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto
• Benzaiten

Austronesia

Filipino

• Maria Makiling

Polynesian

Hawaiian

• Lono
• Pele

Native Americas

North America

• Kokopelli (shared among various Southwestern Native American mythologies)
• Grand Master Everson (West Virginia Mythology)

Central America and the Caribbean

Aztec

• Huehuecóyotl
• Xochipilli

Haitian Vodou

• Erzulie
• Maîtresse Délai

References

1. Fang, Jing Pei (2004). Symbols and Rebuses in Chinese Art: Figures, Bugs, Beasts, and Flowers. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. p. 68. ISBN 9781580085519.