Smithing gods
This is a list of deities associated with blacksmiths and craftspeople.
African religions
[edit]Egyptian
[edit]- Ptah, patron god of craftsmen and architects
Igbo
[edit]Yoruba
[edit]- Ogun, patron god of warriors, soldiers, blacksmiths, metal workers, and craftsmen
Asian religions
[edit]Arabian
[edit]- Qaynan, Sabean patron god of smiths
Hindu
[edit]- Ribhus
- Vishvakarman, architect of the gods
Japanese
[edit]- Ame-no-Mahitotsu, god of metal-working and blacksmiths
- Kagu-tsuchi, patron god of blacksmiths, ceramic workers, and fire
Meitei
[edit]- Pisatao, god of architecture and crafts
Vietnam
[edit]- Bà Kim, goddess of metal and blacksmithing
- Tổ nghề Khổng Lồ, god of bronze casting
Ugaritic
[edit]- Kothar-wa-Khasis, patron god of metalworking
European religions
[edit]Celtic
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Tlepsh, god of fire, smithing, metal, weapons and virility
Finnish
[edit]- Ilmarinen, god of Blacksmithing and archetypal artificer.
Greek
[edit]- Athena, goddess of wisdom, handicraft, and warfare
- Hephaestus, god of metalworking and the forge
Hungarian
[edit]- Hadúr, god of metalworking and war
Germanic/Norse
[edit]- Wayland the Smith, legendary master blacksmith (in some sources considered as with god-like origins)
Ossetian
[edit]- Kurdalægon, god of blacksmiths
Roman
[edit]- Vulcan, god of metalworking and the forge
Slavic
[edit]- Svarog, god of the forge, fire, the sun, and creation
Baltic
[edit]- Kalvis, god of blacksmiths who creates the sun every day and makes rings so the morning star (Aušrinė) can marry the sun.
