Deities & Demigods - Pantheons

Pantheons

The original edition of Deities & Demigods contained 17 pantheons of gods:

• American Indian mythos
• Arthurian heroes
• Babylonian mythos
• Celtic mythos
• Central American mythos (i.e. Aztec and Maya)
• Chinese mythos
• Cthulhu Mythos (from H. P. Lovecraft and related fiction)
• Egyptian mythos
• Elric mythos (from Michael Moorcock's Elric novels)
• Finnish mythos
• Greek mythos and heroes
• Indian mythos
• Japanese mythos
• Nehwon mythos (from Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar novels)
• Nonhuman's Deities (original TSR creations) (see List of Dungeons & Dragons deities under Demihuman deities section)
• Norse mythos
• Sumerian mythos

The third edition version of the book contains only four pantheons:

• A condensed Greyhawk pantheon meant for insertion into any game world ("Core D&D Pantheon")
• Greek mythos and heroes ("Olympian Pantheon"), among them: Zeus, Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Hades, Hecate, Hephaestus, Hera, Hercules, Hermes, Hestia, Nike, Pan, Poseidon and Tyche
• Egyptian mythos ("Pharaonic Pantheon"), among them: Re-Horakthy, Anubis, Apep, Bast, Bes, Hathor, Imhotep, Isis, Nephthys, Osiris, Ptah, Set, Sobek and Thoth
• Norse mythos ("Asgardian Pantheon"), among them: Odin, Aegir, Balder, Forseti, Frey, Freya, Frigga, Heimdall, Hel, Hermod, Loki, Njord, Odur, Sif, Skadi, Surtur, Thor, Thrym, Tyr and Uller

The third edition version of the book also discusses in detail how one would go about the creation of their own pantheon, as well as individual gods, for use in Dungeons & Dragons.