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Directory 74 of 4,089 deities

Deities — African traditions

The deities filed under African traditions.

Many names.
Many accounts.

Each one kept apart

Deities in African traditions

Sub-Saharan Africa and the Atlantic diaspora, antiquity to the present.

74 deities

Most linked first

Ordered by how many Wikipedias have an article on each — a measure of how widely a subject is written about, not of its importance to any tradition.

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African traditions

Yorùbá, Akan, Igbo, Dogon, Zulu and diaspora traditions, and the Ethiopian and Coptic churches.

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