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Pantheon South Asian traditions
Twelve Devas
12 Japanese Buddhist gods, associated with directions
- Members 10 on record
Gods in company,
as the records
count them.
Not a fixed roster
The members
Everyone it counts
A pantheon is not a fixed roster — membership is what the records say.
What this means
10 records name this as the whole they are part of. That is what makes it a pantheon here — no class on Wikidata says so consistently, and nobody publishes a machine-readable roster.
So the list is complete in one direction only: a god whose record does not name this pantheon is missing even if every account places them in it — a gap in the data, not in the tradition. Accounts disagree about who belongs, too; the Twelve Olympians are twelve in some lists and fourteen in others.
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ChandraLunar god in Hinduism -
VaiśravaṇaDeity in Buddhism -
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BrahmāDeva and heavenly king in Buddhism; lord of the heavenly realm Brahmaloka; not regarded as a creator deity (unlike the deity of the same name in Hinduism) -
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ŚakraDeva and heavenly king in Buddhism; lord of the heavenly realm Trāyastriṃśa; regarded as king of the gods and wielder of the thunderbolt -
Katen -
Jiten -
Surya in Buddhism -
Taishakuten - SuitenWater deity
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Overview
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Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 1 collection membership. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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