The following is a list, by no means exhaustive, of Moon Goddesses and Gods from around the world. Because of the moon's relationship to the female fertility cycle, the majority of the deities are feminine, although please note that male deities are well-represented. Gods have been continuously worshipped for thousands of years by cultures that hung on to their male moon deities long after most of the west had adopted the Greco-Roman view of moon=feminine, sun=masculine. It is also interesting to observe that the majority of moon deities still known to us today come from civilizations which have preserved their original lunar calendars (i.e,; The Midle East, Africa, Polynesia, China). Most of these cultures lie on or near the Equator, where lunations assumed greater importance in yearly cycles than sun phases.
Aega (Greek)- a very beautifl moon Goddess who was viewed as being the daughter of the sun. Gaia, the earth Goddess, hid her in a cave during a Titan attack on the Olympic deities so that she would not be stolen away.
Aine (Irish)- Aine is a cattle, sun, and fire Goddess who is still very popular in her native Munster, where she is honored at Midsummer. She was also a minor moon Goddess who might have been the origin of the virgin Goddess Anu.
Al-lat (Arabian-Chaldaean)- A moon and Underworld Goddess. In Arabic, her name means 'Goddess'. The masculine version of the name, meaning 'God', is familiar to people today as Allah, the God of Islam.
Alignak (Inuit)- A moon Gods who was one of the first people on the earth. The other was his sister. After they created all life through their union, they were banished for their 'crime' of incest. He then became the moon, and she, the sun.
Anahita (Persian)- A river Goddess who was also a Goddess of Venus and the moon. In Persian mythology she is the mother of Mithras, a God widely worshipped throughout the Middle East.
Anna Perenna (Roman)- A Goddess of grains and of the turning of the year, honored at the full moons and on New Year's Day.
Andromeda (Greek)- Although sen today as a stellar Goddess, many scholars believe that Andromeda was a pre-Hellenic moon deity.
Annuit (Babylonian)- A Goddess of the moon and of the evening star who later became known as Ishtar.
Anu (Irish)- A maiden Goddess linked to the moon, sometimes thought to be a maiden form the great Celtic mother Goddesses, Dana (Celtic) and Don (Brythonic).
Aponibolinayen (Philippino)- A moon Goddess who wore a fertile vine wrapped around her ample waist. During the day she lived in the 'house of the sun', where she gave birth tot he sun's children through her fingertips.
Aradia (Roman)- A moon and earth Goddess, the daughter of Diana.
Arianrhod (Welsh)- A Goddess of the moon whose symbol is the silver wheel. She is one of the children of the powerful mother Goddess Don, and of Beli, the God of death.
Ariel (European)- A faery Goddess/queen linked to the magickal power of the full moon.
Artemis (Greek)- She is the Greek version of the Roman waxing moon Goddess Diana. Like her Roman counterpart, she is also a Goddess of the hunt and of romance.
Artimpassa (Scythian)- A Goddess of the moon and of love.
Ashima (Samaritan)- A moon Goddess.
Athenesic (Native North American)- A moon Goddess of several north central Native American tribes, particularly the Iroquois and Huron.
Athergatis (Syrian)- A Goddess of the moon and fertility, symbolized by the fish.
Athtor (Egyptian)- This Goddess was called by the name 'Mother of the Night'. She may have also been a moon Goddess.
Auchimalgen (Native South American)- A moon Goddess who was also a deity of divination and a protectress from evil spirits.
Baiame (Aboriginal)- This Australian God was mother Baulder, the sun God, and the wife and sister of Odin. She is oftern depicted driving her chariot across the night sky. Though not originally a moon deity (the earliest Teutonic moon deities were male), she often fills this role in modern Norse traditions. The last weekday, Friday, is named in her honor.
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Belili (Middle Eastern)- A Goddess of the moon, love, the planet Venus, sacred wells, and trees.
Bendis (Greek)- A moon Goddess who was the consort of the sun God Sabazius. Her cult flourished in Athens during the fifth century BCE.
Bong (Punjabian)- A former sun Goddess with her twin sister Bomong. When the creatures of the earth realized they could not live with two suns, each one shining or twelve hours every day, they decided to kill Bong. The plan backfired when Bomong, grieving for her sister and fearing for her own life, went into hiding, leaving the earth in perpetual darkness. The earth beings, realizing they needed the balance of both night and day, recreated Bong as the moon, the light of the night sky.
Britomartis (Crete)- A moon Goddess who was the patron deity of Creten sailors.
Callisto (Greek)- A moon Goddess whose name means 'the most beautiful'. Bears were sacred to her.
Candi (Aryan)- The consort of the moon God Chandra. The two of them took turns ruling the night sky.
Cerridwen (Celtic)- This crone, grain, sow, and moon Goddess is most famous for her cauldron of wisdom. She was the mother of the great bard Taliesin, and is deeply linked to the image of the waning moon.
Ch'ang-O (Chinese)- Symbolized by the frog, this moon Goddess was once the wife of an archer who was forced to flee to the moon after stealing a magickal potion which granted immortality.
Chandra (Aryan)- A moon God who took turns with his consort, Candi, in ruling the night. Chandra was born after his mother swallowed the moon (Candi).
Chia (Native South American)- Another name huitaca.
Chup-Kamui (Japanese)- This deity was once the Goddess of the moon, but she begged the male sun to change places with her.
Coalicue (Aztec)- A moon and earth Goddess whose name means 'the skirt of the serpent'. She was associated with flower festivals, planting rites, and the stars.
Coyalxauhqui (Aztec)- A moon Goddess whose name means 'golden bells'. A huge shrine to her was unearthed during a 1978 archaeological dig near Mexico City.
Cynthia (Greek)- Another name for Artemis.
Dae-Soon (Korean)- A Korean moon Goddess.
Delia (Greek)- Another name for Artemis.
Diana (Greek)- The Goddess of the waxing moon and of the hunt who is deeply associated with the rest of her Triple Goddess form, Selene the mother and Hecate the crone. A feminist Witchcraft tradition bears her name. She is symbolized by the bow and arrow, and is also a Goddess of love, sometimes equated with Eros/Cupid.
Eithne (Irish)- This Goddess of death and the moon is believed to have originally come from the Middle East, her image and myth having traveled westward with the Celts. Her name means 'nutmeat'.
Epona (Gaulish-Celtic)- A horse Goddess associated with the night and dreams, who has lunar attributes. In western Ireland, legends still abound of hearing the hoof-beats of her horse as she rides west to escape the rays of the rising sun. She is also a Goddess of magick and feminine power.
Eterah (Semitic)- The moon God, husband of the sun Goddess.
Eri of the Golden Hair (Irish)- Eri was a virgin Goddess of the divine/faery race known as the Tuatha De Danann. One day, while at the bank of a river, a man in a golden boat floated down to her on a beaming ray of sunlight. They fell into the boat, made love, and conceived the God/hero Bres. Eri's energy as moon Goddess, consort to the sun image presented here, marks her as a form of the feminine principal of creation.
Europa (Creten)- This Goddess was the namesake of the European continent. Though she is also seen as an earth/fertility Goddess who consort is the bull, she has many lunar attributes.
Fati (Polynesian)- A moon God, the sun of Taoniui, the Goddess of the stars.
Fleachta of Meath (Irish)- A moon Goddess associated with the Irish stronghold at Tara, possibly a fertility deity of the High Kings, and Goddess of divination for the Druids.
Freya (Norse)- Also called Frigg and Freya. This supreme warrior Goddess of the Nordic pantheon is the
Gnatoo (Polynesian)- This moon Goddess is prevalent in native legends as the 'woman in the moon', the equivalent of the 'man in the moon' in Anglo-American folklore.
God D (Mayan)- A moon God who was seen as an old man. His name was thought to contain so much power that its utterance was prohibited. Hence, his name was lost in time. The appellation God D was assigned to him by an anthropologist studying Mayan culture.
Gou (Benin)- A moon God, the brother of the mother Goddess Lissa.
Gungu (Aryan)- A new moon Goddess.
Gwen (Anglo-Welsh)- A minor sun/moon Goddess and Goddess of light.
Hanwi (Native North American)- This moon Goddess of the Oglala Sioux once lived with the sun God Wi. Because of a transgression, she was forced by him to become a creature of the night. This myth shows the night and its feminine attributes have been systematically devalued in partiarchal culture.
Hecate (Greek)- A crone Goddess deeply associated with the waning and dark moons. She is depicted as haunting crossroads with her two large hounds, and carrying a torch, symbolic of her great wisdom. Many scholars believe she is a very old deity who far predates the rest of the Greek pantheon. She is usually worshipped with the rest of her triplicity, Diana the maiden, and Selene the mother.
Helen (Greek)- Before she became a mythic heroine, she was the Goddess of vegetation, birth, and the moon.
Helle (Middle Eastern)- Though her name suggests links to the Underworld/Otherworld, she was worshipped as a fertility/earth Goddess in her native Boeotia. Writer and scholar Robert Graves has suggested that she was originally a moon Goddess who ruled the tides.
Helice (Greek)- Another name for Callisto.
Hermes (Greek)- Hermes has many attributes, one of which is that of a moon God.
Hine (Polynesian)- This Hawaiian moon Goddess' name means 'woman who works the moon'. She is a Triple Goddess-maiden, mother, and crone-unto herself. Native myth says she got tired of working for her brother and fled to the moon to live in peace.
Holle (Teutonic)- A moon Goddess who has come down in popular legend as a Witch or faery. She is also the Goddess of snow.
Huitaca (Native South American)- Also known as Chia, this moon Goddess was native to Colombia. She was a protectress of women as well as a deity of pleasure and happiness who is always battling her male counterpart Bochica, a God of hard work and sorrow.
Hun-Apu-Atye (Guatemalan)- A moon Goddess who is the wife of the sun. Her sacred animal is the nocturnal tapir, a long-nosed, pig-like mammal native to Central and South America.
Hunthaca (Native South American)- The Chibcha Indians believed this one-time wife of one of their heros became the moon as a punishment for causing great flood of their land. Such deluge stories are a worldwide mythical phenomenon.
Hypnos (Greek)- A God of sleep and the night, sometimes given lunar attributes.
Ida (Aryan)- This moon Goddess of the Indian tradition is also an earth Goddess and Goddess of divination, fire, and communication.
Ilmaquh (Middle Eastern)- A moon God.
Inanna (Sumerian)- A moon Goddess later known as Ishtar.
Io (Greek)- This pre-Hellenic moon Goddess was also a cow deity. On the isle of Iona she was venerated as a Goddess of grain, fertility, and abundance.
Ishtar (Babylonian)- A moon Goddess with roots in the Sumerian deity Inanna. Some myths say she is the daughter of the moon, others the mother. It is likely she was a triplicity unto herself-all three faces in on deity. She is also a Goddess of fertility, storms, love, and sexual unions.
Isis (Egyptian)- This powerful and widely worshipped Goddess was not only a moon deity, but a Goddess of the sun as well.
Itzamna (Mayan)- A moon God who was the father of all the other Mayan deities. He ruled the western sky and was credited with teaching agriculture and writing to his people. Rodents were sacred to him and were often sacrificed in his honor.
Ix Chel (Mayan)- A Central and South American moon Goddess and the lover of the sun. Poisonous snakes are her totem animal.
Ix-Huyne (Native Central American)- A moon Goddess from the Panama region.
Izanami (Japanese)- A moon and sea Goddess. She also had control over the tides, fishing, and all destructive sea phenomena.
Jacy (Native South American)- A moon God from the Amazonian region who was the creator of plants.
Jarah (Hebrew)- A Goddess of the new moon who was seen as the bride of the sun. She was the prototype for the Shekinah, the feminine half of the Jewish God, who is today honored (but never worshipped) by Jews as the 'Sabbath Quenn'. She was once the sun Goddess, with the moon being a masculine figure in early Semitic mythology. Jarah was originally a masculine deity.
Jezanna (Central African)- A Goddess of the moon and healing.
Juno (Roman)- A Goddess of the new moon and sky, worshipped largely by women.
Jyotsna (Aryan)- A Hindu Goddess of twilight and the autumn moons.
Ka-Ata-Killa (Native South American)- A moon Goddess worshipped in the Lake Titicaca region.
Khonsu (Egyptian)- A moon God who was the son of the God of the air, Amun, and a mother Goddess named Mut. His name means' he who travels the heavens'. He was associated with bloody sacrifical rites and is sometimes depicted as having the head of a hawk. A huge temple was erected to him at Thebes.
Komorkis (Native North American)- A moon Goddess of the Blackfoot tribe.
Kuan Yin (Chinese)- A Buddhist Goddess. Modern feminist Pagans believe she far pre-dates Buddhism's origins. She was a Goddess of the moon, compassion, and healing, whose confusing myths have been greatly altered over time.
Kuhu (Aryan)- A new moon Goddess.
Kuu (Finnish)- A moon Goddess from the northern Baltic region.
Lalal (Etruscan)- A moon Goddess.
Lasya (Tibetan)- A Goddess of the moon and beauty, symbolized by a mirror.
Levannah (Canaanite-Hebraic)- A moon Goddess similar to the early Hebrew Jarah, and to the Jewish Shekinah, in that she was viewed as fully one-half of the creative divine.
Losna (Etruscan)- A moon Goddess.
Lucina (Roman)- A Goddess of light with both solar and lunar attributes. She was Christianized as St. Lucia, a saint honored at Yule in many parts of Europe.
Luna (Roman)- A very old moon Goddess, the namesake for the Latin word luna meaning 'moon'. Her name is also the root of the English words 'lunar' and 'lunatic'.
Mah (Persian)- A Goddess of the moon and time who is associated with the growth cycles of plants.
Mait Carrefour (Haitian)- A moon God of the Voudon traditions, rooted in Africa.
Mama Quilla (Incan)- A moon Goddess, the protectress of married women. A large temple to her was erected at the Incan capitol of Cuzco. She was associated with the metal silver. Eclipses were said to occur when she was eaten and the regurgitated by the Jaguar Woman.
Mani (Nordic)- A moon God linked to old stellar creation myths.
Mari (Basque)- The supreme being of the pre-patriarchal Basque people. Mari was not only a moon Goddess, but also the ruler of the sun, rain, and stars, the mother who gave birth to them all. She was Christianized as the Virgin Mary.
Mawu (African)- A moon Goddess who ruled the sky with her twin bother, the sun God Lisa.
Menu (Lithuanian)- A moon God.
Menulis (Proto-IndoEuropean)- Once a moon God, s/he is now seen as a Goddess in IndoEuropean Pagan roots.
Metzli (Aztec)- A mother moon Goddess who leaped into a blazing fire in order to give birth to the sun and the sky.
The Morrigan (Celtic)- A triplicity of crone Goddesses who represent battle, death, destruction, and strife. They are linked with the waning and dark phases of the moon. The three Morrigan are Badb, Macha, and Nemain.
Muireartach (Irish-Scottish)- A sea battle Goddess associated with the waning moon. In modern Scottish folklore, an entire race of sea faeries bears her name.
Myestas (Slavic)- A moon Goddess who is eternal. She marries the sun each spring and holds him lovingly as he dies in autumn. In older stories it was she who gave hime rebirth at Yule (Midwinter).
Mylitta (Assyrian)- A Goddess of love, prosperity, and the moon. In patriarchal times she became linked with institutional prostitution.
Nair (Irish)- A Goddess of both fertility and regicide (ritual, periodic king-killing0, associated with the exact moment of the dark moon.
Nanna (Sumerian)- A moon God, son of grain Goddess Ninlil. He was originally thought to have been one and the same as the Goddess Nina.
Nannar (Chaldaean)- A moon God from Ur who is often equated with Sin.
Nina (Sumerian)- A moon Goddess, replaced in popular mythology by her brother Nanna.
Nuah (Babylonian)- A mother and moon Goddess associated with deluge myths. Irish Witches and writers Janet and Stewart Farrar hypothesize that the story of the Judeo-Christian deluge hero, Noah, was grafted from her myths.
Pandia (Greek)- A full moon Goddess.
Pandion (Greek)- A full moon God.
Persea (Greek)- A pre-Hellenic moon Goddess.
Perone (Greek)- A pre-Hellenic virgin Goddess of the moon and of beauty.
Pheraia (Thessalian)- A moon Goddess whose myths have been lost, but whose image remains. She is depicted carrying a torch and riding a bull.
Phoebe (Greek)- Another name for Artemis.
Prosymna (Greek)- A new moon Goddess.
Pythia (Greek)- A serpent Goddess, daughter of the earth mother Gaia, who has both lunar and earth attributes. Also a Goddess of fertility.
Rabie (Indonesian)- This lovely young girl of myth lived in an Indonesian village with her parents in the time before there was a moon. The sun God Tuwale saw her and demanded she become his bride. Her parents refused to give her up and tricked Tuwale into taking a pig instead. In revenge, he took Rabie and placed her in the night sky as the moon. She was usually worshipped at moonrise.
Raka (Aryan)- A full moon Goddess.
Re (Phoenician)- A moon Goddess whose name is thought to mean 'light'. Scholars oftern try to link her with the myths of the Egyptian sun God Ra.
Rhiannon (Welsh, Cornish)- A Goddess of fertility, the moon, night, and death whose name means 'hight queen'. She married the Irish-Manx sea God Manann, and was falsely accused of eating her baby son. She is often equated with Epona.
Samas (Semitic)- A moon God.
Sams (Semitic)- A moon Goddess.
Sardarnuna (Sumerian)- A new/waxing moon Goddess.
Sefkhet (Egyptian)- A moon Goddess, sometimes said to be the wife of Thoth. She was also the deity of time, the stars, and architecture. Her aid was invoked when temples and palaces were being planned and constructed.
Selene (Greek)- A mother Goddess linked to the full moon. She is widely worshipped by Pagans today, especially within the Dianic tradition. Selene is shown wearing wings and a crown with an upturned silver crescent, and olf and potent moon symbol. She is deeply linked to the rest of her triplicity, Diana the maiden, and Hecate the crone.
Sin (Assyrian)- A moon God, the son of the storm God Enlil. He was worshipped at a sacred site in what is now the city of Ur. Myth tells us he gave birth to the sun God, Shamash.
Sina (Polynesian)- The moon Goddess who was the sister of the sun God Maui. She is sometimes called Ina.
Sirdu (Chaldaean)- A moon Goddess wed to the sun God Shamash.
Sister Moon (Native North American)- A term endearment for the moon, used during ritual and personal spiritual quests. The sun was Brother Sun.
Soma (Aryan)- A God of the moon and the stars. He married twenty-seven Goddesses who, by him, gave birth to all things, including soma juice, a drink sacred to Vedic deities. He is the consort of the star Goddess Tara. He came into the Hindu religion as Somanatha.
Somanatha (Aryan)- This 'Lord of the Moon' came from Aryan Pagan myth to be worshipped within the Hindu religion. He is often equated with Shiva, the supreme God of that faith.
Tanit (Phoenician)- A moon and fertility Goddess. Many scholars and mythologists believe she came into the Celtic pantheon as Dana or Don, both mother Goddesses. She was worshipped as Tanat in Cornwall on the Bealtaine Sabbat (May 1).
Tapa (Polynesian)- A moon Goddess, equated with Hina.
Taukiyomi (Japanese)- A moon God married to the sun Goddess Amaterasu. Both of these Pagan deities are still worshipped in the Shinto religion.
Teczistecatal (Aztec)- A male version of Metzli. He is depicted as an old man carrying the burden of a huge conch shell on his stooped back.
Teczistecatl (Native Central American)- A Mexican moon Goddess.
Telita (Babylonian)- A moon deity dubbed 'Queen of the Moon'.
Thoth (Egyptian)- This God has many aspects, one of which is lunar deity.
Titama (Polynesian)- A Goddess of moonset.
Titania (Roman)- Associated with Diana, this virgin moon Goddess came into modern lore as a faery queen, possibly the prototype of the faery Goddess known as Ariel. Titania's faery aspect was immortalized in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Tlaculteutl (Aztec)- A Goddess of sex, symbolized by the four phases of the moon: dark, waxing, full, and waning.
Triple Goddess (Universal)- While some cultures view feminine deities as fourfold, the majority see their moon Goddesses as a triplicity, three beings in one: maiden, mother, and crone. She is symbolized by the three faces of the moon.
Tsuki Yomi (Japanese)- A Shinto moon God born when the great mother washed his right eye. His name means 'moon who counts the months'; he is also a deity of time. Shrines and temples to him are still kept in the towns of Ise and Kadono.
Ursula (Slavic)- A moon Goddess whose feast day was October 21. She became Christianized as St. Ursula.
Varuna (Aryan)- A Hindu moon God. He was the son of the great mother, Aditi, who gave birth to all things.
White Shell Woman (Native American)- a virgin moon Goddess.
Woman-Light of Shadows (Egyptian)- The Goddess of the dark side of the moon, the half that can never be seen from earth, but on which the sun still shines.
Xochhiquetzal (Aztec)- A moon and magick Goddess, also the deity of flowers, spring, sex, love, and marriage. She was the wife of storm God Tlaloc. She took several divine lovers and gave birth to the widely known and worshipped hero/God/messiah, Quetzalcoatl.
Yellow Woman (Native North American)- This Pueblo moon Goddess had a brother who searched for her through melon rinds during her dark time. The rinds symbolized her new waxing crescent.
Yemanja (Native South American)- This Brazilian ocean Goddess is symbolized by a waxing crescent moon.
Yohuatlicetl (Native Central American)- A Mexican moon Goddess.
Yolaikaiason (Native North American)- A Navajo moon Goddess fashioned from an abalone shell by her sister Yolkai, the Goddess of the sky.
Zarpandit (Babylonian)- A Goddess of moonrise.
Zirna (Etruscan) A Goddess of the waxing moon. She is always depicted with a half-moon hanging from her neck, indicating that she was probably honored at the beginning of the second quarter phase.