Volcano deity

Examples of volcano deities from different cultures (from top): Pele, Chantico, Konohanasakuya-hime and Hephaestus.

A volcano deity is a deification of a volcano. Volcano deities are often associated with fire, and are often represented as fire deities as well. The following is a list of volcano deities:

Africa, Near East and Spain

Yahweh, in pre-Judaic Hebrew religion. Some scholars (for example, Martin Noth in his Exodus: A Commentary^[1] and Jack Miles in his Pulitzer Prize-winning God: A Biography^[2]) suggest that the ancient Hebrews worshipped or associated their god with a volcano.

Santeria religion

Aganju, in Cuba, is a volcano deity for the practitioners of the Lucumi.

Guanche mythology

Guayota, Guanche, malignant deity which lived inside the Teide volcano.

Asia and Europe

Indigenous Philippine folk religions

Lalahon, in Philippine mythology, Goddess of fire, volcanoes and harvest.^[3]
Kan-Laon, Visayan god of time associated with the volcano Kanlaon.
Gugurang, Bicolano god of fire and volcanoes who lives inside Mayon Volcano which erupts whenever he's enraged.

Greco-Roman world

Vulcan, in ancient Roman religion and myth, the god of fire^[4] including the fire of volcanoes, deserts, metalworking, and the forge.^[5]
Hephaestus, Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire, and volcanoes.^[6]

Americas

Aztec religion

Chantico, goddess of the hearth fires and volcanoes.
Xiuhtecuhtli, god of fire, day, heat, volcanoes, food in famine, the year, turquoise, the Aztec emperors, and the afterlife.

Polynesia and Pacific

Māori mythology

Rūaumoko, in Māori mythology, god of earthquakes, volcanoes and seasons.^[7]^[8]

Hawaiian religion

Pele, in the Hawaiian religion, goddess of volcanoes and fire and the creator of the Hawaiian Islands.

References

^ Noth, Martin (1962). Exodus: A Commentary. p. 109.
^ Miles, Jack (1995). God: A Biography. pp. 110–116, 126–132.
^ Rebecca R. Ongsotto, Reena R. Ongsotto, Rowena Maria Ongsotto, pp. 58
^ Georges Dumézil (1996) [1966]. Archaic Roman Religion: Volume One. trans. Philip Krapp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 320–321. ISBN 0-8018-5482-2.
^ Corbishley, Mike "Ancient Rome" Warwick Press 1986 Toronto.
^ Walter Burkert, Greek Religion 1985: III.2.ii; see coverage of Lemnos-based traditions and legends at Mythic Lemnos
^ Te Papa. "Ruaumoko - God of Earthquakes". Wellington, New Zealand: Earthquake Commission. Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
^ McSaveney, Eileen (2 March 2009). "Historic earthquakes - Earthquakes in Māori tradition". Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand: Manatū Taonga | Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 3 May 2012.