

Valkyries, choosers of the slain and connected to Odin, ruler of Valhalla they may be the same as the dís above.Ullr, god associated with archery, skiing, bows, hunting, single combat, and glory.Týr, god associated with law, justice, victory, and heroic glory.Odin, god associated with wisdom, war, battle, and death.Freyja, goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, gold, seiðr, war, and death.Dís, a group of lesser goddesses who are sometimes connected with battle magic valkyrie may be a kenning for them.Wōden, god associated with wisdom, poetry, war, victory, and death.Týr, god of war, single combat, law, justice, and the thing, who later lost much of his religious importance and mythical role to the god Wōden.Sandraudiga, goddess whose name may mean "she who dyes the sand red", suggesting she is a war deity or at least has a warrior aspect.Idis (Germanic)/itis/ides, the West Germanic cognates of North Germanic dís, they are connected with battle magic and fettering enemy armies.Baduhenna, a western Frisii goddess of warfare.Neto, god believed to be associated with war, death, and weaponry.Teutates, British and Gaulish god of war and the tribe.Nemain, Irish goddess of the frenzied havoc of war member of the Morrígan.Neit, Irish god of war, husband of Nemain of Badb.The Morrígan, Irish triple goddess associated with sovereignty, prophecy, war, and death on the battlefield.

Macha, Irish goddess associated with war, horses, and sovereignty member of the Morrígan.Cocidius, Romano-British god associated with war, hunting and forests.Cicolluis, Gaulish and Irish god associated with war.Catubodua, Gaulish goddess assumed to be associated with victory.


Boryet, Kipsigis Death-wielding god of war.Apedemak, Nubian lion-headed warrior god.Wepwawet, wolf-god of war and death who later became associated with Anubis and the afterlife.Sopdu, god of the scorching heat of the summer sun, associated with war.Sobek, god of the Nile, the army, military, fertility, and crocodiles.Set, god of the desert and storms, associated with war.Sekhmet, goddess of warfare, pestilence, and the desert.Satis, deification of the floods of the Nile River and an early war, hunting, and fertility goddess.Neith, goddess of war, hunting, and wisdom.Montu, falcon-headed god of war, valor, and the Sun.Menhit, goddess of war, "she who massacres".Horus, god of the king, the sky, war, and protection.Bast, cat-headed goddess associated with war, protection of Lower Egypt and the pharaoh, the sun, perfumes, ointments, and embalming.(The intimate connection between " holy war" and the "one true god" belief of monotheism has been noted by many scholars, including Jonathan Kirsch in his book God Against The Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism and Joseph Campbell in The Masks of God, Vol. Unlike most gods and goddesses in polytheistic religions, monotheistic deities have traditionally been portrayed in their mythologies as commanding war in order to spread religion. They occur commonly in both monotheistic and polytheistic religions. A war god in mythology associated with war, combat, or bloodshed.
