An illustrated encyclopedia of mythology
Gods &
Monsters
Each figure with its story, its iconography, and its counterparts in other pantheons.
Six pantheons on one map
Open the atlas →From the Nile to the Japanese archipelago. Pick a region to enter its pantheon.
Six pantheons in time
3100 BC — presentGods kept on a celestial payroll — sky-sovereigns, peach-guarding immortals, and one unkillable monkey — drawn from oracle bones, Daoist scripture, and the Ming novel.
Gods of sun, river, and the world beyond death — a pantheon obsessed with keeping order against the serpent of chaos.
The Olympian pantheon of ancient Greece — sky-rulers, sea-shakers, and the monsters heroes were made to slay.
Zeus
sky · thunder · kingship
Athena
wisdom · war · strategy
Poseidon
sea · storms · horses
Hades
death · underworld · darkness
Medusa
monsters · magic · death
Cerberus
underworld · guardianship · monsters
Nyx
night · darkness · fate
From the Vedic storm-king who slew the drought-serpent to the living gods of a billion worshippers.
trishula (trident) · crescent moon · third eye - 01 Shivagod
death · rebirth · wisdom · fertility
- 02
Vishnugodorder · protection · kingship · creation
- 03
Durgagoddesswar · protection · guardianship · strategy
- 04
Kaligoddessdeath · night · chaos · protection
- 05
Indragodthunder · storms · war · kingship
- 06
Vritramonsterchaos · monsters · darkness
- 07 +23 Agni, Brahma, Ganesha, Ganga, Hanuman, Himavat, Krishna, Kartikeya, Lakshmi, Mainaka, Mena, Parvati, Pushan, Rama, Ravana, Saranyu, Saraswati, Sita, Tvashtar, Vac, Vivasvat, Yama, Yamisee all
fire · order · protection · creation
The kami of Shinto — sun and storm, rice and thunder — recorded in the Kojiki and still venerated at shrines across Japan.
The gods of Asgard and the beings fated to destroy them — a mythology that ends in fire at Ragnarök.
Fated at Ragnarök
- Fenrir devours Odin
- Jörmungandr slain by Thor
- Heimdall sounds the horn
- Hel musters the dead
Read across pantheons
All domains →Every domain page sets its figures side by side — the same god's job, five different answers.