List of light deities

African

[Egyptian mythology]

• Khepri, god of rebirth and the sunrise
• Nefertem, god who represents the first sunlight

  Guanche

• Magec, deity of the sun and light, exact gender unknown

  American

[Lakota mythology]

• Anpao, two-faced spirit of the dawn

  [Maya mythology]

• Tohil, god associated with thunder, lightning, and sunrise

  Aztec

• Centzonhuitznahua, 400 gods of the southern stars
• Centzonmimixcoa, 400 gods of the northern stars
• Cipactonal, god of the daytime
• Citlālicue, goddess who created the stars
• Citlalmina, goddess of female stars
• Citlalatonac, god of male stars
• Tianquiztli, star goddesses
• Xiuhtecuhtli, god of fire, day, and heat

  Asian

Chinese

• Zhulong, dragon deity of daylight

  Hindu

• Aruṇa, personification of the reddish glow of the rising sun
• Dyaus Pita, continues the name of the Proto-Indo-European god of the day-lit sky
• Ushas, dawn goddess

  Sumerian

• Inanna, primary goddess of the planet Venus
• Ninsianna, goddess of the planet Venus
• Šul-pa-e, underworld god who became associated with Jupiter
• Shulsaga, stellar goddess

  European

Etruscan

• Albina, goddess of the dawn and protector of ill-fated lovers
• Thesan, goddess of the dawn, associated with new life

  Germanic

• Baldr, god thought to be associated with light and/or day; is known by many other names, all of which have cognates in other Germanic languages, suggesting he may have been a pan-Germanic deity
• Dagr, personification of day
• Eostre, considered to continue the Proto-Indo-European dawn goddess
• Freyr, god of sunshine, among other things
• Teiwaz, as a reflex of Dyeus, was probably originally god of the day-lit sky

  Slavic

• Dazhbog, god of the sun and day

  Greek">Greek mythology">Greek

• Aether, primarily associated with upper air but associated with light in Hesiod's Theogony
• Apollo, god of light, among many other things
• Eos, goddess of the dawn
• Hemera, personification of day
• Hyperion, Titan of light; sometimes conflated with his son Helios
• Theia, Titaness of sight and the shining light of the clear blue sky. She is the consort of Hyperion and mother of Helios, Selene, and Eos.
• Zeus, as a reflex of Dyeus, could be considered god of the day-lit sky

  Mari

Roman

• Aurora, goddess of the dawn
• Jupiter, as a reflex of Dyeus, god of the day-lit sky
• Mater Matuta, goddess associated with Aurora

  Oceania

Polynesian

• Atanua, Marquesan goddess of the dawn
• Atarapa, goddess of the dawn
• Ira, sky goddess and mother of the stars

  [Māori mythology]

• Ao, personification of light