The Pantheon

The following is a list of characters appearing in comic series The Wicked + The Divine, created by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie.

Japanese sun goddess

Name Meaning: The Great Divinity That Illuminates Heaven

Details: Shinto deity in Japanese mythology. Sun goddess & ruler of the heavens.

Canaanite-Phoenician god of storms

Name Meaning: owner / lord

Details: Name dropped in the bible several times as a title for a false idol. Occasionally transformed into Beelzebub in demonology.

Knights Templar ideology

Name Meaning: Sabbatic Goat

Details: Visually depicted as a symbolization of the equilibrium of opposites; half-human and half-animal, male and female, good and evil. Baphomet is a symbol of balance in various occult and mystical traditions, the origin of which some occultists have attempted to link with the Gnostics and Templars, although occasionally purported to be a deity or a demon.

Ancient Greek god of wine

Name Meaning: The Liberator

Details: Wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theater. His wine, music, and ecstatic dance free his followers from self conscious fear and care, and subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful.

Weapon: Thyrsus, a fennel-stem sceptre. Sometimes wound with ivy and dripping with honey. Both a beneficent wand and a weapon used to destroy those who oppose his cult and the freedoms he represents.

Mesopotamian goddess of love & war

Name Meaning: Lady Of Heaven

Details: Associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power. Like Lucifer, associated with Venus.

Christian devil

Name Meaning: The Morning Star / Light Bringer

Roman goddess of wisdom

Name Meaning: intelligent, understanding

Details: Virgin goddess. Usually depicted with an owl.

Greek goddess of the underworld

Name Meaning: Περσεφόνη

Details: Daughter of Zeus & Demeter. Abducted by her uncle Hades who later forced her into marriage.

Egyptian warrior goddess

Name Meaning: 𓌂𓐍𓏏𓁐

Details: Sekhmet is also a solar deity, sometimes given the epithet the eye of Ra.

tantric Hindu goddess

Celtic goddess of war & destiny

Name Meaning: the three Morrígna / Phantom Queen

Details: A shape shifting goddess. Often described as a trio: the badb (a crow, foretelling doom, death, or victory in battle), Macha (sovereignty goddess of land, fertility, kingship, war and horses), and Anand, also just referred to as The Morrigan.

Old Norse diety responsible for shaping human fate

Name Meaning: Urðr + Verðandi + Skuld (the 3 Norns)

Details: Urðr means fate, Verðandi, means happening or present, Skuld means debt or future. The three Norns spin the threads of life, cut marks in the pole figures and measure people's destinies, which shows the fate of all human beings and gods.

chief god of Germanic mythology

Name Meaning: Odin

Details: Associated with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet. Wednesday bears his name in many Germanic languages

Orphic personification of inevitability

Name Meaning: force, constraint, necessity

Details: In Ancient Greek literature, Ananke is considered the most powerful dictator of fate and circumstance.