Volcano deity
{{Short description|List of gods purported to control volcanic activity}}
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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{{cite book |last=Noth |first=Martin |title=Exodus: A Commentary |date=1962 |page=109 |author-link=Martin Noth}} and Jack Miles in his Pulitzer Prize-winning God: A Biography{{cite book |last=Miles |first=Jack |title=God: A Biography |year=1995 |pages=110–116, 126–132 |author-link=Jack Miles}}) suggest that the ancient Hebrews worshipped or associated their god with a volcano.
= Santeria religion =
= Guanche mythology =
Asia and Europe
= Indigenous Philippine folk religions =
- Lalahon, in Philippine mythology, Goddess of fire, volcanoes and harvest.{{harvnb|Rebecca R. Ongsotto, Reena R. Ongsotto, Rowena Maria Ongsotto|pp=58}}
- 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{{cite book |author=Georges Dumézil |author-link=Georges Dumézil |others=trans. Philip Krapp |title=Archaic Roman Religion: Volume One |origyear=1966 |year=1996 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore |isbn=0-8018-5482-2 |pages=320–321}} including the fire of volcanoes, deserts, metalworking, and the forge.Corbishley, Mike "Ancient Rome" Warwick Press 1986 Toronto.
- Hephaestus, Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire, and volcanoes.Walter Burkert, Greek Religion 1985: III.2.ii; see coverage of Lemnos-based traditions and legends at Mythic Lemnos
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.{{cite web |author=Te Papa |author-link=Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa |title=Ruaumoko - God of Earthquakes |url=http://www.eq-iq.co.nz/eq-intro/eq-stories/eq-stories-ruaumoko.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509182933/http://www.eq-iq.co.nz/eq-intro/eq-stories/eq-stories-ruaumoko.aspx |archive-date=9 May 2012 |access-date=8 May 2012 |publisher=Earthquake Commission |location=Wellington, New Zealand}}{{cite web |last=McSaveney |first=Eileen |date=2 March 2009 |title=Historic earthquakes - Earthquakes in Māori tradition |url=http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/historic-earthquakes/1 |access-date=3 May 2012 |work=Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |publisher=Manatū Taonga {{pipe}} Ministry for Culture and Heritage |location=Wellington, New Zealand}}
= Hawaiian religion =
- Pele, in the Hawaiian religion, goddess of volcanoes and fire and the creator of the Hawaiian Islands.