Which tradition has a god of that?

How this is put together

Every entity page on this site carries a short list of what that figure governs, written from the ancient sources named on the page itself: Zeus has the sky, thunder, kingship, oaths and hospitality; Utu has justice, the sun and legal judgement. Those lists are written for the pages, not for this tool. The matcher groups the 667 entries above by matching those lists against 29 broad offices, and shows you the figure’s own wording next to their name so you can see exactly why they turned up.

It reads domains only, and deliberately not iconography. An earlier version matched attributes in art as well, and promptly filed Artemis under the moon on the strength of the crescent in her imagery — which is precisely the late, mostly Roman-era identification the Artemis page spends three paragraphs separating from the classical goddess. A tool that quietly re-imports the confusion the articles exist to clear up is worse than no tool.

What a match here does and does not claim

It claims that this encyclopedia records both figures as governing something in the same broad area. It does not claim that anyone in antiquity equated them. Those are very different statements, and the distance between them is where most bad mythology writing lives.

Some equations are genuinely ancient and were made deliberately: Roman writers systematically identified their own gods with Greek ones, and Greek writers did the same to Egyptian ones long before that — Herodotus simply calls Osiris “Dionysus” and moves on. Others are the product of nineteenth-century comparative mythology, which was extremely confident that every tradition must have a sky-father, a solar hero and a maiden-mother-crone triad, and found them whether or not they were there. The pages in the comparisons section take the notable pairings one at a time and say which kind each one is.

Empty columns are results

When a tradition does not appear under an office, that is information rather than a gap in the site. There is no Celtic creation account in the surviving Irish or Welsh material — the Lebor Gabála Érenn is a Christian pseudo-history of invasions, not a cosmogony. There is no god of the sea in the Egyptian material the way there is in the Greek, because the river, not the Mediterranean, was the water that mattered. These absences are stated on the pages, and this tool repeats them instead of promoting the nearest available substitute.

Where to take it next

Each name above links to the full written portrait: the sources it rests on, the versions that conflict, the cult sites, and the modern retellings kept in their own section. If you want the shape of a whole pantheon rather than one office across all of them, start from the eight tradition hubs or from the family trees, and if you want to test what has stuck, the who’s-who quiz is built from the same data as this page.