The relevance of the water deity is held in high regard in almost
every culture. Water is life, fertility
and renewal.
Water deities may manifest in oceans rivers, brooks, streams
or flask.
They can be wise and gentle, or volatile and tempestuous.
Creatures of the sea have been vile terrors and divine
teachers.
Benin
Ezili, goddess of sweet water, beauty, and love.
Dogon
Nommos, amphibious spirits that are worshiped as ancestors.
Serer
Mindiss (or Mindis) is not a deity in Serer religion, but a
pangool with goddess–like attributes. She is a female protector of the Fatick
Region. Offerings are made in her name at the River Sine. She appears to humans
in the form of a manatee
Yoruba
Oshun, a river orisha.
Olokun, an ocean orisha.
Yemoja, a river orisha and ocean orisha as well in new world
Yoruba religions.
Lugandan
Sezibwa, goddess of the Sezibwa River.
Batonga Nyami Nyami, a river spirit of the Batonga of Zambia
and Zimbabwe.
Kongo
Bunzi, goddess of rain, rainbow and waters.
Funza, goddess of waters, twin phenomenon and malformations
in children. Wife of Mbumba.
Kimbazi, goddess of sea storms.
Kuitikuiti, serpent god of Congo river.
Lusunzi, god of spring and waters.
Mamba Muntu, goddesses of waters and sexuality.
Makanga.
Mpulu Bunzi, god of rain and waters.
Mundele, albino gods of the sea.
Simbi dia Maza, nymphs or goddesses of waters, lakes and
rivers.
Canaanite
Yam (god), god of the sea.
Egyptian
Anuket, goddess of the Nile and nourisher of the fields.
Bairthy, goddess of water and was depicted with a small
pitcher balanced on her head, holding a long spear-like sceptre.
Hapi, god of the annual flooding of the Nile.
Khnum, god of the Nile.
Nephthys, goddess of rivers, death, mourning, the dead, and
night.
Nu, uncreated god, personification of the primordial waters.
Osiris, god of the dead and afterlife; originally a god of
water and vegetation.
Satet, goddess of the Nile River's floods.
Sobek, god of the Nile river, depicted as a crocodile or a
man with the head of a crocodile.
Tefnut, goddess of water, moisture, and fertility.
Hebrew
Leviathan, sea serpent.
Mesopotamian
Abzu, god of fresh water, father of all other gods.
Enbilulu, god of rivers and canals.
Enki, god of water and of the river Tigris.
Marduk, god associated with water, vegetation, judgment, and
magic.
Nammu, goddess of the primeval sea.
Nanshe, goddess of the Persian Gulf, social justice,
prophecy, fertility and fishing.
Tiamat, goddess of salt water and chaos, also mother of all
gods.
Sirsir, god of mariners.
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