Time and fate deities

Time and fate deities are personifications of time, often in the sense of human lifetime and human fate, in polytheistic religions. In monotheism, Time can still be personified, as in Father Time in European folklore, or Zurvan in Persian (Zoroastrian) tradition. In the book of Ecclesiastes in the Hebrew Bible, the terms עדן `iddan "time" vs. זמן zĕman "season" express a contrast similar to that of Greek Chronos vs. Kairos.

Ancient Near East

Ancient Egyptian religion: Hemsut · Huh

Assyro-Babylonian religion: Ashima · Ishtar · Mamitu · Mammetun · Manāt · Manu the Great · Meni

Classical Antiquity

Ancient Greek religion:

The Fates: Moirai — Atropos · Clotho · Lachesis

Ananke · Khronos (a Protogenoi, and not to be confused with the Titan, Kronus) · Geras · Horae · Kairos · Kronus (a Titan) · Tyche · Moros

Ancient Roman religion:

The Fates: Parcae — Decima · Morta · Nona

Camenae: Antevorta/Porrima · Carmenta · Egeria · Postverta

Aeternitas · Anna Perenna · Caerus · Chronos · Saturn · Fortuna · Vertumnus

Europe

Etruscan — Nortia · Tinia
Norse — Norns (Urðr · Verðandi · Skuld)

Day: (Dagr · Skinfaxi) · Night: (Nótt · Hrímfaxi) · Seasons: (Sumarr and Vetr) · Old age: Elli

Baltic — Dalia · Laima · Lauma
Polish — Sudz
Romanian — Fates: Ursitoare
Other European — Matres and Matrones · Father Time · Beten

Asia

• Bali - Batara Kala
• Buddhism - Mahakala
• Hinduism - Kala · Kali
• The Philippines - Kan-Laon
• Zoroastrianism - Zurvan

Africa

• Igbo - Ikenga
• Nubia - Dedun
• Yoruba - Olorun, Ori

See also

• List of deities
• Time
• Time Cycles
• Wheel of time