A war god in mythology associated with war, combat, or bloodshed. They occur commonly in polytheistic religions. Unlike most gods and goddesses in polytheistic religions, monotheistic deities have traditionally been portrayed in their mythologies as commanding war in order to spread religion. (The intimate connection between "holy war" and the "one true god" belief of monotheism has been noted by many scholars, including Jonathan Kirsch in his book God Against The Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism and Joseph Campbell in The Masks of God, Vol. 3: Occidental Mythology.) The following is a list of war deities:

Africa

Egyptian

Berber

Nilo-Saharan

Nubian

Western African-Congo

Yoruba

Eastern African-Congo

Igbo

Ethiopian

Kenya

Kalenjin

Ghanaian

Akan

Europe

Balto-Slavic

Baltic

Slavic

Celtic

Lusitanian

Norse-Germanic

Continental Germanic

Norse

Graeco-Roman

Greek / Hellenic

Roman

Etruscan

Balkan

Uralic

Hungarian

Asia

Turkic

Mongolian

East Asia

Chinese

Japanese

Korean

Southeast Asia

Filipino

Vietnamese

South Asia

Hindu

Manipuri

Tamil

Sinhales

West Asia

Armenian

Canaanite

Hebrew

Hittite

Hurrian

Mesopotamian

Nuristani

Oceania

Polynesia

Hawaiian

Māori

Americas

North America

Great Plains

Pacific Northwest

Central American and the Caribbean

MEXICO (Also located in North America

Aztec

Mayan

Voodoo