Northern Cosmology

In the north, the word that translates "god" or "deity" is zyrys. It's closely related to zeres, "emperor, king of kings." Both words derive from a root verb meaning "to rule over others, rule supremely."

The word zaya, meaning "king" or "clan leader," comes from a different root.

Universal Gods

When the long-sundered northern and southern peoples of Pento found one other again, they were astonished to discover that their languages were sisters, or at least cousins. At the same time, they discovered that they shared three gods, which the northlings now call the "universal gods":

Atna, goddess of the sun (southern: Atuna)

Thadra, god of storms and rain (southern: Thadrash)

Atreya, goddess of love, luck, and fertility (southern: Tirayit)

Northling Gods

Miroz, god of cats

Yash, god of time and rodents

Zahrar, god of war

Tafar, god of boners and male fertility, jester of Atreya

Amaña, goddess of the sea

Aḥerys, god of gardens

Gods adopted in the North

General

Ramos, god of winter

Azmara, goddess of memory

Azrith, god of death

Mamzys (southern: Mamjys), goddess of comfort

Silgys, god of silence and the moon

Ecmerys (southern: Cumaris), god of domestic herds, especially sheep and bees, and of shepherds and beekeepers

Çań (southern: Ça or Ça Qan), adopted in the north as god of the sky

Muses

Prior to the Conquest, the Northlings had a vague impression of some spirits who ruled art and knowledge and education but did not give names to any besides Carana. After the Conquest, they added eight names from the Gominda Museon to their list, making a nice, neat Nine Muses. Shacca, Tifrit, Xidra, and Farya are mostly ignored outside of Gomi. (You might expect the northlings to gravitate toward Tifrit, but she never caught on because they already have Tafar).

Razló, muse of images (southern: Rajaló)

Carána, muse of epic tales, poetry, song, and oral history

Emyasha, muse of writing (southern: Yamasha)

Ilíri, muse of melody, rhythm, and musical instruments

Fedáya, muse of astronomy

Imcásta, muse of architecture and engineering

Mádeni, muse of drama

Guáreni, muse of romance

Shar, muse of religion

Daemons

The Northlings do imagine a category of beings that are neither god nor not-god, divine in their own way but deeply tied to the physical world, like a Roman genius loci. It's hard to say whether they developed this much before mixing with the southern cultures. The Northlings regard these beings as neutral toward humans unless propitiated--they can be bribed to help out.

Feyáta: spirit of the great Afyeti river

Torasa: Taroc-Sang, the southern fiend of the logic and order domain, was quickly adopted in the north and conflated with Torasa, daemon of the Gold Mountain peaks

Ocala: Ochan-Cal, southern fiend of the chaos, feeling, beauty, and madness domain, was also adopted in the north and conflated with their trickster daemon Ocala