History Main / TheAlmightyDollar

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': This trope is {{parodied|Trope}} and named in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E12TeamHomer Team Homer]]", when Homer tried a magazine folding trick to answer the question: "What higher power do TV evangelists worship?"

** ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'': Korran. The largest financial district in Sharn is centered around a temple of Kol Korran, and is therefore called the Korranath.

* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'':
** Abbathor is the evil dwarfish deity of greed.
** Garl Glittergold is the TopGod of the gnomes and helps his people prosper, and has a knack for finding gold and gems.
** Waukeen is the patron goddess of wealth and trade known as the "Merchant's Friend".
* ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' gives us Kol Korran. The largest financial district in Sharn is centered around a temple of Kol Korran, and is therefore called the Korranath.

** Abadar is a LawfulNeutral god of cities, commerce, law, and money, believing those things to hold the key to prosperity and happiness for any disciplined person. His clergy commonly act as bankers and are expected to invest in their communities. He's also one of the few non-good deities to empower paladins, who act as guardians of trade routes and commerce.
*** In ''TabletopGame/{{Starfinder}}'' Abadar's church has developed into the largest MegaCorp in the Pact Worlds, [=AbadarCorp=], with fingers in pies ranging from food production to planetary colonization.

** Abadar is a LawfulNeutral god of cities, commerce, law, and money, believing those things to hold the key to prosperity and happiness for any disciplined person. His clergy commonly act as bankers and are expected to invest in their communities.

* ''Manga/BinbogamiGa'': Inverted and PlayedWith. As in Myth/JapaneseMythology, the goddess Binbogami (here known as Momiji) is known as the goddess of poverty and bad fortune, who's the {{foil}} of Ichiko Sakura, a young girl who was born with an excess of good luck and fortune at the point to compete with gods; in fact, Momiji was sent to Earth to absorb Ichiko's fortune to balance the world. Also, in further chapters of the manga Konjikihime turns up; she's the goddess of fortune, but was overshadowed by Ichiko, joining Momiji in her mission.

** Inverted with the Yorigami twins, Shion and Jo'on. They're both gods of misfortune who suffer from PowerIncontinence. Shion is a goddess of poverty who absorbs people's good luck and wealth, including her own, and turns it into bad luck and debt, while Jo'on is a goddess of pestilences with the ability to consume the financial assets of anyone she chooses, which affects her own assets too.

* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' has inverted examples with the Yorigami twins, Shion and Jo'on. They're both gods of misfortune who suffer from PowerIncontinence. Shion is a goddess of poverty who absorbs people's good luck and wealth, including her own, and turns it into bad luck and debt, while Jo'on is a goddess of pestilences with the ability to consume the financial assets of anyone she chooses, which affects her own assets too.

** '''Hermes''' was the god of merchants, as well as TheTrickster among gods.

* Although not named in the lyrics, Music/{{{Ghost}}'s song "Mummy Dust" is about Mammon, a Biblical deification of money and material wealth, and his corruptive influence on humanity.

* ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' has inverted examples with the Yorigami twins, Shion and Jo'on. They're both gods of misfortune who suffer from PowerIncontinence. Shion is a goddess of poverty who absorbs people's good luck and wealth, including her own, and turns it into bad luck and debt, while Jo'on is a goddess of pestilences with the ability to consume the financial assets of anyone she chooses, which affects her own assets too.

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* In ''Webcomic/WhenHeavenSpitsYouOut'', money is a common issue for the main character, Ryan, and his family due to their impoverished living. In Part 1 of the story, he and his friend, Frank, are fascinated by a $20 bill stolen by their other friend, Peter, from his dad, and they use it to take themselves out to the cinema.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'':
** One of the enemy factions, the Corpus, is something between a MegaCorp and theocratic society that worships the very concept of Profit, treating avarice and self-interest as cardinal virtues and compassion and generosity as deadly sins. They'll do anything and everything in their power to make a quick buck, selling weapons and enslaving entire planets to get their fix.
** A Corpus aristocrat named Nef Anyo is one of the most influential Corpus. He dresses and speaks like a televangelist and promises wealth by giving money to his "Temple of Profit", on top of a few of his own very successful businesses.
** One of Nef's crowning achievements was conquering the Solaris, a society of transhumans that live on a (at least partially) terraformed Venus. He makes a tidy business of mortgaging out their own bodies and keeping them enslaved with frankly extortionate levels of interest; despite having access to plenty of high technology, they work off their debts through backbreaking manual labor, and most won't live to see their debts paid off, by which time their children will have inherited it. On top of that, he has [[DystopianEdict officially outlawed charity]], and with the Solaris, paying off another's debts or giving them spare parts can be the difference between life and death. With Nef as an incompetent yet firmly entrenched dictator, much of Venus's content is about helping the Solaris's homegrown insurgency combat Nef's growing influence.
** A former Corpus scientist-merchant, a man named Alad V, had his own territory in the Corpus landscape carved out for himself, part of which was conducting a war on both the [[PlayerCharacter Tenno]], and later on the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Grineer]]. He was eventually ousted and expelled from the Corpus, not for the lives he was wasting, but for the high cost in credits for his actions over the years.

* In ''VisualNovel/WhenHeavenSpitsYouOut'', money is a common issue for the main character, Ryan, and his family due to their impoverished living. In Part 1 of the story, he and his friend, Frank, are fascinated by a $20 bill stolen by their other friend, Peter, from his dad, and they use it to take themselves out to the cinema.

* ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' has the Yorigami twins, Shion and Jo'on, gods of misfortune who both suffer from PowerIncontinence. Shion is a goddess of poverty who absorbs people's good luck and wealth, including her own, and turns it into bad luck and debt, while Jo'on is a goddess of pestilences with the ability to consume the financial assets of anyone she chooses, which affects her own assets too.

* ''Literature/AmericanGods'': One of the "modern deities" is "consumer culture", which involves love of money.

* ''Literature/GentlemanBastardSequence'': The Sansa twins mention having spent time as acolytes in the cult of Gandolo, god of traders, and that part of their training involved going to market with some spending money on feastdays. Jean, who spent the same time in the cult of the goddess of death getting poisoned, stabbed, drowned and strangled to bring him closer to the goddess, is not amused.

** ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'': "The Chancellor" is an evil example, a DeityOfHumanOrigin who seeks to [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans control the world]] through greed and scarcity, encouraging humans to see each other as commodities rather than people. Its greatest success to date is said to be the global rise of capitalism.

** '''Gad''' is one of those pagan gods the ancient Hebrews were not supposed to mention. Gad was a god of fortune mentioned the Book of Isaiah 65:11. Some scholars think that Jacob's son Gad was perhaps named after the pagan god.

** ''Red Jambhala''' is known for prosperity related to harmonious marriages and is married to a mother of wealth. Sometimes thought to be the Hindu wealth god Ganesh.

A deity whose power is wealth or money-related. Named "Almighty" by UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} when he warned money had an allure or power which could distract people from the life-giving priorities of the almighty {{God}}.

* '''Dedun''' was one of the few Nubian gods remembered from UsefulNotes/AncientAfrica. Dedun was associated with the lucrative trade of incense, and so is remembered as a god of wealth and prosperity.

** '''White Jambhala''' is a manifestation of Guan Yin, the bodhisattva of compassion (or goddess of mercy). Her wealth power is healing poverty, eliminating sicknesses, curses, and bad karma. Sometimes associated with the Four Heavenly Kings of China, specifically the compassionate King of the East whose color is white.

** '''Black Jambhala''' is also known as Hindu wealth god Kubera. He is also the god of wealth in Tibetan buddhism. He is also king of the west within China's Four Heavenly Kings. He is also a manifestation of Amoghasiddhi Buddha whose superpower was helping purify people from envy. He helps protect people from bad luck and bad debts.

** The "Lord of Wealth" had several names: '''Kubera''', Kuvera, Kuber or Kuberan. Kubera was also the god king of "Yaksha", semi-divine natures spirits, and not just another minor lord. Associated with the chief of China's Four Heavenly Gods.

** '''Bishamonten''' is is another of Japan's Seven Lucky Gods, and the guardian of Heaven's treasure house and known to share treasure (in a good way). Bishamonten is also Japan's version of one of China's Four Heavenly Kings. Bishamonten fits the mold of protector of the North, whose color is green or yellow, and the chief god of the four.

* Inverted and PlayedWith in ''Manga/BinbogamiGa'': As in Myth/JapaneseMythology, the goddess Binbogami (here known as Momiji) is known as the goddess of poverty and bad fortune, who's the {{foil}} of Ichiko Sakura, a young girl who was born with an excess of good luck and fortune at the point to compete with gods; in fact, Momiji was sent to Earth to absorb Ichiko's fortune to balance the world. Also, in further chapters of the manga Konjikihime turns up; she's the goddess of fortune, but was overshadowed by Ichiko, joining Momiji in her mission.

* In Mel Brooks' ''Silent Movie,'' the conglomerate Engulf & Devour begins their meetings with a prayer:

* One of the "modern deities" in Creator/NeilGaiman's ''Literature/AmericanGods'' was "consumer culture", which involves love of money.
* In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', the Tolnedran religion is centered around money and its acquisition. This led to the disastrous invasion of Maragor, wherein the Tolnedrans invaded Maragor in the mistaken belief that they had a hidden treasure, and when they couldn't find any treasure, they threw a tantrum and massacred the Marags wholesale, almost completely wiping them out.
* Creator/FredSaberhagen created a world in his ''Literature/BookOfSwords'' trilogies which had an organized religion called the "Blue Temple" which hoarded money and valuables. The main plot of the Second Book of Swords was robbing the Blue Temple's treasure hoard hidden within a well guarded ElaborateUndergroundBase.
* Given the premise of ''Literature/TheDarkProfitSaga'' is "fantasy adventuring meets capitalism" it's not surprising that there are multiple [[https://www.jzacharypike.com/blog/2019/04/the-gods-of-trade/ gods of trade and wealth]].
* [[Creator/{{DanteAlighieri}} Dante's]] epic ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' makes '''Plutus''' into a demon of wealth who tortures "Hoarders and the Wasters" within the forth circle of hell.
* ''Franchise/{{EvilliousChronicles}}'' has demon characters representing the SevenDeadlySins. Salem Dunbar is the demon of {{Greed}}.
* In ''Literature/ChroniclesOfChaos'', the Greek/Roman god Mercury is god of money as well as speed. [[spoiler: Mercury is able to find the orphans whenever they spend money.]]
* In ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'', the Fosterite church is essentially prosperity-gospel evangelism on crack, to the point that the churches have gambling machines in them.
* In the ''GentlemanBastardSequence'', the Sansa twins mention having spent time as acolytes in the cult of Gandolo, god of traders, and that part of their training involved going to market with some spending money on feastdays. Jean, who spent the same time in the cult of the goddess of death getting poisoned, stabbed, drowned and strangled to bring him closer to the goddess, is not amused.

* The TV adaptation of ''Series/AmericanGods2017'' has the anthropomorphic personification of money, an old man referred to as "The Bookkeeper" who is older than most of the Old Gods. He has a trio of creepy girl scouts selling candy bars speaking in unison as guards.

* The Greek god Plutus appears in the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS08E02WhatsUpTigerMommy What's Up, Tiger Mommy?]]". Plutus runs an AuctionOfEvil selling off supernatural items to monsters and demons, with bids including tons of gold, dismembered virgins, and half the moon. From his short appearance, this money god believes he's AboveGoodAndEvil, showing no interest in anyone's welfare.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/OurCartoonPresident'' episode "The Economy", the entire episode frames how Creator/DonaldTrump and his administration sees the Economy is same as how devout theists see God; the economy's sudden downturn not being the result of bad policies and frivolous spending, but that it is simply "testing" them and that they should not lose faith that it will fix itself.

* '''Anaisa Pye''' is a UsefulNotes/{{Voudoun}} loa or PatronSaint of love, money, and general happiness.
* Literature/TheBible: UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} was the one who said money itself was an almighty in the same league as Almighty {{God}} (Matthew 6:24), when he taught that no one could serve two masters, both money(Mammon) and {{God}}. UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} saw "money worship" as SeriousBusiness when he cleansed the temple of money changers (John 2:13-16, Matthew 21:12-17, Mark 11:15-19, and Luke 19:45-48). Mammon/money was TheCorrupter for the Christian faithful, especially since it was a time when slavery made people rich. Also manipulating grain prices could create wealth at the expense of people starving to death.
** Saint Paul called love of money the root of many evils (1 Timothy 6:10).
** '''Gad''' is one of those pagan gods the ancient Hebrews were not supposed to mention. Gad was a god of fortune mentioned the Book of Isaiah 65:11. Some scholars think that Jacob's son Gad was perhaps named after the pagan god.

* Myth/CelticMythology
** '''Vesunna''' was a Celtic goddess who gave prosperity, abundance, and good fortune. Vesunna was worshiped during Roman times in an area which became the western half of France or Roman Gaul.
* Myth/ChineseMythology
** DefiedTrope: '''Budai''' is a deity who is also known as "The Laughing Buddha". Budai personifies "poor but happy" within Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese Buddhism. Budai was an example of how one doesn't need actual money to enjoy the benefits of wealth, like being popular, virtuous, and well fed.
** '''Caishen''' is a god of wealth and happiness in Chinese folk religion and Taoism.
** '''Fude Zhengshen''' was another Chinese god of wealth, more focused on blessed virtue and also known as the oldest of gods.
** '''Guan Yu''' is a bodhisattva celebrated in Chinese folk religion, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism. Guan Yu is mostly known as a guardian deity and holy emperor, but he is worshiped as an alternative wealth god in Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia.
** '''Liu Haichan''' is an alchemy god symbolized by gold coins. Liu Haichan might be another face of Caishen.
** '''Tudigong''' is a god of the soil and farming associated with wealth and landlords. Other names for this god include Dizhushen, Tudipo, Tugong, Tudiye, Dabogong, Sheshen, Tudijun, Tudihuofushen, Fudezhengshen.
* '''Dedun''' was one of the few Nubian gods remembered from AncientAfrica. Dedun was associated with the lucrative trade of incense, and so is remembered as a god of wealth and prosperity.
* '''Ekeko''' was a god of abundance and prosperity during ancient UsefulNotes/{{Bolivia}}.
* AncientEgypt - Myth/EgyptianMythology
** '''Bes''' was a god who protected Egyptian households from everything bad including financial ruin.
** [[Characters/EgyptianMythology Hathor]] was a major goddess connected to mineral wealth (semi-precious stones, copper, gold), cattle wealth, and abundance festivals. She first appears with a cattle head during fourth to second millennium BC. Like India, ancient Egypt saw cows as sacred sources of food. Cattle is an OlderThanDirt currency. Later, she was associated with Horus and the sun metal gold. From the Middle Kingdom period until Ptolemaic and Roman times, Hathor was associated with various joyful (and drunken) festivals celebrating abundance.
** '''Renenutet''' was an ancient Egyptian goddess of wealth, well-being, nourishment, and harvest.
* UsefulNotes/AncientGreece - Myth/ClassicalMythology
** '''Agathodaemon''', or agathos daemon, was a noble spirit who lived within vineyards and grainfields. Agathodaemon was the husband of '''Tyche'''; rituals to him could increase agricultural yield and profit.
** '''Hermes''' was the god of merchants, as well as TheTrickster among gods.
** '''Hades''' was the god of wealth, his Roman name, Pluto is a title means "the wealthy one".

* Myth/HinduMythology
** Inverted: '''Alakshmi''' is a Hindu goddess of the opposite of fortune, misfortune and poverty due to malicious emotions like jealousy and envy. Alakshmi's title translates to "Not-Lakshmi", so she is an opposing goddess to Lakshmi.
** '''Ganesha''' is a popular Hindu god with an elephant-head. Ganesha is god of wisdom, intellect, remover of obstacles, and patron of artists and scientists. Some sects, such as the Jains, see Ganesha as a god of wealth also.
** Inverted: '''Jyestha''' was another Hindu goddess of misfortune opposed to Lakshmi. Jyestha was associated with sloth, poverty, sorrow, ugliness, unlucky places and crows.
** The "Lord of Wealth" had several names: '''Kubera''', Kuvera, Kuber or Kuberan. Kubera was also the god king of "Yaksha", semi-divine natures spirits, and not just another minor lord. Associated with the chief of China's Four Heavenly Gods.
** '''Lakshmi''' is the Hindu Goddess of Good Fortune and Beauty. Her ability to enhance good fortune is symbolized by the gold coins in art work about her, particularly coins pouring from her hands. She is also a case where LoveGoddess, female beauty, and wealth overlap.
* '''Ikenga''' is a Nigerian god of personal power and "strength of movement", who is also associated with fortune and wealth.
* Myth/JapaneseMythology
** '''Benzaiten''' is a goddess of financial fortune, talent, beauty and music, adopted from Buddhism. She's the only female in Japan's Seven Lucky Gods.

* Inverted: '''Kalfu''' is a ''UsefulNotes/{{Voudoun}}'' spirit of bad luck, malicious destruction, injustice, and misfortune.
* '''Kumugwe''' is a wealthy sea god, also named "Copper-maker", famed the riches in his undersea dwelling. Kumugwe was worshipped by Native American tribes in the ''UsefulNotes/TheOtherRainforest'' region.
* Myth/MesopotamianMythology

* Myth/NorseMythology

* Literature/TheQuran

* AncientRome - Myth/ClassicalMythology
** A Roman goddess '''Abundantia''' personified abundance and prosperity. She was associated with the Golden Age of Greek mythology and the mythic "horn of plenty" (cornucopia).
** '''Averruncus''' was the god of averting harm, including financial ruin.
** '''Fortuna''' was the Roman goddess of fortune, both good and bad. '''Fortuna''' was associated with the capriciousness of chance.
** The Roman goddess '''Moneta''' protected the funds of her worshipers, along with another duty protecting memory. '''Moneta's''' name became the source of English language words such as "money" and "mint".
** The Roman version of '''Hermes''' was named '''Mercury'''. The name "Mercury" has a similar language root to word "merchandise".
** In Myth/ClassicalMythology, '''Pluto''' was a god of wealth as well as the afterlife. It makes more sense when you relize that the Earth contains gold and precious stone, which '''Pluto''' could access since he was the Chthonic god of a subterranean realm. The name '''Pluto''' could have been conflated with '''Plutus'''.
* '''Saint Cajetan''' is the Catholic PatronSaint of the unemployed, gamblers, and good fortune.
* '''Vaisravana''' is a Buddhist deity who is considered a "god of wealth" in Tibet.

* TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms:
** Abbathor was the evil dwarfish deity of greed.
** Garl Glittergold was the TopGod for gnomes, but he helped his people prosper, and had a knack for finding gold and gems.
** Waukeen was the patron goddess of wealth and trade known as the "Merchant's Friend".
* TabletopGame/InNomine:

* TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening:
** "The Chancellor" is an evil example, a DeityOfHumanOrigin who seeks to [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans control the world]] through greed and scarcity, encouraging humans to see each other as commodities rather than people. Its greatest success to date is said to be the global rise of capitalism.
* TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}:
** Golarion setting: Abadar is a LawfulNeutral god of cities, commerce, law, and money, believing those things to hold the key to prosperity and happiness for any disciplined person. His clergy commonly act as bankers and are expected to invest in their communities.
** The [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Archdevil]] '''Mammon''', the Open Palm, is the keeper of Hell's vaults -- in fact, his spirit inhabits every coin, jewel, and precious item in the treasury, and he [[TheCorrupter whispers temptation]] to anybody who possesses one. His mortal cults revere him as a patron god of greed and wealth.
* In the Old World of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', Handrich and all local variants are the [[Pantheon/{{Warhammer}} God of merchants and wealth]], priests are often leading traders, temples are managed by the local Traders' Guild and the holy days are the major trading days.
* TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse has the totem spirits O' Mighty Dolla' and Easy Credit, who essentially [[AnthropomorphicPersonification embody their names]].

* An OlderThanFeudalism example can be seen in {{Creator/Aristophanes}}'s ''Plutus'', or ''Wealth''. Plutus, the god of wealth, is cured of his blindness and now can identify those who deserve his gift. [[HilarityEnsues Economic chaos ensues]].
* The obscure play ''Money Talks'' is about money being put on trial (ItMakesSenseInContext). In the last act "the Great God Dollar" is summoned to testify, and is revealed to be the Devil.

* ''VideoGame/ZeusMasterOfOlympus'': When Hades agrees to become a city's patron god, he creates silver deposits for minting coins, doubles the money produced by tax collectors, and occasionally blesses the city directly with wealth. {{Justified|Trope}} in that he's god both of TheUnderworld and of all wealth beneath the earth.

* Given a spin in ''VideoGame/AfterTheEndACrusaderKingsIIMod'' with the Consumerist faith, which originated from people finding references to "the Almighty Dollar"... and taking it ''literally'', believing the Almighty Dollar struck down Old America because they did not honour it enough using the ritual of "shopping". The Monetarist heresy agrees on the Almighty Dollar striking down Old America, but believes that overzealous shopping weakens the Almighty Dollar, and instead one should seek to save its power by collecting holy artifacts like dollar bills and bonds.
* ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' has the Yorigami twins, Shion and Jo'on, gods of misfortune who both suffer from PowerIncontinence. Shion is a goddess of poverty who absorbs people's good luck and wealth, including her own, and turns it into bad luck and debt, while Jo'on is a goddess of pestilences with the ability to consume the financial assets of anyone she chooses, which affects her own assets too.
* The ''Elona+'' variant of ''VideoGame/{{Elona}}'' allows the player character to worship the goddess Yacatect of Wealth, who accepts jewelry as sacrifices. Among the benefits of worship:
** Increases to the negotiation and investing skills.
** Increased chance of getting {{Random Drop}}s from monsters.
** A pet goose that, when fed, will lay platinum coins.
** A holy relic that can be invoked monthly to generate platinum coins.
** A holy DeadlyDisc weapon in the form of a coin.

* WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons: This trope is [[ParodiedTrope parodied]] and named during Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E12TeamHomer, when Homer tried a magazine folding trick to answer the question: "What higher power do TV evangelists worship?"

* The New Age movement had spiritual money teachings, which can be found under names like "The Law of Attraction" or Literature/TheSecret.

* For decades, various Protestant churches have taught "Prosperity Theology", which does seem like worshiping {{God}} for wealth.

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* In the ''GetlemanBastardSequence'', the Sansa twins mention having spent time as acolytes in the cult of Gandolo, god of traders, and that part of their training involved going to market with some spending money on feastdays. Jean, who spent the same time in the cult of the goddess of death getting poisoned, stabbed, drowned and strangled to bring him closer to the goddess, is not amused.