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** Hathor was a major goddess connected to mineral wealth (semi-precious stones, copper, gold), cattle wealth, and abundance festivals. She is first clearly depicted as a goddess with a cow's head during the [[UsefulNotes/AncientEgyptianHistory Fourth Dynasty]] (c. 27th-25th centuries BCE, roughly contemporaneous with the construction of the Giza pyramid complex), and the portrayal (along with a related depiction as a woman with cow's horns) persisted until the closure of the Egyptian temples after Egypt's conversion to Christianity. 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.

** 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': This trope is {{parodied|Trope}} and named in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E12TeamHomer Team Homer]]", when Bart and Milhouse tried a magazine folding trick to answer the question: "What higher power do TV evangelists worship?" Homer later finds the magazine and tries it himself, but folds it improperly.

This is a SubTrope to StockGods. Not to be confused with novels or other works of fiction named, "God of Money". Supetrope to {{Mammon}}.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': Handrich is the god of merchants and wealth. His priests are often leading traders, temples are managed by the local Traders' Guild and the holy days are the major trading days. Whether Handrich is an aspect of Ranald, god of thieves, gamblers and conmen, or a separate deity is a matter of in-universe contention.

* Nald'thal the Traders from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', is the [[TwoBeingsOneBody singular manifestation of the twin gods]] Nald and Thal. Nald is the God of Commerce who rules over the wealth of the living. His brother Thal is the GodOfTheDead. Together they are the PatronGod of the MerchantCity of Ul'dah, who pray to Nald'thal for prosperty in life and fair judgement in death.

** Poseidon, to a lesser degree, thanks to the fact being the lord of the oceans themselves means everything within them, including the riches to be made off it ''and'' all the treasure that's sunk beneath the waves, belongs to him. As such, one of his boons is just directly dredging some and giving it to you in the form of obols, gemstones and healing items, and another makes all rewards of the former three worth even more.

** '''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.

This is a SubTrope to StockGods. Not to be confused with novels or other works of fiction named, "God of Money".

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

** Mammon, Demon Prince of Greed, seeks to own everything and everyone in existence, and makes his headquarters in the Bank of Hell. Marc has a cold, intellectual loathing for Mammon, seeing him as the embodiment of profit over principle; Mammon, on the other hand, sees Marc as a fellow profiteer.

** 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.

** Marc, Archangel of Trade, oversees the mortal world's commerce and manages Heaven's fortune.

* 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.

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* Nald'Thal the Traders from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', is the [[TwoBeingsOneBody singular manifestation of the twin gods]] Nald and Thal. Nald is the God of Commerce who rules over the wealth of the living. His brother Thal is the GodOfTheDead. Together they are the PatronGod of the merchantile city-state of Ul'dah, who pray to Nald'thal for prosperty in life and fair judgement in death.

** Played straight with Chimata Tenkyuu, introduced in ''VideoGame/TouhouKouryuudouUnconnectedMarketeers'', who is a goddess of the marketplace who deals with the concept of people exchanging ownership of things by selling and buying them in marketplaces.

* ''Manga/BinbogamiGa'': Inverted and PlayedWith. Momiji is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binbogami binbogami]], a Japanese god 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.

* ''VideoGame/AfterTheEndACrusaderKingsIIMod'': Given a spin 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.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': Handrich is the god of merchants and wealth. His priests are often leading traders, temples are managed by the local Traders' Guild and the holy days are the major trading days.
** Whether Handrich is an aspect of Ranald, god of thieves; gamblers and conmen, or a separate deity is a matter of in-universe contention.

** '''Hades''' was the god of wealth, his Roman name, Pluto is a title means "the wealthy one".

** '''Hades/Pluto''' was a god of wealth as well as the afterlife, as the Earth contains gold and precious stone, which he could access since he was the Chthonic god of a subterranean realm. The name Pluto could have been conflated with Plutus.

* Myth/CanaaniteMythology: '''Gad''' is sometimes translated to "god of fortune" mentioned Literature/TheBible, the Book of Isaiah 65:11. Strangely enough, a founding patriarch Jacob, might have named his son Gad after a pagan god, was perhaps named after the pagan god.according to some scholars.

* ''Franchise/BaldursGate'' has a goddess of money, trade, and wealth named Waukeen, also known as the "Merchant's Friend". Although Waukeen isn't an active character, her name appears on temples and districts such as "Waukeen's Promenade" in ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII:'' ''Shadows of Amn''. Waukeen was a popular goddess in Amn before she she disappeared during the "Time of Troubles", an important event in the game backstory. Waukeen's loss helped create a power vacuum among merchants, and some of the game's characters still worship her.

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* '''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/NorseMythology :

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* The New Age movement has spiritual money teachings, which can be found under names like "the Law of Attraction" or Literature/TheSecret.
* ManekiNeko: The happy "beckoning cat" of fortune can be found in many ethnically Chinese or Hong Kong restaurants and takeaways in Britain and America. Its folklore originated in Japan. They are thought to be lucky for business and profits.
* For decades, various Protestant churches have taught "Prosperity Theology", which does seem like worshiping {{God}} for wealth -- in essence, it claims that a righteous life will be rewarded with financial success and material prosperity. This is... a contentious position among other Christian churches, to put it mildly.
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** Saint Paul called love of money the root of many evils (1 Timothy 6:10).

** Trade existed during [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh's time]], and the Pharaoh's face was on silver coins.

* Literature/TheQuran :
** The prophet's rules about not charging interest on loans make more sense during that [[ItMakesSenseInContext time's context]]. Charging interest on a "payday" loan might mean starvation for that family later. Manipulating the price of grain to increase your profit meant poor people starved, for real. During the OlderThanFeudalism period, enslaving people, such as through debt, was a respectable way to become rich.

* ''Franchise/EvilliousChronicles'' has demon characters representing the SevenDeadlySins. Salem Dunbar is the demon of {{Greed}}.

** Inverted: '''Binbogami''' was a household god of poverty and misery in Japanese folklore.