The small gods don’t get taught in basic humanities classes the way that the big hitters do. My favorite deitini is Cardea, the Roman goddess of hinges - specifically of pivot hinges. According to wikipedia, she was “associated with” Forculus, god of doors, and Limentinus, god of thresholds; but they didn’t get their own wikipedia articles.
Is anyone else fond of an obscure little diety?
I kind of like Momus, the god of criticizing and mockery.
Do patron saints count? If so, mine is Apollonia, who was allegedly martyred by having all her teeth yanked out, and became the patron saint of dentists.
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Shodan
My favorite is the football (soccer) god. He doesn’t have a name and no extended mythology, but he is constantly thanked, blamed or summoned by players, coaches, managers and commentators. And he’s really a trickster god, with all the curious ways football games sometimes turn out. Sadly, at the moment the football god is on corona hiatus.
Hmmm. I always believed Ianus was the god of all that stuff (well, maybe not hinges, but is there any actual evidence of a hinge cult?) If you know Latin, the word meaning door or entrance is even ianua.
I’ll go with Cyamites, the greek god of beans.
Momus sounds interesting. It also sounds like he has current adherents. I’ll have to look into hem.
Patron Saints definitely count for the purposes of this thread. And dentists need all the help they can get.
I am unlearned in the ways of footballers. How do they invoke their god? Do they swear in frustration, “By the football god’s hairy hands!”?
Janus wasn’t a small god. He was big enough to be a general concept, being the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings. A lot of biggish gods had sons/daughters/underlings who were assigned specific things within their area of effect. Aeolus was keeper of the winds, accompanied by Boreas (god of the north wind and of winter), Notus (god of the south wind), down to the half-cardinal directions and further to Aura (goddess of breezes), who was in turn supported by Aurai, nymphs of the breeze
Other good-sized liminal Roman gods include: Terminus, Mercury (because if you travel, you have to leave and arrive), Portunus, and Trivia (goddess of intersections of three roads).
Nice. This guy is mysterious. Definitely not a god of winds.
In the Roman (as distinct from Greek) religion, everything had a spirit associated with it. The spirits of big important things like a mountain or the sky might be called gods, but the spirit of a mountain differs only in degree, not in kind, from the spirit of a grain of sand. In their system, there would not only be a spirit of hinges in general, but a spirit of the second hinge from the top in the door to your third kitchen cupboard. And these spirits were not originally anthropomorphic: Unlike the Greek Zeus, who’s a big buff bearded guy holding a thunderbolt, the Roman Jupiter was, himself, a thunderbolt.
But of course, you can tell better stories about anthropomorphic gods, which may have been part of the reason why Greek culture took hold, and the Roman spirits became associated with the anthropomorphic Greek gods.
Palaemon: the guardian of ships, god of safe harbours and sailors in distress.
He’s mostly a German tribal deity, so I can only link to theGerman wiki.
As for ways of evoking him: I believe the football god is a syncretist, so it doesn’t matter if you cross yourself or say a quick Muslim prayer before kick-off, he values them all. Another theory (by me) is that he’s invoked every time you spit on the field, that’s why the players do it all the time.
Levant, Norse god of refurbished waterbeds (from Minoriteam).
Rob McKenna, the lorry driver who is also a Rain God, in Douglas Adams’ book So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish. It rains on him wherever he goes, leading him to catalog 232 different types of rain, and eventually giving him a lucrative career, by getting paid by resorts to not go there.
My favorite is the god of Arepo.
Here in Argentina we have a polytheist variant of that religion, you hear things like “Los dioses del futbol son crueles”. (“The football gods are cruel”)
Probably married to Mefitis, the Goddess of Bad Smells (or at least sulfurous gases).
I’m kind of fond of the Chinese “God of Moats and Walls.”
Each city has its own god. It is not a permanent deity. Different spirits take up the office from time to time. When a former mayor dies, it is assumed that his spirit will fill the office for 3 years.
A man once told all of his friends and family that he was going to become the next God of Moats and Walls. They thought he was daft. Then he suddenly got sick and died. The city elders decided that he must have been telling the truth, and they revered him for the next 3 years.
The job does have its responsibilities. If the government officials perform the proper rituals, and you fail to bring rain, they may decide to have your cult statue flogged. 
Ah, interesting. So you have a whole football pantheon, the god of the penalty, the god of overtime, the god of the bicycle kick, the god of diving and so on and on? 
Yes! If even small breezes are part of the wind gods, all of those things must be part of the football gods. Thanks for the introduction, EinsteinsHund.
So many good ones! Love Mefitis, really love the City God. I can’t imagine what Stockton’s god would be like.
The god of Arepo made me cry and the Adams rain god feels like an old friend. I’m going to have to watch Minoriteam to learn about Levant.
Sterculius, the Roman god of feces (actually I think he may be the god of fertilizing crops with manure) made a cameo on an episode of Beavis and Butt-head.