Once again I present to you some deities.
Pelenona:
South Pacific adventurer Lance O'Casey almost gets sacrificed to the volcano goddess Pelenona on the of the same name because a different, more evil adventurer had made off with the island's sacred temple jewels.
The people of the same island also worship a shipwrecked circus gorilla as god-monster the Eepa,
God Style: Animist (Whiz Comics 008, 1940)
the Creeping Death:
The Jungle Twins were a pair of brothers who were separated as infants when their parents' jungle expedition was attacked by raiders. William Dale was taken back to New York by a loyal nursemaid to grow up in the lap of luxury, while his brother Steve was left behind in the jungle to - you guessed it - become the toughest, baddest dude and rule over all he surveyed.
Years later, William made his way back to the jungle to find Steve, and along the way he and his servant Dagoo were captured by apemen and left as sacrifices for their god, the Creeping Death, which turns out to be a whole river full of giant crocodiles! Dagoo gets them out of this scrape using some magic pipes to put the crocs to sleep, despite William being a total asshole to him.
God Style: Animist (Nickel Comics 001, 1940)
Dagan the Only:
Cotton Carver is your classic Golden Age comics adventurer, and in one of his first outings he stumbles into a classic Golden Age adventure setting: a vast network of temperate, well-lit caverns beneath Antarctica. From then on, his adventuring career involves getting into scrapes in underground nation after underground nation as he looks for a way back to the surface world. After making a particularly perilous transition from the Land of the White Witch to the kingdom of Thule (pre-WWII, so not a red flag), Carver and his companions encounter a group of archers who are making their yearly pilgrimage to the shrine of Dagan the Only.
The actual worship of Dagan the Only is a bit of a mystery - he requires travellers of the Path of Peril between the LotWW and Thule to delivered living unto him, which suggests human sacrifice and triggers a bloody battle between the archers and Carver's people, but that turns out to be a ruse by the princess of Thule to acquire their help in defeating an enemy. Later on, however, Cotton and his pals make the transition to the next underground land by being tossed into Dagan's sacrificial pit. All we can say for sure is that he has a great name.
God Style: Idol (Adventure Comics 039, 1939)
the Devil God:
A cool-ass idol that Zero the Ghost Detective smashes up in order to banish a ghost in the Guatemalan jungle. Though Zero asserts that the ghost is operating under the Devil God's will, I would say that it's equally likely that the idol is his anchor to the material world. Also, we only have Zero's word for it that this guy is named the Devil God.
God Style: Idol (Real?) (Feature Comics 049, 1941)
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