Religious quartets

thumb|Ottoman Empire|Ottoman miniature paintings depicting [[Muhammad (center) and the Rashidun caliphs (anticlockwise) Abu Bakr, Umar, Ali, and Uthman, ]]

ancient Egyptian gods

Buddhist gods

Four stags in the Prose Edda

thumb|210px|right|Throne support from Palenque showing a young, named official acting as a bacab (Museum of the Americas, [[Madrid, Spain).]]

part of the family that survived the Deluge in the biblical Genesis flood narrative

In Aztec mythology, the '''''' () are the four gods of maize. They are sons of the goddess and the god .

in Shia theology, the four Companions (Salman al-Fārisī, Abū Dharr al-Ghifāri, Miqdad ibn Aswād al-Kindi, Ammār ibn Yāsir) of Muhammad who are supposed to have stayed most loyal to Ali after Muhammad’s death