"Thirsty God" is a science fiction story by American writer Margaret St. Clair, first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for March 1953 and collected in St. Clair's Change the Sky and Other Stories (1974).
The story takes place on Venus, in a version of the Solar System in which Venus and Mars are both inhabitable. Venus has a long rainy season and is home to several humanoid species, while Mars is a desert planet that was home to a now long-vanished advanced civilization, .
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