List of love and lust deities
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A love deity is a deity in mythology associated with sexual love, lust or sexuality. Love deities are common in mythology and may be found in many polytheistic religions.
[edit] List of love and lust deities
[edit] Albanian folklore
- Prende, goddess of love
[edit] Armenian mythology
- Astghik, goddess of fertility and love
[edit] Aztec mythology
- Xochiquetzal, goddess of fertility, beauty, and female sexual power
[edit] Buddhism
- Aizen Myō-ō or Rāgarāja, a deity who transforms worldly lust into spiritual awakening; his red-skinned appearance represents suppressed lust and passion
[edit] Canaanite mythology
[edit] Celtic mythology
- Aine, Irish goddess of love, summer, wealth and sovereignty
- Cliodhna Irish goddess, sometimes identified as a goddess of love and beauty[1]
[edit] Chinese mythology
- Yue-Lao, a Chinese god of love who binds two people together with an invisible red string
- Tu Er Shen, a Chinese deity who manages the love and sex between homosexual men
[edit] Egyptian mythology
- Bes, god of music, dance, and sexual pleasure
- Hathor, goddess of the sky, love, beauty, and music
- Bastet, goddess of felines, love, sexuality, protection, beauty, and dance
[edit] Etruscan mythology
[edit] Greek mythology
- Aphrodite, goddess of love, lust and beauty
- The Erotes
- Peitho, personification of persuasion and seduction
[edit] Guaraní mythology
- Kurupi, god of sexuality and fertility
[edit] Hindu mythology
[edit] Lithuanian mythology
- Milda, goddess of love and freedom
[edit] Mesopotamian mythology
[edit] Moroccan mythology
[edit] Norse and Germanic mythology
- Frigg, goddess of romance, marriage, sex and reproduction, married women, household duty, and divination.
- Freyja, goddess associated with magic, shamanism, seiðr, sacrifice, war, death, and sexuality.
- Freyr, worshipped as a phallic fertility god, he was said to "[bestow] peace and pleasure on mortals"
- Sjöfn, goddess associated with love
[edit] Roman mythology
- Cupid, the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Eros
- Venus, the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite
[edit] Slavic mythology
- Dogoda, Polish spirit of the west wind, associated with love and gentleness
- Dzydzilelya, Polish goddess of love and marriage and of sexuality and fertility
- Lada, fakeloric goddess of harmony, merriment, youth, love and beauty, who almost certainly never existed
- Siebog, god of love and marriage
- Živa, goddess of love and fertility
[edit] Vodou
- Baron La Croix, loa of the dead and sexuality
- Baron Samedi, loa of the dead, sex and resurrection
- Erzulie Freda Dahomey, loa of love, beauty, jewelry, dancing, luxury, and flowers
[edit] Yoruba mythology
- Mami Wata, a pantheon of water deities sometimes associated with love and lust
- Oshun, goddess of love, intimacy, beauty, wealth and diplomacy
[edit] References
- ^ Evans-Wentz, W. Y. (1998). The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. Citadel. p. 572. ISBN 0806511605. http://books.google.com/books?id=mNmAftbV_8AC.
- ^ Leick, Gwendolyn (1994). Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature. Routledge. p. 320. ISBN 0415065348. http://books.google.com/books?id=Os4YT9UU_GoC.
- ^ Lurker, Manfred (1987). Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demons. Routledge. p. 293. ISBN 0710208774. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hZg9AAAAIAAJ.
