The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (1485), depicting Venus, the Roman goddess of love, lust and beauty
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.
List of love and lust deities
Albanian folklore
- Prende, goddess of love
Armenian mythology
- Astghik, goddess of fertility and love
Aztec mythology
- Xochiquetzal, goddess of fertility, beauty, and female sexual power
Buddhism
- Aizen Myō-ō or Rāgarāja, a deity who transforms worldly lust into spiritual awakening; his red-skinned appearance represents suppressed lust and passion
Canaanite mythology
Celtic mythology
- Aine, Irish goddess of love, summer, wealth and sovereignty
- Cliodhna Irish goddess, sometimes identified as a goddess of love and beauty[1]
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
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
Etruscan mythology
- Albina, goddess of the dawn and protector of ill-fated lovers
- Turan, goddess of love and vitality
Greek mythology
- Aphrodite, goddess of love, lust and beauty
- The Erotes
- Peitho, personification of persuasion and seduction
Guaraní mythology
- Kurupi, god of sexuality and fertility
Hindu mythology
Kama (left) with Rati on a temple wall of Chennakesava Temple, Belur.
- Kamadeva or Kama, god of love
- Rati, goddess of passion and lust
Lithuanian mythology
- Milda, goddess of love and freedom
Mesopotamian mythology
Moroccan mythology
- Qandisa, goddess of lust who first seduces men then drives them insane[3]
Norse mythology
- Freyja, goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, gold, seiðr, war, and death
- Freyr, worshipped as a phallic fertility god, he was said to "[bestow] peace and pleasure on mortals"
- Sjöfn, goddess associated with love
Roman mythology
- Cupid, the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Eros
- Venus, the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite
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, goddess of harmony, merriment, youth, love and beauty
- Siebog, god of love and marriage
- Živa, goddess of love and fertility
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
Yoruba mythology
- Mami Wata, a pantheon of water deities sometimes associated with love and lust
- Oshun, goddess of love, intimacy, beauty, wealth and diplomacy
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.
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