List of love and lust deities
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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.
Contents
- 1 List of love deities
- 1.1 Albanian folklore
- 1.2 Armenian mythology
- 1.3 Aztec mythology
- 1.4 Buddhism
- 1.5 Canaanite mythology
- 1.6 Celtic mythology
- 1.7 Chinese mythology
- 1.8 Egyptian mythology
- 1.9 Etruscan mythology
- 1.10 Greek mythology
- 1.11 Guaraní mythology
- 1.12 Hindu mythology
- 1.13 Lithuanian mythology
- 1.14 Mesopotamian mythology
- 1.15 Moroccan mythology
- 1.16 Norse and Germanic mythology
- 1.17 Roman mythology
- 1.18 Slavic mythology
- 1.19 Turco-Mongol
- 1.20 Vodou
- 1.21 Yoruba mythology
- 2 References
List of love deities
Albanian folklore
- Prende, goddess of love
Armenian mythology
- Astghik, goddess of fertility and love
Aztec mythology
- Xochiquetzal, goddess of fertility, beauty, prostitutes, female sexual power, protection of young mothers, pregnancy, childbirth, and women's crafts
- Xochipilli, god of love, art, games, beauty, dance, flowers, maize, fertility, and song
- Tlazolteotl, goddess of lust, carnality, sexual misdeeds
- Ixcuiname, goddess of the carnality.
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
- Áine, 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 god of love, who binds two people together with an invisible red string.
- Tu Er Shen, a deity who oversees the love between homosexual men.
- White Peony (Bai Mudan or Pai Mu-Tan), a goddess who tempts men, especially ascetics.
- Wutong Shen, a group of five wanton deities from Southern China. They ravished and possessed beautiful women.
- Pan Jinlian or P'an Chin-Lien, goddess of fornication and prostitution
- Baimei Shen, Chinese god for prostitution and brothel. On her first assignment with a client, a prostitute was supposed to make sacrifice to him
- Han Shn, Sage of Harmony
- Shi Dei, Sage of Unity
- Qian Keng (Peng Zu), God of Health-Focused Sex.
- Nuwa or (Newa), Goddess of the wedding band and wedding jewelry. Represents Heaven and the never ending sexual desire between married couples.
- Chuang Mu, Chinese goddess of the bedchamber.She and his husband Chuang Gong look after everything that may happen in the bed room, including sex, sleep, childbirth, etc
- King Zhou of Shang, one of worst tyrants in Chinese history. He is known as the god of sodomy
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, perfume, beauty, and dance
Etruscan mythology
Greek mythology
- Aphrodite, goddess of love, sexuality and beauty
- The Erotes
- Ganymede, sometimes identified as the god of homosexual love
- Narsissus, god of self-love and Vanity
- Peitho, personification of persuasion and seduction
- Pan, god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature, hunting and rustic music, and companion of the nymphs, also associated with sexuality and fertility. Famous for his sexual powers and is often depicted with an erect phallus. Diogenes of Sinope, speaking in jest, related a myth of Pan learning masturbation from his father, Hermes, and teaching the habit to shepherds. Pan's greatest conquest was that of the moon goddess Selene. He accomplished this by wrapping himself in a sheepskin to hide his hairy black goat form, and drew her down from the sky into the forest where he seduced her.
- Philotes (mythology), either Goddess of Affection or a Daimon of sexual intercourse.
Guaraní mythology
- Kurupi, god of sexuality and fertility
Hindu mythology
- Kamadeva or Madan or Kama , god of love and sexuality
- Rati, goddess of passion and lust, wife of Kamadeva
- Parvati, the goddess of love, devotion and fertility
Lithuanian mythology
Mesopotamian mythology
- Inanna or Ishtar, goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare[2]
- Nanaya, goddess personifying voluptuousness and sensuality
Moroccan mythology
Norse and Germanic mythology
- Freya, goddess associated with love, beauty, 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"
- Frigg, goddess of marriage, married women, household duty, and divination.
- Sjöfn, goddess associated with love
Roman mythology
- Venus, the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite
- Cupid, the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Eros
- Suadela, the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Peitho
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
- Siebog, god of love and marriage
- Živa, goddess of love and fertility
Turco-Mongol
Vodou
- Baron La Croix, god of the dead and sexuality
- Baron Samedi, god of the dead, sex and resurrection
- Erzulie Freda Dahomey, god 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
- Yemoja, mother goddess of the oceans, fertility, prosperity, peace, and protection
