What are all gods of Love and Lust deity?

• Anteros, god of requited love
• Eros, god of love and sexual passion
• Himeros, god of sexual desire
• Hedylogos, god of sweet talk and flattery
• HymenaiOS, god of marriage and marriage feasts
• Pothos, god of sexual longing, yearning and desire

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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.

• 1 List of love and lust 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 mythology
  • 1.17 Roman mythology
  • 1.18 Slavic mythology
  • 1.19 Vodou
  • 1.20 Yoruba mythology
• 2 References
• 3 External links

• Prende, goddess of love

• Astghik, goddess of fertility and love

• Xochiquetzal, goddess of fertility, beauty, and female sexual power

• Aizen Myō-ō or Rāgarāja, a deity who transforms worldly lust into spiritual awakening; his red-skinned appearance represents suppressed lust and passion

• Astarte, goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare
• Qetesh, goddess of love, beauty and sex

• Aine, Irish mythology|Irish]] goddess of love, summer, wealth and sovereignty
• Cliodhna Irish goddess, sometimes identified as a goddess of love and beauty[1]

• Tu Er Shen, a Chinese deity who manages the love and sex between homosexual men

• 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

• Albina, goddess of the dawn and protector of ill-fated lovers
• Turan, goddess of love and vitality

• Aphrodite, goddess of love, lust and beauty
• The Erotes
  • Anteros, god of requited love
  • Eros, god of love and sexual passion
  • Himeros, god of sexual desire
  • Hedylogos, god of sweet talk and flattery
  • HymenaiOS, god of marriage and marriage feasts
  • Pothos, god of sexual longing, yearning and desire
• Peitho, personification of persuasion and seduction

• Kurupi, god of sexuality and fertility

• Kamadeva, god of love
• Rati, goddess of passion and lust

• Milda, goddess of love and freedom

• Inanna or Ishtar, goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare[2]

• Qandisa, goddess of lust who first seduces men then drives them insane[3]

• 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

• Cupid, the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Eros
• Venus, the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite

• 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

• 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

• Mami Wata, a pantheon of water deities sometimes associated with love and lust
• Oshun, goddess of love, intimacy, beauty, wealth and diplomacy