List of love and lust deities
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 deities
Albanian folklore
- Prende, goddess of love and beauty
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.
- Tiacapan, goddess of sexual hunger.
- Teicu, goddess of sexual appetite.
- Tlaco, goddess of sexual longing.
- Xocotzin, goddess of sexual desire.
Buddhism
- Aizen Myō-ō or Rāgarāja, a deity who transforms worldly lust into spiritual awakening; his red-skinned appearance represents suppressed lust and passion
- Kuni, god of love
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
- Jiutian Xuannü, a goddess of war, sex, and longevity [2]
- 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.
- Baimei Shen, Chinese god for prostitution and brothel. On her first assignment with a client, a prostitute was supposed to make sacrifice to him
- Qian Keng (Peng Zu), a god of health-focused sex
- Nüwa, goddess of the wedding band and wedding jewelry. Represents Heaven and the never ending sexual desire between married couples.
- Chuangmu, goddess of the bedchamber. She and her husband Chuanggong look after everything that may happen in the bed room, including sex, sleep, and childbirth.
- King Zhou, one of worst tyrants in Chinese history. He is known as the god of sodomy
Egyptian mythology
Etruscan mythology
Greek mythology
- Aphrodite, goddess of Love & Beauty
- The Erotes
- Anteros, god of requited love
- Eros, god of love and sexual desire
- Himeros, god of sexual desire and unrequited love
- Hedylogos, god of sweet talk and flattery.
- Hermaphroditus, god of hermaphrodites and of effeminate men.
- Hymen, god of marriage, weddings, and the bridal hymn
- Pothos, god of sexual longing, yearning and desire
- Dionysus, god of pleasure, passion, lust, orgies, madness and ecstasy
- Hera, goddess of sky, marriage, women, childbirth, motherhood and family
- 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, either Goddess of Affection or a Daimon of sexual intercourse.
- Priapus, god of sexual intercouse, genitalia, nature, fertility and lust
Guaraní mythology
- Kurupi, god of sexuality and fertility
Hindu mythology
Lithuanian mythology
- Milda, goddess of love and freedom
Mesopotamian 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
- Lofn, goddess of forbidden loves; servant of the queen of Asgard, Frigg
- Sjöfn, goddess associated with love
Persian mythology
- Anahita, ancient water goddess, fertility goddess, and patroness of women, marriageable girls and childbirth
Roman mythology
Slavic mythology
Turco-Mongol
Vodun
- Baron La Croix, lwa of the dead and sexuality
- Baron Samedi, lwa of the dead, sex and resurrection
- Erzulie Freda Dahomey, lwa of love, beauty, jewelry, dancing, luxury, and flowers
Yoruba mythology
References
- ↑ Evans-Wentz, W. Y. (1998). The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. Citadel. p. 572. ISBN 0-8065-1160-5.
- ↑ Cahill, Suzanne E. (18 July 2013). "Sublimation in Medieval China: The Case of the Mysterious Woman of the Nine Heavens". Journal of Chinese Religions. 20 (1): 91–102. doi:10.1179/073776992805307692.
- ↑ Leick, Gwendolyn (1994). Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature. Routledge. p. 320. ISBN 0-415-06534-8.
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