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 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===
*Astarte, goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare
*Qetesh, goddess of love, beauty and sex
===Celtic mythology===
* Aine, Irish goddess of love, summer, wealth and sovereignty
* Cliodhna Irish goddess, sometimes identified as a goddess of love and beauty
===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
** 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
===Guaraní mythology===
* Kurupi, god of sexuality and fertility
===Hindu mythology===
*Kamadeva or Kama, god of love
*Rati, goddess of passion and lust
===Lithuanian mythology===
* Milda, goddess of love and freedom
===Mesopotamian mythology===
* Inanna or Ishtar, goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare
===Moroccan mythology===
*Qandisa, goddess of lust who first seduces men then drives them insane
===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
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